Was talking to a friend, a native Spanish speaker, who explained to me the different levels of the term, friend, more in English even, ranging from mere acquaintance to very close friend.
And when he told me that it would take him to get to know whom he calls friends for about 10 years, and knowing that I like him as well do prefer to have less but close friends rather, it struck me that being abroad, in 2 countries even so far, is sort of like this proverb, rolling stone gains no mass kind of thing, as I lost touch with old friends back home after some years passed, and in an international community, with the non-locals coming and going, even among the locals too, 'tis indeed hard to keep long-term friends.
'Tis indeed nice to do activities such as socialising in WNDC, FNDC, sports clubs, clubbing together, but I do notice that there are more of surface things in these things with very few chance of making it deeper, or am I asking too much? And what else is it out there anyway?
How do you cope with the feeling of coming home alone in an empty flat, yet you're not sure whom you can dial just to talk in times?
how do you manage your time, and yet feeling lonely??? 
where asI'm on and on and on ..... 
. One of my wish is to take short reprieve in a Buddhist temple. To clear my mind and to rejuvenate.