Flashback...

Well...not in THAT sense lar...

Was just looking at the pictures I took when I went back home and came to the ones that I took of our new house. (Technically it's my parents' new house since I don't exactly live there anymore. *sob*)

Everything was so unfamiliar to me. Even the route back home. Drove on a different road towards a different direction from the past 20 years. (I can't believe that I have actually lived in the same place for 20 years already!!!) Didn't know where everything was, had no idea what we have at home, and had no keys to the house anymore. (This is the worst part, man! I ALWAYS had keys to the house!!!) They've sold one of the cars as well...so that means I always have to make sure that I have a car before I make any plans at night.

There're loads more new places in BP that I've never been to before. The area around Jalan Tan Swee Hoe and Convent used to be just made of up trees and grass. But now it's all full of shops and bustling with life even at night. We've got a BP mall in addition to the Summit, and countless other restaurants that we never had before. (OK...it might still be a far cry from KL but then...I think it's pretty good for BP's standards already.)

People have changed so much. How they look like, what they're doing, and where they're going. And we say this every year, but I'm going to say it again. The crowd we get around Chinese New Year just gets smaller and smaller each year. This year, it's almost non-existent (except for Grace, RueyJiun and me). The same goes for our yumcha sessions.

And I've only been away for 18 months. Come to think of it, it's not that long. But it's not that short either. The only difference is I've never realised changes can come so quickly in one place and you'd never have felt it that much if you were always there.

The same thing goes for me, I don't feel like I've changed a lot, but then I got a lot of weird stares when I was out back home, as if I'm foreign. As in not from BP. At the customs as well, both Singapore and KL. One thought I was a tourist from far away and another wondered if I could speak BM.

*sigh*

Wonder how much BP will change when I go back the next time.