
The picture below was taken on 19th February 2000 at Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 2. Last year, the first time I leave for
Adelaide, I did not take any photos because I know I was going to be sad. But this time, I know I am able to take it and snapped a few photos with my family, relatives and friends.
I specificly told all my friends not to send me off in 1999, but in 2000, all my friends sent me off. I guess I know how to cope with goodbyes better in 2000. Maybe...
I am happy my family always sent me off everytime I go off overseas.

My family is important to me. I owe a lot to my parents for bringing me up and giving me the choice to pursue my life the way I would like it to be pursued. Family is the identity that tells me who I am, amist the whole complicated world, where people are striving to be a somebody.
I know my family knows me because they have seen me grow up to where I am right now and they love me no matter what faults I have because I am me. And I love them back the way they love me, maybe more because they are mine, and they only belong me. My parents never tell me specificly who or what I should be when I am older, they guide me and trust me and they know that I will make a just decision in whatever I choose. I know they love and trust me because they know they have made a rational adult out of me, a thinking adult one who will weigh the pros and cons before taking the leap.
And I am very proud of my parents and my family for their unconditioned love, in their own mysterious ways, not necessarily saying 'I love you', but in small minute things that they do, to make me feel that I am part of them, wherever I am. I will try my best to make them proud of me that's the only way I can thank them as there are no monetary value in a parents' love. One day, I hope I can feel the same pride, they way my parents did, when I have a family of my own.