Thursday, February 02, 2017
Day 337:
Just caught the sunrise from above on the 3rd flight of this trip so far, 12 days in and it has been a hectic ride.
My biggest letdown was the fact that I lost my hard disk. I think it was day 4 or 5 when I first realized it's missing, but only till the last day I came to terms that it's gone for good, after all the retracing and searching. Yup. Good job to me for being the fucking muddle head that I am, to lose a fucking year's worth of valuable memories, and many many other things in it.
As angry and frustrated I am over this, I can't let it affect my life especially when I'm still travelling. It is yet another one of life's tests and this one is especially rough. Maybe I fucking deserve it after all. Not sure what's up with my luck as of late but I definitely am keen on starting off a clean slate.
Even after that incident I could still lose various stuff like my wallet (twice) and gopro, which fortunately enough my wallet was found in my friend's car, while the gopro was found after retracing my steps, couple mins after realizing that it fell out of my bag as I left the front compartment unzipped. Fully relieved that I got away with that but it's crazy how easily I'm losing my stuff, I'm so afraid of travelling right now because of that very reason.
Another unfortunate thing that happened to me in this trip is the ankle injury I've gotten in bounce, which definitely affected my entire Perth trip. My body feels pretty injured at the moment which completely sucks. Couldn't do any proper training and couldn't compete despite committing to a $518 trip all the way west to Perth. I wouldn't say it's a full waste as time spent with friends and seeing how the event actually turned out was pretty awesome, but damn it I shouldn't be injured really. First injury of the year, couldn't come at a worst time.
Despite the fact that I know injuries are so costly, sometimes I feel that are so unavoidable and you get them out of pure misfortune. I wish I stopped trying because shit mostly happens once you attempt something one too many times. But that's the hardest thing for me to do - backing out of a jump that you came so close to nailing. After 10 years I still have to work on these. My 30 days challenge would be pretty interesting. Gotta learn how to be injury free 24/7.
And my wrist hasn't fucking healed since the fall almost 6 weeks ago now. So pissed with that.
On the brighter side of things, I've been on a streak I didn't expect to be on - currently on 12 out of 12 days where I spent a part of the day soaking in the water. It has been pretty easy to stick to the streak as there are just beaches so easily accessible during my trip. Seems to me I'll try to keep this up for the rest of my trip and hopefully be much more confident to jump into waters and be fully tanned once I get back to Singapore haha.
It is not much longer tho, already the 18th of January. Spending another 4 more days in Queensland before heading up to Townsville for another 4 days then hitting my final destination in Adelaide for Natlaide, which should be the highlight of the trip if I recover and be back on form again. Then I'll spend another two weeks in Melbourne which will also be interesting, although I may have to work for a few more days to recoup all the cash I've been burning on this trip. This has to be the most I've spent on flights for a while - 1100 fucking dollars on 5 domestic flights... Could've been cheaper if I just planned and booked everything ahead, but who can commit to schedules, right?
Honestly am still jaded from the shitty incidents in this trip and I also wish to put an end to everything and head home now, but it's not quite time yet and I have to persevere on this journey before starting afresh again come 13th February.