it's been more than a week since i left for yorkshire and i return happy glad thankful for the small things in life and friends who last more than a half decade of years; so to ailin chin, for being possibly the best host ever, and the fantastic organiser of the happiest christmas i will ever have, here's to you and your lover bhoy and may you have a splendid incandescent new year in heathrow airport, and no, i'm not mocking you because more often than not it's whom you're with rather than where you're at but i suppose i would be lynched for this given i'm in switzerland but trust me as i say this!

two weeks have flown by and soon the third will be gone and memories of this vacation will be reduced to the required tepidity and menial stupour of a daily routine and all i can say is that summer will be here, soon, and singapore, hot humid singapore will beckon and arrive and as usual, all sensible notions of fitness will be drowned with the incredibly cheap price of food.

it is new year's eve as i type this post now so to everyone out there, happy 2007, may this year be a better one than the previous, may there be world peace, may there be inner peace and lastly may everyone treat a repeated experience as your first and thoroughly immerse yourself in the fluxes of the accompanying emotions because nothing kills anyone faster than apathy and ennui.