don't know when I'll be back again ....
Yeps ... I'm returning home to Singapore this coming friday ....
the past few years has been an interesting and exciting odyssey for
me ....
I've camped in below freezing temperatures, got caught in a snow
storm, survived -59 celcius weather, got drunk in a cowboy bar,
experienced a working farm complete with warm cow patties, had run
ins with flower children, memonites, red necks, rig pigs and biker
gangs, drug dealers, welfare bums, vietnamese gangs, korean gangs,
indian gangs, hell riders ... as well as kind and warm and gracious
people whose kindness towards me canceled out all the pricks ...
people who'd invited a lonely foreign young man into their homes
during thanks giving and christmas, who guided me and helped me
navigate a foreign land when I first came here ... and the assorted
friends who has crossed my path here, Sudanese refugees still
bearing the scars of their country, chinese dissidents, and chinese
princelings, the swedish and german exchange students, the farmboys
geniuses who've never left saskatchwan in their lives ... the
cranky leftist pot smoking arts profs, the ladies whom I met, in
german class, in calculus 221, in geology lab, my student in cmpt
111 tutorial, at the residence, at alexander's bar, at the Pat's,
at the overdrive, and the hose and hydrant, in the natural science
library, in the arts library, in comm 205, cmpt 405, and my TA in
geol 211 ... fond memories all ... thank you ...
I caught trout, walleyes, perch, whitefish, pike ... witnessed
auroras, ran over a deer (don't ask) ... ran over countless gophers
(gopher suicides) ... swam in an icy lake, tanned on a nude beach
(don't imagine it) ... survived a run in with a black bear ...
trekked in the rockies, wandered around the coves of the pacific
northwest, and the rolling prairies and fields golden with canola
and wheat ... heard the wolves and the loons cry at night, got my
piece of parchment, got a job .... got to see the best and worst of
Canada, of humanity ...
and ..... as I feel that it's only appropriate that a mod of this
particular forum be based overseas as well, I'll be stepping down
shortly after .... to make way for
Jetta ! ..... 
*applause ! ... *confetti ! ........ 
