There's no other way to say this but to come right out and declare: I am homesick!!
Blame it on the Chinese New Year festivity, and more people than usual heading home for the holidays, while I have to content with the scorching heat in the quiet Marleston suburb in Adelaide, plotting a DIY chinese reunion dinner for two. I even went searching for new year songs online this morning, but that only added insult to the already sore emotion. Bleh!
There's obviously no easy or nice way of riding through being homesick, and you have really got to experience it in order to be able to relate to it. Even the smallest thing, some thing you usually wouldn't even give a second thought to, like being stuck in traffic with throngs of last minute shoppers, suddenly seem all important. It's important because you missed it, you're not there in the action, not because you actually liked it.
At the risk of sounding like I'm going into a self-pity rant, I am honest when I tell you that I've not caught a glimpse of a single red lantern, or the all famous pineapple tarts; the looming festive feels almost surreal - it's there, I know, but I can hardly see or feel it, yet feel obligated (almost) to acknowledge it, for it feels totally wrong not to.
Having said that, I am thankful for the experience, in a way, or so I'm trying to tell myself! After all, it's not every year I get to experience a "Westernised" Chinese New Year; I am determined to make this year the one and only time I spent the festive away from my family, seriously! So! All the more to make the best of it, I supposed!
Well, let's see what I'll cook up in the end - literally! Will update you! :)
Meanwhile, Gong Xi Gong Xi! Wishing you a joyous, prosperous, peaceful and healthy Rabbit lunar new year ahead!
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