Happy May First....

Ah, the first of May already - how the time is flying by....

Today is a holiday is China, actually the holiday covers the first through the third - Thursday through Saturday. Most companies are working Sunday to make up taking Friday off. This is the first year that this is only a three day holiday, previously this had been one of China's golden week holidays where everyone gets a full week off, there are a lot of people that really don't seem happy with this new change to their holiday schedule.

We will use these extra days to run some errands, and just hopefully relax a little, we got a trip planned to the botanical garden with Siew and her kids, but nothing much else. Standard short holiday planning...

Since Tina posted the changing of the guard at our apartment complex yesterday, we decided that we should post another photo of this uniquely Chinese way of motivating their employees.
Most of the time we see this we don't stop to take pictures, but since this time they were all trying to coordinate a dance routine we felt that it was acceptable to pull the camera out.

In other news, the construction outside our place is continuing at its maddeningly slow pace. This photo, taken today, is almost identical to one that we took 4-5 weeks ago - only the location of the equipment has moved slightly. We are hoping that they will soon be completed with this part of the work, for as we have mentioned several times the noise is quite disturbing, especially since it continues non-stop from 06:00 to 22:00 every day of the week...
Actually, they do seem to be enjoying their May holiday; Construction started as usual around 06:00, but they stopped today just before noon and haven't worked since. Hopefully they are allowed to sleep in tomorrow.