Temporary Change of Venue

My parents have gone to China for the weekend, they took a few days off to go relax there and shop (or at least that's what my mum will be doing). Dad's prolly gonna go walking around to find some market and observe the different culture there. I like doing that too, but I usually find myself doing it on my own. Weird. 

Anyway I'm staying at my aunt's house for the weekend, my parents don't trust me enough to leave me home alone for a few days. 

I can understand their worry, but come now, it's not as if I'll be throwing mad parties and all. Knowing the person I am, I'll prolly just wind up on Tumblr and watching movies till 3am because there finally isn't someone to yell at me for staying up so late.

I was really upset about having to stay with my aunt, because I don't like her house - it's dusty and dirty and messy and doesn't feel loved. It's not like my room, where it's messy enough but still feels comforting enough to me. 

It isn't comforting here because it's a familiar place, but it's not my home. The bed I'm crashing on isn't the same bed I usually crash on, and the walls don't have all the pictures I painstakingly saved and printed and cut and put up.

It's not comforting, but it's okay. My aunt lives alone, and having only two people in house leads to plenty of silence. 

I find that I don't really mind, funny enough. I may not be a very quiet person, but I'm quiet enough to fully appreciate silence. 

And while she's on the computer outside, I'm hacking away at this blog post on my phone. It feels pretty okay to know that this silence is slightly awkward but all the same slightly familiar.

I'm not too close to my aunt, and I miss my room (it sucks to know that it's so close and yet so far) but it's pretty okay.

I was convinced that this weekend was going to suck, but well, it's only the first night. I've got till Monday night to decide if this really sucked balls or not. 

I asked Tish to keep me company the whole weekend, because I can't bear to be cooped up in here all day. She's busy with work though (I'm wondering if it would have been a better idea to somehow volunteer for the weekend shift, I could probably (hopefully) have helped with the bulletins) and so I'll only be meeting her in the evening. 

Well, I'll do what I like to do then, be a tourist in my own country. It's fun if you do it every once in a while, so I'll probably head out to the Singapore river and people-watch. Or go someplace else, who knows. 

I've got all day after all.

I'm going to end this post here, I'm strangely tired even though it's so early. Time to get used to sleeping in someone else's bed (oh, that can go so many ways...)

お休みなさい、みんなさん!