a Journey

my time back has past in a whirl and i'm still trying to figure out where my 14 days went to. i know there was that conference paper, and the conferences and the meeting with the client... but that's still a week unaccounted for! maybe the cny festivities ate it all up. but i do know i'm still missing a movie. and that time is spread too thin sometimes. "brief" is an understatement for the 3 hours that i spent with some dear ones before i see them again in 6 months... or maybe more :|

but i remember texas holdem! it was lovely the way the weight of the chips was weighing heavily on my side. it feels good winning half the house chips ;) maybe if ever i really, really, run out in melbourne, i could always try Crown :p and then there was the mahjong at ah-gong's 80th birthday... i think they're going to ban the family from the clubhouse for sometime. talk about a topsy-turvy family: the adults were mixing the drinks for us and we were the ones playing the mahjong. well, at least it explains the giggly adults and the fact that it took 3 adults to help one of the younger ones out with the mahjong. well, but ah-gong wooped our butts alright.

cny was a blur, and what really stands out is the fact that the extended: and by this i really mean EXTENDED family should really meet up soon. otherwise i'll keep getting mistaken as someone else's sister/girlfriend/daughter... whatever. hmm, guess i really don't look like papa.

and this is about all i can remember now. oh and the fact that mambo night was such a bitter horrible disappointment. the crowd was underaged i think in velvet... and for the service, what service?