Trip ko to'

Friday, April 21, 2006

I really enjoyed Australia. Well just enough for me to want to actually live or even migrate there. I was looking forward to this year's summer or Holy Week trip to Australia because I've never been there but I wasn't really expecting much though. All I wanted was just to have a long break from work - anything just to get away. It turned out to be one of the trips that topped my favorites list. Australia was all positive vibes - place and people alike. It was all good. What I liked most is how everything is so laid back and how they have their "own" thing going on. I mean, I can barely see and feel any traces of Western or European influence around. As of the moment, Australia is the place to be - at least for me, that is. I don't care if the place is potentially boring as some may say or if shops close at 5pm. Really it's true. No kidding, they even close at 4pm on weekends! If only I could, I'd really want to try it out there for a couple of months or so. I'm actually contemplating on finding work in Australia. That is, if I get lucky. Also, I still have an existing contract until the end of February of next year so I guess I'll just have to wait and see until then. Nothing's definite yet though, I'll have to reconsider whatever options that I have next year. Hopefully, I won't chicken out when the time comes. I have this bad habit of getting cold feet especially on extra special or unusual occasions when I need to step up big time. I'd usually choose or take the easy way out as I'm quite comfortably used to how (or the way) things are already that when change presents itself, I get all shaken up. It's funny though how I often think about change but would end up getting cold feet when the opportunity of change comes knocking at my door. Sometimes I admittedly need to put in a whole lot more of effort in the things that I do. I need to push myself a little more to go the extra mile. I also think now is the best time to try, discover and experience something new and different. There's no better time than now. I'm not getting any younger anymore. I guess if I really want to make things happen, I'll have to really follow through. The culture will surely be different. The people, I wouldn't know for sure. Everyone has been fairly nice and pleasant though (except for this Mr. Russell Hilary - well he's been taken cared of by now, I'm pretty sure his superior would've already read what we had to say on their comments sheet heehee!). I know it wouldn't be all easy and fun. I would definitely need a great deal of time to adjust and blend in to the people and their way of life. After all, I've only stayed there for a couple of weeks and I was on vacation at that so I wouldn't really know how the real life in Australia would be like. Who knows, I may even want to go back to Manila after a while. Going into the unknown can be exciting, scary and difficult all at the same time but you wouldn't really know for sure, right? Sometimes you've got to take chances, you've got to take risks to know and figure things out for yourself. Whether you stumble, you fall and you get hurt, at the end of the day you just have to dust off the dirt, pick up the pieces, get up and move on. It ain't easy but it's not impossible either.