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It’s that time of the year again where millions of people around the world send Chinese New Year greetings to friends and family.

How times have changed  – we used to do this by sending out cards.  I remember, many years ago, buying stacks of cards, postage stamps and diligently posting them, year, after year.

Then came the age of the internet and e-mail, and oh, how convenient it was, and is still, to use this mode to send greetings to people!  And it saved us lots of money too!  And I’m sure it saved lots of trees, and the postmen probably had their jobs easier as well.

Now with Facebook, we don’t need to do the e-mail thing – we go write on walls or easier still, set our status to show a greeting.   That’s what I’m going to do – wish everyone I know on Facebook a Happy Year of the Ox, by setting my status to a greeting.

No need to have to mess around with a whole list of contacts on e-mail, no need for licking of stamps, forget greeting card websites that have corny cards with corny messages, no troublesome sending of SMSes as well!

Sending a greeting has never been easier!

Hmm… what’s next after Facebook?

Happy New Year everyone!

Let’s take the Year of the Ox by its horns and have no fear!

Yay?!  You say?

Well, that’s what I thought too.

On the first day of the new year, I woke up, just glad that it’s a holiday and that I did not have to drag myself to work.  I also made a mental note to remember to write the correct year on cheques from that day onwards.

On the second day, Friday – what a day to go back to work and school (for the kids) – I dragged myself out of bed and wished I didn’t have to.  It was just another day, for me, at least.

I suppose that’s how most people feel – just another day, and what with all the doom and gloom awaiting us in 2009, there is just nothing to be excited about, is there?

But Little Guy changed all that – he woke up all cheery and chirpy as usual.  He did not have to drag himself out of bed.  He did not complain about having to start school at the end of the week.  He was just a bundle of energy and happy vibes.

When he got to school, he rushed in and yelled,

‘Yay!  I’m in K1, I’m in K1!’    (‘K1′ being short for the first year of Kindergarten)

Big Guy and I were shocked at his excitement.  But it really brought the smiles all around.  We had no idea that being in K1 meant so much to him.  We had just reminded him a few days before the end of the year, that when he returned to school, he will be in K1.

I figured that I could learn much from Little Guy – his enthusiasm, his positiveness and his excitement for what is to come.  I should stop moping and start ‘yay-ing’ more

So…

Yay!  I’m in 2009!  The gloom will clear, it HAS to clear! 

Meanwhile, enjoy, continue to work at whatever you are working at, or working for.  If the big picture is grey and gloomy, to heck with it!  We’ll have our gigs in our small pictures!  (Put all the small pictures together and what do we get?)

C’mon, let’s yay!

Happy 2009 everyone!