Long long time ago

How time flies. Before I know it, October's already here and 2006 is going to pass me by.

This time last year, at this very exact moment, I believe I was at Changi Airport, waiting to board my plane. Making my way to New Caledonia, where I spent 3 weeks on a little boat adrift in the South Pacific. I blogged a whole lot about that, but my archives are kinda screwed, so I don't know if you can access them. I don't know how to fix it.

Seeing that all is quiet and I have not been up to much lately, I have decided to upload pictures of past field trips. This set is from the Philippines, circa January 2005. Perhaps blog about it in the distant future. I did do a quickie post when I returned, but today while looking through the pictures, I realised that my memories are fast fading. Aliguay, Siquijor, Dapitan, Dipolog.. it all seems a blur. And which leg was it that we had 30 seconds to run from one ferry to another while carrying a huge rucksack each plus field equipment? I remember thinking at that one point that it was all very Amazing Race-ish. I think we went from Siquijor to Dapitan via Dumaguete and Tagbilaran in less than 5 hours! All because we ran that last 30 seconds. They had already lifted up the gangway, the ship was about to sail. But we beat it! Gangway came down again while we huffed and puffed up, much to the amusement of our fellow travellers. All we lacked then was a camera crew.

And that 2 hour sampan ride to Aliguay. It was nice.

Well.. back to work. I'll spin my yarn another time.