Leaving Taiwan...

There has been talks about leaving Taiwan but how do you leave a decade of your life behind? With all the great friends and contacts you've built up over 9 years? Saying goodbye is never easy, especially for me... it's really hard for me to say goodbye to friends and Taiwan is no exception, after living here for close to 10 years, it has become more than a friend, it is my dear close friend.

Brendan is 4 now, he turns 5 next year. He should be in nursery/kindergarten but he is not as i don't really trust the schools here in Taiwan and the International schools are just too far away and i don't wanna move. For the sake of his education, i believe i have to leave Taiwan. Kindergartens aside, what about when he starts elementary school?? I can't read a word in Chinese (ok, SOME words--pork, beef, fish, chicken, noodles...) but definitely not enough to help him with his homework. Every subject is in Chinese, Math, Science, Social Studies... Dear Lord, we could be up for weeks and months and yet no homework will be done. I'll probably have to hire a tutor to come in everyday just to help him with his homework!!

The sad part is Brendan loves and misses his dad a lot but sadly, his dad doesn't feel the same about his own son. B is getting older, as a mother, i wanna prevent further hurt to my son. Why stay in a place where i have no kin at all??

Leaving Taiwan with 6 cats is NOT easy!! 1) Costly!! Very... :( It'll probably cost us at least $10,000sgd for all the cats to leave Taiwan. I've to start saving for it... 2) The next move has to be permanent? Somewhat as it's really costly to locate the cats and it won't be fair for them to be in quarantine all the time!!

How do you leave an entire decade of you life behind? What do you bring with you? It was easy to pack and relocate as a single but now with all these baggages, how do you do it?

Well... nothing is confirmed yet. Just a thought......... it could happen next year or the year after.