Back to reality

Spring hasn’t really arrived yet. The much yearned for blue sky and sunshine in spring are more often than not obliterated by heaps of dark clouds rolling past the skies of Germany coupled by some unusually low temperatures at this time of the year. Being back after my three ‘short’ weeks at home, I’m missing the warmth of tropical sun. I was hoping rather fervently, as my car arrived at the front porch, to be greeted by blooms of tulips and by the sways of narcissus. The sight was rather disappointing. I guess spring is once again waylaid by the post-winter weather.

My time at home was well-spent and was much too short. Reminiscing my holidays at home and sorting my pictures always bring around bout of homesickness that is not easy to quench (sigh). It was extremely nice meeting up with my crazy bunch of girl friends again (I really miss them a lot), catching up on news and stale gossips like we used to. Impending marriages, careers and babies dominated our conversations. Man, I can’t help thinking that we aren’t getting any younger. Despite not being able to catch up with each and everyone of them due to time constraints, I am glad knowing that everyone is looking and doing great! But the most memorable moments were spent holidaying with my parents in Taiwan, my first time actually! When I first mentioned to my German friends that I’ll be holidaying with my parents, most of them had this “you’re-kidding-me-right?”-look on their face. I think it is rather unheard of going on a holiday with the parents in this part of the world but to me, I was really happy to spend as much time with them as possible (although it can be quite stressful at times ) .