end-of-the-year plans

since we have no exams, i just need to face another 11 assignments and then i'm done for the year! :) that's great! for some of my more hardworking classmates, they have even fewer than that left!

David Tao is playing in the background and putting me in an amazing mood.. i'm feeling strangely exhilarated.. guess it's partly also because i stayed up till 3 plus 4 last night chatting online while doing my IT project.. phew.. and now i'm mistaking the high from a mix of fatigue plus wine-over-dinner plus my mum's lovingly boiled herbal soup with the high from happiness... oh well, doesn't matter.. :)

missing my sister who's on a 21-day Annapurna Circuit trek to Nepal now.. but i'm really glad for her that she has a chance to go on this trek...she's been training hard all 2 months before this walking up and down 25 storey HDB flats with 12 kg loads, running 35 minutes and swimming 20 laps of the pool every few days .. she also deserves all the fun she's having after working hard for these past few years, abused and underappreciated as a staff nurse (yes, the stories of abuse by patients and their families is appalling.. :( definitely beats even my experiences when i was running the retail art shop (where customers come with the preconception that salespeople are "unfriendly, unhelpful and stupid").. sometimes, i wonder why people have the mindset that service people are "below them" and then start to treat them accordingly.. it's terrible, particularly for the impression they create for themselves.. grr... wonder if they ever stop to think how bitchy it makes them look.. or maybe they don't care??)

anyway, i'm looking forward to my own 6 week trip to India come November.. :) 3 weeks doing my Sikkim Project and then another 3 weeks in picturesque Rajasthan (plus Delhi and Agra - to see the Taj Mahal!) for photography, food, architecture, deserts and fun fun fun...... phew.. if things go right, i'll be spending both christmas and new year (and maybe even my birthday) out of the country..

everything always seems tolerable when there's something exciting to look forward to...