the return...

So chances are anyone who used to read this has given up checking for posts seeing as thought its been about what 4 months since the last one... but there's a time for learning, and experiencing, and a time for telling... the learning has been intense, and isn't looking like slowing down anytime soon, but I feel like I should write something. And put up some new pictures.

Really, there's been a lot to think about recently. My walk as a Christian for one. Adapting to new environments, which I'm used to , having moved around a lot, but maybe recently having moved to some really foreign environments... takes more adapting than usual. The funny thing is that moving to Singapore, the place where I was born, and have come back to so often, is the most difficult to adapt to. Difficult is definitely the wrong word, but... weird? haha. Not that that's much better.

The last 5 months on the MS Statendam, cruising through the US, Caribbean, Mexico, Nicaragua and Canada was an adventure. Life at sea is something else... on one hand it almost doesn't seem real, but then on the other hand, it is. Of course it's real. it's just different. completely. One's world is shrunk down to the size of the ship, so everything is magnified. Things which aren't a big deal on land become mountains, and you're forced to deal with it because there isn't anywhere to hide. It's like playing football (soccer) on a stadium pitch your whole life, then joining a futsal team. You can learn a lot in a short space of time if you want to.

Anyway, so now I'm in Singapore. I'll be joining the army here in about a week, which will be something totally different. I've been in the country for about 2 weeks, and am blown away by so many things. The music, the art scene, the food... it's a funny feeling. It's as if every time I've come here I've been living in a bubble, I just didn't realise it at the time. having lived in Australia my whole life, but having been brought up in a family with eastern traditions, I spent the first half of my life trying to adapt to that culture... and then to come back to what should be familiar, to discover that it's foreign even to you, is something to get your head around.

I'll be posting more soon. Then not for a couple of weeks, then I'll be back after BMT's over. Here are some pics : )

                                          Subway art.

                                          There's art like this scattered around the city. I'm in 

                                          the bottom left square.

                                           A band playing in the Esplanade foyer

                                          Michelle something or other...

                                          The town