Just a quick one.

First thought that went through my head as I touched down and face the inevitable masses of Merlion City...

What the FSCK am I doing here? Why am I here? Why?

I start work tomorrow. 

Had a bit of a deja vu moment at work especially with arrangements for me to get to the apartment not being quite clear enough and me thinking, Shit, I'm screwed. Stuck in a foreign country and I don't even have a place to stay.

Things get back to worse with a dying phone battery and apparently, my phone model is too old to find a compatible charger since I left mine in good ole Aotearoa. I know. Stupid me. I'm even contemplating buying a new phone but I know its gonna be completely useless to do so. 

And its raining. Dear lord, I landed smack dab in the middle of the monsoon season, it seems.

One thing I really regret was not learning more Mandarin or at least attempting to learn more Mandarin when I had the chance. In a country where English is rivalled only by Chinese, I truly understood what it meant to be bilingual. Damn handy, I tell you.

And as much as I always boast about liking my own company, right now...it would be nice to have a familiar face. Really. And for me to actually confess that in front of my egoistic bravado, it means a heck of a lot right now.

I'm quite scared, to be honest. Its scary being here. 

But its part of growing up, isn't it? Facing the unknown. 

Funny. I wondered how I did so well when I was up in Wangas until I realised that even though it was a new place, at least I was still in the same fricking country to start off with. 

The apartment's half decent. Which is good. 

Gonna be a quiet night tonight for me. 

Welcome to Singapore, eh? Heh. Yeah. I'm feeling the love already.