Hi blog, I've forsaken you to the bowels of the web. But no longer, I pledge thee.

Slightly more than a month has passed and so much has changed. For so many of us, Melbourne will cease to be the present. And in the midst of all the goodbyes and the moving on, we realise that change is the only constant. Utterly cliche but so very true. What the future holds, we'd never know, all we know is right now, today, we have a birthday / farewell dinner and, hopefully, few tears.

For me, Melbourne will fade into a cherished memory come Oct. By a stroke of luck and the blessing of a higher power, I managed to gather enough funds to not only buy another return ticket between Melbourne and Singapore, but also stay on comfortably between the time my student visa expires till Oct. Expenses include Sydney and maybe another mini trip somewhere a drive away.

The end of Melbourne for me will mean a lot of conclusions, and hopefully there will be sufficient warm hello, again back home to counter the previous chapter's closure.