Time for another vacation?

What with the recent spate of vacations that my friends seem to be taking, I do wonder if it's high time for me to plan for my next vacation. Funnily enough, the trip to New Zealand in May seemed so long ago. But having said that, I also 'feel' the hole it has burnt in my pocket, and think the next trip should be a cheaper one. Don't ask me how it happened, (an uncanny coincidence) but my mother was remarking to me that it's best to stay home more these days than to go on holidays, simply because you never know when you might be the unlucky victim of a terrorist attack. I had a two-liner retort to that, but decided to hold back, lest it ends in a heated argument. I wanted to go like, 'when it's time to go Home, it's time' and then realised she is rather pantang given it's the seventh lunar month where the 'gates of Hell are opened and spirits roam the earth' in typical pagan Chinese beliefs, so decided to keep quiet.

On another note, here are some of the photos I posted online of my New Zealand trip...my faves of course....




I love that babbling brook behind me in Picture 2...apparently it was the site of a gold rush in Queenstown, New Zealand. Hmm, wonder why I did not manage to stumble across a single gold nugget when I was there. Believe you me when I say I did try my best to spot one.

Anyway, today's Sunday school was cool. Realised two of my 'fave' kids in my group were born in September, same as me. One of them had his birthday one day before me, albeit many years later....