January 29, 2006
Gong Xi Fa Cai!!
Gong Xi, Gong Xi! The year of the Fire Dog is in and all our suffering should be over. Here's a Foo Dog for you! Have a prosperous and wealthy year! :) For Kaj, the Water Rabit, this year should be exceptionally auspicious, as the Rabit is very good friends with the Dog. Excitement, luxury and new adventures wait for him in February (hmm.. knowing more about his plans (the trip to Bali!!!), this prediction is pretty accurate. While my luck as a Fire Snake is supposed to dip a little bit in February... There's some hard work, reaching goals, completing projects ahead... Which is also pretty accurate, considering what's been going on here.. Look up 2006 predictions for yourself. Overall, the year is supposed to be very good, with family, loyalty and honesty playing an important role.
When I say that "some things have been going on here", I mean that I tendered (gave my notice) at my workplace last week. I think many of my colleagues were pretty shocked, but also quite "proud" about me leaving. I felt as if I'm telling that I'm getting married or pregnant - "Really?!?!?!" "When?!?!?!" "Whoow!!!" "Why?!?!?!", all the time in the center of attention, people wanting to have lunch with me, asking, talking, slapping on the shoulders.. Another interesting development is that they kinda offered Kaj a part-time teaching position (so that I'd stay full time - wow, I'm so precious.. :), but we don't know anything about it yet. Kaj will have to go to have a "chit-chat" and its not clear yet, if it could be a workable kind of arrangement... We'll let you know! :)
Besides that we tried out services of a new maid last week, but had to send her back to Indonesia. She was just drinking beer (although quite often she also did our laundry and dishes:). No good, had to go back.. Ha ha.. Well, if you got tricked for a second, don't worry.. We're not employing maids just yet. We just had Borzin, Natalia and Kian visiting (doing "visa run") last week.
After some happy shopping, vaccination shots, fighting the evil Indo embassy people, drinking coffee in our neighbourhood food courts they're back happily back in Bali in a new wonderful house in the rice fields...
We still got another "bebe" Luca 2 floors down from us, so we still feel appropriately "babied".. Its nice to have younger people around.. :) Its quite amazing to see them grow - every day there's something new that they learn. I'm sure Kian will be running around next time that we see him.. And Luca obviously already has a great musical talent, getting better every day! :)