Gong xi fa cai!

aka Happy New Year ... or literally: I wish you happiness and prosperity!

I've restored the commenting option, courtesy of Haloscan.

However, the rest of me is still in vacation mode, and, in particular, in naptime mode because we just had a huge steamboat lunch courtesy of our too-kind Vietnamese hosts --- so I'm heading back to the hotel room.

May the Year of the Monkey bring you little mischief, few bad bananas, and certainly no semblance of simian flu (even as I duck, ha ha, and cover from the local avian flu)!