i'm back. no. really.

has been so long since i've blogged... coming to 5 months, i think! wow! that's nearly half a year! wonder if there's a difference being out of the loop for such a long time. i feel older. and more jaded than when i was li'l miss morgugu (for those who have found a way around the enforced password! it's not hard). i won't remove that blog that was my past. i like to know that i have left traces for myself (or others) to discover.

lurking at the blogs i used to read acts as a time line, as others' documented progress/process is measured against my own undocumented one. feels good to be back in the loop. feels like home.

updates, updates. am currently in melbs now! time sure zooms past! have been here for slightly more than 2 months (cuz i just paid my 3rd rent) and it's definitely a nice change to be staying on one's own in a foreign land. missing friends and food and the familiarity of singas has somehow become etched in my subconscious. maybe that's what leads me to try to re-create a bit of the past in the present.

have learnt to cook, wash up, pick up after myself and the housemate, and do my own budgeting. it comes naturally to some, but it has been slower for me. it's hard to believe that these angmohs have survived so long without domestic help, whereas in singas, i [albeit slightly ashamedly admit] have not grown up without them. and while i feel a certain camaraderie with *anyone* from whom i hear the singlish accent, i am still very much on my own. perhaps... perhaps i keep to myself because i am more aware of my differences. i dunno.

have been more introverted lately. taking more time to reflect. i guess this quarter-life-crisis is making me take a longer, harder look at myself and re-evaluating what i've cheerfully ignored for the past 25 years. shit. can't believe i'm 26 soon! :)