back from the dead
had a pretty nice getaway last week [and a full three weeks with Scott!]. so right now i’m a really happy girl. but things have been zooming by so fast i now realize i have less than three weeks in Malaysia! [actually i only have 13 effective days left in penang because i am going on holiday again on Monday]
with only so little time left on the clock, the realization of leaving has finally hit me. and you have no idea how scared i am – this, despite, having been away for two years. i keep telling myself that ‘distance’ is just a mental thing, that i will not actually feel the difference between being 15,000 km away from home and being 600 km away. because the point is, no matter the real distance, i will be physically removed from home. so it shouldn’t really matter. then why does leaving for America feel so much harder than leaving for Singapore?
ok enough of that emo nonsense.
the getaway last week was to some island in Thailand called koh lipe. got to do lots of fun things like kayak and snorkel but i took very few pictures because i was too busy doing the activities. but if i could share with you one image it would be a sequence of a view of the sea from the kayak, of the monstrous and choppy waves we rode. it reminded me so much of Yann Martel’s description of the ocean in Life of Pi. the thought of the ocean is rather scary – the way it throws you up and down and how you’re just in the middle of a whole, ginormous pool of just water. grrr.
