Year of the Rat

新年快樂！ 恭喜發財！
(Xin Nian Kuai Le - Happy New Year)
(Gong Xi Fa Cai - Wishing you prosperity)

Happy Chinese New Year! It is officially the Year of the Rat. I'm taking this weekend off from my regularly scheduled studio time to celebrate the new year with my wife's family in NJ.

I only made it to my studio one day last weekend and I was looking forward to starting my new drawings, which will now have to wait until next weekend. However, I can't really complain about 2 days of eating home-cooked Chinese food. In China the festivities last for 2 weeks. Plus, I'll get a chance to practice speaking Mandarin before my first class on Monday.

image: Year of the Rat, 2006 by H.H. Wong 黃可鏗