Chinese New Year Week

Jenifer phoned yesterday telling me that Nancy's Chinese new year party was boring. I was thinking 'well, lucky we didn't go!' Jenifer and Nancy are among the handful Chinese friends I still keep in contact since Portsmouth year. We arrived in Britain in the same year. In Jennifer's case, we happened to arrive on the same plane in 1999 and surprisingly found out that we were heading to the same university at the Heathrow. 8 Years on we ended in different places and having different life...Originally I was very keen to go after receiving Nancy's invitation as I want Daniel to have more chances for Chinese culture exposure, however on the second phone conversation she mentioned that Richard's parents (her in laws)coming I immediately realised that it's not going to be a Chinese party, more or less an English one, then I gave up the idea of driving 5 hours down and 5 hours up for an English gathering... My guess was right, Jennifer complained that she is the only Chinese guest on Nancy's CHINESE New Year party...

Terry's work offered him to work longer hours. Originally his contract was 7 hours a day but since Monday he started to work 9 hours a day to earn some extra cash before we off to Hongkong and China. We all got used to him coming back home 4pm having tea and scorn and playing with Daniel... Now Terry come back 6.30pm we have to just keep looking out the window...Poor Daddy!

Daniel had his last batch of immunisation for Diphtheria, Tetanus, whopping cough, Meningitis C, Polio and pneumonia on Monday. Opposing his normal crying, he was happy and smiled this time through the process of my undressing him, getting weighed and waiting outside the nurse's room, until the needle poked into his thigh he outbroken such a scream which will make your heart ache... then another one and another one... 3 injections,poor Daniel cried inconsolably afterwards and nothing calm him down... The nurse commented that he got really good lung as the whole medical center can hear Daniel's screaming.

Other news happened this week include sister has been offered a new job in Kunming, Mum and Dad has prepared a big sum of 压岁钱 (Chinese new year cash present for children to wish them good luck) for Daniel awaiting him to collect when we go home...