Danger all around

It's a new year. The celebrations here in Bangkok didn't get off to quite such a great start. Just hours before we started counting down the old year, bombs detonated all over Bangkok. One went off right at the bus stop I wait at when I go to school. Suffice to say, people were and are freaked. It's so surreal. This is not the Thailand I know. There is something dreadfully wrong about hearing the word "bomb" connected with the place you live. Shudder. I said a quick prayer for everyone. I'm saying a prayer for myself. This is the Year of the Boar, my year. It's the year I want to dedicate to cultivating willpower. I have so precious little of it. I have to stop making empty threats, because once you do that, you become...pathetic. And I don't like being pathetic. At any rate, I'm off to sleep coz I gotta work tomorrow. Hope everyone else is having a brilliant new year.

Final thought: Wishing for a peaceful, safe Year of the Boar.