Coming back to this place

[Vivian Hsu 徐若瑄 - 爱笑的眼睛]

And so I'm back. Not today, not yesterday but on Wednesday. The past few days have been spent catching up with the gang, anime-ing and clubbing (with a small attempt to accomplish my Jap compo). This Sydney trip's been good. Staying with Leonard gave me a taste of what it's like living in Sydney. This trip's isn't the usual tourist-like-stay-in-hotel-shop-in-town kinda trip. This trip encompassed travelling time from city to the suburb, playing soccer in some indoor soccer court at 10 in the night, visiting a desolated yet beautiful coast that's near his place, having normal food like "Superbowl", having to deposit your bags when you club because you can't dump 'em in the hotel etc. Well, you get the picture. But I'd suppose the highlight of the trip was visiting Hunter Valley - the Yarra Valley of New South Wales. It was a pity that we only allocated 1 day for Hunter Valley because it's such a beautiful place. I can totally see why the Aussies would want to hold weddings there. And the wines... I suppose we're kinda lucky that out of the 6 wineries we visited, most had wines that we like, thus labelled by us as "good wineries". I bought 5 bottles of wine - 1 Shiraz, 1 Semillon, 1 Gewurztraminer, 1 Botrytis Semillon and 1 Calypso Cream. All very good buys I would think. Though I kinda regret not getting another red from The Wine Boutique. Besides the scenery and the wine, our visit to Hunter Valley reminded me of a very important thing.

I blame it on Landy:

"...
生日快乐 我对自己说 蜡烛点了 寂寞亮了
生日快乐 泪也融了 我要谢谢你给的你拿走的一切

还爱你 带一点恨 还要时间 才能平衡
热恋伤痕 幻灭重生 祝我生日快乐
..."

Yep. I made up my mind. I'm going away next year. A quiet break with myself - a good book, my iPod and my camera is all that's going with me. I cannot imagine the torture of celebrating it here.

I had orginally planned to bitch about the company I was with, namely Eugene (Mark) and Eric. But I think it's very bad to do that so decided against it. After spending 6 days of laughter, here I am bitching about them. But I guess that's the way what. Had I not spent time with 'em, how would I have known that they are such people, no? Not that they are not nice people, I mean they are quite 随便 and all just that I suppose there are certain traits in 'em that I can't stand. I'm sorry but I AM THAT fussy. But but but, I can put it aside and still hang out with them, just that deep inside, a little me complains. Hypocritical? Perhaps. Guess that's why it's not easy to fully comprehen me.

Okay. I think I've written enough. Here's Vivian, with the song of the moment:

"...
离开你我才发现自己 那爱笑的眼睛
流过泪 像躲不过的暴风雨 淋湿的昨天忘记
离开你我才找回自己 那爱笑的眼睛
再见爱情 我一定让自己 让自己 坚定
再见到你 我一定让自己
假装很 坚定"