Peter's notebook entry: Feb 17, 2011 Today is yuan xiao festival, a.k.a lantern festival, the end of the Chinese new year celebration. Truth be told, I don't really give any thought about it as I didn't celebrate the Chinese new year in Sydney anyways. At around 9pm my friend Alex rang me saying he was at the main door of the building where I live. That's surely a surprise, considering how far he lives away from me. His wife and kid were also there and it turns out that they just made some tang yuan for me which is still hot. I am not a sentimental person but at that moment I was really touched. It feels so good to have some close friends in a foreign country. Of course I ate it right away, so scrumptious!