D-day is here - and don't get me started on the woeful events happening in Iraq. I mean to talk about the last day I'm having in the City. Colleagues are walking around reminding me that it is my last day saying "It's Jeong-A's last day!" "Do you know it's your last day?" "You're leaving today!" to me as if I might not remember this fact. They are also dumping all the work on me last minute - at the last count I had five new documents to read. I've just skimmed through my first one and it's already close to 9am. I may have to revolt and not come back after lunch.

It's so strange to think that I am not coming back in here tomorrow morning - the trading floor will be the same, the people will be the same, my successor will be doing the same work but I'll be lounging around in bed at 8am! Actually, that's quite a nice feeling. I could do with absorbing some morning hours in bed for a change.

It's been good working in London and I'm pleased I had the chance to do so. I'm going to miss all the friends I've made during the past 10 years (14 if you count my childhood years) - they have been sources of comfort, fun and love. I am blessed to have met so many truly reliable friends both in and outside work - Him up there has been good to me.

But all this talk may result in work cutting into precious drinking time - round two of debauched celebrations kick off from noon onwards!


- Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 -

Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty;
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

William Wordsworth