Dear Jing,

Thank you so much for your visit. It is not the first time I have felt gratitude when I think of the friends I have made in my life so far. Don't thank me, thank yourself, for helping me appreciate the city and your presence after a year and a half without having a close friend to talk to. You'll probably see this once you're back home, in the Singapore heat, dreading work, facing life once again. I think it's funny, how the topics of our conversation change over the years, but they eventually lead back to the same thing--about finding ourselves and being true to that self. Haha you're right we really are similar in a lot of ways.

Everything takes time and effort, and a touch of magic before they mean anything. I feel that I am still trying--not so much to settle, but to feel attachment to places. It is the people and memories we've built upon the various places which still grounds me. And coming to this new place, the blank slate promises a new beginning but sometimes blankness. I can still talk and chat about the old places and laugh but sometimes it is hard to appreciate the beauty right here without some happy memories to link it and to provide it with some deeper connection. I am sure I will eventually, but it will take time, laughter, tears and strange adventures.

I hope you had as much fun as I did. And Courage to going back to work. Cheers to living with similar questions, there is no certainty in answers. Sometimes I guess that's what life is made of, changes, fear, predicaments and the courage and faith to face up to them.

I will miss you until we meet again (hopefully next year),
Nip