blabbers – missruslee

For my last-day-of-the-year and new year’s reading, a friend of mine (the same one who sent me the link that inspired my travelling solo post) gave me this interesting article, “Busy isn’t respectable anymore”.

Which got me thinking.

I certainly have been guilty of some of the notion of busyness that was mentioned in the article. However, if there was one accomplishment that I have achieved in 2013, it would be that the fact that I still feel I am living in Singapore despite travelling out almost every month to about 10 countries in a year. That I’m not too busy travelling to actually be in Singapore.

Which is such a contrast to how I felt in 2011. I did very frequent travelling back then as well, but I felt very distanced from what was happening here. That was why in 2012, I decided to travel much more sparingly and to have longer gaps in between. That seemed to work okay until nearing the end of the year when all hell broke loose. I felt so suffocated by the lack of travel that I decided to take off for a solo trip to Europe. (Now you see how the different pieces come together? All these travels are meant to be, really).

So being the overanalyser that I am, I tried to analyse what was so different last year (yes, 2013 is already last year) and 2011.

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We all lead very interesting lives. Otherwise we would all fall asleep throughout the day because of how boring things are.

Having said that, we can only appreciate it once we have time to take in the things around us, things that we have gone through. For me, a huge part of my life’s excitement comes from travelling, a habit I picked up since 2009 when I went to live abroad in Copenhagen.

But recently, another excitement, very much more tangible, came to my life.

On 1st December 2013, I purchased a beauty. I have yet to give her a name, but everyone who owns the same machine calls her Yoga Pro 2. It has got the most stunning display of 3200×1800 in resolution, a solid black inner body and a silver chassis. It is light, of mere 1.3 kg, a good battery life (though not the best I have to admit) and powerful processor.

But all that said, I’m not here to give a tech review of my newly acquired Ultrabook, which coincidentally, is one of my best buys of the year. (The other one was a meal at this Korean restaurant at my office called Bibigo which came with a free colourful drink and won me a trip for two to Seoul. But that’s another story altogether.) I am perfectly unqualified for that – the tech review, not the free trip winner.

Continue reading “The End.” →