Leaving soon on too many jet planes

One of the side effects of travelling (too much) is that one soon fatigues of it. You asked me today if I was excited to be going off (last day of work and first of a vacation week hurrah!) and in a way I am. But I'm not looking forward to the 12 hours + 2.5 hours + 3.5 hours + 1.5 hours on a plane ahead of me. I don't think I've ever taken so many flights in sequence before, just to get to where I'm going.

Of course, I could have taken the direct route and simply flown LHR-CHO straight away, but obviously I had to bump into a business transatlantic, and obviously I had to take what seemed the cheaper (I doubt it now) option.

Yes, I am definitely your silly goose alright - I'm living up to my name.

I am not even counting the time I'm going to be spending on the flight. All I know is, more than 24 hours later after I take off + time zone differences, the frequent flyer miles had better be worth it. Every time I walk into a place that gives me Krisflyer Gold privileges, I tell myself that it was all worthwhile.

I want to honestly say what I'm looking forward to - because over IM, I didn't have an answer for you.

I am looking forward to walking towards my niece and seeing a broad, wide grin on her face. I'm looking forward to seeing her spring forward with a freshness of step one only sees in the very very young. I'm thinking that if only we had kids, they'd be so darn cute (looks like Isaac). I'm now laughing at the sceptical look on your face and your "no kids" policy.

And of course you'll say that our lovely white fluffy baby is totally worth it and enough trouble as it is. Which of course she is. I'm half thinking of borrowing her to snuggle against in bed - she'd be lovely in this cold weather.

A New Home!!

Luscinia View 002
Originally uploaded by metaphoric.

Finally, after much ado and running around, I've finally laid hands on my new house!!

Half of today was spent running around to Wokingham, then to the new place to do mundane but important things like sign the lease, get the keys released (and into my grubby hands...) check into the apartment, make sure the inventory listings are correct and everything is in good working order yada yada yada.

It's not easy, this moving out and moving into a new place thing. But I'm so excited!

This marks many "first's" for me,

1. First home of mine where I'm actually paying the rent with my hard-earned money and entirely able to invite my parents (imagine that!) to my home
2. First time furniture which I chose, and I paid for is going to be moved in,
3. First time I'm setting up my very own nest (all on my own - and you're like yeah yeah, *yawn* been there done that)
4. First time I've had a dishwasher, electric stove, food processor under the sink and a garbage compactor installed in my house (I'm going to have so much fun playing with these new toys...)
5. First time I'm living right next to a big 24 hour Tesco

Each time I see the house, it just looks better and better. I can't wait to move in! Actually, the funny thing is that I'm hardly going to even get much time to spend with my new house, but the year is still young (heheh). (tongue in cheek) But now I kind of know how a man with his new bride feels like (can't wait to move in).

You will probably be laughing but I had really never realized just how Cancerian I am until now. Cancerians are domestic and house-proud, but up until now, I've never had a house of my own to feel proud of.

This is a key part of me growing up. The first, and perhaps only, step that I will actually proudly take in a long ladder of self-domestication, viz.

1. Buying a house (Singaporean equivalent: registering for a HDB flat)
2. Moving in with a mate
3. Getting married
4. Having kids
5. Putting kids through college
6. Growing old
7. Having grandkids
8. Growing even more old
9. Starting to count down to the final days
10. and so on and so forth...

"15, there's still time for you, time to buy and time to choose - 15,
there's never a wish better than this... when you've only got 100 years to
live." - (100 years, 5 for fighting)

f.r.e.s.h.

Just in case anyone wondered what f.r.e.s.h. actually meant, it stands for:

• Food
• Recipes
• Enjoyment (of food)
• Supermarkets reviews and
• Household tips

Which are basically everything that I'm putting up here before I forget them myself.