End of Summer and Autumn begins

Say goodbye to this year’s summer and welcome the cold autumn. Anyway this year’s summer was not that great, it was sunny but sometimes it was very cold. Autumn starts on the 21st of september here in Belgium, its when leaves dry and fall and most of the trees will go naked and everything will look dull and gray.

After living in asia for a couple of years I almost forgot whats the weather like here, in Belgium. It’s getting colder and cloudier each day. I had to put on thicker clothes everytime I leave the house to work and today its raining and I’m sure it will continue raining much longer as winter is just around the corner.

At least now my wife has something to shop for, to get herself ready for the winter. My wife didn’t complain about the rain yet, I bet she likes the rain more than I do, but once in a while she does complain about the temperature. It must be pretty cold for her now and she must be wondering what would it be like when the winter comes. She told me that she’s looking forward to the winter hopefully there would be some snow falling, it would be nice for her to see the snow and feel it for the first time in her life.

As for me, at least the weather reminds me where I came from and to be honest I’m glad to be home with my wife to show her the ground where I grew up and what my culture is all about.

My Wife's Cultureshock Experience

It’s been more then a month now since I’ve moved back to Belgium with my wife who’s from Singapore. She is homesick and looks sad most of the time, she doesn’t want to leave the apartment on her own even to the shop, she would rather wait for me to come back from work.

When I First met her, she was living and working in Thailand. She had lived there for almost three years all by herself and she told me before that she loved to be away from home.

Well, I guess Thailand is not that far from Singapore, it’s only about 1 and half hour journey to Singapore by flight and she could even travel by bus to Singapore which only cost about $50 Sin dollar.

It’s a bit different here in Belgium, as it is thousands of miles away from Singapore and the cost of a flight is much more expensive, so she can’t just go home to see her family whenever she want to.

Thailand is still part of south east asia while Belgium is in Europe, the environment is so much different including the weather, maybe I should give her more time to settle down getting used to her new surrounding.

I’m a bit worried about my wife, wish I could do something to ocupy her time. I guess signing her up for a dutch class or even french class would do her good so she would make friends and get out more often. I really hope she would be more happy in few months time.

After all my travels I know it’s sometimes hard to adjust to a new culture and lifestyle, but I know my wife is a strong woman and she will find her way here in cold, cold Belgium.

Rain Is Falling

Still here in cold Belgium.

Six more days and we have our own appartment.
The first of September I also start working.
We hope to have everything sorted out by the end of next week.

We are still looking for good places to eat but soon we can prepare our own meals, looking forward to eat some spicy curry!

And while the weather takes a big turn here every 10 minutes and we experience the four seasons in one day, we here that it rains almost every day Singapore.

I almost start thinking that Singapore is crying for us.

No Maggi Noodles here in Belgium, so we might order a case to be send to us.

Miss you Singapore.

Cold Belgium

After more then three and a half years finally landed again in Belgium.

After such a long time it was a bit of a shock and freezing cold!

It is the first time for my wife and she quite excited.

It is a lot of adjusting but we will manage.

We wont be in Singapore for a while but we know that we will return next year.

For now I wish all the best to all the people we met in Singapore.

Greetings from Belgium.

Lazy Sunday

Spend most of my time today chilling in bed. The cause: Hangover day!
We went to a Chinese wedding last night and the wine came at a regular pace.
Like always I was the quite type and as always I started to loosen up after a few glasses of alcohol.
I guess thats what alcohol does to me, It makes me relax, not like with other people who get aggressive from it.
Same story with my wife,quite at first but after a few glasses she loosens up as well.
So it more or less ended up with two funny people on a table and today two people with a hangover in bed.
Life is more than fair isn't it!!!