Busy morning...

This morning (sat) I woke up early (7:45) to attend a service (9:45) for somebody I had no relationship with. In fact, its only because of my supervisor's supervisor that I actually bothered to go, if it was somebody else, then maybe not. The service was held in a cremetorium, the person had been cremated before, this was just a service for auspicious reasons. I took a wrong term once in the 40 min drive to get there... not bad, considering I got home without a problem. Except the trip to was quicker than the trip back. Guess by that time (11:00) more people are awake and on the roads. I got there at 9:10, after driving in the quiet surburbs. Its near the national park... quiet and cool. After getting to the designated spot, we were gonna go in one car (5 people) but no car was big enough, so we took two cars... After arriving and parking, we found out the service had started already 3 mins into it. We went in, and got ushered on to the top balcony. They had 2 monks (female) which sang and chanted for some time. Then the sons had some eulogies and final words for their dad. Then we just went and gave our respects to the departed, even though we didn't know him at all. The things you do for your boss... :P Anyways, at the end, everybody got a red packet, which contains candy and a coin. I think we're supposed to eat the candy before going home, and spending that money before going home, to ward off bad luck. But I had another one, which was leaves, which you take to, but throw away before you go back home. Lucky nothing has happened since then. Anyways, yesterday (friday) nothing much happened... Work was normal, and, well, the same. Which is good. :P Found out Taiwan finally got 2 Golds and 1 Silver and 1 Bronze. Taekwando. And Archery. But Aussies had dropped down to 4th, after Russia got same amount of Gold... oh well... Still the best away effort.