I’m back in Korea, and am lying in bed, resting from the traveling. My flight out of Singapore was 9 am yesterday, and I stepped into my apartment a little bit after 9 pm last night. Everytime I return to Korea, I have similar feeling upon arrival. Everything is familiar, and I feel "home", in a sense. At the same time, I can’t believe I’m back. There are so many warmer places I’d rather be.
I walked into my apartment last night, almost as if I had been gone years. Things were familiar, but I felt eerily detached from the objects in the room that were supposed to be mine. The first thing I really noticed was how cold it was. Today, Koea has a high of 36F (2C), while Singapore and Bali are around 85F (29C). For the last month, I’ve been packing around a hooded sweatshirt and down jacket I wore when I left Korea, at the bottom of my pack. Needless to say, I needed them upon my arrival back in the land of kimchi.
My first day back at work is a week from today, next Thursday. In the meantime, I’ll be doing some spring cleaning and posting pictures from Bali and Singapore. In addition, I took quite a few videos from my trip.
The following video, I particularly liked. It was taken in Ubud, Bali, at the monkey santuary. This monkey is grooming a baby, and casually looks up at me once. It continues to groom and turns the baby over, and is peering at its butt, then looks up again to see me. It looks surprised and instead, gives up grooming and holds the baby close. Then, as Raswan says, it starts coming on to me with the facial expressions that follow. I’m not sure of that interpretation, but it’s funny, nonetheless. More videos to follow.
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Thu, Feb 23, 2006
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