I've always loved CNYs. There's just a certain sort of atmosphere that I've loved since young. On CNY's eve, my family went to pay respects to my paternal grandparents. Even though I'm Christian, my parents are buddhist/taoist, and so were my grandparents. And so my mother brought along some vegetarian offerings, and burnables, which mostly include hell notes. When I took a closer look at the thick wad of hell notes, I realised that on each was printed $1000000 (God knows how many zeroes there really were), and this led me to think,"Damn, hell money has got to be worth really little with so many zeros on a single note. That's worse than the rupiah...." And the interesting thing is that, people are burning hell notes all the time, meaning more money is being added into the economy. 

Now I learnt in economics, M . V = P . Y, where M is the amount of money in the economy, V is the rate at which money changes hands (or how fast money is spent), P stands for the general price level and Y stands for aggregate output produced.  Since V and Y are independent of the other variables and are held constants, this means that M is proportional to P. So, if everyone keeps burning hell notes and increases the amount of money in hell's economy, this means P will rise as well, making inflation worse. I wonder what a buddhist/taoist economist would have to say about this practice. I think they would ask their relatives to burn like, paper silver or gold, or paper houses and cars instead of paper money. Maybe the property market is good down under... 

On a different note, I've gained temporary membership in Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Fiona has left on exchange and I won't have her by my side for the next 4 months. I feel like there's a vacuum on my right side where the air is continuously rushing in to fill, but it just doesn't feel right.  I guess I'm going to be a full fledged nerd for the next four months. I used to think that even though I'm a Physics major, otaku, game geek, etc., I don't qualify as a nerd simply because I have a girlfriend... Now that my girlfriend is overseas, I don't have an excuse not to call myself a nerd. Sigh..... Huiheng, hang in there, we'll be expelled from the club soon enough.

I love you baby. I'll be waiting for you.