Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! You'll hear from me again in the new year. Bub-bye.

You know how they say never to do exercise straight after you eat? Well, they weren't kidding.

I'm looking at photos of snow around the world and I can't help but ask, "Where's London's share?"

No new Friday Five last week but there are a number that I've missed out. For example:

1. List five things you'd like to accomplish by the end of the year.
Finish off a paper.
Sing in next week's concert.
Actually, I can't think of anything else.

2. List five people you've lost contact with that you'd like to hear from again.
Perhaps a couple of high school friends.
Oh, and Azrina, email me!

3. List five things you'd like to learn how to do.
Use the open access scanner.
Cook chai tau kuah.
Properly code OpenGL.
And ActiveX.
Sight sing.

4. List five things you'd do if you won the lottery (no limit).
Buy a flat in Kensington.
Give a lot to my parents.
Sort out brother's education funding.
Donate to a cause that I haven't decided on yet.
Go nuts in a bookshop.

5. List five things you do that help you relax.
Bubble bath.
Sing.
Read.
Walk.
Cook.

I met a friend I hadn't seen in a while yesterday and he mentionned that he was taking a course on professional skills. Y'know, things like writing a report, giving presentations, stuff like that. He had to select a topic (anything that he pleased) within half an hour and then complete the assignment. Although it took him the entire half hour to come up with quite interesting topics, I managed to come up with one immediately over my hot chocolate. "Pancakes around the world".

C'mon, it would rock! Think about what you'd be able to write about: American breakfast flapjacks, French crepes and galettes, Indian dosas, Malaysian kuah dada, Russian blintzes, Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday). And that's just off the top of my head...imagine what a little trawl though Google would come up with. You could even discuss potato pancakes, though that would be stretching it.

Winter's coming!!! And why does it rock?

1. Snow, baby, snow!
2. Excuse to blow lunch budget and go get hot noodle soup down the street.
3. Post-Christmas sales! (I don't really celebrate Christmas)

Now why does it suck?

1. Roads turn into skating rinks. And I skate badly.
2. Hat hair. More specifically, toque hair.
3. Cannot wear sandals to xmas parties as losing toes would affect dancing abilities.

Oh, and I'm starting to post some Montreal photos over at my fotolog.