목요일, 3월 18, 2004
the past few hours have been quite nice and easy-going. first, the day started with me waking up to see the sun streaming through my window, and the world looking quite well pleased to see me. got up, made what good of my life that i could do at 9am in the morning, and whiled away some time getting some of the multitudes of my stuff packed up and put away into the various plastic bags that litter my room as we speak. i'm getting used to the having to pack up and put everything away schtick already, which is bad, because i hate living out of a suitcase. grr. but the good prospect is that i'm going home. just hope that this time i don't forget to put my passport someplace where i can remember and won't embarrass myself in front of the damn smug customs people.

anyway, on to happier things.

then i met up with faz for some lunch before she headed off back to college so she could indulge in her last minute packing before she goes to stay with her aunt. lucky girl gets to leave one day earlier than i do. i can't get used to the thought that in less than 5 days' time we'll all be back in singapore, eating, sleeping, being with family, watching singaporean tv... the list goes on. i want to be able to see the candy-coloured houses that are in my estate again, and i want to hear the aeroplanes as they fly by at night, with their lights blinking steadily as they cruise across the sky. i want to be able to go out at night and be able to have something to do rather than just wander past rows and rows of empty shops. i want to be able to watch television and sit around the dining table with my family, rather than either eating alone, in college, or eating out. there's so much i want to do when i get home, and what i can say now isn't even going to describe a fraction of it. i miss home. the phone call that i got from my parents today made me miss them even more, but there i go, digressing again.

after lunch with faz, i got my person down to the market square (the sun had turned to rain by that time) and met up with my college dad (for all those not in the know, his name is channers and i looooooooooooove him), saying hi to arvz, the peanutheads and hayley on the way. we spent some time doing some much-needed catching up, and he was all dad-like as dads go, which is something i always look forward to when i meet up with him for coffee.

this coffee thing is really becoming a part of my life. the number of times i've gone for coffee ever since i got here is appalling. i mean, not appalling, just... given that i've never been much of a go-for-coffee kind of person when i was back home, this is a shocking change from what i did before. anyhow, so i went for coffee. again. although i don't mind going for coffee with my dad because he pays.

then i got home, started packing again. this packing thing is really quite therapeutic. as the items disappear into bags and boxes, all you get is this vague feeling of satisfaction that something is being done (like in science, work is being done) and something is being accomplished. good luck to me when i get to move my stuff down to the trunk room though. hurrah.

george dropped by, because he was on his way to catch a train. i had to give him his birthday present (happy birthday george! and happy birthday nick as well!) which was, in my opinion, quite genius, if i say so myself. the princely contents were: 1) card with heartfelt birthday greetings, 2) wonderfully natty notepad with a note from: georgia, although i cancelled out the 'ia' and pencilled in an 'e' on every page, 3) a safeway plastic bag. i love george, especially when i get to give him such great birthday presents. *big cheesy grin* yeah, go me and great ideas i get when it comes to giving things to my friends.

after that will came along to return me the 'pencil'. by pencil i mean faz's eyeliner. gawd, you would not imagine the disdain with which he said 'i have the -- pencil'. or maybe it was just me imagining things. all i can think of right now is chris using the eyeliner for a pencil. of course, that didn't really happen, as i said, i have a good imagination. :)

and then i got back to some more packing. i tell you, the packing thing is really good. it just keeps you going and going, it's so amazing. sure, my arms will ache tomorrow, but hey, it's fun. somehow when i was shifting house i never enjoyed packing this much. pack, pack, pack.

home on the 20th! yay! that really is the way things should be.