Reflections
I have been blogging about daily stuff here, never really wrote a reflective entry yet. Well it's only about 13 days left in Vietnam. I must say time kind of flies here, I dunno if it's crawling in Spore or not, but life here so far has been so carefree and simple, except occasional moments when we discuss project stuff, every other moment is stressless. I will miss this place when I get back for sure, for the happy moments it has brought me so far. And the people here are generally nice, people whom I can foresee keeping in touch with when we return to Spore. There are rare moody moments of course, which I get over quite quickly. I guess I just have to get used to this kind of life overseas, as this one month is merely a preclude of my 4 months stint in Swiss later this year. Im sad I won't be doing the modules with the rest of u, sad that I can't plan my timetable this sem with u guys, sad that I can't see this group of Viet Peeps in NTU next sem, sad Im leaving home yet again... But everything comes with a trade-off :) I never know who I will meet, what I will encounter for my exchange. Just hope for the best :) And I must lower my expectataions so I won't be disappointed easily, which I did for this trip, and it all turned out well for me.
Oh I did not mention that Im known as MAX to everyone here. No one calls me Desmond. QUite weird initially hearing people call me MAX, but I have gotten used to it already. And somehow I illogically feel that the name Max improves my affinity with people. Dun ask me why but this is the feeling I get. Perhaps Desmond is just not for me, and I already complained before it's not my ideal name. Im happy being MAx. ANd got people mistake me for Vietnamese, Korean... Dunno to be happy or :( Anw quite hilarious incidents happen. To end with a narcissitc note, some people said I got nice eyes and features. LOL. I dun tink my features are nice, if I were to choose the nicest, it will be the eyes :)
And I miss the outings in SPore... Miss the BFG supper, Nuan's Bday celebration, and I wanna go Kbox so badly even before coming here. Im gonna try out the KTV here soon, hopefully they have chinese songs. I dun really miss other stuff apart from people in Singapore, not even food or TV or shopping or the place. Perhaps my adaptability is not that low afterall.
