Down Under

So I started with a blog entry I don't plan on completing until I get back. I am curious to see how I am emotionally as the days go by this long weekend. This is the first time I am traveling alone since Malaysia. Of course this time I travel with complete different reasons. It is still interesting to just analyze my thoughts when it is all over, review its changes and its sometime rational and irrational flow of unconsciousness.

So here is what happen so far before I make my way to the plane.

Blooper - I was dropping my manager off at the airport today. He was helping me with things to do in Australia and started to check off the list as if he was a father making sure that his son was well prepared. Then he ask a final question and said....."So you got your Visa ready right?"......Then I was like oh, you mean I need a visa? Long story short I rushed to get my visa online and was approved instantaneously. Luckily Australia is just greedy and all they care about is your money. I have my visa, luckily I took him to the airport. Otherwise I wouldn't of gotten on the airplane.

Support - Everyone I talked to so far been really excited for me to go to Australia for such a short time. Got lots of suggestions. I think people are more excited than I. But as I read up more on the city, I begin to get excited because I realize it sounds like a place that I can get to like a lot. Well, I will see. If I get in a fight with a drunk Aussie, then I may hate the place. But so far it sounds like a very multi-racial, multi-cultural place with lot of good Asian food and good Italian food.

At Home - I thought I would not have anything to do this weekend and one of the reasons why I decide to go oversea. Yet a few hours before my trip, I got a few calls to go hang out tonight and this weekend. Now why don't people be for prepared and plan. Let me know sooner. I can't complain....I did not initiate. Then another twist of event, I got a text from a friend out of the blue. I known her for awhile now and somehow she decided to text me and said she wanted to date me. I am thinking she is drunk or something, but man who text people to ask that kind of question. I just got my subway sandwich and decided to watch the Lakers game. But the sad thing is that if she is serious, then I think I may loose a friend because they never stay friends with you once you say no to them.

Emotional Conscious - I have mixed feeling whether I should make my flight there. I hope that things don't go wrong or that my family and friends will be okay. I am excited to see Sydney and looking forward to reading the book I wanted to read for the longest time (Guns, Germs, and Steel). I predict I will have time of uncomfortableness (in a hostel for god sake), time of loneliness (by myself), and time of excitement. But hopefully by the end of it all I come back with a sense of balance and acceptance of the future to come. By me writing that sentence, I realize maybe I should be a fortune cookie writer. I wonder how much do they pay?

Then another thought..............