tong tong cheng sei sei sei

as the lunar new year approaches slowly but surely, i have been keeping an age old (okay, three years old to be exact) tradition. see three years ago, the hubby dragged me to shop for new year's hamper for his client. and being the kiamsap, kiasu & lain-lain 'kia' chinaman his client is, it was nothing but the best. the most expensive liquor, the top of the range abalone, yada yada yada...

so three years on, today i had to go to our regular place to get yet another cny hamper. let's see - year 1 was cordon bleu, year 2 was cognac & this year x.o. yeah, they get to choose the liquor. and after choosing nothing but the best, it set us back a nice 1.3k but somehow the hamper looked kinda small. thanks to his 'expensive' request, i had to cut down on the other stuff like abalone, ginseng, bull's penis, tiger's schlong or whatever it is the shrivelled stuff is that they sell at the sinseh...

and as i was waiting, bored to death while they were making the hamper i got a call from some girl who was from some place. almost ready with my 'thanks but i'm not interested reply' thinking that it was from citibank or some time-share thing, she mentioned something about there is a refund cheque for me. oooo, me likey. turns out, she's from ird & the gomen is giving me back my money that i paid them in taxes. and this is for assessment 2007. geez but better than nothing i suppose. so i asked her how much is the amount. she said 'four four four, not very lucky huh'. its okay, as long as its $$$.

and tomorrow we have another two hampers to shop for. oh, happy days......