About less than a week ago...
on a very mundane Thursday morning...
I sit down in front of a comp at work, login to my Lotus notes and received a few urgent emails
which led to a weekend of hectic planning, liaising and packing
on top of attending a conference...

A week later
i am here in Changi Airport Terminal 3..
waiting to board a plane that will take me to HK..then to Chicago and finally to Cincinnati...
Yes, I am going to Cincinatti, Ohio to attend a conference...
this is my first overseas conference/course...
also my first time to USA...
also my first time stuck on a plane for a straight 17 hours
*faint*
10+ hours from Bangkok to Stockholm was pretty butt-breaking...
17 hours!
I just hope i dun develop pressure ulcers *ouchie*

On a heavier note,
I am feeling rather lonely...
since last night when MJ left...
somehow, travelling alone to a country so FAR away...
being all by myself here...and then later...and for the next week!
OMG...
luckily i met YQ online on facebook earlier...
had a good 30min chat and that has alleviated my loneliness a bit
*hugz hugz YQ*

sigh...time now is 0559h...
too early to call MJ...
and just thinking about being away for this whole week makes tears well up...
i'm such a softie..
it's not like i'll be gone for months/years like when i went to melbourne to study...
yet...
there is just something heartbreakinly similar being all alone here...
like the very first time flying to melbourne...
all by myself.....

i don't like this feeling...
knowing that i won't be making full-length convesations for the next week or so...
or that i won't be eating rice/soup/noodles for a week...
or that i'll be all alone in a city i've never been to...

i really can freak out right now!

but but...
i shall not...
i've done this before...
been away from home for months...
lived alone for months...or rather years...

i can do it...
i just have to focus on the good things..
like how i'll get to explore a city i've never been to..
like how much i'll learn from the conference...

and how much more i'll appreciate my time together with my loved ones in singapore..

it only takes losing something to start appreciating it...

55 seconds left..gotta go..

see u in Cincinnati!

~lonely lonely~