This is Home

After 6 months of doing utterly nothing and talking to just about everybody I know about it. I'm finally here in Melbourne, Australia.

I'll admit when I was at the LCCT back home about to pass the security gate, I looked back at my father and brother waving goodbye, it almost brought a tear to my eye (but there were people around so I had to restrain myself). But I guess it was mostly because I was having a major flashback from that security gate until we took off. Because at one moment, I was checking in and laughing and irritating my brother with a line from Inception (awesome movie) and the next I'm waving at my dad and brother as I leave.

But I guess the only time it hit me the hardest was when I was with Aris in the hotel room. He was being a pain as usual, and I was trying to counter his unwavering irritance. So I played the 'Round and Round' music video from my laptop but because it was 1080 HD, my laptop had a little trouble playing smoothly. Then, I said to him...

"Don't worry, when I get home I'll play this on my HD-"

Then I just stopped and I realized that my home is now here in Melbourne and not in KL.

When I went to sleep that night I was thinking of all the stuff I won't be doing. Like no more going out to 1 Utama and The Curve. No more playing FIFA 10 while my brother listens to me yell at the TV. No more going to Starbucks in Centrepoint just before midnight. The thought of all that kept me up and I really couldn't sleep. For God's sake, I slept at like 3am and woke up at 6.45am (1am - 4.45am, Malaysian time). Obviously I was earliest to wake up. So stepped out to the balcony and looked over the city and I kept repeating to myself...

"This is Home."