The first move was big and it wasn't initiated by me. It was when my family moved to Edmonton, Canada from Hong Kong.
The second move was significant in my life when I moved back to Hong Kong by choice and on my own.
Then I began to move from one flat to another.
I moved from a room in a hospital staff quarter offered by a friend to a room rented by my sister's friend.
Then I moved from my sister's friend's room to our family's old house in To Kwa Wan.
Then I moved from To Kwa Wan to Lam Tin.
And from Lam Tin to Discovery Bay where I lived a few special years of my life.
I moved a few times within Discovery Bay too: From Costa Court to Vista Court to La Serene to Bay View.
Then I moved out the island to mid-levels.
And from mid-levels to the New Territories.
Once I went to see a fortune-teller who looked at my "book of life". Without asking any particular questions, he just 'read' me and told me that I belong to Water and the kind that moves (like a river or sea as opposed to dead water like a pond). He said it's my nature to move from one place to another - be it my home, my jobs or the intuition to travel.
It's the first time I heard someone tell me why I do something in a certain way. And for some reasons, I find it soothing to hear that.
I wonder if I carry the blood of the 30-40 million nomads in the world, or not.
But I feel no root in a place, and my home is the wind.
