[1st post] El-wood, St Kilda

right, so here is where I begin... my journey in writing. I asked myself, why write, why now? I guess all those years of moving, of packing and unpacking, of making and losing relationships, of building new friendships and letting go of old ones. My reflections and memories of life it seems so important to just let them lose along within the fragments of time, till they will indeed, one day become just a faded figment of memory... or just an imagination. Most importantly, I write to remember the core of my soul, to remember that I once came from a the mineral rich land (tanah laterit) of Malaysia, where my blood runs within its soil (tanah tumpahnya darahku). Yet, my perspectives are splashed with the quirkiness of Melbourne because she has since etched herself to part of my soul. In my own kooky way, I guess I will write through a pair of Melburnian's eyes from a Malaysian lass's heart.

23.2.10 @ 10:42pm We have now been living in Elwood for close to 3 weeks now. It's a gorgeous area, with atypical, very alternative crowd. I love the walks to St Kilda beach which takes me only about 20 mins, depending on my walking pace, obviously. Though, I do miss the massive green-ous space in Parkville and the convenient walks to the parks and work. But, ah well life goes on, as the good book says. Its summer still, so the sun is as gorgeous, although the fickleness of the weather is very much a blow to my day before attire planning! Shakespeare would have made a finite comparison of the women's temperament in his sonnet to the Melbourne weather.

So, there goes. Alas, I do have some attire planning to do tonight. There are back to back meetings tomorrow, seeing that the State's election is coming up soon and ah, politicians are trying to get into our good books. But, more about that later. Goodnight.

Signs off,
xx eli