So I’ve decided to stay in NYC. Heh, not one of my favourite choices, but from a career advancement, experience point of view, there is no denying that it is the right choice. My boss here has offered a year’s commitment to work before going back to Melbourne and he understands how I feel and where my feeling lean to. The decision wasn’t easy, having to be away from Vyanne for a year, and just leaving everything I’m familiar with behind. I wasn’t particularly keen on it when I made it, heh, but I can accept it.

It’s been a month plus, I’ve met quite a number of people and have always made an impact on introduction, since I’m from halfway across the globe. Heh, I still don’t find myself the socialising kind, as knowing little about someone just reduces me to a bystander role listening in on other people’s conversations.

My mind’s been on edge of late. So many things going through my mind. Heh, work is challenging now as it’s really about personal initiative. I’m doing a part finance, part IT role and the former part I’m picking up slowly, the latter part I’m familiar with but it’s more about digging into the slightly more advanced programming concepts to get things to work.

How am I feeling now? Not too sure, a little detached from everything. Listening to Beethoven’s 5th and 9th symphonies (dug these out from Wikipedia) as they remind me of a simpler point in time when life just revolved around schooling and passing exams. The familiarity is soothing and takes my mind away from everything else.

Have August to look forward to, going home to visit family and Melbourne to see Vyanne and friends. A year isn’t long when you are busy just trying to go about things. It will feel long as there will be new things to learn and so many new experiences (which can tire you out sometimes). Heh, change is something I’m not terribly comfortable with but it’s something I’m willing to accommodate if it means improving things around us. The world is just too big to stand idly by.