Leaving

I know this day will come eventually.

I will try not to be emotional as much as I could, but as the saying goes by, every meeting will end with parting. But taking it in a positive way, I'm glad because this parting will lead toward another meeting in the future. Throughout these eighteen days, we had so much fun together (pun unintended). Imagine we only had barely three days last year. This time, it was so much better. I would love us to have much more time together, but circumstances just don't allow us to do so. Nevertheless, we had done so much stuff that we'd long to do all this while during this short period of less than three weeks. It is like squeezing everything together within this short period and of course, sometimes we could feel the tiredness taking its toll on us.

I will return to my daily routine as usual, as my classes will commence on the very next day after I touch down to Japan. As for her, she will spend her remaining summer holiday in Malacca and celebrate Chinese New Year at the end of this month. I won't be that lucky because I will attend classes as normal even on the first day of the Chinese New Year, just like previous year. That's the price you will pay for studying in oversea.

We don't know when will be the next time we will get to meet again; it could be as long as two years from now. The only thing I can hope is that we can go through this tough period.

Taken while we were watching the sunset together with the Straits of Malacca in the background.

I know we can do it, together.

P/S: I will be taking a 6 a.m. flight at Changi International airport on January 7, which falls on her birthday. Never mind, because we'd celebrated her birthday a couple of days earlier. Here is a short early birthday wish to her. Happy Birthday and take care of yourself always :)

Taiping Rojak

It was Michelle who suggested the title, as I didn't know how should I name this post.

Basically, it is a miscellaneous stuff, tiny and small little things that I did when I was at Taiping, in which I find them to be too short to be made as one blog entry. So, I gathered them all together and blogged on them in one single entry. I will let the pictures and captions to do the talking this time.

# 1 - Now I learn why girls take forever to get ready before they go out. Guys can just get themselves ready in like five minutes, but as for girls, they will take at least five times longer. This is Michelle who was busy with her make-up in my room. By the way, that blue wall was painted by myself several years ago.

# 2 - The two of us, while I was driving in my mum's little Kancil. Here is a challenge for people from Taiping; try to locate which road at the background and post your guess at the comment box.

# 3 - Three generations in one picture; me with my grandma, girlfriend and mum.

# 4 - My grandma from my Dad's side came to my house as well to do some catching ups.

# 5 - My last home cooked lunch before I left. As I won't be celebrating Chinese New Year (for the second straight year already) this year, I consider this as a reunion dinner lunch.

# 6 - Michelle trying out the wat tan hor which I cooked for lunch.

# 7 - As she'd promised to bake for me, here is her busy mixing the batter for the almond brownies. She successfully baked the brownie without any mishaps even though she was using my mum's oven where we couldn't control the temperature.

# 8 - Celebrating my youngest sister's birthday with a chocolate mud cake from Secret Recipe.

# 9 - Posing in front of my high school I attended for five years, Saint George Institution.

# 10 - Even though my stay in Taiping was relatively short, I managed to attend a simple gathering with my high school mates. Every one still looked pretty much the same; only Shin Yau looked a bit different with his hair dyed. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend the Christmas Eve party and a badminton match with them.

# 11 - Her indulging with the roasted chicken wing at Restoran Taman Tasik.

# 12 - Posing while having my bowl of Lor Mee.

That's all about my time at Taiping. Coming up will be posts from Malacca and Genting. Thanks for reading.