2 weeks in a foreign land that's becoming less foreign...but it's still not home...

It's been two weeks since i'm here on my own already (well, not exactly on my own, but when u shuttle from one group of friends to another constantly everyday, it just feels like that sometimes...) and I guess i'm getting used to the place now, still adjusting to the changing weather and accents though...and to the idea of school again after such a long period of holiday... Can't help feeling like i'm still on holidays sometimes haha...what with the fact that school only just began so work is still slow in coming for now, and also that the place is foreign and beautiful (autumn!!)...and i'm still making new friends each day.

Two weeks...and yet it seem like several months had passed... about 9 more months till i return home again. Realised that singapore is a really good country to settle in after all. Not that this place is less favourable or anything, each has its own goods and bads...but it just isn't HOME you know? You might be excited with the new experiences that come your way each day, but at the end of the day, home is really where you'll still yearn to be. Maybe the sayings of 'absence makes the heart grows fonder' is very true after all. Used to be a little..erm..skeptical? of its truth or relevance but i see it now sometimes. When you are in your own comfortable world surrounded by all u love u tend to take certain things for granted (though im not really guilty of that most of the time kies..)...it's only when you have left those behind that you start to realise how sweetly precious those things or company are...and i'm just glad that it's not too late to discover that now. Guess I'm clearer on what is truly important to me or what really matters most, and I won't take those for granted anymore trust me...

Still trying to adapt to university life that's so different from the world i've been so accustomed to...and fighting tiredness these days (arrgh..yawn..)....and adjusting to the hefty prices of stuff here, the independence, the climate, the food, the system...and getting acquainted with nice, friendly, weird, hypocritical, mature, childish, faithful, unfaithful, deep and shallow, interesting and uninteresting characters...seems like all possible personalities can be found here...

9 more months till i'm away from the constant cold wind and back under the scorching sun in my darling sunny island...back with my family and friends...back to not having to X3 and feel so xing1 tong4 everytime you convert the price shown on the price tag... but it's also 9 more months here with my friendly group of international friends, of walking among nice architectural strctures and participating in exciting events in this beautiful campus town...

Was actually inspired by pam to write so much here...though it's really late already and i should be sleeping by now...

Till the next time...