bring in the new

So yay it's the Lunar New Year, the reddest, hottest celebration of chasing away bad luck anyone can find around town (it pairs really well with the sweltering heat, in fact). A few days back in the land of green, we just completed a major summary exercise, as well as quite some (actually no, it was a lot of) kilometres of marching with various stations in between, so you can imagine how much I was looking forward to this break. Looking at it in the mid-term, I haven't got far to go; a few more weeks and it will all be over. Then it'll be a new environment, with new people, and new things to look forward to. (But then I'll start missing the old, no matter how gruelling it has been.) Hopefully I can finally make time for my family and friends as well. So hurrah for the new year!