barely been back two days and thinking of summer holidays already.

am toying with the idea of going to malaysia to do something with bats. not on an earthwatch expedition, because it's ridiculously expensive, but in private arrangement with nus scientists. my cousin can probably help put me in touch with animal biologists at nus and i could go along with the expedition and collect samples and tag bats. wouldn't need any real background in science, since i won't be doing any of the analyses and reports. everything else can be picked up as i go along, i expect.

otherwise am thinking of going to angkor wat. i've wanted to go for a while now, and right now this idea is especially enticing since instead of going on a commercial airliner desmond is thinking of flying us to cambodia if he can get the necessary permits and plane. schemes like that generally fall through, but it's a cheerful prospect to hold out anyway, who knows if it won't come through, and there is always SIA if not.

enough carrot waving. to work.