5 room is better than EM

working in the army, i am also the housekeeper by default at home.

every week, i will do some area cleaning after running on saturdays - the chores are part of my extended workout. i do not do much, just simple sweeping and mopping of the floor and other miscellaneous items.

but even then, those two things alone can already add up to be quite a bitch. only after you have mopped the floor using just a cloth and your bare hands, can you appreciate the largeness of your apartment.

these are times when i appreciate my relative poverty at not being able to afford a EM. imagine mopping the stairs! well done with level 1 - now go on to level 2; how do you even clean the ceiling?

 sometimes, less is better than more. =)

gong hei fatt choy!!!

gong hei fatt choy!!! not quite into the new year yet, but its already turning out to be quite an expensive year - this year is the first year that we are handing out angpows, and those little buggers don't come cheap.

give too little, and you are labelled a miser.
give too much, and you have to survive on bread and water for the rest of the month.

just like at weddings, angpow giving is indeed an art!

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here's to an advance happy year of the snake!!! this year, we should embody the spirit of the zodiac animal of the year and eat more snake, draw snake add leg (please, the dragon is so passé already), or sell snake oil. Huat ah!!! =D