Counting Our Blessings

CNY celebrations this year came to an official end yesterday. It's been a trying two weeks with many highs and lows in between. This one definitely a low - it took 4 hours and close to 100km of driving to renew my work pass yesterday, due to poor communication by the immigration department. So much time was wasted there that I didn't manage to finish my other tasks for the day.

It doesn't really matter much now that I've sat down and thought about it. I must learn to look at the positive things and not dwell too much on the the rest. And so the positive - a couple of days ago my wife and I went to the clinic for a checkup, and I'm pleased to announce that we will be expecting a baby boy somewhere in the middle of this year.

Being an Asian parent, I got down to some hard thinking. How can I best prepare for my future offspring? There will be the obvious buying of many baby items, clothes and accessories, but what else? How can I give him a headstart in life?

The answer? Get him a facebook account.

He'll thank me for it one day. All those points/traps/mechanisms/gold that he will start playing those FB games with when I pass the account over to him will give him a leg up over his peers. Here's hoping tomorrow's facebook won't be obsolete like today's ICQ. Come to think of it...maybe I should sign up for 4 more facebook accounts *grins*.