I've been absent for a nearly two years now. Why? First, there was university, where I committed myself to doing too much. By the time I learned the life lesson of knowing how much I can handle, a health crisis sprang up. There was months of dealing with side-effects from medication (doctors gave me too much) and recovery from surgery and the medication that I was placed on in order to deal with the side-effects of the previous medication. I then spent the rest of the year playing catch-up with organic chemistry among other courses. Now I'm studying abroad while managing my (finally regained) state of good health and facing the scary prospect of finishing university.

I plan on finishing Melange and maybe Maruading Lily (if I can get around to writing that epic... it is an epic based on the notes I had written). I realize it will take me even longer now to continue because it has indeed been a long time since I last looked at the stories. I've also changed. Who wouldn't change in two year? Let alone not change when life philosophies were challenged by health problem? I thank the readers who have been patient, and the new readers that Melange have picked up. Please bear with me.

Thanks again,

yours truly. (7 Dec. 2007)

I write more my own self-improvement. The art of communication is one of those over-looked skills in basic education, and I'm hoping practice will make up for the years of instruction lost.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. -Cyril Connolly