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It’s been as busy as we’ve expected this Chi­nese New Year, and with Kai nurs­ing a new cold (how many do babies get in their first year?), we were expect­ing even less sleep than usual, and we were right.

That’s not to say we haven’t been enjoy­ing time with our fam­i­lies and rel­a­tives jet­ting in from all parts of Asia.

Our sister-in-law from Shang­hai tells us that the only thing about com­ing to Sin­ga­pore for the CNY hol­i­days is that when you want to do a spot of shop­ping on the first or sec­ond day of CNY, you’re prob­a­bly going to be lim­ited to Mustafa’s or a few other small­ish shops.

I said that was because Sin­ga­pore is becom­ing more like China, as more and more com­pa­nies seem to be observ­ing more “Chi­nese tra­di­tions” as a result of employ­ing more (Main­land) Chi­nese workers.

But I’ve now been told that by our good sister-in-law that that’s bunk, and that in Shang­hai, most of the shops are open through­out the New Year.