Has anyone noticed how nice brandy cream and pudding taste? Or how a home cooked meal always hits the spot where no restaurant food ever can?
These are the things that I miss the most when I'm in Australia...home cooked meals, made with love...a house is not what makes a home, but a family...
I'm going back to Oz on the 24 of January...leaving home on the 21; Chinese New Year eve...again...haven't been home for a CNY for the past couple of years actually...:S...oh well...going to spend a couple of days in Singapore before I go back...
It's raining cats and dogs now...something else that I miss...the sound of rain on the roof and windows...
Going to get my new glasses later on...half frames...I've made the choice to continue to wear my contacts, but at night I think I'm going to wear my glasses...and my degree's gone up too! I'm becoming blind! Well, it comes with the age...:S
I'm going to bed...but before you go, visit this place...for those of you who aren't familiar with Neil...please make his acquaintance...he's well worth being your friend...you'll see...;)
Night...
Who Is The Black Chinaman?
- Nick
- Kuala Belait, Brunei
- Saving someone's life is like falling in love. The best drug in the world. For days, sometimes weeks afterwards, you walk the streets, making infinite whatever you see. Once, for a few weeks, I couldn't feel the earth - everything I touched became lighter. Horns played in my shoes. Flowers fell from my pockets. You wonder if you've become immortal, as if you've saved your own life as well. God has passed through you. Why deny it, that for a moment there - why deny that for a moment there, God was you? I realised that my training was useful in less than ten percent of the calls, and saving lives was rarer than that. After a while, I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop. It was enough that I simply turned up. Living and working back in Brunei, after a 14 year absence... Also known as: Brunei, NASA, Bruise-Eye, Bru, Cheesecake, Nick, BruNick, BruMedNick, Two Step etc etc etc
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