December 2025

I’m currently living in Milsons Point. One of the best places to reside in Sydney. You’re overlooking the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge across the water, just ten minutes away by train or ferry. On quiet evenings, I take a stroll along the waterside as the sun passes the horizon, and take in the magnitude of the breathtaking skyglow that surrounds me. I never get tired of the panoramic view. I wonder if I would feel the same living at a beach. It makes me appreciate living in Sydney, that I’ve slowly grown to love but had once despised.

During these walks, I take pride of being a Milsons Point local as I witness how happy the tourists are, usually families or tour groups, taking photos and experiencing the same view as I do.

“If only I could share this experience with someone else”

I’ve been spending more time alone since moving back earlier this year from Japan. And frankly, I like being alone. I’ve started to enjoy my own company, something that has never occurred to me before. But living alone, as freeing as it sounds and it truly is, will magnify your inner thoughts. Other than music and the occasional birdsong of Rainbow Lorikeets, the silence is filled with the windmills of my mind, bouncing off the white walls in my home but never finding rest.

Living alone and spending more time alone feels so good that it starts to become an aversion to social outings, eventually reaching the point where you become a hostage to your own thoughts, inviting isolation into your life.

I don’t have the answer to finding the right balance between wanting to be alone and wanting to seek social connections, and that’s okay. Perhaps I’m in the season of recharge, or this is the new me, or I’m going through things in life. I’m grateful that I have people around me that genuinely care about my wellbeing, that will keep me from being led (a)stray.

And of course, how can I ever forget about Building Memorii, my raison d’être.

I end my post here as I look outside the window — it’s dusk already! Time to head outside, and take in the world that surrounds me. Feeling at peace.