onward

Before this I never thought farewells were supposed to be a painful thing; after all, I’ve never left my parents for an unknown country in my entire life.

I’ll begin my narrative from last night, cause that’s when the entire day actually began.

houhou came over to see me for the last time before I left (which was extremely nice of him ^___^) Our conversation topics switched between small talk and photography. Well, one thing led to another and he suggested to treat me to a final Ramly burger which of course I was too happy to accept mostly because I haven’t had one in a looooong time.

This morning I re-checked my stuff to make sure I forgot nothing important, and take some last pictures of my room and my house and all my family X3 So I suppose it could be some sort of camwhoring but who gives a damn, I’m not coming back for a year!

**Yeah, and here I am making a big deal about it when I constantly tell myself it’s not that long, I’ll survive it etc.**

Reeis called me while I was on the way to the airport. Made a lot of small talk and all the silly things we won’t be doing this year which makes me sad just thinking about it, but I shall try my best not to think about it but not forget it entirely.

On reaching, Providence decided that bobby and I should meet ^___^ we didn’t even decide the time we were supposed to meet or anything, but we met! XD

Checked in and headed to McDs (ahaha this is the main gathering point for the student population; who the heck doesn’t know what the golden arches are? ) where yk and jon were already there since 7-something. @___@ At 7 I probably just left my house… Had a quick breakfast and boy does time fly. Before I blinked (well I did finish my breakfast) it was already time to leave. More photos, talking with people and waiting for Melissa. Boy she had such an entourage with her, we were all waiting for her downstairs for at least 10 minutes! Wendy was crying and I just barely managed to stop myself from doing the same cause it feels so sad to ‘leave everything behind’.

The flight was alright I guess. Amazed to find angela aki’s ‘Home’ on the inflight entertainment playlist. Watched ‘Marie Antoinette’ which wasn’t that great of a show. Some parts of Marie’s lines were quite funny (“This is ridiculous.” was retorted with a “No, my dear, this is France.”) but otherwise her character doesn’t leave much to infer from. Her children are sooo cute though, and it’s so obvious they had to attach artificial curls to the little boy’s head which made him look abit crappy. The girl (Marie-Therese or something like that) was really really pretty and sweet-looking. Marie’s mother really reminds me of mom in some sense. Most of the time I was trying to sleep to kill time, somehow watching too many in-flight movies makes me a little nauseous.

I didn’t realize how heavy my luggage was until I tried to lift it off the carousel, nearly squashed an old lady with it (who was either speaking Hokkien or Teochew, most likely Hokkien) who was looking out for her stuff as well. And my luggage’s handle’s so short I can’t rest my hand luggage on top and drag both at the same time. Drat it.

yk took his time at customs so we (the driver and I) had to wait for about half an hour, by which point I could hear my stomach starting to growl. And when we stepped out from the airport to the cool night air it was simply refreshing XD

Here in Melbourne the night lights are pretty, but aren’t all night lights pretty. From the window the night lights actually remind me of those back home just that you can’t see the big plasma screen that 1u has and the neon lights from Ikano/Curve. My current room DE242 at Deakin Hall is rather… empty. After all I’m not going to be here permanently so I didn’t see the point of unpacking all my stuff just to re-pack it again a week later.



The nice thing about this room is that it has a heater! XD Well it kinda smells like a toaster when it’s functioning but I don’t think I want the fire brigade up here just because I was trying to heat up my breakfast or something similar XP And that its actually furnished pretty well although it smells abit of mothballs (but hey I personally think the fish&co shirt that Vince gave me for the first time had stunk of mothballs way worse than the furnishings here in my room now)

To tell the truth, I am afraid of staying here on my own. I don’t know nothing about no one and nothing. But I suppose that’s cause I moved in in the middle of the night @___@ I think I will do some exploring tomorrow, without the map X3

I can’t sleep.. not used to the time differences yet. Till later.