New Year's a time for work

In the west the beginning of January is a time for people to adopt new practices for the coming year, whether losing some weight or doing something new. Here in Taiwan the new year is a time for work. Chinese New Year's is coming up in a few weeks and people are scrambling to finish things in time for the holidays. I haven't been working as much as I'd like but I'm rather busy nonetheless, applying for grad schools is going to be a little tight for this year, I'm thinking of doing some more work on my chinese and maybe some mark upgrades here or there. I've been playing board games on weekends and practicing my Chinese here and there it's time I went to the gym tho' so here's a pic to tide things over.