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elusivekIt's the last day of the Lunar Year today. As I've mentioned, most companies, if they can afford it, will just let their staff leave either earlier, or even just give a half day off.
This is when people will say 收爐！Literally, it means to extinguish the furnace. It means to close up/pack up for the holidays (imagine a factory has to close up and so extinguishes the furnace), as to the Chinese, the Chinese New Year is a big thing and they'd usually get a week to 10 days of holidays (or even more), and go back home to visit family. Here in Macau, officially we get 3 days of public holidays (the first 3 days). However, this year the government advises people not to travel back to China (or anywhere). I heard one of the big shopping malls actually forbids their staff to leave Macau. How they intend to track that, is anyone's guess.
My friend J is coming all over from her working location (far far away, almost from Coloane Island) to meet me for lunch. I guess she's 20% trying to make up for a booboo she did LOL.
I mentioned about having plans to go to a Vegan buffet the other day? So, it's become a no-go. What happened was, after J asked me and a couple other friends, I was the only one to answer her. She said OK, so I thought she would make appropriate arrangements for that. I didn't hear from her since. Then, I booked myself to get the vaccine and sort of forgot the dinner appointment, I booked it for the same day. So when I input the vaccine booking into my calendar and saw my entry for the dinner, I asked her if it's all confirmed. Coz, if dinner is confirmed, I might push up the vaccine time, as I later find out, after you take the vaccine, you are required to sit at the waiting area for half an hour to see if you get any adverse reaction.
Actually I have to applaud myself to ask her if it's confirmed or not, as... I do know her pretty well. (Read: it's not uncommon that she would stand anyone up, LOL!)
Her excuse this time was, it was a web-promotion, and the website asked for her MPay (an electronic payment platform we have) payment right when she wanted to book it. She was worried it was a scam, and didn't proceed. And didn't inform me about it either. You know, I don't really mind her standing me up (it's sort of half expected) and plans falling apart because of her (not an uncommon thing), but I would appreciate being told about it? She's also somewhat of a lazy texter, she would use the least words (typing) required and sometimes just leave questions unanswered.
The one lazy texting that gets me the most is "29". I don't recall exactly when, but one time I was re-confirming some arrangements, so I asked something like "so when are you going to do it?" It was the 26th or 27th, when I asked on that day, and she answered "29". So I was assuming it meant a couple days later. Then later she calls and asks why I'm not there. So I answered, you said Twenty-Ninth (29). She got miffed and said "I said To-Night (forced similar pronunciation to two-nine with a Cantonese tone)". WTF. I was so mad. But that was the past. I've adopted some Buddhism/Gung-ho mentality and will just go with the flow with this friend. No use getting riled up.
This turned out to be a rant, but she is a friend LOL.
Anyway, the plan for lunch is to go to a new(ish) restaurant, I heard it's opened by a Taiwanese guy, but selling Japanese Unadon (Unagi-don, or Japanese eel on rice). So, I'm going to check it out. I love a good Unadon and since it's impossible to go to Japan now, I'll try this and see if it's any good! (It's still 11:00am here so I'm not posting this at the end of the day) (And since this means the lunch didn't happen yet, it also means that J can certainly stand me up anytime between now and 1pm.) (But I've decided that even if she does cancel on me, I can just go there anyway, coz, it's just along the way going home.)
This is when people will say 收爐！Literally, it means to extinguish the furnace. It means to close up/pack up for the holidays (imagine a factory has to close up and so extinguishes the furnace), as to the Chinese, the Chinese New Year is a big thing and they'd usually get a week to 10 days of holidays (or even more), and go back home to visit family. Here in Macau, officially we get 3 days of public holidays (the first 3 days). However, this year the government advises people not to travel back to China (or anywhere). I heard one of the big shopping malls actually forbids their staff to leave Macau. How they intend to track that, is anyone's guess.
My friend J is coming all over from her working location (far far away, almost from Coloane Island) to meet me for lunch. I guess she's 20% trying to make up for a booboo she did LOL.
I mentioned about having plans to go to a Vegan buffet the other day? So, it's become a no-go. What happened was, after J asked me and a couple other friends, I was the only one to answer her. She said OK, so I thought she would make appropriate arrangements for that. I didn't hear from her since. Then, I booked myself to get the vaccine and sort of forgot the dinner appointment, I booked it for the same day. So when I input the vaccine booking into my calendar and saw my entry for the dinner, I asked her if it's all confirmed. Coz, if dinner is confirmed, I might push up the vaccine time, as I later find out, after you take the vaccine, you are required to sit at the waiting area for half an hour to see if you get any adverse reaction.
Actually I have to applaud myself to ask her if it's confirmed or not, as... I do know her pretty well. (Read: it's not uncommon that she would stand anyone up, LOL!)
Her excuse this time was, it was a web-promotion, and the website asked for her MPay (an electronic payment platform we have) payment right when she wanted to book it. She was worried it was a scam, and didn't proceed. And didn't inform me about it either. You know, I don't really mind her standing me up (it's sort of half expected) and plans falling apart because of her (not an uncommon thing), but I would appreciate being told about it? She's also somewhat of a lazy texter, she would use the least words (typing) required and sometimes just leave questions unanswered.
The one lazy texting that gets me the most is "29". I don't recall exactly when, but one time I was re-confirming some arrangements, so I asked something like "so when are you going to do it?" It was the 26th or 27th, when I asked on that day, and she answered "29". So I was assuming it meant a couple days later. Then later she calls and asks why I'm not there. So I answered, you said Twenty-Ninth (29). She got miffed and said "I said To-Night (forced similar pronunciation to two-nine with a Cantonese tone)". WTF. I was so mad. But that was the past. I've adopted some Buddhism/Gung-ho mentality and will just go with the flow with this friend. No use getting riled up.
This turned out to be a rant, but she is a friend LOL.
Anyway, the plan for lunch is to go to a new(ish) restaurant, I heard it's opened by a Taiwanese guy, but selling Japanese Unadon (Unagi-don, or Japanese eel on rice). So, I'm going to check it out. I love a good Unadon and since it's impossible to go to Japan now, I'll try this and see if it's any good! (It's still 11:00am here so I'm not posting this at the end of the day) (And since this means the lunch didn't happen yet, it also means that J can certainly stand me up anytime between now and 1pm.) (But I've decided that even if she does cancel on me, I can just go there anyway, coz, it's just along the way going home.)
