Well, it has been a while since I have felt comfortable taking the time to blog again. The current update is that I now once again engaged into home based software engagements. The routine is quite succombing and I have to learn a few things to get me technical things updated. I have to catch up with the phase nowadays.
When I have a chance and after things slow down here I'll be posting more regularly again.
Catch ya later.. and hasta la vista bloggers!
1. We’re almost done. We’ll finalize few things first. Eg. Glossary of business terms, Class diagrams and the Business rules. Then only may start coding the thing.
2. I was told late today, we’re going to move out into this new place again. This time, each one will have his own kitchen, bathroom, small living room and bedroom. Good because we’re near at the center of the city. Shops are nearby. Not really great shops but just some place basic goods are sold.
3. I’m struggling to learn new .net techs today. Now, really striving to master MVVM. It’s great for doing Silverlight stuff. I am now convinced this new stuff is really a good thing to do programming. I will now see things done with patterns. Something that was exactly missing during my previous years in programming.
4. I’m hungry and haven’t cooked dinner yet. Hmmm. Something just came into me! I’m going to just oven-heat some left-overs.
At the Providence, there were indeed a handful of the ‘kababayans’. Liquor is a past time here. Invited me in for dinner and enjoyed the conversations with them. Something I haven’t done in a while. At least I had a couple bottles of beer. Coming home was quite difficult. We had to call a Seselloi friend to bring me and Detoi home. He was mildly drunk.My stay in Beau Vallon, only lasted three days though. Yesterday, Wednesday, me and a Ukranian colleague, Dima were brought to check out this place that would then become our accommodation for a year or so. It was of course comfortable and safe. The situation is not near the beach though but we could just take a bus ride to the north of the island and perhaps plunge or cast a fish line.
The balcony is exactly facing east, where the sun would rise during the morning. So there’s this frequent thoughts of home and the people I left behind in exchange for this temporary solitude. I felt like an exile; thrown out from the comfort of family in exchange for an opportunity to improve our lives back home.
I usually wake-up at five or six and go directly to switch on the electric kettle. I would then pour a cup of coffee alongside oven-heated dinner’s left-over or a toasted bread on a butter spread. I adapt to eating this thing because it’s fast to prepare and am not a good cook. I would then drag myself to observe the morning hazel in the horizon. I always wonder what has been going on back home right this moment as I stare blankly into that horizon. Adding to the longing is the sight here where everywhere you look is much similar back home – especially the vegetations.
Downstairs lives a very nice couple who of course own this house. They would prefer to be called their first names like Mejee or Gerald. As I always not comfortable calling first names with people who are a lot senior to me – I occasionally calls them Mr. & Mrs. Gerald or Maam. Being Sesellois (pronounced, ‘seselwa’), they were indeed warm people with very strong and nice English accent. Good! I will polish my English here.
A little far off higher ground stood their daughter’s house who we call, Ms. Joan. She lived with her children now. And I guess a dog they call Scrappy. I’m usually amused to hear Mejee calling the dog during the morning. I would remember Srappy Coco of “You Can Not Mess with the Zohan” movie.
We even went to shop for groceries yesterday and got a taste for myself on how expensive the stocks here nowadays. Well, I’m no stranger to this situation – a lot like home too. For eight hundred Rupees, I only got stocks that’d run for almost two weeks consumption. I will post later on the details of the prices here. Besides, I will have a lot of times learning the ways of the citizens which includes coping up with the economy. :-)
During the first two weeks, we would walk our way to the office. A mile walk. So that I am wet all over by the time we get to the office. I made it a habit to take an extra shirt to avoid me getting ill. A colleague of ours, Emmanuel with his family were kind enough to have offered us a ride to bring us along to the office tough. They usually hit the road at seven thirty to bring their daughter to school.
I would remember this place. Absolutely. It may not be the best place or hotel in Seychelles but this place just made these tiny few days welcoming. Well, it’s past ten o’clock already and I’m still awake. Can’t sleep on this lonely evening actually. I kept thinking of my children, and my wife.
I think God intended me to be here – alone. So I will recognize him in a way He can only comprehend. There is an absolute peace here – right this moment. So calm. Makes you think of things makes sense alongside prayers. There was nobody to talk to now. I haven’t even got my SIM pack yet. Unable to call home. I only hear my own heart-beats. My mumblings. Only my prayers in this strange and yet peaceful place.
There were times I’ve been thinking maybe God is indeed in commune with people. He allows people, friendly people to come out so sudden in between circumstances. Like, having Mr. K K Chua occasionally eat a meal at the same time as me. He, sitting there across the dining area. Like two Asians on two different islands. Smiling. Nodding. Like he want to speak to me. Only in Chinese perhaps. He lived on the second floor on the same building as mine.
Mr. Chua is Singaporean who is on this business trip to meet with Seselois (reads, seselwa) partners and clients who he had been supplying building constructions materials for over several years now. This man is surely wealthy. He comes here every often like twice every year alone or sometimes with his family. Even invited me to call him if I happened to visit Singapore. I might. In the near future.
Dima’s place is just across the pool. These dude is mostly quite. I think this dude is cool though.
So goodbye for now. Today we were planned to move out into a new accommodation. A house near the English River. I don’t even know what that place is exactly. The day I arrived here – my boss took me there for a brief sight but it was a quick glance that I now could not remember the place. Well, let’s find out. :-)
