winny teh's tale: April 2013

He-llo!

The past five days of Easter break have been about a (mental) visit to my hometown. The reason being a hometown friend from Melbourne flew over the state and came for a food, places, and people trip; in which I was in the role of being both the trip guide and companion. I call it a mental visit to my hometown (I am physically here) mainly because most of the people she and I hang out with during her stay were hometown friends, therefore hometown memories and stories are revisited and shared.

It was not long ago -barely a month- since I last returned from my stay in hometown for summer holidays, and I have set my focus back to the university life I have here instead of constantly recalling the holiday mood. But these days during her stay I've been not only updated with the current life stories of my hometown people, but also reminiscing the past blue and bright days my life was once filled with. Nostalgia should explain the event well; which also occurs to me now that it has become my new favourite hobby. Coining from how Tavi Gevinson defines the term: This is when the act of remembering an event becomes more enjoyable than the event itself, conjuring feelings that are warm and fuzzy, but also painful in the best way.

I have a habit of examining why/what makes the feeling of the after-effect of an event, or in other words what makes me feel gloomy, happy, sad, all the emotions during the happening of an event or after the event has ended. The positive emotions I have felt the past few days must be the result of the event of togetherness I have lost contact with for a while. Moreover the people I met up with belonged to some pages in my high school chapters.. even the Melbournian herself. It took me one night to open up the chapters in the previous two books (years), and without doubt the most-filled chapters in my life.

To sum up, I have finished my Easter tour around Sydney as my friend has left the town this early morning. And I sure hope she had a whale of time like I did with her and other companions.