Some feelings...

It's been one mth since i have been here..
Some of the feelings are starting to set in.
Feelings of being alone, feelings of feeling tired and frustrated when i have to deal with other pple staying in the house.
Feeling of being disconnected frm watever is going on in Singapore.

Now, there is this chinese song called Huai Jia playing on YES 93.3...
This is juz great, it has boost my atmosphere to write.
This is not really a sob-filled and tear jerking entry.

I think this has arise bcos i come to the realisation that as much as i might wan to keep in touch and everything, there is a limit to as how much i can try.
For instance, i called someone last sunday afternoon, knowing that this was the time that the person who be free, cos it's the time that the person goes to church.
After calling 30 numbers, and after redialing continuously from 1pm to 130pm Singapore time, i think it is time to give up. Out of the many times that i called, only one i got thr' and it was bcos the phone was in the bag,and due to either divine intervention, i could hear the conversations going on. i put down the phone and i was and am reasonably upset.
I tried again on Singapore time Sunday night.
No reply. No pick up.
I tried last night, which is Sat morning. No reply, no answer.
Tried this morning at 11 am ( which is 11pm Sat) no reply, no answer.
After trying so many time for juz one person, it is hard to say that i am not disheartened.
Am i being unreasonable?
I dun think so... Bcos i have alr tried to call at the most humane hours...haiz..
wat can i say?
I am worried that something happened to the person.
but then frm the conversations that i heard, i think the person is well.
I guess when u are so far away home, one wld certainly wish that the pple ard him/her wld nt forget him/her.Maybe bcos i m so far away frm home, and there are somethings that are not going well here, the feeling of neglect gets to me. The innate fear that pple move on in their lives without me... I can't tell my housemates the tots on my mind, i can't tell them how much i miss someone, i can't tell them my concerns..i can't tell them how concerned i am with regards to the happening in my frens' lives...,

I called someone else next, the person din pick up as well.
It makes me feel as if i am on the wrong frequency, and that no one in the sane mind would pick up. It is indeed a lonely feeling.
But this person, i can understand..
I read her blog.. How i wish that i am in Singapore now.
At least, she wld have comfront, at least i noe wat is going on.

Today it rained the whole day.
And I, stayed at home for the whole day.
Yes, i am a boring person.
I juz feel like staying at home juz to get some tots sorted out.
Read a bk that i bought by C. S Lewis called "till we have faces"..
I wanted some privacy.then one of my housemates who was bored came into my room, sat in my bed.. and there went my afternoon of SO-litude.
Out of the , 2 went to the Halloween party at the pub..
I'm nt into pubs and as a Christian i dun think i wan to be at a Halloween party.
The man went out drinking.
The other woman is on webcam with her husband.

I am living by the phase-" Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy."- Hebrews12:14.

DISC- we have all sort of combination here.
One is DC- singapore style
One is CS- same as me
One / two is IC/ID....
haha.......It is a challenging time.

Since then...

Realised that i have not really posted pictures of my earlier days when i juz reached boston.So i have placed a preview of things that i have done here...

The top 2 pics where taken when my plane was going to boston frm detroit, and i was going to reach boston.
I stayed in the hotel called, Hotel @MIT, where it is smacked in the center of MIT campus.
NUS and NTU really cannot compare to these campus.. A whole region with shops, streets belong the the campus, the roads are patrolled by campus security, and their individual bulidings are all ard...
What is amazing abt the hotel.. is the Blanket cover...
They dun call it MIT for nothing...
Hopefully after slping in the bed, i get smart... MUHAHAHA...

Generally there are interesting things tat singapore dun have..
Interesting fact #1. You cannot dispose ur household gabage in the public dustbin. You are liable to fine USD 25 bucks if caught.
Interesting fact #2. You have to bring out the garbage on Monday night, bcos they will collect your trash on early tuesday morning. If you miss it.. U got to live with the garbage for one more wk...
Interesting fact #3. Squirrels are very cute and are feel to move abt here.. They have actually chewed my house cable, and we were nt able to access the internet...
there's a myth abt squirrels and their tails.. the bushier their tails, the colder the winter to come..
<-- so is this considered bushy? Got this baby squirrel who was busy cracking its nut... at Acadia National park..

Interesting fact #4. ( and a painful one) For every meal that you have at a resturant( there is no hawker center here.. though there are fast food) U have to tip.. basically anything that has service relasted to it, u got to tip... frm taxi, to haircut.. to bellboy...

Interesting fact #5
The sun can shine on u... and u can still feel cold...

Interesting fact #6
There is something called daylight savings which starts this wk for me. It means that i can slp later in bed... hehe.. frm my naive understanding, during summer, there is so much "day" time ( frm 400AM to 8PM) that it translate to savindgs for us..
Here it means that if i dun adjust my clock/ watch... and i go to work at 900Am, it is actually 800AM.... how it really works i got no idea.. muhaha....

These are juz some facts of living here..

More pictures of Acadia National Park...

the trail that i took...
Standing on the horizon? The 4 ladies of the house
Putting my first step...
Wat will it be when i look back after 18 mths?

Apparently i cannot load more than 5 pics in an entry?

I wanted to load the ones that i took at the peak of this mountain called Cadilac mountain, which is the highest along the east coast.

The winding road to the peak was scary, cos it feels as if it is going to fall off the cliff and all of us will juz die in the crush.

It was a beautiful day, with the sun so brightly shinning.. btw, we took the ocean trail, which explains that other than the blue SEA, it is still the blue sea..

The sea that it is facing, if i am not wrong is the Altantic Sea.. but i could be wrong...

I juz wished that all of u can see all the pictures that i have taken.. and that u can be here to share the view and the experience with me..

some pictures from Acadia National park

At the hotel, at dawn break
Part of Acadia National park,Ocean Trail
Autumn Foilage in backgrd
The hills behind me..
A scenic picture

A step forward

As the name of the blog states, this is a learning journey for me personally.
It marks the start of the many beginnings, the first time of the many other first times.

Even as i have left home for near 3 wks, it has been a time of change after change.
On this trip there are things which i have started off in mind.
this will indeed be a time which i will learn many things.

Even at work, it can be challenging at times to work with my sup.
I noe tat this is part of growing up and i will need to grow up..
There are things that i am challenged to do, to out grow it, to change, to adapt..
For instance, my sup is a more big picture person, while i am someone who is more detailed orientated, which makes it highly challenging, as she wld question me the rationale of my dealing with certain things.
It challenges me to look beyond the small details which i am so inclined to do so...
Mayb this is an area that i need to grow..

Meanwhile, i live each day taking a small step towards my goal.