Laisee & year of the rat 鼠

Can't think where the year's gone. Seems like only yesterday that mum & dad were staying with us for Chinese New Year. We've done so much and been to so many countries and cities in the past year/year and a half:

Working our way round the region - South to North to East to West

* Sydney
* Perth
* Bali
* Borneo
* Seoul
* Tokyo
* Manila
* Beijing
* Shanghai
* Siem Reap (Cambodia)
* Luang Prabang (Lao)
* Bangkok
* Malaysia
* Singapore
* Bintan
* Delhi
* Agra
* Mumbai
* Rajistan
* East/West coast USA
And UK a few times.

No wonder we're exhausted. Carbon footprint-wise, feeling v.guilty. I've completed 200,000+ miles with Cathay alone.

So this year is the year of the rat .... 鼠 ... Hong Kong has been plagued by rodent imagery and effigies for the past few weeks (some of it too Disney-fied for my taste). And the demand for Laisee was as strong as ever this year! Here are a couple of pix of my personalised red envelopes. The writing says 'Mark' in Chinese which sounds like 'Horse' ... a popular and strong surname!

M