So I haven't even seen any of my friends yet, going tomorrow to Berkeley to see them. But I'm already very comfortable at home, it's sort of nice not having people calling you all throughout the day trying to do something with you, for once.
It's been great getting back with family especially. Mom is busy as ever at work, but still genuinely pleased to have me home. Natalee had her prom, and it's been good to catch up with her on school... and her thoughts about going to college next year, for which I am able to impart "great" wisdom that she takes in complete seriousness, I'm sure. And Dad is always Dad. Playing a lot of tennis, and always coming home with something new and Singaporean in taste from the market, like a crate of 18 young coconuts that he found on sale (which we take out into the backyard to hack open enthusiastically with a butcher knife), some sugarcane juice, century eggs, even the "baklah" pork jerky, or at least something very similar to it.
I realized that I always miss my family's sense of humor, too. Natalee telling me stories about her high-school bimbos. Mom trying to discreetly tell Dad that the oyster beef has gone bad. Natalee and I singing songs in unison from "Family Guy" (Sooodooomyyyy, hahaha). And Dad coming home from a Jewish wedding, where they made him wear a head-cap yarmulke, and he starts throwing it around with Nat, saying, "Look! Ultimate frisbee!" My family is priceless.
And I've been keeping in touch with my friends back in Singapore. Yay for Skype! Nothing new and exciting from them, but I suppose no news is good news. And I've only been gone for less than a week... admittedly, miss them though.
Oh and hey, why am I blogging now? Isn't the whole Singapore thing over? Can't we call it quits? I've actually grown sort of attached to this blog, I know, it's creepy right? Go out and make a friend, Ryan, stop being such a loner. I would... but actually, I'm sitting here reading books and online manuals on Java... for the summer job. Ugh. I hope this works. Otherwise, find me a professional blogger position somewhere. I can quit this so-called "engineering" then. Kidding, it should be exciting, just not motivated yet.
Ok, back to more "public static void"... how appropriate.
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6 comments:
Wow lots of posts all of a sudden. Your family sounds really cool. Should upload a picture of them some time.
Hope you'll continue to blog! Take care and hopefully see you soon.
haha same for you, borneo looks like it was fun... cant wait to go back to sg for more. putting borneo, cambodia, and vietnam on my list of nexts to see.
I'm up for Borneo round two when you come back. I still haven't climbed Mount K as well, so that's reason enough to go back again. By then I hope my malay's up to scratch.
december is monsoon season right? i was thinking of coming back for christmas vacation... but dont want to do borneo in a monsoon.
For real? Hmm I never knew when the monsoon season is. But I know that December isn't perhaps the best time to see Sabah (e.g. least number of turtles coming to shore, water at the islands choppy etc.) Would be better off elsewhere I guess... Would be great if you came back!
if i have the money i'll go. depends if i decide to do grad school or just work after graduating. grad school is a major money hole...
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