I have been back to my hometown, Penang, Malaysia for a couple of weeks now and its been a weird transition for me. Although it has been just 4 months i am in the states, but i found Malaysia to be a very strange place for me, maybe its due to the culture shock of coming home, some would say “reverse culture shock”. To be honest, I had forgotten so much about Malaysia, but more on that ,i found the concept of coming home become strange.
So why i mentioned coming home becomes strange, its because i never travel abroad for longer than a week or 2 at a time. Its such a difficulty for me to put into words, to describe it. Being home and seeing all those faces, buildings and i somehow realized that my entire life is more different now, i am transitioning. Somehow, i am able to view things through different perspectives, not necessary better but it somehow changed.
I couldnt tell you how much i miss the states, the people, i mean some of the people, the way they communicate, but most importantly are their American culture. I found that early when i just arrived at San Francisco, i was probably just ordering some juices from a store which i could recall the name, lets just say JuiceFactory. As i was paying, the cashier casually asked, “hey , how your day going?”,”nice weather today huh” stuff like that, i did a double take” i was like ermm, pretty good.”and i was wondered why she asking me those kind of thing. I have never encounter those “greetings” i would say in my hometown. As i spent more time on the states, i started to realize that making a small talk to strangers around is perfectly normal thing to do. It is forcing myself to talk more to strangers( you know we dont usually do that in Malaysia, i mean we WONT) and slowly adjust to both American Cultures and learn more about Americans as well.
Kind of lazy to continue writing , so i will post a photo below and continue writing next time ,more to come ! stay tunes
Lombard ST, San Francisco. 13th Dec
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