After 2 months abroad, I've air freight about 35 kilos of stuff, and brought home 31.5 checked-in baggage, a 6.5 carry on luggage and a bulging laptop bag.
And yes, I was just there for 2 months.
Good timing, I went home this November, which is just a few weeks away from Christmas. So my pasalubongs are now "slash" Xmas gift. hehehehe.. well except maybe for my family.
Everything seems to be pretty much the same just when I left. But I see things in a different picture now. It really helps that you go out of your zone and experience new things. You'll see how things are better at the other side of the world, but , far better than your own, but there you will appreciate how much "home" means to you, even if the sorroundings fare less.
Some notes from being onshore:
*I really love my family, and I easily get worried about them
*I like living independently
*I can't be a fun-fearless-female all-the-way. Still a "dalagang pilipina"
*I love the outdoors
*I can be an energizer bunny
*I love being surrounded with a variety of people from different cultures
Anyway, I'm back to my old life. No more weekend escapades or city tours. I'll be back to my usual work-home-sometimes-mall-home routine. We'll see how much of my Sydney life I can still continue here.
N.B.
I'm running 10 KMs on Sunday - God Bless me!
7.11.08
2.11.08
dragging mode
Dragging MP3s to-and-fro IPODs is both time consuming and definitely DRAGGING!
I have put off filling my new ipod with songs till I got back in Manila because I wanted to make good use of the remaining time I have in Sydney.
I was supposed to buy a new digicam or lomo, or maybe replace my old phone, but instead I found myself drooling over the new ipod nanochromatics last September. So when the AUD slipped, the next day after work, I excitedly got cash and headed to the Apple store in George st. I already set my eyes on the yellow nano, but here goes my fickle brain again, I still hang around a few mins, circled the nano tables, deciding if I should still go for the yellow or buy another color...
In the end, I sticked to the yellow and tried the "shake technology" by uploading 2 songs - Electric Feel by MGMT, which is like my Aussie onshore theme song since I discovered it while down under, and is part of the daily playlist in the radio station some "mates" listen to at work. The other song, is still Electric Feel, as covered by Katy Perry.
My ipod-fever also spread to my co-onshore mates, Joan who originally thought of buying a nano, ended with an iTouch (bought an hour before I bought mine), Cat also bought a nano about 2 weeks after, while Rojie almost bought one.
Good thing I bought it in Sydney, I saw earlier that it was almost 12k here in the Phils.
Back to transferring.. it's still in progress... haay.. but it surely is quicker now unlike on my first ipod, which I spent a full day going through my hard drive and CDs for the songs to be tranferred.
I have put off filling my new ipod with songs till I got back in Manila because I wanted to make good use of the remaining time I have in Sydney.
I was supposed to buy a new digicam or lomo, or maybe replace my old phone, but instead I found myself drooling over the new ipod nanochromatics last September. So when the AUD slipped, the next day after work, I excitedly got cash and headed to the Apple store in George st. I already set my eyes on the yellow nano, but here goes my fickle brain again, I still hang around a few mins, circled the nano tables, deciding if I should still go for the yellow or buy another color...
In the end, I sticked to the yellow and tried the "shake technology" by uploading 2 songs - Electric Feel by MGMT, which is like my Aussie onshore theme song since I discovered it while down under, and is part of the daily playlist in the radio station some "mates" listen to at work. The other song, is still Electric Feel, as covered by Katy Perry.
My ipod-fever also spread to my co-onshore mates, Joan who originally thought of buying a nano, ended with an iTouch (bought an hour before I bought mine), Cat also bought a nano about 2 weeks after, while Rojie almost bought one.
Good thing I bought it in Sydney, I saw earlier that it was almost 12k here in the Phils.
Back to transferring.. it's still in progress... haay.. but it surely is quicker now unlike on my first ipod, which I spent a full day going through my hard drive and CDs for the songs to be tranferred.
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