Back Home
Well I am finally back home. I am still feeling the surreal-ness, although not as much as two days back when I just arrived. Feels really good to be back in sunny Singapore. I was told that it had been raining rather frequently prior to my return, but the last two days has been nice and sunny, like how I like Singapore to be. I'll take that as a nice returning gift.
I finally ... got to see my loved ones, got back to swimming, have a room and toilet all to myself, got to watch cable tv, got to walk down Orchard Road, had my hokkien mee, carrot cake, and the deck's laksa yong tau foo. Only one uniquely Singapore word to describe these. Shiok!
There's still so many things I want to do, so many things I want to eat, and so many people I want to meet. In saying this, I'm already missing some things in Hong Kong. I felt that the ending was a little all too rush.
I spent the entire night before departure with Joshua in the editing room. No doubt a fruitful and satisfying night as we finally completed our film project, but I realised that in the process of rushing our editing, I missed my last dinner at New Asia Canteen! So much food there that I'm gonna miss. I also forsaked my last gym session. The New Asia Gym was probably my second most frequented place apart from my room, and am definitely going to miss the quiet times I had in that nice compact gym. Similarly, I left early in the morning, and didn't get to say goodbye to quite a few friends, some of whom I've shared wonderful times with during this exchange, and whom I may never ever get to see again.
In the taxi to the airport, I felt a tinge of sadness as we exited CUHK. Felt the same when we went by Shatin Plaza, our most frequented mall for the past 4 months. But oh well, all things must come to an end. It was good, really good.
Well I mentioned in my previous post how it's going to take me about a week or so to get back to my lifestyle here in Singapore, and this is why I said so.
I finally ... got to see my loved ones, got back to swimming, have a room and toilet all to myself, got to watch cable tv, got to walk down Orchard Road, had my hokkien mee, carrot cake, and the deck's laksa yong tau foo. Only one uniquely Singapore word to describe these. Shiok!
There's still so many things I want to do, so many things I want to eat, and so many people I want to meet. In saying this, I'm already missing some things in Hong Kong. I felt that the ending was a little all too rush.
I spent the entire night before departure with Joshua in the editing room. No doubt a fruitful and satisfying night as we finally completed our film project, but I realised that in the process of rushing our editing, I missed my last dinner at New Asia Canteen! So much food there that I'm gonna miss. I also forsaked my last gym session. The New Asia Gym was probably my second most frequented place apart from my room, and am definitely going to miss the quiet times I had in that nice compact gym. Similarly, I left early in the morning, and didn't get to say goodbye to quite a few friends, some of whom I've shared wonderful times with during this exchange, and whom I may never ever get to see again.
In the taxi to the airport, I felt a tinge of sadness as we exited CUHK. Felt the same when we went by Shatin Plaza, our most frequented mall for the past 4 months. But oh well, all things must come to an end. It was good, really good.
Well I mentioned in my previous post how it's going to take me about a week or so to get back to my lifestyle here in Singapore, and this is why I said so.
- I've stood on the wrong side of the escalator on at least 5 different occasions already!
- I suddenly realised how small and light our Singapore coins are.
- I had to think for a while before I recalled which MRT line Outram Park Station was on.
- I looked to the top of the train door to see which station I was at.
- I had a strange and unfamiliar feeling when I stepped back into NUS.
- I keeping taking a second look into every 7-11 outlet I pass by, to see if they have my favourite chocolates from HK.
- I'm still not used to hearing Singapore accents around me. And they're all around now!
Good to be back home :) Reflections of my exchange experience to come. It's probably going to take a little longer than I expected, as there's still so much to do back at home, and I'm putting blogging priority a little to the back now ;)
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