Year of the Ox

Happy Chinese New Year to all my friends in Hong Kong and Yantai.

It's that time of the year again, when 1.4 billion people all decide to set off fireworks, travel around on hard seat carriages or buses, play mahjong, hand out red envelopes, eat and drink themselves silly, wear something red, and buy new clothes.

Since most of those things don't pertain to me, I am heading out of Hong Kong. I'm flying into Manila tomorrow afternoon and I plan on spending 6 days traveling around the Philippines. Not an extraordinary amount of time to see all that I would like to see, but there isn't enough time in life to see everything I want to see, so there is no use in complaining. I am looking forward to this trip very much. Pictures and full report upon return.

This will be my last holiday, except 2 days for Easter, of the semester. Kind of sucks considering the semester started this week, but I digress. I will make the most of it while I can. Then it is down to serious business when I get back.

Until next week...