Sufferers of anti-cat and anti-horrendouslybadphoto allergies are advised to avoid this post.
Okay, so I'm back. And it's so weird to be back. I thought I'd find myself in some odd limbo situation for a while, but nope - as soon as I got out of the plane and the familiar, humid weather hit my nose it's like a switch turned on in my head and I simply continued my existence from before I went to the States. Finally conked out from jetlag yesterday (and waking up too early after staying up to watch the inauguration, plus taking some relatives to see Phor Kark See Temple and Serangoon Road 2 days in a row) and missed a great dinner with everyone... :(
For now I feel somewhat okay and actually a little more sociable and talkative than before though; perhaps it's because everyone isn't sick of me yet (even my eldest brother didn't shake me awake and ask Why I Wasn't Helping when I fell asleep on the couch) Maybe it's because my last week in the States was pretty enjoyable and I got to talk to a lot of people, without appearing in the least bit anti-social or awkward as I usually tend to the past 2-3 years. But it was hardly half an hour after I exited the airport when the whole "so have you decided what to do" thing came back again.
It really is odd coming back although I've only been away for a month. I'm starting to think I might prefer taking longer breaks from everyone here because it's good for both me and them... sure, I might have missed the comforts and conveniences of home (particularly SLEEPING ON A BED!) while overseas but I feel more inclined to interact with people, and vice-versa, when I haven't seen them in a while. Come to think of it, this is pretty obvious, isn't it? Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that.
Man, I really should take these extended breaks from my family more often. I feel like going away soon again, even to some "godforsaken" part of Indonesia or some place relatively far away. It's not like I achieve any progress in deciding what I want to do at all when doing this (conversely I feel like I just live life as it comes - which is more enjoyable in some ways)
But of course I can't just magically conjure tickets like that.
Nothing much has changed here except I am surprised to see a Mos Burger in Clementi and Sephora's, my niece can say "poos" quite clearly and there's new EZ-link cards that look marginally nicer than the older ones. Most worryingly the cats outside and even the brown-and-white housecat nearby have all gotten rather emaciated ;_; I so desperately want to feed them and take them to a vet to see if they have worms but I can't just take them like that... and out of all the things I miss I MISS LILLIAN. I have Lillian withdrawal symptoms. I need to look at a photo of her daily and feel like I can pick her up and look at her perplexed expression. Look at the trees and imagine her zipping around like a nutcase (and pretending nothing happened 10 minutes later). Remember how furry and purry she was. Dammit, this calls for some Lillian pictures!
(although I did not take very many at all)
(most of them are ridiculously dark)
(apologies if some of them are old, but it's not like you can see all the pre-2009 entries anymore...)
(oh and most of them are pretty ginormous because I'm too lazy to resize them. Sorry.)
Obligatory firing laser beams photo.
Obligatory bad grainy photo.
Obligatory I'M TRYING TO SLEEP BITCHASS STOP USING FLASH photo. (But she was sleeping with her paws forward? HOW CAN YOU TELL ME NOT TO SQUEE?)
Obligatory "you just said what?" head-reversing and eye-narrowing.
Obligatory back view.
Obligatory I JUST WANT TO HUG THAT LIDDLE KITTY WITH THE PAW-PAWS I KNOW I SOUND GROSS BY NOW photo.
Obligatory is this actually in focus for once? But my face is invisible! photo. Observe white jaw.
The vet suggested she might actually be older than the 7~7.5 years the shelter claimed her to be. I can only hope my brother continues to take good care of her from now on. :(
Also I didn't manage to take pics of Jerkhat (ltd. co.)'s beautiful cats (also known as fluffypants, I mean Tera and Meg), but this is his incredible apartment!
Not in picture: every halfway major console ever created over the ages.
hay gaiz gess wat dis iz yo
It's a HOLY SHIT IT'S AN ACTUAL ARCADE MACHINE. IN THE KITCHEN.
Oh, and on Satuday we went to the San Juan Islands, also known as Almost Canada - we drove up the I-5 to Anacortes and took the ferry to Friday Harbour but by the time we finished eating (INCLUDING MY BROTHER'S PRECIOUS CREME BRULEE - which was actually quite nice tbh) the island looked pretty much like... this.
