A little break and packing thoughts
At last I am in the little 'break' period where work activities will slow down for a few precious days before it will pick up again at a tremendous speed and pace.
It is so good to be able to breathe and quickly catch up on stuff u had to put aside.
In the past two days,I have done quite some work that will be handy in the future because of this. I am happy that I have used the time well.
Tomorrow we will have a meeting in the late evening (Yuks! I hate it when they do that on Friday evenings.)
Today, after completing another 'self forecast work', I took a few minutes to check out possible places to visit on my vacation. This is FUN! Next I also will check the weather at those places.
Where I live, we wear basically the same type of clothes throughout the year.
The temperature does not change that much. Our buildings and homes are mostly air-conditioned. So, it is mostly summer wear for us.
When u travel in a large country like USA or China or Australia, u need to be better prepared. I am always fascinated when we drive in the span of an hour in the USA, u could possibly be in the desert (dry and hot and lifeless) to a lake (huge and beautiful) to the mountains (fur trees and deers running suddenly across the road) to a snow covered area (white and cold and still, beautiful). It also means u need to have different types and thickness of clothing to survive the trip. I have left quite a bit of my clothes at my friends' home basically because it would serve no purpose to be brought back to my country cos it will never be used. Only downside is I then would need new purchases if I traveled elsewhere (downside? Hmmm it can also mean an upside cos I can go shopping too! Hehe.)
O yes, I have taken out my bags that have traveled the world with me even if the vacation is still a while a way. I expect to be VERY busy at work in a couple of weeks time and that will last right till it is time for my vacation. I foresee that I will not be able to properly pack if I wait to the last minute. Thus, my normal 'throw in the bag as soon as u remember that the item needs to follow u' will become double handy. Then, the night before I leave, I shall quickly pack what will finally go.
I find that that is the way many members of my family also pack. My mom does that, my eldest and second sister too. On the other hand we have family members like my second brother-in-law who will only pack for his trip just the last minute before he showers to go on the trip!
I really would not be able to do a good job if I did that.
Then I also will start psyching my little nieces weeks ahead explaining that I will be away traveling so I am unable to visit and play with them. They do not seem to like the idea of me being away but hey, even aunties need to have adventures in their lives. :-)
I also like looking at places to stay. Somehow they always look better on the internet than IRL.
Still I enjoy doing that especially when I am not yet on vacation.
Guess it allows me the opportunity to dream of the vacation.
And that really is nice. :-)
It is so good to be able to breathe and quickly catch up on stuff u had to put aside.
In the past two days,I have done quite some work that will be handy in the future because of this. I am happy that I have used the time well.
Tomorrow we will have a meeting in the late evening (Yuks! I hate it when they do that on Friday evenings.)
Today, after completing another 'self forecast work', I took a few minutes to check out possible places to visit on my vacation. This is FUN! Next I also will check the weather at those places.
Where I live, we wear basically the same type of clothes throughout the year.
The temperature does not change that much. Our buildings and homes are mostly air-conditioned. So, it is mostly summer wear for us.
When u travel in a large country like USA or China or Australia, u need to be better prepared. I am always fascinated when we drive in the span of an hour in the USA, u could possibly be in the desert (dry and hot and lifeless) to a lake (huge and beautiful) to the mountains (fur trees and deers running suddenly across the road) to a snow covered area (white and cold and still, beautiful). It also means u need to have different types and thickness of clothing to survive the trip. I have left quite a bit of my clothes at my friends' home basically because it would serve no purpose to be brought back to my country cos it will never be used. Only downside is I then would need new purchases if I traveled elsewhere (downside? Hmmm it can also mean an upside cos I can go shopping too! Hehe.)
O yes, I have taken out my bags that have traveled the world with me even if the vacation is still a while a way. I expect to be VERY busy at work in a couple of weeks time and that will last right till it is time for my vacation. I foresee that I will not be able to properly pack if I wait to the last minute. Thus, my normal 'throw in the bag as soon as u remember that the item needs to follow u' will become double handy. Then, the night before I leave, I shall quickly pack what will finally go.
I find that that is the way many members of my family also pack. My mom does that, my eldest and second sister too. On the other hand we have family members like my second brother-in-law who will only pack for his trip just the last minute before he showers to go on the trip!
I really would not be able to do a good job if I did that.
Then I also will start psyching my little nieces weeks ahead explaining that I will be away traveling so I am unable to visit and play with them. They do not seem to like the idea of me being away but hey, even aunties need to have adventures in their lives. :-)
I also like looking at places to stay. Somehow they always look better on the internet than IRL.
Still I enjoy doing that especially when I am not yet on vacation.
Guess it allows me the opportunity to dream of the vacation.
And that really is nice. :-)
posted by akumangkok at
10:05 AM
1 Comments:
dear june..you are so lucky living in a country where you can wear summer clothing all year round!
we have had so much snow here and just last week, we got a snow fall and this is SUPPOSE to be the time of the singing of the birds and the popping out of flowers!
'tis true though that just yesterday bernie and i spotted some yellow dandelions which are usually the first sign of spring and we DO have one golden daffodil in our garden..hopefully the tulips will be showing their faces next week!.
it is wise for you to be planning for your vacation ahead of time.
flights are so expensive..although dad golden gave us money to fly to norway, we found it was more than double the amount that we needed, plus felisol and her husband would have had to make a eight hour trip to pick us up at the airport at oslo and then an eight hour trip to take us to their home in haugastol.
do you think that you will be coming to the states again?
did that young japanese fellow get a chance to finish his studies in malaysia june?..i hope that he is ok...so hard for the young people these days...we older ones never had such mountains to climb.
well this climber better get some shut eye junie...it was so nice to hear your voice again!
i have been way busy..our church has been having special gospel bible meetings every night of the week except saturdays for almost four weeks!...life will slow down soon and then i shall be able to chat with you again my good friend...love terry
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