Because sleep seems to be eluding me...

Lately I found myself wondering how life was before the advent of emails, blogs, online social networks, video streaming, forums, chat portals, wiki... you know, the worldwideweb. How did I keep in touch with friends and family? What did I do with my free time? How did I entertain myself?
Then I faintly recall writing snail mails, keeping a diary (hard-copy), hogging the house phone, watching tv, looking things up in dictionaries, enclycopedias... Ha, those were the days eh?

Today's Pentecost and a public holiday in Germany, a few friends and I had planned to cycle to a nearby lake today but because of the rainy weather in the morning, that had to be dropped. Then when the sun looked like it decided to show its face in the afternoon, we made another plan to go to the campfire site we were at in winter to do a bbq later in the evening but as April's weather goes (The saying in German goes: 'April, April – der macht was er will'), dark stormy clouds started gathering and it started pouring so that was cancelled too. :(

The feta cheese we prepared for the grill (1 with olives, some light green paprika, garlic, herbs, pepper, olive oil, the other with onions, small cubes of smoked bacon, herbs. Were yummy!) was baked in the oven along with some bread for dinner and we watched some slamdunk and 'Big bang theory' online.

I managed to study a little, napped, and lazed around for the most part (learnt how to make a pizza base; that's for tomorrow's dinner). It was nice doing nothing for a day. Even though I had really looked forward to going outside. Maybe Sat, the weather forcast looks promising. *crosses fingers*

But just now as I was browsing through Facebook and saw the lovely pictures some ex-colleagues posted, I felt so far away from my old friends and home. It seemed as if people moved on and I'd been running on a treadmill, on the same spot. And that when I go back everything will be different and people would have forgotten me. :( I question whether I would have been better off if I'd never left the old life back there?

Although I know I should not be whinging because I have been blessed with meeting really nice people here and other than being totally shitty at studying, other things have been quite enjoyable.

But I cant help missing the place which I call home and the people who make it home. :(

I should try to find zhou gong, have a longish day in school tomorrow. Gute nacht.