deepest condolences

shucks, the earlier incident effectively ruined my entire day =(

anyway, a friend of mine had been posting up tons of lovely pics in facebook over the last couple of weeks taken in america, and i was so looking forward to seeing more of her pics. but well, things do not usually happen the way you expect them to - she died in a car accident in america on friday, so my deepest condolences to her family... even though we are not exactly good friends (we were in the same class together for 1 or 2 semesters in uni), everything just happened out of the blue...i remembered when i first stepped foot in portugal 2 years ago, i had this dream of finishing my studies and then getting a good job, after all, i am supposed to have a long way ahead of me right? but this incident really really gave me a jolt, and reminded me how fragile life can be... and like what leandro said to me during one of our MSN chat recently, that if we want to do anything, we should just do it, instead of making excuses and pushing it to a later date...

one thing that i have been pushing back for the last one year is me wanting to visit some places in europe (ok, i don't mean to associate my friend's death with something so jovial like travelling), and now i've finally made up my mind. rather than to wait for a couple of years later (who knows what would have become of me), i am going to carry out my plans for one final mad dash around in europe... no concrete plans as yet, but istanbul (turkey) and budapest (hungary) remains top of my agenda...