And while I was re-documentating my travelogue, I dug this out from three years ago and realised that I have actually satisfied a lot of the wishes! (Striked ones are what I have done!)

想去tasmania行山, camping。每天都吃那裡出產的芝士, 牛奶, yoghurt, salmon。
想去new zealand, 慢慢踱步, 每天看日出, 看日落。
想去多次sydney, 慢慢感受那裡的生活, 走過每條大街小巷。欣賞sydney opera house, town hall, qeb的architecture。
想再去adelaide, 那裡的海灘和german town。
想去alice spring那塊ululu。
想去fiji, 每日平平淡淡的在海灘sun bath, 暢泳。

如果07可以到europe exchange…

我要到effle tower那裡坐一整天, 自己找書欣賞周圍的gothic architecture。 去paris library, paris opera。站在那個arterial road的focal point, 踱步於paris的bolevard, 慢慢想想為甚麼hausmann這樣plan paris, pros and cons。坐在法國的小cafe裡飲一整天的咖啡, 吃麵包和芝士。坐ｐａｒｉｓ的ｍｅｔｒｏ。
我要到德國看柏林圍牆, 看納粹黨的遺跡。放眼四周的科技。去oktober fest的celebration, 不理一切, 整天在飲beer。 去萊茵河, 去leipzig, 去bremen, 去hanover, 去stuggart! 聽ｂｅｒｌｉｎ　ｐｈｉｌｈａｒｍｏｎｉｋｅｒ的ｃｏｎｃｅｒｔ，　聽ｂｏｙｓ　ｃｈｏｉｒ，　聽ｂａｃｈ，　ｍａｈｌｅｒ，　ｂｅｅｔｈｏｖｅｎ。去南德感受不同的德國, 用我有限公司的german去雞同鴨講, 和不同文化背景的人玩有口難言。
我要到荷蘭, 看每一個mvrdv design的architecture。到紅燈區發呆。穿梭大街小巷，　四圍看ｄｅｓｉｇｎ，　拍照。
我要去西班牙, 去酒吧跳一整晚的舞, 看那個古怪architect design的古怪church。 到market畫畫, 看一整天的人。
我要去greece, 然後就坐在海邊一整天。
我要去北歐, 去試試winter一日不見太陽, depress到要死的感覺：
到sweden的ikea。在stockholm感受那裡的高gdp。去感受四周的ｄｅｓｉｇｎ　ａｔｍｏｓｐｈｅｒｅ。
在copahagen踏city bike的單車, 坐一整天的public transport, 感受一下finger plan的效果。
到finland探聖誕老人, 預先寄christmas card給所人朋友仔。 焗sauna。去ｓｉｂｅｌｉｅｕｓ　ａｃａｄｅｍｙ，　去ｈｉｋｉｎｇ，　感受ｆｉｌａｎｄｉａ的背後。
在norway的marine system裡canoe, 吃tuna, salmon, anchovies。
我要到瑞士去看alps, 和一班人吃fondue, 飲酒。 走過三個說不同語言的district。
我要到italy, 去venice的canal裡坐一天的船, 和掌舵的伯伯說一整天。去吃不同種類的pasta, 飲wine。
我要去英國。坐tube。然後在cambridge, oxford坐一整天。到london的名店穿梭。在big ben那裡看車水馬龍的traffic, 坐紅色的double decker。去aquarium, 找closer取景的公園，　找ｎｏｔｔｉｎｇ　ｈｉｌｌ那個ｓｕｂｕｒｂ，小街, love actually的所有取景。去scotland的callanish stone拍一天的照。
我要去ireland, 就在dublin的promenade坐一天, 到mall裡做big　ｓｐｅｎｄｅｒ，　然後在ｓｔ　ｐａｔｒｉｃｋ’ｓ　ｄａｙ去ｐｕｂ飲一整晚ｂｅｅｒ。
去ａｕｓｔｒｉａ，　聽ｗｉｅｎ　ｏｒｃｈｅｓｔｒａ的ｃｏｎｃｅｒｔ，　到ｖｉｅｎｎａ坐一天，　走一天，　聽人街頭表演。 去找ｓｏｕｎｄ　ｏｆ　ｍｕｓｉｃ的拍攝景地。飲１００１　ｎａｃｈｔ。
去ｌｕｘｅｍｂｕｒｇ，morocco, Liechtenstein, compare and contrast 不同的小國。
去ｅａｓｔｅｒｎ　ｅｕｒｏｐｅ：　ｐｒａｇｕｅ， ｐｏｌａｎｄ感受另一個ｅｕｒｏｐｅ。看ｈｏｌｏｃａｕｓｔ。

而ｓｏｕｖｅｎｉｒ會是．．．．　自己寄給自己的ｐｏｓｔｃａｒｄ，　和一大堆ｆｌａｇｓ，　ｍａｇａｚｉｎｅ，和　ｎｅｗｓｐａｐｅｒ。

Although I didn’t manage to do all those things, my year in Europe had given me so much more than I have ever expected, even without mentioning the depth of it…

I can’t believe so much has changed between last Christmas and this year’s Christmas. Last year, well, last year I didn’t really celebrate Christmas. But Michelle and I followed the custom of the Swedes, celebrating Julafton at Victor’s by eating ham, rice porridge, ‘burned’ almonds, putting cloves into oranges, drinking julmust and glögg, and lastly, watching Donald Duck on tv.

In Hong Kong, there isn’t just much you could do about Christmas without spending big bucks to feel like it’s actually Christmas. Yeah, this is one very sad fact. But the fact that we don’t get snow or even chill… and having consumerism taken over the town… sometimes I thought I might be slightly pessimistic about it – shouldn’t I be doing something more active to try to change it? Nah – forget it, especially after putting in a planning application for multiple times, without never knowing exactly how to do one properly for a month, is tiring enough. I just want to relax in the least densely populated area in Hong Kong so that I don’t get bumped by sweaty strangers – and that’s my bed.

Anyway, this four-day vacation gives me a good opportunity to go through all the mess that I have been making physically and digitally that I have been putting off in clearing them e.g. organising pictures from last year in a sensible way and deleting huge-ass movies that has been eating up tons of the disk space. So hopefully my MBP will be slightly more cooperative when I am in a hurry trying to put together this video that I am preparing for my grandparents diamond anniversary dinner on Sunday.

I was also lucky enough to catch Thierry online! Geez, we haven’t directly interact ever since Paris – except Facebooking, if you consider that direct interaction… but you never know what how people think these days. Also, I received Peter’s postcard from Shanghai which made me read your last postcard from S’pore again. Didn’t you say you will do this one in Chinese? Maybe next time… To wrap it up, today has actually been quite overwhelmingly and emotionally connecting to Sweden.

In the spirit of Jul, may I put Kaho on the spot by posting this picture which captured his priceless face without seeking his consent. It made me laugh when I saw it. (Photo credit goes to Candy and it was taken in Sigulda in Latvia.)

Lastly, Merry Christmas/God Jul/Joyeux Noel/Frohe Weihnachten/Natale allegro to all my dear friends all over the world :)