A Love Affair with Sydney

Photo by: Ronnie Alonzo. Taken inside an airplane prior to landing

It has always been a back and forth trip between Sydney and the Philippines. For starters, let me give a time-line on this relationship of mine...

December 1983 - It was my first trip overseas and my first visit to Sydney, Australia. Little did I know know that it would be the start of a lifelong love affair.

December 1985 - Old playmates were a little bit grown up and my cousin and her family just migrated to Sydney. It was in this trip that I decided to take my father's suggestion of taking my high school studies in good old Sydney.

February 1988 - I flew back to start my high school. In between Years 7 - 12 were holidays back in the Philippines.

March 1994 - It was off to the Philippines for University studies. Sydney and I wouldn't be reunited until 10 years after.

November 2004 - It was back to Sydney in the hopes of securing a better and stable future. It fell short of 2 years as 2006 marked the death of my father and I had to go back to the Philippines.

June 2012 - Back to Sydney and this time I rekindle an old relationship which I hope will last for good.

Sydney, honey, I'm home!