Tuesday, February 17, 2009

What....??? 2009!!! Never!?

I guess the first thing to say would be.. Merry Xmas, and Happy New Year… I know, I know… but better late than never though… right?! :o/
My Xmas and NY was great…. I broke away from the norm and jetted off to Bali… Not that I had the choice to participate in the norm (not that I would usually want to either), but I thought if I wasn’t going to be able to do the traditional thing, I’d get as far away from the idea as possible.

I’ve been trying to wrack my brains to recall all the things I have done and places that I have been since I last wrote…. That’s the problem with not keeping this thing up to date… usually I would struggle to think of anything interesting to write, bun now after….. 3 months, there’s just too much!
I guess I should just go for the highlights … the most memorable being The Gibbon Experience in Laos… but you have to see it to believe it! So I’ll skip all that and just go straight to ‘Current Affairs’…
I’m in India… again… it seems like the only time I ever have to update this thing is when I’m out here… maybe ‘cos the office is soooo laid back that it takes an eon to get people moving… giving me a spare few moments to get things done!
Anyway I’m not sure how many more visits I’ll have out here now so I’m planning a little visit latched on the end of the work trip back out to the sticks… to see my relatives whom I haven’t seen in over 15years!!! Man that makes me feel old… I’m excited and scared all at the same time.. I mean I hope they aren’t going to expect me to milk the cow and go and get water from the well etc etc… I’ve become far too much of a princess to do that kind of thing! I just hope they have running water and electricity otherwise how will I be able to blow dry my hair!!!!
Back to home… I’m kind of sad that I’m missin’ the snow… can’t believe it hasn’t snowed this much in 13 years and I’m missing it, although I hear now that it’s gone a little bit beyond a joke?! Oh well.. who knows what will happen next year… I don’t know.. a little bit of snow and the country grind to a halt… actually the same could be said for a ‘little bit of sun’… didn’t the tarmac start melting last time?!
I’m missing home and the people (obviously) heaps… it’s been 6 months since I was home last…. Not that long I know, but still… It would be easier if I knew when I’d be able to visit again… even if it’s for a few days for a quick fix… I’m holding out for work to fly me back… I heard a whisper that it would be in March when the first phase of the project that I am on will come to an end, but the way that the project is currently panning out, it’s not likely to be until March 2000 and Never! I can’t complain.. the longer I can stick with this thing.. the longer I stay in Singapore, although the opportunity to move onto another project within APAC is imminent! At this rate I will NEVER settle down and all the efforts to find an eligible suitor will have been in vain,… ‘yes’, I’m afraid I have to admit that the quest continues… I have to hand it to them, my family is definitely persistent… I thought that they would have given up on me ohhhh about 2 years ago, but they are still hard at it… ok so the criteria may have changed slightly…. Male, and alive… but even with these new stringent set of attributes to comply with… (NOT)… the hunt continues. I on the other hand seem not to be sooo concerned as I used to be about all this (… let me just recall for a second… was I concerned…. hmmm.. maybe a tad). It’s easy to distance yourself from the immense fear that everyone else seems to suffer with that I am destined to roam the earth for the rest of eternity a lone (miserable) spinster when you are a million miles away from them ….(just call me Miss Haversham) :o)
Ok so I’ll stop wittering on now…
Just a mental note… up and coming shenanigans….
V Fest – Perth
India
And hopefully Home at some point!

Ok catch you crazy catz later!

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