Bliss

These past nine days have been bliss. Being with John always is. :)

Usually whenever we are together the first place we tend to gravitate to is the city. We love the food, the shops and the sights and sounds of city living. This time however, we chose to avoid the city as much as possible because of the threat of swine flu. Victoria has acquired the dubious honour as Australia's swine flu central with a total of 874 cases as of Friday.

Instead of heading in to the city, we have been exploring places we seldom frequent like Chadstone Shopping Centre and Camberwell Junction. We even went to watch Star Trek. Loved it. :) I just watched Terminator Salvation yesterday and I can tell you that I definitely enjoyed Star Trek more. Can't wait for the new Transformers movie. The trailer looks awesome!

Other things John and I did include going on a ferris wheel ride, going to Victoria Market, shopping for baby items for my nephew and niece and hanging out with Dennis, Li Zie and Joshua.

I was a bit on the mopey side after seeing John off at the airport yesterday morning. It takes me at least a day to get over the emo mopey feeling. On the other hand, we know that we are blessed. We only have roughly six to eight more months till we are done with our 3 years of long distance. This is in camparison with my parents who were in a long distance relationship for 6 years. A three minute phone call to mom used to cost dad $6. That was half a day's wage at the time so they depended mainly on snail mail and had to resort to numbering their letters to know if a letter had gone astray.

Couples in long distance relationships today are extraordinarily blessed. We have mobile phones, relatively cheap international call cards, MSN, Skype, Friendster, Facebook, Twitter, email, webcams in addition to the traditional snail mail. Plus relatively affordable airfares are making a huge difference. :) Nothing beats face-to-face conversations.