I am leaving for home next Wednesday night. I will go to Hong Kong first, and then our whole family will visit my grandpa in Zhengzhou, He'nan. Then my sister and her fiance will go to New Zealand while I stay home in Hong Kong with my parents for the New Year.

Do you have any plan for new year? I used to think about all kinds of interesting ways to celebrate the historical moment of changing a century, but I was afraid my ideas are not so original. My wish was to celebrate the moment with someone I love, and carry the love into the next century. But as 1999 is passing by, I gave up my ideas. I feel frustrated when I give up to reality. I feel so sad to give up the
beginning of a whole new century.

-- to h.b.