First Step

i started school today.

i meant i went back to school as a student, again,
in another angmoh uni (now Melb Uni, then UCL) some 1 decade apart.

enrolling in something different (Global Communications and Media rather than anything to do with art or education), landing with 4 undergrad modules (it's a 'Graduate Certficate' 1 sem course, leading to a Masters, provided i do well...i liken it to be a COE of sorts) and surrounding meself with 20-something young looking people.

in the past months, i've said byebye to......

• comfy monthly salary & total systemic coverage (ie all the convenience of automated taxation & bitesize healthcare benefits) from Big Brother
  
• negative ions from The Spinelesses
  
• support from my dearest folks
• hugs & kisses from friends & colleagues
• perspiration from the balmy tropics
  

and landed in wintry Melb with Wife & BB.
i'd since spent a 2 month 'holiday' setting up base on the fringe of Melb's city centre, washing, marketing, cooking, cleaning and watching BB growing up little by little. maybe i should have done more but perhaps what was mundane and 'less' is so much 'more'.

so its time to start moving forward into the unknown and today i'd taken a first step, again, in a long while.