Full time student?

School started this week. Went to the co-op to get my texts yesterday. It was a good feeling to walk through the campus in broad daylight. I remember the fluffy clouds on Monday afternoon. Such softness. When I started on my Masters this time last year, the campus was dark most of the time I was in school. Spent an hour in the library after I got my texts. [No more excuse to mug last minute :P]

There is no more backlog to clear at work. There is backlog to clear at home. Travelled to Siem Reap last April and the digital photos are still in the folders. Sorted them yesterday. Will develop the photos soon. Well, Siem Reap is a beautiful place. It was a good trip. Full of fun and laughter. Full of sights to behold. [see some of the photos]

One of my classmates was asking me about how I spend my time now. Well, clearing personal backlogs [there are more waiting for me to unravel, I'm sure] is a priority. Reading the newspapers for more than an hour is a pleasure [was thinking that I would not know much about the sub-prime crisis otherwise]. Sometimes, you focus so much on your work that you bury yourself at work and ignore the rest of the world. Now, I wonder if I would be able to get a new job if the crisis spreads. Perhaps, like they say, sometimes ignorance is bliss. Perhaps.

Krabi - A short vacation

Went to Krabi for a short vacation recently. Guess this short vacation kick starts a longer vacation. There was no job to return to. No backlog to clear. No emails to reply. No voice messages to answer. No concrete plans for Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov nor Christmas... Not sure if I feel good about it. But it is definitely a strange feeling - being free to think about what I want to do only when my eyes open every morning and not before they close every night. [Strange indeed!]


Perhaps a blog to commemorate this new found 'freedom'? Well, not really. Well, this blog was probably created because of the friends who wanted to start a blog to sell accessories [handmade ones of course!! what else?? :P] There was some bicker over lunch who should do it. And well, you guess right. The arrow naturally points to the free one. Of course, there were some resistance. It is not that easy to create a blog, ok? And well, I may not be afterall really that free and well, there was always better things to do, right? [:P]


And so it started because of the other blog [shall have a link from this blog to the other blog when the friends ok it:)].. It was well, I must admit, quite easy to create a blog [at least it was easier than I thought :P]. A simple blog. And well, I was free today to do it, having finish the potter tale...


Back to the short vacation. Krabi, to quote and unquote my travel friends, is like our dear own sentosa [guess this is perhaps our best benchmark to compare the world]. Why then do we still want to venture to Krabi bay when we have the beautiful Sunset bay so close at home? So close to heart. Perhaps we really have no time to sit down and see our world go by everyday? Perhaps it is only during holidays that we find time to sit down and see the world go by. [A sad thought indeed...]


So what is the Krabi like in my eyes? A producer once told me that if the audience can remember 3 things that he want them to take away, the video has achieve its purpose. So what did I take away from Krabi? Well, I know this is going to sound cliche but a picture does tell a thousand words... This is one of the trips when I took so few photos [see the pictures posted]. Perhaps there was nothing much to take away. Perhaps I chose to sit down and see Krabi go by...