noreply@blogger.com (manda) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:55:00 +0000

It's interesting. Blatant curiousity of the compatibilty of my beloved site with my iPhone browser has brought me back.

Seemingly from the dead.

It would seem as though I've outgrown irky.net but I know it's not like that. Even though you don't have as much time for something anymore doesn't mean you forget and move on.

I suppose I had my apprehensions about this year and the events that have unfolded. But looking back, it really was all for the best, and I couldn't imagine things any other way. I can say I have had an awesome 2008. I am so so happy and I'm surrounded by great people.I can't remember the last time I've felt this way which I guess makes this more special.

I'm more than ready for year 23. Glandular fever/whooping cough/pneumonia and all.

xoxo

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noreply@blogger.com (manda) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:45:00 +0000

It's been a long time hasn't it?

I would have said it's been too long, but I think it was a good little hiatus. It is possible to honestly say I have left a lot of that behind. New slate and all that. It's been 5 months since my last post, and everything is so different.

Firstly, I'm on the other side of the world, doing something I completely did not expect to be doing. Secondly, a number of people who were influentual in my life then are no longer the people in my life now.

Everything I had planned for the second half of the year has been tossed out. Similarly, everything I had in mind for this site no longer seems relevant.

Three and a half months ago, if you told me what I'd be doing now, I would have laughed. Quite possibly have even scoffed at the thought. Right now, the next 6 to 8 months are uncertain for me and where I go from here all hinges on the next few weeks. & if anything, I have seen how significantly plans for the next year can change in the matter of days. I don't just mean myself either, a lot of people's lives on this project have been uprooted and redirected.

I honestly found the first month in Munich a bit hard to adjust and settle in properly to life over here. But after being home for the week and coming back, Munich is now like a second home for me. I know I was in Beijing for 3 weeks, but it was short. I knew I would be getting out of there and never had to settle in properly. It's a bit daunting to say, hey you're going to be here for half a year so it's time to make friends with work colleagues as you'll be spending over 100 hours a week with them, just get some food at your favourite restaurants, hang out, grab a coffee, go out with 'friends' etc.

I never knew things as simple as what time places close, travel distances and living out a suitcase in a hotel would have such an impact on my lifestyle. This has to be the hardest part.

& now my lifestyle has changed, my Sydney lifestyle seems so very foreign and different. I look back at my friends in Sydney and wonder how different our lives are. & hope that it will be easier to switch back, if I ever can.

!RKY [reloaded]

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