きもちいい！

Japan, 13-19 Dec 2006



I went to hotspring area with three boys. But that was the only shot of us in a hotspring together! Hoho!

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Logging my Kyushu trip - second time in Japan! :) It was really 游山 cos Kyushu is less for city stuff and 玩水 cos of the hot springs!

13 Dec - 福岡

It was such an early flight on 13 Dec.. Was out the previous night at the premier of The Curse of the Golden Flower - missed seeing Chow Yun Fatt himself but caught the opulent imperial settings with blossomy women whose boobs could pop out of their corsets at the next deep breath; another imperial tragedy - and slept rather late. But I chose to take the train to Changi, thrifty all of a sudden..

Some facts before check-in: 23 in tour group; all families except the four of us; no cute guys and all the boys are too young - oh well!
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Showing off Singapore!

Singapore 1-3 Oct 2006



I used to show friends around Oxford when they came visiting but this was the first time I showed my friends around Singapore!

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Took two days of leave to play host to Jens and Eric. Woke up early on Children's Day to fetch Jens from the airport. We met Eric at the hotel; he arrived a short while ago by train. It had been three years since we met!
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Beach holiday with the boys!

Bali, 14-17 Jun 2006



I went to a beach resort with three boys.

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Prologue
A few days before..

Sito: Who is going to bunk with you?
mf: Well, I'm closer to you and Hup. So two of you pls fight to bunk with LY!! :p
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2006 working trips memoir

UK, US and China, 2006

Just wanted to collate my working trips in 2006. Really went to a lot of places that year. Actually I was just helping a sister unit with their outreach efforts. In fact, all my working trips except the 2007 one were for this sister unit. 

This means I still had my own work to do... I remember one night, I was trying to clear some of my own work with boss who was also at the same trip. After a few to and fro emails, he said might as well call and so we did - called the hotel phone. That was 3am *.*

The first trip to London was also when my "flight flu", as I called it, started. Maybe it was too long since I took long trips?

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London, Manchester; 10-15 Mar 2006

This was my first working trip. I was informed to pack and go one week before it happened. My younger self blogged a lot so info on this trip can be found in three posts.

1. The beginning - also struck gold finding this post coz of a random comment from Mother
2. On the plane - yes, need to write :p
3. Finally there! 

I just realised that that was my first and only trip to Manchester (as of 2026) and I didn't see a thing outside of the event haha!

NYC, Boston, Michigan; 31 Mar-6 Apr 2006

Flight flu continued, unabated. So things were a blur. I did my best... Michigan is like Manchester for me :p

1. On arrival
2. All the gory details
3. Homebound

Shanghai; 24-27 Aug 2006

Less rubbish, just one post :p