HAPPY 牛 (NEW) YEAR!

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If I were back home, this would be the typical breakfast on the first day of Chinese New Year before we gear ourselves up for the family-visit-marathon.

Mee sua and hard boiled egg, one brings longevity, the other to expel bad luck.

This is the second year in a stretch that I am not able to celebrate it at home. Really miss celebrating CNY though. For now, all I can do is visualize and imagine...

Gong Xi Fa Chai and may the year of the Ox brings an abundance of fortune, health and luck!

London Revisited

I went back again to London to meet up with a friend to celebrate Chinese New Year. As with always, no photos of two of us together, we had the tripod though, being two macho guys, we didn't have the time to set it up properly haha

Believe it or not, we first went to the British Museum, not your typical place to celebrate though. Partly was due to the fact that we had never been to this museum before. There were numerous exhibits on displays and the crowd as huge as well.

Entry into the museum is free, however for the temporary exhibitions, one has to pay, such as the one shown here:- Babylon.

Statues, painting, artifacts of all kinds are on display.

We then made our way to Chinatown for dinner. The streets were decorated with lanterns, however they don't light up like those at home.

It's nice to see a change of environment, seeing more Chinese/Asian faces after some time in a foreign country. Same as with elsewhere, every Chinatown is not complete without the Gate...

That's the Spirit !

This is one of my personal tool that I use for work. This is the very same tool that saved me lots of trouble when I was at home and needed hardware for some household job.

It's a multitool, at first glance, looks like a plier, with attitude (note the blade extended O.o" ). I have to say that I am impressed by the amount of tools which get packed into such a compact frame. Screwdriver, scissors, wire cutter, wire stripper, blade, reaper, wooden saw, metal saw, metal file and bottle opener, just to name a few.

Victorinox, the mark of quality in design and make. Each one is hand made to perfection. Made of stainless steel, the only maintenance and care necessary for this, is to lubricate the hinges now and then.

Victorinox SwissTool Spirit...