I know, I'm ashamed.
I am sorely tempted to delete this blog and then recreate it so no one can look at the embarrassing date stamps of my posts! So much for monthly posts, which I already thought was pretty realistic.
Life has been rather intense for me between this post and the last one. Sometimes one cannot afford to feel apologetic for not doing everything one wanted to do, or planned to do. Sometimes one just has to live and focus on living--either because doing anything else would be shortchanging yourself; other times because you simply can't survive otherwise.
Excuses aside--as they probably sound to you--there have of course been times when despite having a breather/opportunity I simply allowed myself to deflate into a passive lump. I am not proud of lumping. (a term coined in my family to describe a very real activity, or rather lack of.) But to be fair one has to properly sit down and form not only a resolution but a game plan, to effectively overcome lumping, and when life feels like a bronco horse ride one normally doesn't have the heart or the energy necessary for that!
At any rate, I am currently gratefully in the midst of summer break (is that right term to use? For an asian student living at the equator on a UK syllabus terms are sometimes pretty confusing,) which has given me the necessary heart and energy to overcome lumping. I've been busy with oh, so many nonacademic things, and revamping (or in this case, reviving) my blogs is one of them.
Knowing that my track record shows that I might not be able to keep up to the original plan for this blog, I thought over it and decided that I might have to tweak my approach somewhat, which hopefully should be evident (if you come back and if I keep going.)
So without ado, here is my next post after a graveyard silence.