Home

Mostly the hardest thing about living overseas is missing all my friends and family at home.

Another friend got married and I didn't get to go. One has to be honest and admit that it wasn't a terribly close friend but I still feel the ache of missing out on it anyway. Two good friends were the bridesmaids and a whole gang of friends from the past were there too.

I guess in the end it all comes down to community. I might not see my friends all the time in Singapore, but I'd definitely see them at gatherings like this and I hate not being there. A couple of weeks ago, a friend played me this song by Michael Buble called 'Home' and I just started crying while I listened.

I'll be away for the next 3 years at least because I want to try working here and in that time, all these people I knew will get engaged, attached, married, have kids, move and do all kinds of life changing things and I won't be there. If I ever go back to Singapore, circumstances would have changed us so much that I don't know if some kind of reconnection is possible.

Trouble is that when I do go home for the holidays, I've found that my family and boyfriend demand the greater part of my time.

I guess the answer to all this is: I need to learn time management.

In the meantime, for all the friends I didn't get to see this holidays, here's a song for you. And I promise to try and see all of you guys next July.

Home by Michael Buble

Another summer day
Is come and gone away
In Paris and Rome
But I wanna go home
Mmmmmmmm

Maybe surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh I miss you, you know

And I’ve been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you
Each one a line or two
“I’m fine baby, how are you?”
Well I would send them but I know that it’s just not enough
My words were cold and flat
And you deserve more than that

Another aeroplane
Another sunny place
I’m lucky I know
But I wanna go home
Mmmm, I’ve got to go home

Let me go home
I’m just too far from where you are
I wanna come home

And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life
It’s like I just stepped outside
When everything was going right
And I know just why you could not
Come along with me
But this was not your dream
But you always believe in me

Another winter day has come
And gone away
And even Paris and Rome
And I wanna go home
Let me go home

And I’m surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel alone
Oh, let go home
Oh, I miss you, you know

Let me go home
I’ve had my run
Baby, I’m done
I gotta go home
Let me go home
It will all right
I’ll be home tonight
I’m coming back home