According to Sin Min Daily (021009), Chinese astrologists predict that the Moon would be at its brightest in this century on Saturday night (031009). A pity A380s don't come equipped with sunroofs for passengers to go star/moon-gazing at night. Which means I will be missing out on experiencing a rare natural phenomenon, instead worrying about not getting DVT and piles on a 7-hour long flight.
Thus ends my brief sojourn back home. Much good (and poor) food tasted, familiar faces met, batteries recharged and engines are raring to go. So I'm headed back for Melbourne in less than 24 hours' time, and as I pack up my stuff, hoping not to leave out/forget anything, I came up with this list of things about here and there.
10 Things I will miss about Singapore:
- Familiarity
- Friends and Family are here
- Good (cheap) food
- Not so good (but still cheap) food
- Shampoo does not have the consistency of honey/maple syrup
- Nice big kitchen with an arsenal of cookware and a well-stocked pantry
- 22" Widescreen Monitor
- Fast broadband internet
- Did I mention cheap food?
- Ability to loiter outside late at night without safety concerns
10 Things I look forward to in Melbourne:
- Awesome cool weather
- Clean(er), fresh(er) air
- Absence of noise pollution (I'm looking at you, area upgrading works and your crazy drill-when-the-sun-shines works)
- Ability to have better control over my diet (no more binging till the tum's sick)
- Meeting my foreign friends again
- Studies giving me a sense of purpose to move on
- Superior television programming on free-to-air
- Return to a life with some semblance of regularity
- Vegemite...not!
- Oft mentioned greener grass on the other side
(P.S. A very pleasant Mid-Autumn Festival to all who celebrate it! Remember to wash down that calorie-laden mooncake with some fine Chinese tea, preferably xiang pian or pu-erh. To this, I leave you with a classic voice doing a cover of a classic song by another classic voice that was originally a classical Chinese poem.)
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