Back home
It is peaceful. There's no one in the house. Shyam had to go to office. The kids went to play down and I am at home with the yellow lights on, there is not a noise but that of my typing. Outside sunset has happened, the evening sky is dark blue, the lights of the building are slowly switching on and it is soooo quiet. Most people probably are on summer vacation still. But I love this solitude and quiet. I dont want to hear even music, just me and this quietness - yes, home is beautiful too :)
Yes, this seems a new HK to me - all my illusions may vanish tomorrow, but who cares. Today it is there, today it is real. I can feel the night descending on the city - the sound of that is audible to me today, it is not covered up in the noise of phonecalls, talking to friends, arranging playdates, TVs, going to dinners.....today I can watch the sky turning from blue to deeper blue and then darker till it goes black. The lights in my room become brighter, the birds slowly return to the bunch of trees down there....
Lovely.
End of Germany
17 days which started so slow and which flew by so fast. I am sitting in Berlin on a super big iMac and wondering what lies ahead.....I am not sure whether the thought of HongKong and home is welcoming to me or do I want a change again. I am so happy with this vacation....it seemed to crawl and then changed gear :) I loved the Beethoven Haus in Bonn. The music and the ambience(I cant seem to pronounce it in English anymore!) was so fitting. And that sunset on the Rhine in Koblenz, the few moments in Schwangau looking at the instrument that Richard Wagner held years back, the beautiful cute university town of Heidelberg and the heat of Bingen am Rhein...completely sunburnt in the whole vacation(38deg!!), the underground tunnels of that Burg....yes, I want to remember those moments.
I have to go back now.
Sunset
Yess, the sun has set for today! We will go tonight to Germany....I want to go anywhere as long as I can get away from HK. No matter how beautiful the blue skies of HK are for the last 3 days, how lovely the white clouds - I have to get away, I have to forget all its beauty, its rainshowers. I hope when I come back HK looks different to me - after all it is in my eyes, isn't it? I hope the air is clear and I can breathe, I can live again.
Cups of tea, Packing and Friends
all three of them have no apparent linkage - except I drank 20 cups of tea today while packing, taking printouts of google map of places in Germany we are visiting and watching Friends in between. Little wonder I cannot sleep even though it's past midnight.
Sometimes the humour of Friends bored me and yet I couldn't stop because it kept other thoughts at bay. Shyam got me 2 roses(whoa!) - I am sure he was hoping for less of Friends floating in our living room - didnt happen :)
It is weird, sometimes I feel the excitement of the trip coming ahead and then I just blank out into that 'no-feeling-zone' where I just want to sit in my living room sofa and not do anything. Hmm, which vacation am I looking forward to?
