Came across this while I was reading an article today… and how true it is. Proper prior planning prevents (or at least minimises or prepares you for) all sorts of eventualities that may occur. So be it work, or holiday or family gatherings, weddings, or even buying a home, planning is the key. When you plan, you research, you prepare and you pre-empt. So many times have I noticed things get messy at work (or like some people say, we spend the day fighting "fires") because someone somewhere in the work chain (usually ahem, the bankers la) doesn't know how to plan properly. Now, I'm not saying that we have to go crazy and have plan b's and plan c's and d's and whatever (in fact I read the other day about the Munich Olympics massacre and they said that the events were similar to a prediction in one of the (get this!) 26 different case scenarios that the experts made for the planners of the Olympics – fei hua la, you have 26 scenarios of course there will be one that is similar, I bet if they continued, there will be a prediction of an alien invasion or something in scenario 49 or something), but not planning may lead to being turned away at restaurants (cos there's no reservation) or missing flight departures (cos no taxi was booked and none available when you needed it last minute)… Anyway – you get my drift.
So on a separate but ahem *related* point on planning, lets talk about holidays!! – since our last holiday now seems like a distant memory (no more King crabs or Lobster – just plan ole fish and chips for lunch!), I decided to do some "planning" for our next trip… as I mentioned before, we booked ourselves on a Azamara cruise next October to Israel, Egypt, Turkey etc. but while "planning", I decided this week that next October is a bit toooooooooooo far away. It's 14+ months away so by the time I actually get on board, I might be paralysed with excitement – so we (YL and I decided together ok, after much cajoling from me) decided to cut it short!!! YEAH!!! Now we're going on a May sailing instead. 1 May 2009 to be exact! So its now 8 months to go. In fact, this itinerary is slightly different (and better) from the previous one in that we will be going to Istanbul and Ephesus (I think this is where the book of Ephesians was named) instead of south Turkey and Sicily, plus – the port days and sea days are nicely spread out so we get a break every few days of excursions to just chill out in the ship. The only sianz part is that the disembarkation will be a day before my birthday so that will be quite a depressing birthday, plus come October next year we'll be wishing we didn't change the dates!
Oh well back to the present and reality - this weekend is Bank Holiday weekend – so it's a long weekend!! YEAH! YL and I have planned some time ago a short trip to Northern Ireland to visit Belfast and the countryside up north. Apparently there's this world heritage site called the "Giant's causeway" which is quite spectacular. Hopefully the weather will be good though, as last weekend there were flash floods around Belfast (the worse in many years). It would be a shame if we have to avoid parts of Belfast because of any flooding. Argh – after this trip there'll be a holiday drought for 4 months till Christmas, but I'm not thinking of that yet :)
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