Monday, January 25, 2010

Saying Goodbye


Today's Smile-Inducer : Being fitter than I thought I was...dragging 2 bags about as heavy as I am down the road, catching a taxi alone and donkey-ing the bags on the LRT was no mean feat! Oh, how I wanted to sit by the roadside, bags by my side ala vagabond and play the whole damsel in distress thing ...

After clearing, packing and dismantling shelves for 2 consecutive days, late night celebrations, 2 birthday celebrations and hours of backbreaking, I find myself sitting in the middle of jam packed KL central, calmly sipping overpriced coffee whilst everyone around me bustles about doing something. It hits me then, I've ended my tenure here in KL.

Leaving my room this morning was harder than I thought it would be. Locking the door for the last time, the realization hit me that I wouldn't be coming through them ever again. No more "Urgh, I hate this room! Why is it so HOT here?". Never again can I complain about my monkey ancestors paying me visits (not that I'm complaining about that..).

Sitting across a bunch of working adults earlier during lunch made me miss my classmates so much. I'm getting a serious case of the Peter Pan syndrome. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I really don't think I'm ready to face the dragon, tigers and the wild unknown. I'm just a little girl lost in a world which has suddenly grown bigger, meaner and way more foreign :(

On a brighter note, I'll be reunited with my storybooks soon. I'm anxious to return to the world where imagination pulls up the best surprises and I'm able to reject reality when it gets too hard to bear and come back to comfort, to family, to life.

25 comments:

Reanaclaire said...

welcome back to IPOH, Joanna.. at least u will be with your family as for the time being.. phew... sure u will feel something when u bade goodbye to your "2nd home".... anyway, all the best to you from now and onwards..
God Bless U!

suituapui said...

What's so good about goodbye? But no matter where you go, there's no place like home...

XD said...

we r goin to face de new environment soon.. n i do blive tat we r able to handle it. i dunoe whether we can slaughter the dragon, but we will fight it since there r so many frens around u n u r not alone out there. remember 'we are' but not only u fresh to de workplace o watever...

smallkucing said...

Just need t walk one step in front of another, Joanna. God wont give us challenge that he knows its too big for us. :)

owl_order said...

oh you poor thing! nobody helped you with all your stuff?

you're real strong though, it wasn't an easy feat!

when i shifted out of my room last year i had to carry everything home by my own too. since i spend my weekends at home i carried all unnecessary stuff with me home, few kg by few kg every week. but it was still quite bad when i had to check out, plus i had to walk home from Klang station, some 20 mins journey. and i was sure drained.

Fiona said...

welcome home! let's do our annual activity soon!!

Elin Chia said...

Welcome home Piggy...3 months of bliss before shooting of for UK. Enjoy the food being cooked for you now for after then you will be the chef for all your housemates. You thank God you have my blog to come to when you want to surprise your housemates LOL!

Joanna said...

Reanaclaire : THank you :)

STP : Definitely no place like home ! So glad to be back where I belong :)

XD : Aw ... so sweet. Thanks so much for the encouragement

Kathy : Yup, one step at a time sounds like a very good course of action :)

WenQi : Hehe, i moved my stuff back in small bulks like you did :) These two bags were the last I had left of my 4 years there.

Fiona : Yay ! We definitely have to find a date !

Elin : *cough cough cough

Bunny said...

2 small bags? What abt all those in the back of my car? :P So I'm taking them all ya? Haha. Welcome home. See you soon.

conan_cat said...

sounds exactly like me when i just graduated.

i guess we all have the peter pan syndrome inside us, but i guess when the time comes, we will all grow up, willingly or not. :)

and hey, congratulations! welcome to the rat race :P

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