Kuala Lampur, Dec. 31 -- Happy New Year! 2026 comes for us all tomorrow.

The Chinese Lunar Year will also transition from the Snake to the Horse (my birth year) in February and because my life is cosmically entertaining, an actual snake did come to my door over the weekend.

My security camera showed me walking to my door from the front gate and a snake slithering from the garden towards the entrance.

At first I thought it was just a plain, black snake but I noticed specs of gold along the side and then... it reared its head up.

My house visitor was the very venomous monocled cobra - and for the briefest of moments we had a standoff.

It looked at me, I looked back, then it turned, deciding to slither off and making its way along a wal...