Returning Home --- Guangzhou on next Thursday.
Next Thursday, I will be leaving Melbourne , Australia, returning to my home, the home that I had been far far away most of the time in the past 8 years.
I feel like it could be very hard for me to live the life in GZ, but I believe time will help.
I do miss my family, and some old friends, and those friends i know in overseas.
Things has been changing a lot in the past 8 years in GZ, everytime I came home, I felt like a stranger,
I dont know how to cross the road, getting lost, seeing lots of new buildings, new places, new faces. However, city like melbourne, auckland they dont change much from time to time.
I don't know what the future would bring me when I return home, listening to the song "drive " from incubus gives me all the postive energy I need for my uncertain future, it says :
Sometimes, I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear
And I can't help but ask myself how much I'll let the fear
Take the wheel and steer
It's driven me before
And it seems to have a vague, haunting mass appeal
But lately I am beginning to find
That I should be the one behind the wheel
Whatever tomorrow brings
I'll be there with open arms and open eyes
Whatever tomorrow brings
I'll be there with open arms and open eyes
I will miss you a lot Melbourne!
I hope to come back one day in the future. It;s the best city I have ever lived in .
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Comment by Nelsie Geografo on October 7, 2012 at 7:34pm
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@ Yim Yim: looking forward to it :)
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Comment by Yim Yim on October 7, 2012 at 7:20pm -
@Nelsie : Thank you very much. I do hope things will get better, at least it's started from me. I m looking forward to seeing my family and friends in GZ. Maybe we could catch up with a coffee or something , you seem like a very nice person and I would love to make more foreign friends in GZ.
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@ Yim Yim: Not much I can say, and I totally agree with you. There are still some people who stick to their roots though and in my observation in our office, younger people are more open-minded. Most of them also don't agree with most stuff that's going on and try their best to correct some practices. It takes a while to change the system. But I think as long as someone tries, there's always a chance for things to get better. And a lot of people values Cantonese. it won't die soon. Apparently it's more spoken outside China as it happens. Anyway, welcome back to Guangzhou :D
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Comment by Yim Yim on October 7, 2012 at 6:45pm
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@Nelsie : Well, I think my oversea's experience does made me a more open minded person, which I have learned a lot about different cultural and people. I can understand how difficult sometimes being in a foreign country on your own, because I had been like that since I was 17, but I had made a lot of amazing friends.
I am happy to see some good change back home, but at the same time I am very upset about how those new development is killing our cultural and some historical places, this included our mother tongue language --- cantonese.
It is just sad to see people had been changed so much because of money, they lost their moral in so many ways.
Hmm I will try my best to survive there and still keep myself as a good person.
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Comment by Yim Yim on October 7, 2012 at 6:17pm
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@Sean : I agree that people does change a lot since I can remember how the people were back home.
Remember once I went back home, I was waiting to cross the intersection even though the traffic light turned green, I was a bit scare and watching the cars kept coming towards me even though the red light says stop the green light told me that I could cross the road. I saw a white guy stood right next to me, and he was very calm , went straight and cross the road very quick. I was very impressed and it makes me feel like a stranger in this city again.
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@ Yim Yim: I know what you mean. Having stayed in Guangzhou for almost 5 years, I'm quite assimilated here. My expat friends think I'm turning Chinese :P
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Comment by Yim Yim on October 7, 2012 at 6:11pm
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@Jason : I don't think I am tough enough ,but I will try my best to survive. finger cross.
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Comment by lli28021 on October 7, 2012 at 6:09pm -
Welcome to GZ
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Comment by Yim Yim on October 7, 2012 at 6:09pm
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@Nelsie: Yes, 8 years is a long time, but I did went back home several times, the longest time I stayed during the past 8 years was 6 months. but still I found it difficult to adapt the life in GZ, probably it's because I prefer the lifestyle in overseas, relax, calm , friendly people , fresh air , etc. I would definitely consider about migrating to Melbourne in the future.
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I have an officemate who lived in Melbourne, got back to Guangzhou and is still doing fine. Morethere are more foreigners now here though than I first stepped to China. It shouldn't be that bad. But 8 years! Wow! That's a long time...
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