Festive spirit

This sucks Big Time. It's the festive season of Chinese New Year and I'm here in my cold room in Qatar blogging instead of feasting and having a jolly good time with family and friends. Setting off fireworks like we used to the previous years. The smell and luxurious foods on display on the table and kids jumping up and down from getting their ang pows. 

I miss this festival more than anything else. Christmas, Hari Raya etc. This is one that my whole family celebrates together. To miss this for me is as bad as the feeling of missing your only flight to home. It's not my type to usually sulk for such a long period but nobody knows how much this means to me. Added to that is not celebrating CNY with Melissa. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to meet her family and maybe make an impression. Don't see that happening anytime soon. Can't go open-house visiting with le friends, no party-ing and staying up late watching fireworks lit up the night sky, no Mandarin oranges to eat (sobs) and no company to be with. Oh, the pain...

3 more long weeks till I'm back to where I miss the most. I'm still sick since last Tuesday no thanks to the cold weather and dryness in the air resulting in bad cough and annoying flu. Urgh. This past week hasn't been kind to me.

Anyways, my problems aside, I would like to wish all my dear friends around the world a happy and prosperous Dragon year ahead, Gong Xi Fa Cai and may you live long.