Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

莫听穿林打叶声，何妨吟啸且徐行。竹杖芒鞋轻胜马，谁怕？一蓑烟雨任平生。

料峭春风吹酒醒，微冷，山头斜照却相迎。回首向来萧瑟处，归去，也无风雨也无晴。

－苏轼

The new academic year has barely started, and Barnard has not drawn up the HP timetable, which explains the entire existence of my blogging presence. Without the timetable, it doesn’t feel like my internal school clock has started yet, and mostly we just sit around in the classroom waiting for Barnard to tell us when he would like to have lessons.

For the most part though, other aspects of school life has moved ahead, perhaps faster than I would have liked them to. 黄城 preparation will probably go into full force once the auditions are held next week, guitar does not seem likely to slacken. Meanwhile, a math test sits, silently, on a certain Next Friday. Holiday homework needs to be handed up. In Chinese, in spite of administrative issues, teaching is ready to begin. Oh, and a meeting with my H3 mentor is probably in sight, next week.

I knew this year wasn’t easy.

(Taiwan pictures will come over the weekend, in a separate post.)

Christmas passed especially fast this year, because I arrived back in Singapore only two days before it was due to happen (was ill and incapacitated too), and because I hadn’t entered the everyyear routine of shopping and thanksgiving. As I took time to ponder those divine gifts we are blessed with, I can recall the mundane ones that neglect has banished. My imperfect, mongrelised thanks to:-

The Classmates, especially Ya Wen, Chee How, Theodore, Rachael, David, Marcus Hanyun — for making this year more bearable than it might have turned out. If only by the sheer knowledge that the suffering has at least the merit of equality. =P

Ex-Classmates, especially Joseph, Jianhui, Colin — for gaming, chatting, and allowing me to find comfort in the past, as well as the present.

华韵众编委：谢谢你们的付出，很高兴能共同写下华初历史的一页，给我留下 2006 年最光荣的纪念。

台湾交流计划同学（中新两地）：谢谢大家的包容，让路走得更平坦愉快，相信每个人都有很大的收获，包括我。

And Him who has found me.

To a better 2007.