Exhausting week 4 — lunar new year traditions, feeling tired, and relaxing.

Sister's bunny friend
Jan 23rd is the second day of the Lunar New Year! As a tradition, every second day of the Lunar New Year, my family and I eat only vegetarian/meatless types of food such as tofu, soybean curds, and tofu sausages; this is part of the Chinese culture where we pay our respect to the buddha and to accumulate good karma; also, we do not shower or wash our hair on this day as well because we would be washing off our good luck at the start of the year.

Spend time with my family just chilling and watching TV! We didn't do anything bizarre since it was a Monday and we were all occupied with our work.

I got to spend time with my sister's pet rabbit — petting the rabbit, feeding it pears, etc!

Jan 24th the day was mainly spent working. Also, today was the third day of the Lunar New Year — typically on this day, we do not visit any relatives or have any relatives visiting due to evil spirits (bad luck) roaming around, causing people to argue.

Jan 25th another snowstorm hit Toronto. The day started off with small flurries but as the afternoon approached the wind gust got stronger and the flurries got bigger as well causing a whiteout! That said, I didn't get a lot of rest since the roof was making strange noises during the middle of the night. Originally, I thought someone was outside hammering something but it turns out it was our roof.

On Jan 26 I was very exhausted. The workload at work was building up and I wanted to take a lot of naps and breaks!

During the afternoon, a strange noise appeared on our roof again — we couldn't figure out the cause of it.

After work, I relaxed in the evening watching Prima Facie — this is one of the best plays I have ever seen! Totally recommend it!

Lego New York Postcard

7Friday was exciting because I finally rolled out my first big project at work, improving associates' efficiency; it was also enriching and cool to see my project being used for the first time.

After work, I made a trip to Costco and for once there were a lot of free samples — different flavors of popcorn, chocolate-covered strawberries, chocolate cake, and many more!

By the time I headed home, I was ready to pass out, but before I fell asleep I build another Lego postcard set — the New York City postcard.

Jan 28th is everyone's birthday — this is another one of the Lunar New Year traditions, so my family and I had another feast for lunch and dinner; we ate mainly noodles, and more sweet rice cakes, and drank green tea!

Lunar new year day 7: everyone's birthday lunch
Also, my family and I went to the Toronto Pannam Sports Center for a walk; there were a lot more people than usual and it was so cool to see a special para basketball game held between Canada and Japan.

I also started to feel very burnt out so I relaxed for the rest of the day and was thrilled to finish season 2 of Gilmore Girls!

I cannot fathom the fact that next week January is already coming to an end; this month has passed by way too fast!

Snowy Sunday

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