I'm back!

So various things happened while I was on holiday:

• Went white-water rafting, and I managed to avoid falling into the water though we were tempted to overturn the raft.


• Had lots and lots of yummy food, though my weight is still the same. *sigh*


• Bought some clothes and stuff so that at least my wardrobe is more complete (in a way)


• Got my results, which were not really what I expected.


• Got a card from xiara, which I saw only this morning. Now I need to find a card and write back ^_^;;

And I had a good time in general.

For all Prime Ministers-in-waiting out there

Yes (Prime) Minister Files - For Your Eyes Only

Some quotes from Yes, PM

Jim Hacker: "Nothing wrong with subsidizing sports: sport is educational."
Sir Humphrey: "We have sex education too. Should we subsidize sex perhaps?"
Bernard Woolley: "Could we?"

Sir Humphrey: "When you see vast buildings, huge staff and massive budgets, what do you conclude?"
Jim Hacker: "Bureaucracy?"

Jim Hacker: "Who knows Foreign Office secrets, apart from the Foreign Office?"
Bernard Woolley: "That's easy. Only the Kremlin."

Sir Humphrey: "How are things at the Campaign for the Freedom of Information, by the way?"
Sir Arnold: "Sorry, I cannot talk about that."

Sir Arnold: "So, will our new PM be our eminent Chancellor or our distinguished Foreign Secretary?"
Sir Humphrey: "Well, that is what I wanted to talk to you about. Which do you think it should be?"
Sir Arnold: "Difficult. Like asking which lunatic should run the asylum."

Jim Hacker: "Obviously the Home Secretary will have to resign."
Sir Humphrey: "Alas, yes."
Jim Hacker: "What on earth will happen to him?"
Sir Humphrey: "Well, I gather he was as drunk as a lord, so after a discrete interval they will probably make him one."

Bernard Woolley: "That is why that torpedo landed on Sandwich Golf Course."
Jim Hacker: "Sandwich Golf Course? I didn't read that in the paper."
Bernard Woolley: "No, of course not: there was a cover-up. The members just found a new bunker on the 7th fairway the next day."

Sir Humphrey: "Notwithstanding the fact that your proposal could conceivably encompass certain concomitant benefits of a marginal and peripheral relevance, there is a countervailing consideration of infinitely superior magnitude involving your personal complicity and corroborative malfeasance, with a consequence that the taint and stigma of your former associations and diversions could irredeemably and irretrievably invalidate your position and culminate in public revelations and recriminations of a profoundly embarrassing and ultimately indefensible character."
Jim Hacker: "Perhaps I can have a précis of that?"

( An explanatory note?! )

( Dying... or is it? )

( Long-winded explanations )