i've decided to undertake this ginormous and huge-ass-of-a feat to consolidate my blogs.

infact, its a task embarked upon a little late.

yet it is reflective of how scattered my life has been over the last 2 and half years i have been in beijing.

so please be patient with me as i re-tag and re-link all my 152 entries on this site, and import (read: cut and paste) all my entries from moblog here, so in the meantime there will only be a very crude layout and quizzes to greet you.

I've been fidgeting with the layout and trying with absolutely little avail to the adjustments as i'm an HTML bimbo. This has been the most ambitious of all projects in my lifetime.

and oh... for anyone who cares... i'm back. *hugs#

ps: there are plenty of chapters i've got locked for friends, and you've got to join livejournal for a free account, and be on my list.

Hardooo Gay is here to the rescue.

~FuUUuuuUUuu

things have been overwhelming on my end.

( i have so much to share, and am at a loss as of where to start. )

the days didn't work out as i'd planned...

*rolls eyes# like why would i expect things to work out the way i hope them to... *bitterly#

i've spent the last few days completely wasting my time on inconsequential nitty gritty affairs.

( Screams of Silence... )

there are 5 more months before the year officially wraps up. there are proposals to write, reports to account for, and events to plan for the end of year World AIDS Day.

and i've been dallying... procrastinating... wasting my time on things irrelevant. *guilty#

( so i sit myself by the window and stare...  )

i'm not looking forward to the long Air Canada flight from Beijing to Toronto, but at least its direct.

And strangely, my tight schedule is something i'm looking forward to.

i'm mighty excited!

*jumps up and down in glee#

( i'm going to be all over the place.... )

no surprise that the flight was delayed on my way to bangkok and back, but thankfully on the way over, the delay still afforded me extra time to wonder around on the afternoon i arrived.

the pollution was as severe as i remembered it, with me almost backtracking the moment i stepped out of the airport to hail a taxi.

( i'm but a creature of habit... )

the sunset was breathtaking, with its rays overhanging the buildings like a halo.

i had taken the picture during the last trip i was in New York after the High Level Meeting fiasco and remembered thinking to myself that i had to visit New York again very soon...

( you had meant so much to me... )

4 vs 1.

it was apparently an exciting match for as we lugged our bags through the cobbled streets of Geneva, echoes of "Goal" reverberated through the alleys.

my attention to this world cup pales in comparison to that 4 years ago. Proximity does make such a difference.

regrettably, it had proven impossible to join Spongebob in Paris due to time constraints, and so the sweet lad came to Geneva to meet me instead.

and to Spongebob, Geneva new town is ugly. He is however seemingly excited to take pictures tomorrow at the lake which he says is a waste of energy with the 140m spouting jet of water.

on another note...

*claps hands in glee#

tomorrow will be exciting as it will be my first visit to France, although i am but spending a night there... i am awfully thrilled!

the train ride to Lyon will be 2 hours and i hope to catch up on the reading i have to prepare before the meetings on the train rides to and fro Geneva and Lyon.

and i'm off to my reading. i'll need to make sense of all that fine print.

home is always sweet.

its been quiet, and i liked it that way. instead of packing my schedule full because of time constraints, i took it nice and easy because i'm going to have 2 entire weeks to frolic come 30th June.

so today will be a day of errands before hopping onto that flight to Geneva tonight, which by the way i've realised isn't at 2350, but at 2305.

Makes a world of a difference, and boy i'm relieved i checked it last night.

i called just and checked in on the phone because internet check-in via lufthansa was completelely exasperating last night, although not as frustrating when my wise words vaporise when i hit the "save" button at times on moblog. *sulks#

i've been trying to figure out why some people would like to print out their boarding passes if they obviously still have luggage that they need to check in even after checking in online. its that new service offered by SQ and some other airlines and i don't get it.

*wonders#

i haven't much to pack this time round, and for that i'm completely relieved. i've embraced wrinkle free dresses, which frees up room for more shoes.

travel plans can be such a royal pain, but its now a dull ache instead of a massive heart attack.

i'm only consoled that i almost always get more work done on a plane than i do in my bedroom in singapore.

for one thing, there are never smoke breaks.

so there'll be plenty of proposals and a paper to write, and work to be fine tuned on the 11 hour journey.

i'm just hoping that there will be hunky dory european eye candy on the flight, instead of the buirdly mass that spilled over onto my seat during my last flight on lufthansa from Geneva to Beijing.

*keeps fingers crossed#

PS: i'm not lugging home 10kg of chocolates this time round. for the selected few who know who you are leave a msg... black or white, nuts or raisins?

*winks#