Whoop-de-doo. Well, if I ever go some other time I can see some whales perhaps.
edit: the large views of the photos seem to lead to a database error - all new uploads at that site seem to b0rk right now, so I'll wait and see if it fixes itself because I'm lazy to re-upload :( fixed
For now I feel somewhat okay and actually a little more sociable and talkative than before though; perhaps it's because everyone isn't sick of me yet (even my eldest brother didn't shake me awake and ask Why I Wasn't Helping when I fell asleep on the couch) Maybe it's because my last week in the States was pretty enjoyable and I got to talk to a lot of people, without appearing in the least bit anti-social or awkward as I usually tend to the past 2-3 years. But it was hardly half an hour after I exited the airport when the whole "so have you decided what to do" thing came back again.
It really is odd coming back although I've only been away for a month. I'm starting to think I might prefer taking longer breaks from everyone here because it's good for both me and them... sure, I might have missed the comforts and conveniences of home (particularly SLEEPING ON A BED!) while overseas but I feel more inclined to interact with people, and vice-versa, when I haven't seen them in a while. Come to think of it, this is pretty obvious, isn't it? Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that.
Man, I really should take these extended breaks from my family more often. I feel like going away soon again, even to some "godforsaken" part of Indonesia or some place relatively far away. It's not like I achieve any progress in deciding what I want to do at all when doing this (conversely I feel like I just live life as it comes - which is more enjoyable in some ways)
But of course I can't just magically conjure tickets like that.
Nothing much has changed here except I am surprised to see a Mos Burger in Clementi and Sephora's, my niece can say "poos" quite clearly and there's new EZ-link cards that look marginally nicer than the older ones. Most worryingly the cats outside and even the brown-and-white housecat nearby have all gotten rather emaciated ;_; I so desperately want to feed them and take them to a vet to see if they have worms but I can't just take them like that... and out of all the things I miss I MISS LILLIAN. I have Lillian withdrawal symptoms. I need to look at a photo of her daily and feel like I can pick her up and look at her perplexed expression. Look at the trees and imagine her zipping around like a nutcase (and pretending nothing happened 10 minutes later). Remember how furry and purry she was. Dammit, this calls for some Lillian pictures!
(although I did not take very many at all)
(most of them are ridiculously dark)
(apologies if some of them are old, but it's not like you can see all the pre-2009 entries anymore...)
(oh and most of them are pretty ginormous because I'm too lazy to resize them. Sorry.)
Obligatory firing laser beams photo.
Obligatory bad grainy photo.
Obligatory I'M TRYING TO SLEEP BITCHASS STOP USING FLASH photo. (But she was sleeping with her paws forward? HOW CAN YOU TELL ME NOT TO SQUEE?)
Obligatory "you just said what?" head-reversing and eye-narrowing.
Obligatory back view.
Obligatory I JUST WANT TO HUG THAT LIDDLE KITTY WITH THE PAW-PAWS I KNOW I SOUND GROSS BY NOW photo.
Obligatory is this actually in focus for once? But my face is invisible! photo. Observe white jaw.
The vet suggested she might actually be older than the 7~7.5 years the shelter claimed her to be. I can only hope my brother continues to take good care of her from now on. :(
Also I didn't manage to take pics of Jerkhat (ltd. co.)'s beautiful cats (also known as fluffypants, I mean Tera and Meg), but this is his incredible apartment!
Not in picture: every halfway major console ever created over the ages.
hay gaiz gess wat dis iz yo
It's a HOLY SHIT IT'S AN ACTUAL ARCADE MACHINE. IN THE KITCHEN.
Oh, and on Satuday we went to the San Juan Islands, also known as Almost Canada - we drove up the I-5 to Anacortes and took the ferry to Friday Harbour but by the time we finished eating (INCLUDING MY BROTHER'S PRECIOUS CREME BRULEE - which was actually quite nice tbh) the island looked pretty much like... this.
Whoop-de-doo. Well, if I ever go some other time I can see some whales perhaps.
edit: the large views of the photos seem to lead to a database error - all new uploads at that site seem to b0rk right now, so I'll wait and see if it fixes itself because I'm lazy to re-upload :( fixed