It's the end of the year again. Sigh. How time flies. I was hoping to do a family vacation before the year ends, but really, I wonder if it is possible at all. I love travelling, but the thought of lugging 2 kids and loads of luggage quite put me off. Bad mother :p. My idea of holiday is to relax, relax and relax, so what's the point of having to fuss around the kids and at the same time incessantly worry about the food, luggages, plane, hotel, itinerary, sleep, illness, weather, etc, etc. The thought of it makes me tired already. BUT at the same time, my body and soul is screaming for a BREAK !!! So how? I do not want to leave the kids home, given a choice. To make it simple, I think any trip beyond 3 days and/or more than 3-hour journey is out of question. Plus, KA hates to drive to Malaysia, so that leaves us not many choices. Maybe Sentosa, Bintan, or a local hotel getaway. Well anything will do.

On the same note, reading about BBC's poll on 50 places to visit in your lifetime makes me wonder if I can even visit half of these places before I die. So far, I've only been to 9 out of 50 (or strictly only 8 because Singapore is where I'm born and live - and whyever is it in the list?). Strangely, UK was left out, maybe because it was conducted by BBC? Well, London is definitely one of my top votes.

1 The Grand Canyon 2 Great Barrier Reef 3 Florida 4 South Island 5 Cape Town 6 Golden Temple 7 Las Vegas 8 Sydney 9 New York 10 Taj Mahal 11 Canadian Rockies 12 Uluru 13 Chichen Itza - Mexico 14 Machu Picchu - Peru 15 Niagara Falls 16 Petra - Jordan 17 The Pyramids - Egypt 18 Venice 19 Maldives 20 Great Wall of China 21 Victoria Falls - Zimbabwe 22 Hong Kong 23 Yosemite National Park 24 Hawaii 25 Auckland - New Zealand

26 Iguassu Falls 27 Paris 28 Alaska 29 Angkor Wat - Cambodia 30 Himalayas - Nepal 31 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil 32 Masai Mara - Kenya 33 Galapagos Islands - Ecuador 34 Luxor - Egypt 35 Rome 36 San Francisco 37 Barcelona 38 Dubai 39 Singapore 40 La Digue - Seychelles 41 Sri Lanka 42 Bangkok 43 Barbados 44 Iceland 45 Terracotta Army - China 46 Zermatt - Switzerland 47 Angel Falls - Venezuela 48 Abu Simbel - Egypt 49 Bali 50 French Polynesia

In bold are the pathetic few places I've visited before.