Returned from melbourne on thursday nite, after a rather messed up flight involving a broken in flight entertainment system (5 hours of boredom!!), a medical emergency on board, lack of vegetarian meal and other assorted screwups. The trip was okay, the scenery good, the people outstandingly friendly over there. Pity travel companions weren't always behaving, and I fell sick near the end, and the incessant swarms of flies that drove me nuts; these marred a good holiday . In truth, it just made me miss europe terribly. It's not a nice feeling, knowing u'd rather travel with friends than family, but i can't deny it any longer.

At least the holidays have started, and the national library board has obligingly doubled loan limits; managed to haul a massive trove of books which should keep me occupied in the many free days to come. Somehow we all seem to have lost either our initiative, or energy (perhaps both). Where once hols were teeming with all manner of things happening, now there doesn't appear to be any. Or maybe i'm just out of the loop... No dota, no soccer, barely any meetups (thank goodness for the cricket dudes). Maybe we're so used to continually being worked off our feet, that we don't even know what to do when we have some time at last to breathe.

Anyone who's free and wants to meet up, pls do msg; this is probably as free as i'll get for a while yet...

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OUyang: Agree. On both counts. haha...
Hamid: haha basket. They need writers la, but they're not this desperate yet :P but emed is really a shiok posting... Wait n see!

" All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. "

-Doris Lessing