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Little Moments

Monday, February 16

Today is my stress free day. Not exactly. I still have a bunch of homework to finish. But for today, I have decided that I will ignore it for now, and worry about it later. Like people say, live for the moment. Might call me irresponsible, but hey, give me a break. I have been doing work non stop for days now, and yes, this is including my sleeping hours. Though, I'm not a very good sleeper anyways.

Moving on now. Oh yes, my vacation in Malaysia. It's been exactly a fortnight since I left Malaysia, but come on, who's counting? Ok, I'm counting. But can you blame me? I miss my family and friends so much. I never realised how much they affect me till I left the KK airport that day. It's like a piece of me was gone. But it was only gone for a minute. When I looked at the photos of the fun times we had together, it almost made me forget that I was actually leaving them.

We went to many places. After I reached in KK for a good 2 days, I went to Sandakan with my grandparents, mum, aunt and my cuz, Isaac. We went to Sepilok, the Agnes Keith House and a few other historic places. Here are a few pics of the many we took:

Overall, Sandakan was good fun. I loved taking photos of the orangutans. Wonder why I don't have a pic of them? Well, we had 5 cameras, and it costs RM10 per camera you bring in, so we decided to bring in my grandpa's camera, cos it takes the BEST photos ever. He's developed them, but they haven't been scanned yet. We also visited our relatives, my granduncle and his grandson, who I used to play with.

The hotel we stayed in, Sabah Hotel, was amazing! The swimming pool was awesome - what with the small slides and everything. We had interconnected rooms, which meant that my cousin and I could sneak into our grandparents' room and wake them up in the middle of the night. Not that we would do that, of course ;D

After three days of complete luxury, we went back to KK. Our next trip was very close to home, Kundasang in KK, near Mount Kinabalu during CNY. To get away from all the chaos was good for all of us. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love Chinese New Year. But sometimes it's nice to spend it with your family, instead of going around collecting ang paus, haha. Our time was well spent; we went to Poring for a dip (well, it was only me, lol), went to the Sandakan Rememberance place set up there and many others.

During the last few days of our trip, we went to Miri. Most people don't know this, but I lived in Miri since I was born till I was about 4. There, we met many people. As I was less than four, I have no memory of the time I spent there. I didn't know the people that I met there, but yet they know me so well. They are all very nice people, I've gotta say. Eventhough I didn't know them, I had this sense that I once knew them. That I once touched them. That I once hugged them. It was weird, but somehow, I knew.

You know what's the best bit? Not meeting the people in Miri, or the good sceneries, but the talking we managed to do. Okay, so I didn't really join the "adult" conversation. But it made me happy, watching my grandpa and my mum so engrossed in their conversation. Four years ago, when I haven't came to Melbourne, I wouldn't treasure such a moment. It would've just been a plain moment. But watching them talk, it almost made me cry.

It's little moments like these that mean so much to me. Moments that I have missed over the last four years. Such plain moments that I never got to enjoy since coming to Melbourne. Having said that, it doesn't mean that I'm not happy here. Being in Melbourne has got me to appreciate things that I have never appreciated. And that's a good thing.