Back to the Usual

May 12/13 (sat/sun) A long tiring weekend, since returning from Changsha I hadn't had time to relax. That Saturday, I headed out in the later morning to catch Avenger: Infinity War. Had lunch afterwards and headed down to church office for kids church worship practise. After that, I joined the worship leader's Filipino cell group that evening and returned home rather late.
On Sunday, I served for the kids church, had lunch at a nearby Japanese restaurant with my cell group. After lunch I hung out at Kushay's house and had fun playing the piano before the appointed tennis exercise. Played some tennis, after that I went to see Henry for dinner before coming home, and it had gotten quite late by then.

The following work days, it was back to the regular daily life but with a longing for a day to myself.
Tuesday(15th) night I had BSF, the rest of the weekday evening, I just stayed at home not doing very much. On Friday(18th), we had a farewell for the interns at cellgroup. I turned down watching Avenger happening on Saturday. I spent the Saturday(19th) all day at home. Didn't do much, watch some videos, played some Bloodborne and Life is Strange, also played Borderlands 2. On Sunday(20th), went to church as usual, had lunch at BenJia, went home late afternoon and played HOTS and more B2.

Thoughts: I can see again how my 2017 went by. I continue to live day to day without a goal to strive toward to. I'm just staying alive but not living. I long to leave China, I'm sick of living here, once in a while I saddened by crippling loneliness, no colleagues or peers to hang out with after work, no friends to play or hang out with. Not long now, I just need to bear with it a little longer, my Visa in the process of renewal, but I plan to leave early next year. I just need to learn to make the best out of my life here, I wish I could find a good solution though, I seem to always find myself ending up escaping reality, wasting my time again on the internet, games and tv shows. I feel like I can never find a friend like the ones I have back home.

11th May 2018

I returned from the long trip in Beijing on the 24th April. Slowly trying to readjust to normal life. I caught the movie Isle of Dogs the following weekend. Not long after my return, I left for Changsha for work from May 4th-8th. There was a mall opening there and the event consist of a few performance and a toast to the opening. Unfortunately, on the day of the show, the event had to be canceled for safety concerns as the place was too crowded. Our crew stick around till late until the mall was mostly empty, and the clients took a few photos before we closed up.