I have...

been back to Adelaide, Melbourne & Tasmania in Aug / Sept ....

=had my Boost juice (damn..there's Liver Cleanser no more!??), dip platter & hot choc at Spats (yummy!), brownie & latte at KooRong ( - even they're using Lavazza now!), those (salty) jap / asian-ish food at the Myer's food court and not forgetting, the fish & chips at Victor Harbour and breath of fresh air at Mount Lofty, Hahndorf and Windy Point!

=met Auntie M who's ever generous with her hugs & muackssss but haha, there's the gender issue with regard to Jeff, haha

=driven off-track on the way to Phillip Island for a split second 'cos that ascent hatch was flying with the wind at that moment!?? Well, actually i had let go of one of my hands on the steering wheel at that moment too...while the car wheezed by at 110km/h. I forgot it's not electronically-aided steering like my marchie...

=had the best Viet food i've ever eaten at Mekong along Swanston Street. Maybe i was too hungry?..but it passed my taste buds test twice within 2 days :) Oooooh, viet-style grilled chicken and cold bee-hoon, yummmmmy!

=been blown apart atop Mount Wellington - i could neither stand nor squat proper! No other wind is too strong for me now man!

=stayed at a lodge atop the hill enroute to Mount Wellington - lovely, lovely, lovely!

=driven a Hyundai Sonata!??!??Goodness - and one of its tyres had to give up on us on the day we're leaving for Singapore!

=met up with my uni chum at her cosy farm house - complete with hubby and baby and a fffffffab meal prepared by her! (Jeff & I caught a rainbow when we reached there too!)

=come to realise for sure i'm with a good chap and i thank God for him :) - the one who ensured there's boiled water and warmed-up bathrooms wherever we stayed :) , the one who changed the tyre in his long-sleeved shirt and all within 10? 15? minutes! WOW!

heard & experienced lotsssssss....

=heard Baby zac zac say "Ooooooo", "Mmmmmmm" & "fffff" (according to Jolene). Hmmmmm, he'll learn to call ff soooooooon then? Hehe!

=thrown away 6 garbage bags and 4 boxes of stuff - from every year of my lifetime, including those cooking sets, Barbie dolls and toys that used to be part of my childhood days, stacks of diaries, notes, books and pieces here and there which i have refused to let go of somehow, even though i haven't seen the light of most of them for years! Well, throwing them away was one thing. Lugging them all the way down 4 storeys and to the rubbish collection point was another! Not forgetting...that was not going to be the last of my room-cleaning!

=been in the process of getting ready for THE move in a month's time - away from where i have spent more than half my lifetime, away from familiar surroundings and routines. I'm so going to miss this place - it's where i had gone through those angst-filled teens and young adulthood days after all.The reluctance to move - not just for sentimental reasons, but also that unwillingness to let go and get used to something new again. Sorta uprooting oneself and re-establishing oneself all over again. Like how i felt before leaving for Adelaide more than 6 years ago (!)

=been very blessed to have my ff - someone who's such an integral part of me that i don't even think about him being a part or not. We're always talking, sharing, doing simple / everyday-ish things together and laughing together! There's rarely that moment of weird silence or boredom in a way.There's never that uncertainty about him.After a year together, i still look forward to his calls, messages and presence, and i believe that will be so after years of years to come.