we had a singapore food gathering yesterday - laksa, bah kut teh, rendang, borborchacha, etc - reminded me of chinese new year feasting! the tastebuds were awakened!!!
omg, i miss my prawn noodle, satay, nasi lemak, mum's curry, popiah, bar chor mee, hor fun, prata, teh ping, duck/chicken rice, western food!!!! and just sitting down to dinner tgth with family, even if we don't always say much or eat in front of the tv. i miss walking/buss-ing down the road from hougang to kovan, looking forward to catching that first sight of you.

i miss making pretty notes for open-book exams, focussing not on whether i can memorise a definition but on the how-to-analyze hypo's and issues. almost miss the "determination" to do well. i miss walking down the shiny NUS corridors and saying hi to people, not a sense of "i'm transient here"... i miss good friends that you don't have to think about what to say next...

everyone's getting pretty excited about their flights home to singapore... i have a month or so more, my return date makes it exactly 5 months in beijing!

i'll miss the travelling and sights/sounds/experiences... the carefree-ness of being on exchange. the people here, singaporeans and international. the openness and diversity in BICF. the laughter & learning in our small bible study group... the small snippets of life living on campus... my own little room here. of starting another slack day with the Bible and prayer... and laughing at mantou the rabbit's antics... yes, and the shopping!! as though things are free haha. and learning to bargain. the chinese-ness of the whole place, esp the lyrical chinese accent.

but for the first time in 4 months, i think i'm ready to return to our small city with nothing very much yet quite alot to do!