Today is the big day. I'm flying tonight. Have I packed yet? Is now the most common question asked. And here is the common answer. No. Why? I've less than 12 hours to my flight. Well, I've not packed my toiletries, my camera, my laptop...minor issues. But I've got 2 suitcases packed and ready to go, so it's all relative I guess. But enough on my departure. New year's day was yesterday, and I'll suppose everyone went visiting. I find that visitation has become too much of a routine, than it is a tradition. Every year, we meet relatives, whom we only get to see once a year (during new year), and every year, they'll ask the same old questions which you have grown, never to get tired of answering. But somehow, they'll always remember the crossroads in your life, for that whole new year, or at least until that crossroad has been crossed, that will be the topic of the new year.

For example, when I was in army, the questions ranged from, "What are you doing in camp now? How is army life? When do you ORD?" And now that I have finished army, the questions are, "What course are you doing in uni? Where are you staying? Are you packed?" So, now I'm preparing myself for next years questions, which would most probably be, "How is uni? What course are you doing? (they always seem to forget) How is life there?" And this is my uncles favourite, which comes up every year, "Dan, got girlfriend yet?"

Doesn't this just make the new year all that more boring, along with your standard issue of new year goodies and hong baos. Not that I'm complaining...am I?