I'm back! After a whole month of abstinence from everything that matters in the normal world I'm trying to regain some ground in day to day routine. I slowly started with the things that matter most - family, friends, blog, games, (another half a million things), ...., and work. I read about 10 emails from the 350+ today). I’ll hopefully manage to finish by the end of the month.

A month on holiday gives you enough time to immerse yourself in a different environment, and forget about most of the previous problems. The expense of this privilege is that the big bang to the normal life is greater. Unfortunately I wasn’t helped much by luck because my grandmother passed away just two days before arriving home and I missed her funeral by a day. Actually luck wasn’t a major player in our holiday because after just a week we were robbed from our hotel room $800 (US) and a Nokia N-gage. A rough cold with and a very tiring descent from Mount Kinabalu will probably commit to our long term memory in the less than pleasant section but for the rest of the 28 days it was a good holiday, way better than home.

I'm now faced with the mammoth task of learning how to edit the 5 hour video of holiday footage and writing the holiday blog. I managed to forget my beloved holiday diary at a phone boot in KK, so I had to scribble my holiday notes on a shorthand notebook which is now tattered to pieces from excess use.

At least our network people were not at work today so managed to find some digital video editing tutorials quite easily.

• Wringley Video
• Adobe Curriculum
• DV Premier