To my new friends
In all fairness to my new friends who've all started reading my blog quietly, and emailed me or left a comment about this week's postings, I have to admit that there is a tinge of hope glowing from your support. It might have just been my impatience and the fondness of a hurried lifestyle with the comforts of home, (and a number of other things) that has made me wish I had adjusted quicker here that brought me to loathe living in Sydney.
I would have only been here five months come Tuesday. Almost three months of which was spent sick in bed and emotionally caught up in my own thoughts of what I want in my life. When I had gotten myself out of it, I decided to try something new and meet friends with a "friends ad". That left me about a little over a month and a half to invest in creating a new network of friends I could seek social, emotional and moral support from. From that little time, the news that I decided to go home to work had brought two friends to want to organize a little farewell party for me, and another new friend persuading me to come back by giving me a list of things to look forward to which she wants to share with me. What stirred me most was when the latter said to me last night,
"You're a positive influence in my life... You're a resilient person. ...You must come back."We had only met thrice before.
Then just less than an hour ago, from the former.
... People are really funny, Australians in particular. Nobody seems to want to be indebted to anyone else, but they don't understand that a lot of what is given is given freely. Even if you can't find Australians to be your 'family' (I use that term really loosely here), I do hope that you can find other ex-pats (like H and me) to be your family.I was almost left tearing reading her email.
I know that when I do go back, things will be different. And I can't expect things to remain the same as when I left, because I had felt in some way that I had outgrown KL. Although knowing I will be welcomed home with open arms, a bit of my heart will be left here in Sydney. Then I will somehow be caught between two worlds. At least it will give me the clarity and time to recuperate from the negative things that's happened here. And maybe next time around, it will feel like a fresh slate.
note... No Foodie Friday postings today. It's been too much of an emotional week for me. But I've decided to take on the task of making Bak Kut Teh on the weekend. So you'll see how it turns out next week. ^_~

28-yr old nocturnal over@nal geekette Malaysian.
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Comments
Glad you snapped out of it. Lots of people never find out what life holds for them because they never *tried*. You did. And the answers you'd find may not matter now, but someday... .
Giant Sotong | April 22, 2007 1:17 AM
Giant Sotong got it right. You will never go thru' life saying 'What if....'. At least for you, it'll be 'been there, done that'!
diamondbaby | April 23, 2007 10:01 AM
YAY!!! glad u'r snapping out of it too. :) thanks for that gumtree site, i've already emailed a few ppl who i feel i can relate to. hopefully it works. n WE must really meet up when u come back, i'll try n rope n lil miss may as well. i'm sure it will b an exciting meeting. :)
Yvy | April 23, 2007 4:05 PM