super bowl monday

whaddup, sports fans.....can't think of a better way to start off a new week with a big ol' game of football. with the timezones as they are, rather than spending the whole day boozing & eating and watching 8 hours of pre-game coverage, we literally had to set an alarm for the local 7:30am HK time kickoff. trade the pizza for some muffins, frittata instead of chili, and light beer instead of regular beer, along with a special treat from our American hosts - a traditional Carolinian dish of shrimp & grits.

as for the game itself, it was conservative yet entertaining. to be honest, i really didn't care who won, which is refreshingly much less stressful than usual. happy for any true Packers fans i know, but also believe that a lot of pseudo football fans come out of the wood work when Green Bay is successful (make sure you remove the price tag of your cheese head, cheesedix).

how was Chinese New Year (you may or may not ask)?
conservative yet entertaining.
actually, remember that crack i made about a 2-day bout of swine flu? well, i thought i had it, or SARS for a few days last week (violent fits of fill-in-the-blanks). as a result, we didn't get to partake in any of the paradey/fireworksy fun. the long weekend wasn't a complete loss though. we pampered ourselves at the spa, rubbed in all the right ways. (it was a couples massage, keep it PG folks).