I had a team meeting yesterday and had to do a short presentation/speech on my new projects. My manager also took the opportunity to announce that I will be handling another new China project, which requires the participants to travel to China for 4 days, to learn and observe about how their government agencies, schools and some health centers operate. If nothing goes wrong, I will have to make a trip to China in late May. We are already in the midst of planning, and seeing if there are any takers. We are also worried that with the increasing no. of people who has contracted the killer virus, this trip might not take off as well. Therefore, nothing is confirmed at this moment. But if I go, I would take the opportunity to learn as much as possible. I need a translator, which they would have. Not that I’m bad in Chinese, but we so often think in English that it takes a while to translate our thoughts to Mandarin. And there is a difference between county, province, party leader, government agencies, etc. I need to know all the exact translations for these terms. This should be fun, just for knowledge sake.

I received news yesterday through my mom that one of my younger cousins, I think she’s in her very early 20s, has had cancer. But we do not know the full details as we only heard from my father who probably heard from his mother. What happened was she had a lump on her neck and had it operated. Later it grew back and they say it is cancerous. I’m not sure what’s the progress. It is sad though, but I do not know my cousin very well. We have not met in many years, after my relationship with my father’s side turned sour. All I can remember is that my cousin is very tall, she’s probably 1.78m. Both her parents are very tall.

I have my log cabin class confirmed and pushed forward to April 15. I am so excited. Time and tide waits for no man. With all these things (war, SAR) going on, I just wanted to go and learn something I really wanted and not procrastinate further. I don’t care if I had to take a half day off. It’s a reward for myself. I’ll pick out my fabrics next Saturday. That’s something to look forward to again.

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