Another Christmas overseas. Today was a good day, like most of my days. After waking up, I took the MRT to the office, but alas, nobody was around! I waited, read for a while, and waited some more. An hour and a half went by, and I was still waiting. Since I normally went to work in the afternoon, I wasn’t surprised that nobody was in the office. I went downstairs to the coffee shop, and a few minutes later a co-worker met me. We chatted for the next two hours about China, travel, teaching, politics, and my home countries. It was a good time. Once we finished our coffee, I went upstairs and found that people had arrived. To my surprise, my boss had brought plenty of turkey and other food. For the next …