Time to go bananas

Hey it's my favorite time of the year! Pre-Chinese New Year! Why? Because things literally shut down in Hong Kong. To the point, most shops are closed and the roads are cleared out. You literally have to wind down. Well tomorrow is the last day when you're supposed to clean out your house and well I'm well on my way to clearing out my room. It's been a month since new year's and my room is a mess!

So much has happened, events, gigs, travels, it's been a jam packed January but very fruitful. Learned a lot about my skills, my boundaries as well as my interests.

I've had the privilege of speaking at so many events including Garage Society's Professionals redfined.

Island School's #futurED.

 

General Assembly's Productivity Playbook.

 

Man at this rate I'm totally get spoilt because I really thoroughly enjoy these sorts of things because I get to take away so many new ideas as well from all the others there!

Oh did I tell you, I went on a shopping frenzy while I was in Kuala Lumpur doing the Stand up for Education 2.0 comedy shows? With the currency exchange rate in my favor, for the first time in my life, I went shopping without looking at the price tags until I paid. Now granted when I paid, I was like "OK, maybe we don't need this and don't need that", but man it's a whole different experience when you just buy without letting price determine if the item is something you want.
Retail therapy, I totally get it. But bankruptcy is definitely a risk in that treatment.

Well it's CNY time and it's the year of the monkey. Everyone is in very creative spirits since the monkey is a mixture of cheeky and fun, so that's what I've been doing recently. Trying my best to just be silly and do weird things every now and then. Tonight as much as I have a tonne of stuff to get done, I'm doing it 5-at-a-time. As in 5 tasks at a time, then I reward myself either with some random snack (the last snack was a scoop of peanut butter...yes I know, that to me is tasty on its own) so yeah I still have time and no idea what the next reward will be. Perhaps a banana?

Anyway, here's to great health, wealth and fun times for the upcoming year ahead!