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Autumn has comin' to town!



My very first autumn! Never felt four-season before...and here I am experiencing it for the very first time! and I'm about 12,000 km away from home... Really miss home. But it's not that long, only a year, and maybe someday i'll be missing this place and (maybe) the people... and this is actually what i've been dreaming of since I was a child. I even can say, this is my dream-land. (But sometimes dreams weren't as REAL as reality). And perhaps the place I cursed now would be the place that I'll definitely called "paradise" (?) in imperfect world of mine.




atleast my dream just came true! i was in liverpool! finally!!



And I just knew that they have this winter time period (as British Summer Time ends) on October 30, they set back the time one hour. Not only the British set the point zero of the world's time, they also can set back time! Amazing. So, each year on October 30 they have 25 hours on a day... but on latter time on March, as the BST started again, they will only have 23 hours on that day.. Kinda peculiar, just as peculiar as the weather here--changed every minute, literally! And maybe that's why the Brits really hold this strange-gloomy aura... And some even not being very welcome to foreigner. But maybe it's just my thought....Or maybe it's just my outfit...I dunno. Hmmm...

Other things I experienced here are: I met some nice people (most of 'em are Asians, the nicest is a Philipino ^ ^) and I also lost some people I (at the beginning) thought that I can rely on to. Yeah, you can never tell which ones are your truest companion--not without a test. And maybe a test of living in a strange place and not really fulfilled mutual expectations lead me to different paths with those people. Such a shame, remembering maybe at some point (when I come back home) I'll be working on the same organization as they, but not particularly the same team. It's not good when you know you from the same place, even a same institution but you don't grow quite well to each other, and even drawn further apart. And it's not just my imagination, it's actually happening. And unlike the British, I really can't turn back time, especially to when things were ok.
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