with a heavy heart ...

... not mine but that of the swedish sports fans, the swedish team failed miserably in the recent athletic competitions in Japan - and with them, the sport enthusiasts cursed and sighed with a heavy heart. oh well, they will not fret that long - there will always be a new sport to get themselves engaged intensively right after one finishes ... and the football season coming along is just one of them.

... however, apologies are in order for being inactive in writing anything on my blog. my usual excuse still stands - I'VE BEEN BUSY! you see, for most people in Europe and all businesses around, autumn is the busiest time of the year ... and i am not an exception to that. almost every week, a big convention is held in every major European country attended by people from all over the world. just for week 38 alone, the same week we are to hold our own European product launch in Amsterdam, a diabetes convention will also take place in Amsterdam - making it impossible to make any hotel booking within Amsterdam Centraal since its organisers and participating countries has blocked most of the hotels for their respective delegations. in Copenhagen, an international design convention will also hold their design showcase that same week, whilst in Paris, another big convention is also on board - and the same problem there! on the homefront, autumn is also the time of year you prepare your grounds for the coming wintertime - meaning lots of mowing in the garden, clean-up of the windows from the outside, "dusting" and check-up of the chimney (you don't want it to fail during winter, right?), and of course, the need to sort things that need storing for winter or if you are to leave some things to endure wintertime. hey, those are only the things you have to do outdoors - need i elaborate on the things i need to sort out indoors? phew! just the thought of it makes me shiver! HELP!

... i need to really make some priorities, but as you know very well, it is not at all easy. sometimes you'd feel like you've made a good one and then later you'd realise how wrong you've been - that is one awful feeling. but then again, being a positive thinker that i am (at most times i know that i am), i always try to look at things on a brighter light and consider them nothing but small "slips" that had happened - and i would like to emphasize on the word "nothing" since great or small slips has to be treated as "nothing" and not make a big deal out of it. in this manner you will be able to fix the problem and easily manage to make things right. so, why did i ever brought this up? i think you know why? if not, i'll tell you more - later, that is.

i have too many things i've listed in my priority list .... and i've done none of them so far. but slowly, i'd get that list empty - it simply has to be done!