Been absent for awhile but I'm still kicking.

My trips abroad of late have been really quite maddeningly swift. I can't remember a vacation which has been rather leisurely for the longest time but then again I haven't much time to actually go on vacation besides merging it with working trips mostly.

So a quick update for friends who haven't heard from me in ages. I ain't dead, just dead busy is all.

In my absence I've actually been zooming... been to Cambridge and London in a lightning flash trip late last year which was work and leisure combined. Did a beautiful super luxurious spa resort in Thailand in Dec (Sila Evason Hideaway) which ended much too soon but it is simply a must return to resort because it spoilt me rotten and yes it was all leisure but I was still busy smsing work colleagues because there was so much work! Did a quick hit and run trip to New York and visited friends in New Jersey and walked through the lovely Princeton University in March which was again mostly work and a little leisure but again I was mostly smsing because... you got it - work. Got terribly ill on my return trip because I ate something really nasty on that SQ flight back and was laid up in bed for 4 days! Wasted two precious days of my annual leave and a weekend limp from their dirty food... bloody lousy SQ catering in USA POO POO. Made several super short weekend work/leisure trips to Indonesia (Jakarta and Medan) and will probably try to make another two trips to Indonesia (Solo and Surabaya or maybe even Jakarta again). I found myself really liking Indonesia the people are so friendly.. beats Singapore mostly. So I'll be off to Bintan (for the Gaazillonth time) for a much needed quick spa and tanning fix this June... this one is all leisure. I know I'm sooo terribly bad because we'll be doing two resorts one after another while we're there. Why you ask? Because it's too good to pass up. Imagine soaking up the opportunity of enjoyng two lovely deals one after the other when normally you only choose one. We just had to do both :P

The following weekend I'll find myself back in Bintan AGAIN but this time for part work and leisure. Then it'll be back to work and hell until August. Hopefully I'll be able to squeeze in a very decadent long weekend in August in another Thai boutique resort just to de-stress before the year-end madness overcomes the best of us at work, the bonuses will be burned for this trip if it happens. Yes I'm talking about personal bulter service, private pool villa heaven again. We haven't decided yet if we're going be naughty and stay at Sila Evason Hideaway again or try another small luxury spa resort but I know whichever one we settle on... it will be Ooh-so-sinful... sinfully expensive but what is work for if you can't spend your money. And finally I've decided to make another more leisurely trip back to BC Canada at the end of the year to recce the place further with an eye to drive up to the snow this time and maybe indulge in some ski therapy before the new year of madness begins all over again.

I know it's so wrong but I can't relax much here. It's work, it just keeps hounding me. It's at the back of my mind and so long as the computer is closeby and the office stays open for us 24/7 there is just no way to getaway and shut out work. So quick fixes like these short trips just has to do to keep me sanity. If nothing else at least it means I can't drive into work and I don't have internet access so readily. So here's to quick getaways and friends to meet all over the place to keep that smile on me face.

Cheers all and have a super weekend ahead... I'm dreaming of spas, private pools and fruity drinks with sunsets on the horizon just another week or so to go before paradise beckons. *smiles*