What I miss and don't!

So, this is my third week in the land of Brissie, I don’t hate this place. To be honest, Brisbane is a great place- a great place to study, to shop, to walk around and etc.

BUT, I am still adapting. No one can get used to anything straight away, I guess it takes time. I have finally moved into my own house, slowly settling down and getting use to the everyday routine.

So what do I miss?

• My car (not mine but I drive it so that makes it mine)

Travelling in busses is tiring. Three weeks of bus riding and I’m still not used to it. Oh man, four or more years of bus. As you know, I’m a super last minute person so I always miss the bus by a few minutes or less. It’s a Jocelyn thing I think, missing the damn bus. I’m too used to walking out of the house and into the car and drive out instead of getting out of the house, walk down the road to the bus stop and hop on the next bus that comes.

It takes about 45 minutes or more to get to campus during peak hour. Plus walks in between. At least five minutes of walk but that’s not so bad as getting back. I’m still not so familiar with the busses and stuff so I use the long way from campus to the city, then back to Taringa, where I stay. Instead of taking the normal bus to the central, I take the free shuttle to Garden’s point and then I make my way to the central, which takes me about 15 minutes or less if I walk fast enough

• My new bunch of friends (and of course the old one’s as well)

Just hanging out with them is pretty much the entertainment of most of my days; there are new stories everyday and new jokes as well.

I miss the yamcha-ing, drinking, karaoke-ing, gambling , road trips, club hoping, playing basketball as well but knowing me, I’m lazy like half of the time and I always turn up one hour late, especially for basketball.

Then again, I have no friends here yet. But even if I did, I would still miss them lots. Seeing someone everyday, and suddenly not is a dramatic change.

And of course, my other friends as well

• My mum

Even though I talk to her or sms her almost every single day but no doubt, I still miss her a lot.

I miss driving her out, talking to her (even though half of time she is not listening to me), arguing with her, the nags on how I don’t spend enough time with her (she doesn’t even LISTEN to me) and etc. HAHA I miss mommy!

• The Brunei time

Everything seems faster here. Everyone walk fast here. OMG! I miss the slow Brunei and time seems to fly because surprisingly I have been here for almost three weeks already.

When I first arrived, I would purposely jet lag myself like instead of it being 10 I would convince myself its 8. But note, I only jet lag myself at night. I just don’t bother when its morning. All mornings seem the same to me. I hate mornings.

For the record, while EVERYONE is walking fast, I’m right behind- catching up! Walking slowly, taking my time (now, you know why I always miss the damn bus).

What I don’t miss?

• The mall

Malls and shops here are way better. There are more selection in clothing and the quality and styles here are so much better. Now, you understand why I can’t stop shopping. After all I do need a new wardrobe, since I’m in a new setting.

Shopping is awesome here. If any of you decides to come visit Brisbane, ring me up or BEG for my number then ring me up. I wouldn’t mind taking you around that gives me more reason to shop.

• My house

To be honest with everyone, I reckon the house here is better though it’s rented. It’s a town house, not a “small” house like what I thought. It has two bedrooms (for my brother and I) and the bedrooms are on the third floor, the kitchen and living room are on the second floor and the ground floor is the garage and laundry area. Did I mention, I have a HUGE veranda. It’s just awesome.

I know right, I have to walk up so many stairs everyday just to get to my room. It gets tiring but its good exercise, I guess. Visit brissie and you can come stay with me as well.

My room isn’t big but it’s quite spacious because I kind of rearranged my room to make it bigger. Obviously, my brother got the bigger room because he is “older” along with all the crap reasons he gave me. I don’t really mind my room, I kind of like it. Oh, the living room is sleep-able as well so you’ll be fine if you do drop by.

• The weather

Brunei is freaking hot. It gets hot here as well but sometimes just for a short while. But if it does get hot here, the good thing is we can wear as little clothes as possible and not get stared at. It has four seasons here, its summer now but the weather is fairly good.

The weather here is dry. Unlike Brunei hot and humid, its hot and dry here. So yes, my whole face is dried up and I reckon I can peel off one layer of my skin. But besides that, I really like the weather here.

So, obviously what I miss is more than what I don’t. In conclusion, I MISS HOME. I reckon I’ll give it one more year, or until I make enough friends to take my mind off what I miss.

People here likes to use the word “reckon” so I’m trying to fit in, you know get the ball rolling. HAHA! Sorry for the sudden lack of updates, I just moved in like days ago and there was no Internet. Dude, everyone here communicate through Internet. I missed a meeting because I didn’t check my mails for like two days. That’s crazy. Finally, I got it! Life does not seem so meaningless after all.

I am in desperate need of printer. I have lots of notes to print out and lots of readings to do. Internet can be said to be my LIFE! Oh, what do I do if I didn’t have Internet? In class, I feel so dumb because I haven’t done any readings and printed out lectures or tutorial notes. I see a busy weekend for myself, just reading the craps and “understanding” them.

I switched to Mozilla firefox, I'm sorry if the wordings are screwed up, in terms of size. This sucks!