30/1/06…
Posted by richeyxx on January 30th, 2006 — Posted in Life & Bitch
…I touched down at London Heathrow at 620am today, and after being awake for 14 hours (I vaguely slept on the plane for about 11 hours, which was God blessed) I’ve done pretty much what I came here to do…all except packing. I have arranged everything to change over to my fellow housemates who will be carrying on living at the house without me.
I’m very grateful to have 2 very understanding housemates who aren’t too pissed off about me ditching them and working in Hong Kong. I felt that I owned them loads because you know how tenents are always binded by that fucking tenency contract and its terms, and therefore I should do as much as I can without putting too much burden onto them and their work.
As my last days in the UK become imminent, suddenly I started to miss this God forsaken country. Although it’s always cold, always bloody raining and always make you feel shit, afterall I have given more than a decade of my life growing up at this place, from just a little boy to now an independent adult - in England’s green and pleasent land, as William Blake put it.
There were memories both good and bad about this country - I made lifelong friends, experienced life that I never could have in Hong Kong, fell in love (and heart broken) for the first time, blah blah blah. It’s in this country, because of it’s freedom, that I was encouraged to pursue my interests, things that I wanted to do where I wouldn’t stand a chance elsewhere.
In the end my mother was right, if I stayed in Hong Kong I will probably either end up in jail or fail at school and live on doll money because of my personality just wouldn’t survive within the Hong Kong education system, and hence becoming a reject. Now that I have 2 degrees and climbing loads of ladders at the same time, I wish that my mum would be proud of her son should she be around today. As many bad points as there exists, and how I severely bitched about this country, it and its people developed me into who I am today, and I am always grateful for that. My life, and the country I grew up in, showed me how lucky a person I am compared with some people.
All I need to do now is to stay awake…
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