Are you lonesome tonight? Are you queasy tonight?

Ever since I moved to NZ, my body is still trying to recover from the shock of the sudden change in environment. After 2 year being here, I still feel disoriented sometimes when I travel around. Although physically I am in southern hemisphere but my body seem to have mind of its own and thinks that it still inhabits in the north.

My biological clock seems to be in disarray and still confused with the time zones (shall I call it the extended jet lag?). I lose more body heat than accumulating it and despite I ate ferociously like tiny squirrels, my body gets cold easily because I have little body fat.

Another thing I found out is I became more prone to motion sickness (the last I had was more than 20 years ago). Take today for example, I was all settled in the car with my colleague heading back home after a meeting in Auckland. I was in the car not very long and suddenly feeling very weird. My eyes started to water and I kept yawning continuously for no reason. This then followed by dizziness, churning feeling in the gut and ended with a headache. Luckily, I did not puke in the car. The same thing happens when I traveled in express buses and planes and this is creating quite a nuisance because now I have to bring along anti motion sickness remedies (enough to cure the whole town) wherever I go.

I think it must be something to do with the way people drive their vehicles in NZ. Perhaps, I am not the problem after all…