2003-09-12 :: the rest of the 10 days..

Sadly I'm back in Japan.

Matt asked this question to me tonight, which do I miss more; family or friends.

I've gotta say I miss my friends more..

The reason? Well wherever I am and how much I miss my family, they are still my family and that will NEVER change. I know what they are, who they are and where to belong. I feel my relationship is secure with my family.

Friends on the other hand, is.. I miss them. I miss every bits of them. It's just so painful to hear from them knowing we are so far apart.

Do I make sense? But if you've got a bit of time to think, ask yourself. Which one hurts you more, living apart from your family or your closest friends you grew up with.

Anyway, well no more going down to Church st, having coffee @ Half moon, doing the stupidest things (like body shots!!) with the boys, crusing down Beach rd, drinking & dancing to the music at night..... for me.... sad... yes...

Mum's a bit annoyed at me at the moment, because I didn't bring back what she asked me to buy.. Bed Sheets from Harvey Norman! Like that'd have fit in my suit case anyway.. My suit case was already about to explode from all the shoes & the clothes..

Monday.. didn't do much.. Pen had to do her assignments so I went down for a little walk down to Church st with Mel.. and that was about it. It was such a little thing but that felt so normal. See going out in the night time and go absolutely crazy, sure that's fun, but nice relaxing thing like that also is very enjoyable. Having long conversations like that, very fun and meaningful.

Also got my photos developed on that day, and that was exciting. Some REALLY good ones. None of them were really dodgy, and that was good. Went down to the river with Pen and that was fun.. Thinking that I would be doing the same thing.. ok no more feeling sad for Sonomi I've gotta get over it..

The assignments were still not completed the following day. I went to Melbourne uni with Em and met up with Mel and had a hot chocolate there. It's such a nice uni but to tell you the truth I still like Monash. Yeah part of it is because that's where I could had been but another thing is.. I don't know.. I just do, ok! Would be really nice being in the city every day though. Saw Trev coming out from RMIT from the tram, sent a funny msg to him. Haha we're funny.

We were supposed to have a big one that night. You know? My last night? Although it was during a crazy time of the semester my friends went out with me, that was nice of them. Also managed to drag Matt alone as well. That was a good effort, hahaha. We managed my HUGE bottle of Midori which I bought at duty free, and went to Hawthorn. the place will be so nice on a hot night. They have the nicest outside place. You often hear people saying that the time flies when you are having fun but I think I really understood what they meant by that this time. We were at Room and although it wasn't the best of it with not many people there we still had so much fun. Before we knew it, it was early in the morning.

So the Wednesday came with many very sleepy eyes. Mel wanted to have a lunch at Pancake Parlour only to remember that she was supposed to have a driving lesson 5 mins before she leave the house. So Em, Gem and I changed the schedule and had one at Blue Train.. Very nice. Caught up with Angela as well. Great to see her. We weren't able to catch up as much as we would like to due to the virus she had.

Did you know there's this exhibition in Southbank at the moment? It's called the Exhibition of Tomorrow. They have the coolest stuff there, all high-tech. My favourite was the couch which sounds & feels like it is alive. I know it sounds really disgusting but all my friends agreed with me! I want one!

Got yelled on the phone by Pen on the way back from the city though.. I thought having a coffee back in Brighton would be really rushing and decided to call it off.. Bad decision.. When I come to think of it it was very selfish of me to do that.. Didn't really think much about the fact that I that was the last time I'd get to see my friends before.. well whenever I see them.

The entry is getting rather long.. so I'll make it nice and short from now on.

Funnily the airport was quite empty. The check in was done nice and quickly. Had quite a bit of time to chat before I had to go. Didn't talk about much about going away but talked about stuff that was unnecessary but fun.

It won't long till I see them again, I'm sure..

The flight was good and now I'm back home.

I wasn't sure why I missed Melbourne so much, was it just because of my friends? Or was there something else that appealed to me so much? Well I found out the answer, but I will talk about it at some other time, but for now, I'm going..

Keep smiling,