Getting back to normal...

As if I could ever be normal... *sigh* ...or ever tried very hard for that matter. But recent events have been sufficiently traumatic that I'm just getting back into the swing of things again. 

For starters, my father fell ill and passed away on Christmas Eve. After all the fuss of a Chinese funeral died down yesterday, I can now say that I'm trying to get my schedule going regularly again. 

In the mean time, I'll be going into mourning for a year, which is actually two years less than the prescribed period by tradition. Not that many Chinese bother about things like that any more. But being me, I like to do things that aren't generally approved by everyone.