CNY soon

Clear blue sky today

Another busy day. The temp shot up to over 20 degrees today but the forecast for the next few days is another dip to 7 degrees. The New Year will be a little chilly. And that's ok .... it suits the season. Previous New Years, I remember there was sleet, snow and heavy rain. 

Well this year, Mandarin restaurant is closed. Ah Ling has gone back to Shanghai because the lockdown is not helping the F & B sector. For the past 15 years, I've always organised a Reunion Dinner for the Chinese-speaking community of religious and laity. This year ... none. The sisters and I will do a little home cooking. This year we're only 5 in number. However there're several Vietnamese sisters and seminarians ... all feeling homesick and their senior priest Fr Douan is sick and cold not organise a Mass and meal with them. So they hinted to me ... and being the 2nd senior asian priest in Jerusalem, I have to organise something for them. So this afternoon I went to the asian grocery to buy some stuff. Friday morning I'll be busy cooking lunch with the vietnamese ... and one thai.

Tonight I'll have to think over what I should cook ... and how to transport it 1km up to the little garden behind the library.