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Bad Keeper of Time

As much as I try, I don’t pack very well for trips. My flight is in 6 or so hours, and I’ve not really packed much stuff yet. Waiting for a shipment of cherries to go into my luggage that will be at the base of it, before I can pile anything else on. Heh, not bringing too much stuff back, and I’ve promised colleagues I’d bring food back for them, so there’s a new challenge. (Edit: Or so I thought, I’m stuffed to the brim on weight allocation.)

This is the first time I’ve bought more than the few odd dollars worth of gifts to be distributed. I have a booty of 6 loaves of bread, 20 bars of Cadbury chocolate (which you can find in Malaysia, but using a different grade of milk, it tastes very different), some honey, jam and the cherries mentioned. I have no idea whether everything will make it back home unscathed, but trying to reduce the hassle doesn’t seem to sit well with my current self.

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Any plans back home? Other than the usual binging (I have recently come to the conclusion that weight gain is like the consumer price index, aka CPI/inflation, you will never be able to escape it and there will be periods in a year where you are in a festive mood and consume more than your poor body can burn off, hence, a 3 to 4% gain of weight after it’s all over) on local food, visiting relatives and maybe a few friends, I don’t think I will be doing very much else.

I didn’t manage to tidy the room the 1 1/2 weeks that Vyanne wasn’t here. Heh, different things sought my attention at the time.

Heh, just waiting for dinner to happen so I can continue cramming all the stuff into my luggage. At least mom gave some good advice to always prepare a packing list. Hopefully I don’t forget anything.