Australia 2012- part 2

Argh... I'm still on Melbourne timing. It's 3 hours later than Singapore and the effect is killing me. I will wake up at 5am and feel very groggy at 9pm. It is quite bad 2 nights before when i actually felt drowsy while driving home at 11pm after work. Why why why!?

Today is a fluke. I slept at like 9pm and woke up at 3am. It's kinda good cos I get the chance to ... slack, without feeling guilty. Read abit of little thing magazine, finish all my pending animes, eat some mutton stew and fruits i found in the fridge, flip through my new planner, pin new stuffs. How indulgent. There is something very comforting about the night. The silence and solace wrap me like a cloak. No distractions at all. Maybe i should do this more often.

Back to the topic on hand

I love Australia because...

It is wonderfully quirky and cheerful. I see odd collections of dinosaur figurines on a window still and a giant 
vertebrae outside a clinic. I have been to Italy and Japan during Spring but Australia struck me as the most effortlessly happy so far. Spring, i would think, should be a season of great cheer. The country has just shaken off the lethargy and darkness of winter so people should be more alive right? Not so much for Italy. Everyone still look so dreary. Dark coats, shuffling feet, slanting brows, noses perpetually to the ground. I guess it was still too cold.Tokyo however, was on a perpetual high. But everyone i see has a fixed look on their eyes. They says "yes, i have a loud, trilling voice and my face looks happy and energetic but I am so so bored, i am doing all this because i need to do it and not because i like it." Everything seemed like a facade somehow. Australia seemed different. People dance on streets at night when the temperature feels like a minus 10 (granted they are drunk and all), people are talking happily and unaffectedly everywhere. Most people i observed (even in the hospital) look so genuine whether they had just met, or talking to each other. It seem almost scary. Oh i also found that most Australians have a jaunty walk. They have a particular bounce to their steps lol. They are also particularly colorful. Unlike the Italians, Japanese, Honkies who seemed to favor dark colored clothes, the Australians likes bright and cheerful colors. Hmm, makes me feel like flying there now. :) In fact my constant refrains in the vacation was how i wished i studied there. I don't wish to stay there forever. But studying there will be such a pleasure.