Moving out and on invisibly

Today i will be moving most of my stuffs into my new place. Perhaps a place that will be my very last. No more renting places. moving around. Gone are the floating days. Into my new place.

Clementi has been special to me. Before i even stayed here i am here when i was 15 years old because i was there looking for a watch as a present. For a student my age back then venturing out into new territories is really something special. Back then i didnt know that i would one time be spending more than 7 years here. Now it is time to move to another area rather permanently.

I will miss the feeling here. The proximity to NUS, to my familiar coffee shop and also people that i know around the neighbourhood. My landlord and her family. Nights of which i may be at the 24 hour coffee shop watching soccer. And yes my friend Yan Shan stays just acorss my block from my present rented room. Now she is moving and i am moving. But she gets to hang around in Clementi in her new block.

Even one of my girl friend was from clementi. My favourite fish shop. 4D shop. macdonalds and the run down Empress cinema theatre.

So many of these little memories will be left where it is while i start a new livng somewhere. Bukit Batok... erm ... will i eventually become familiar with it ? I believe so.

I come to liking the times when i move around. From one place to another. Each time having different people to stay with. Nothing is certain and from there i learn how unlucky or lucky i am to get landlords good and bad.

Perhaps the life living as someone under other's roof has trained me into who i am today. Independent and perhaps a bit more messy but yet i make things work out in the end. i sleep well. i get to live well. Alone yet not lonely because i spend little time in the room.

Now if i have a home to go back to. I see my beloved girl friend everyday till i sleep and till i wake up she will still be there. it will be a different life. indeed. so it is the beginning of something new but i think i seem to take it naturally and invisibly.

bye bye the footsteps i take each morning to work. bye bye the usual people i bump into. Clementi.. Doors closing.. tu tu tu tu...