Blooming.

Something my parents said today sparked thoughts in my mind; "We are looking forward to welcome home a "new transformed" Ee Ping!" Perhaps it is this whole lot of content analysis that I have been doing in my mind whilst attending my lectures, or perhaps it is the social psychology theories that I have been reading about that is messing with my mind. To think about it, I haven't really been in the UK for that long a time - although I must admit that the past 71 days have passed really quickly. It made me wonder, has this mere 71-day stint in a country almost 11,000km away from home made me change that much?

I guess family arguments have gone from almost daily to nothing, and truth be told, I am loving it. I rationalised it lately and realised that there isn't any room for arguing because every time we are talking to each other, it is basically to update ourselves about each other's lives. Thank God for the invention of Blackberry Messenger, I speak to my family everyday, though sometimes the feeling of 'I wish I was home' emerges when the topic about the brother's awards ceremony, or a family event comes up, but I still want to be in the know. There is still a part of me that wonders if things would be different if I am not home for a long time, but friends have always reassured me that no matter how much I can think of the worst, things really are the same, and family will always be family.

I reckon this is the longest time I have been away from my family altogether. Despite travelling, nothing would really prepare me for something quite like this; living a life away from familiar grounds, familiar faces, familiar feelings, familiar life. It is in brand new experiences that I would grow most anyway. For that, I am ever grateful.

See you lovelies back home in 18 days. I am looking forward to it!

Loves,

Ee Ping