Paris, Je t'aime.

Wife: And what do you do for love?
Husband: I ache. For who we used to be.

You're so impossible that sometimes I ponder if what you tell me on other occasions is true.


Got this icebox where my heart used to be.

Tell me how can, how can this be wrong?

Grant my last request and just let me hold you,
don't shrug your shoulders.
Lay down beside me.
Sure I can accept that we're going nowhere
But one last time let's go there
Lay down beside me.

Strangely familiar.

I'll take my chances while
You take your time with
This game you play.
But I can't control your soul,
You need to let me know
You leaving or you gonna stay.

What I've done.

I sure am gonna miss:

• having 30 over people around all the time;
• fighting 10 over girls for the shower at one time;
• having to wake up at 6am or earlier everyday;
• battling the blazing desert afternoon heat and freezing nights;
• panting and pushing myself to finish the climb/ walk;
• sleeping in a sleeping bag in a tent;
• having Derwyn call me 'cheeky' and Ron giving all of us a hard time for being slow (Derwyn and Ron being our very kind drivers who made the 6, 025km drive possible. Much love to them.);
• having the guys laugh at me for being spoilt;
• Yingyi for the encouragement and for pushing me to my limits;
• living without Internet and facebook;
• having a rockin' good time at a local (desert) pub, with beer (beer in a desert. who knew?);
• travelling in a bus for most of the day and night;
• watching oldies like Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, Top Gun, Season 1 of Family Guy, The Incredibles on the tedious bus rides;
• the good friends I've made on the trip;
• watching sunsets and sunrises almost everyday;
• the plentiful star-filled night sky;
• Tuan (?) the Viet guy who always told me "Don't worry. Is okkk." His accent is tops, and he's just such a character, as is Mara, the American-Irish glue of our bus;
• and just looking at red rocks EVERYWHERE!

Home, I'm coming! And Central Oz photos will be posted later when I compile them and most possibly when I get back to Melbourne! :)