This morning, i said farewell to Amanda.
For the past few months, I only saw her on the odd occasion. Mostly, I think, because our boyfriends were kind of different.
As we gave each other our bye bye huggies, I felt my eyes sting up and had to make an effort to keep the tears down. I was genuinely surprised by the strong emotions i felt then.
I have always been supportive of her leaving. Believing that moving away is always a sign of a fresh start, of opportunities and of new discoveries. I couldn't tell her to stay because I'm restless too and would leave myself if I could.
I thought I knew myself well... *shrug*
Guess not...
I can't even really explain why i feel a sense of loss.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
I feel a little sorry that Amanda will be leaving Sydney but a bigger part of me knows that it's for the best.
I know how desperately she wants to get out of here and her difficulties in getting her stuff to melbourne so I offered to drive up to melbourne with her. And just like that, I find myself looking at a road trip to melbourne over the weekend.
We'll be driving up on Saturday and I'll be flying home alone on Sunday night.
It actually sounded quite exciting. I've never driven long distance before and I'll get a chance to give Jean a surprise. Plus, I get to introduce Jean to Amanda and I'm sure she'll take great care of her and introduce Chris and Andrew to her as well...
Was initially worried that things were gonna be hard for Amanda but when i had the brilliant idea to accompany her to melbourne and with that bright spark came along the other bright sparks - getting Jean to take her around - I know Amanda will be in good hands.
The only regretful thing is I'll be missing Round 2 of boyfriend's bday picnic cum house-warming at his new place on Saturday *bleah*
I know how desperately she wants to get out of here and her difficulties in getting her stuff to melbourne so I offered to drive up to melbourne with her. And just like that, I find myself looking at a road trip to melbourne over the weekend.
We'll be driving up on Saturday and I'll be flying home alone on Sunday night.
It actually sounded quite exciting. I've never driven long distance before and I'll get a chance to give Jean a surprise. Plus, I get to introduce Jean to Amanda and I'm sure she'll take great care of her and introduce Chris and Andrew to her as well...
Was initially worried that things were gonna be hard for Amanda but when i had the brilliant idea to accompany her to melbourne and with that bright spark came along the other bright sparks - getting Jean to take her around - I know Amanda will be in good hands.
The only regretful thing is I'll be missing Round 2 of boyfriend's bday picnic cum house-warming at his new place on Saturday *bleah*
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
The boyfriend has gone off for a lan gaming session with his friends tonight. His invitation was tempting but for some reason, my body has been feeling battered and bruised, plus the miserable weather outside called for a stay in tonight.
The stay in was good, allowing me some ME time but the freezing cold does make me wish I had a warm body to snuggle up to.
I'm really excited about going home and it feels like I have a hundred and one things to do in the 4 days and 3 nights that I'll be there. My flight arrives at about 10pm and after grabbing my luggage, it's already been decided that I'm heading off to wala's to rendevous with Eugene. Jolene has also agreed to take Fri off if she has nothing important on.
It feels like there's so many people to meet up with but so little time and I've decided that meeting times shall be allocated according to meal times and coffee times. Meal times will include breakfast for people who are willing to get up early to meet up with me. No choice there. Limited time available. I can already forsee an intense 3 days of late late nights/ early mornings, lots of tehs and lots of local food - hopefully this would include vegetarian noodles, boon lay nasi lemak, chilli crab, fish slice noodles, yong tau foo, roti prata and ban mian.
yay... Singapore here I come.
On another note, it's the boyfriend's bday this Saturday. =)
The stay in was good, allowing me some ME time but the freezing cold does make me wish I had a warm body to snuggle up to.
I'm really excited about going home and it feels like I have a hundred and one things to do in the 4 days and 3 nights that I'll be there. My flight arrives at about 10pm and after grabbing my luggage, it's already been decided that I'm heading off to wala's to rendevous with Eugene. Jolene has also agreed to take Fri off if she has nothing important on.
It feels like there's so many people to meet up with but so little time and I've decided that meeting times shall be allocated according to meal times and coffee times. Meal times will include breakfast for people who are willing to get up early to meet up with me. No choice there. Limited time available. I can already forsee an intense 3 days of late late nights/ early mornings, lots of tehs and lots of local food - hopefully this would include vegetarian noodles, boon lay nasi lemak, chilli crab, fish slice noodles, yong tau foo, roti prata and ban mian.
yay... Singapore here I come.
On another note, it's the boyfriend's bday this Saturday. =)
Monday, July 17, 2006
Friday, July 14, 2006
ok... a quick snap shot of what's been going on.
max arrived for his secondment, yihan came for his dentistry course, karen came for hillsong.
Karen went back to singapore, yihan will be leaving tomorrow and max will be here for another 2 years.
France lost the world cup which made me sad because the dirty Italians won and felt sorry for Zidane. But then, the Italians are really good too, so.
Woke up at 4am last friday and decided that I want to leave Sydney next year.
Destination -> Potentially, the city that doesn't sleep, the Big Apple.
Got so excited I couldn't go back to sleep.
Worked really late this week but had lots of fun with the colleagues.
Have a big weekend lined up.
Dinner in a bit with Yihan before he leaves, yum cha tomorrow morning, watching a play tomorrow evening, straightening up my apartment on sunday, sunday coffee and croissants at sappho books with Mart's cousins, Ian's bday drinks at Monkey bar sunday evening.
No Me time =(
Really excited to be going back home in 2 weeks as well.
oh and the new pay looks good on the bank statement.
I could admire it the whole afternoon
max arrived for his secondment, yihan came for his dentistry course, karen came for hillsong.
Karen went back to singapore, yihan will be leaving tomorrow and max will be here for another 2 years.
France lost the world cup which made me sad because the dirty Italians won and felt sorry for Zidane. But then, the Italians are really good too, so.
Woke up at 4am last friday and decided that I want to leave Sydney next year.
Destination -> Potentially, the city that doesn't sleep, the Big Apple.
Got so excited I couldn't go back to sleep.
Worked really late this week but had lots of fun with the colleagues.
Have a big weekend lined up.
Dinner in a bit with Yihan before he leaves, yum cha tomorrow morning, watching a play tomorrow evening, straightening up my apartment on sunday, sunday coffee and croissants at sappho books with Mart's cousins, Ian's bday drinks at Monkey bar sunday evening.
No Me time =(
Really excited to be going back home in 2 weeks as well.
oh and the new pay looks good on the bank statement.
I could admire it the whole afternoon
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