Short-lived escape

Although i've been back just three days really, i feel so seeped into familiarity here already that it feels almost like i haven't left at all. Now looking at the pictures its a nice fuzzy reminder of every moment spent :)

There's only so long we could stay in a place like california, where everything seems to take on a sort of dreamy sun-dozed feel. I wish i could snap my fingers and go right back to santa monica and run on the cold cold sand with dee every time something i don't feel like dealing with takes shape here at home. But i can't, now my vacation is truly over. And now i'm starting to miss everything so much more, stuffing my face with cheetos, beef jerky; and i miss pris su and our late night chit chats.. most of all i guess i miss being able to not address things right away because of the huge distance in between and the 16 hour time difference with reality. Grr!

No place like Singapore!

I'm back :) its really nice to be home again, home to the warmth (and humidity boo) of sunny island singapore!!!! Two weeks away, i probably could've stayed longer because its so beautiful there, but then again i can't possibly be more disconnected that i already am from everything although it was great being far away from it all for a while. I loved it in california, i loved spending so much time with susu pris again and dee everyday! And a whole lot more. The weather - freezing with the wind in san francisco, snow in lake tahoe, warm sunshine in LA; also the food, eating and liking just about everything; the shopping with its variety and low low low prices whee; and the scenery from the snow mountains to the beautiful architecture to the happy laid back feel of everything. Yes yes yes it was amazing, and there's so much more to say but for now let me just kick start my life back here in singapore with adult ez link fare hahaha (which just sucks). Kinda jet lagged but i miss being around home so i'm gonna get out now. Laterrr!

And a13 girls can't wait for saturday!

Each happy ending is a brand new beginning

I'm leaving in a couple of hours and its been a frenzy the past few hours i'm just dying to step into the plane already :) two weeks away from home and i'm excited but nervous about being so far away as well.. everything is just in a whirl right now!

2009 will be so new, i'm not sure how thrilled i'm actually feeling. This year has been so eventful and so wonderful, there's no way to sum it up.. it just seems to be ending a little too abruptly i think, i'm not really ready for it yet. Still, may all our wishes for the new year kick in quick and soon, may the year be an amazing, cross my fingers and hope it'll be as awesome as 2008 has been whee.

(Somewhere out there our big white wish ball is floating around happily in the river with all our dreams waiting to come true!) :D :D :D

Ok california here i come wowee! See you next year, yes - before we know it we'll be writing 2009 on the corners of every piece of paper heh. I miss singapore already. Happy new year you guys! I love you all!

So this is Christmas, what have you done?

Christmas was... quote beam, 'awesome possum' :D hahaha nothing like spending this time with the family and with everyone i love. But there's always this tinge of sadness on the 26th, knowing its a whole year in between before Christmas again.



I'm completely exhausted as well, what with all the running about.. and friday morning playing touch rugby today with ly and the peirce guys right back at bishan park was so very tiring - its been ages since i've done any running and all haha but it was so much fun and they were all real nice about me playing even though i'm such a noob! Hanging out more with them often lately has me feeling at times sort of displaced but then again surprised at how much fun i can be having! They're a great bunch to be with (albeit MADNESS at times haha), a real nice reminder of the peirce days which i always miss.

Yup, but i'm leaving in just three days and i'm all set to go!! Really excited haha because now i just can't wait to take a break from all the craziness going on here, and i can't wait to spend two whole weeks with dee and pris and being in somewhere completely new!!! Yeah missing new year here is a tad sad though, but there has to be first to everything and 2009 will just be my first countdown in a faraway land which is quite exciting whee. Heh. Its horrible imagining what it'll be like when i come back to work after three weeks away.. yikes i would probably have forgotten everything i've learnt in that intense software thingy that still freaks me out everytime. But all worries aside first!

Ok gotta go now.. hope you guys had a great Christmas too :)

Lots of things i'm grateful for.. and there's no better time to say it :)

To everyone who's been part of my life this 2008: to the ones who make me smile, to the ones who cared, to the ones who encouraged me through those terrible A level days, to the ones who studied with me, to the ones who made school life so much fun. To the ones who made school mornings something to look forward to! To every moment in school spent laughing, to those who doodled on my organiser, to those who woke me up when i was dozing off, to the ones who didn't shush me in lectures and those that shushed me too haha. To those who understand the weird eyebrow lifts when something strange-o is going on, to those afternoons after school at parkway or gelare, to those who tahaned swim trainings with me. To the ones who i can always sms and call on a whim, to those who listened, to those who sent me stuff through mail.. To the ones who always made a sucky day better and to the ones who always understood. To the people who always made yummy food even more delicious just by eating with me, to the ones i shared bubble tea with and many cups of starbucks and coffeebean. To the ones who i captured many happy memories with on camera, to the people who always sing a long and never ever mind going a little nuts with me heh. To the people who always cracked me up hahaha. To the ones who made my birthday very special. To the ones who were always there for me...

Especially my family and especially jon because there's no better older brother! And there's a lot up there i probably can't remember right now... to everyone who means something to me, i love you all.

Merry Christmas :D

To happiness. Here and now.

I've been slaving away like santa's elf this past weekend wrapping cutting sticking and what not with bits of paper all over and tremendously short of sleep but the gifts are finally almost done!! Heh i even sneaked in some to complete in the office too, and with just a few days left i'm really getting psyched about Christmas heh.

Plus esther is back in singapore havent seen her for nearly two years yikes! Jon's finally arriving home tonight (whee its been kinda quiet at home of late and i miss him very much), christmas eve lunch with the girls, caroling, and even the office has a party tomorrow night and one thousand other things going on!

Everything seems almost a blur lately, with things happening that's left me feeling quite surprised, a little at loss because i don't know what to do. Or maybe its because the year's coming to an end, and there are still ends to tie up before we turn the page on 2008. I'm not sure how that works.. maybe its better to leave some stuff hanging, after all some things are still better left unsaid. Or not! I don't know, because its this special time of the year again.

4 days left to Christmas.. :)

"If you can't say it at Christmas, then when can you eh?" (Love Actually)

Baby you're my light

I've started work! Interesting is the word - i really really have a new found appreciation for newspapers haha... and actually i'm quite enjoying it even though its only been two nights so far :) though the environment is pretty stressful since i'm still the newbie i'm not really in it just yet, but i've made a few friends and everything's going great since there's so much space and time to do my own stuff as well.

And enjoying my last night out on tuesday before i officially began my first job was great. The best part about it was when beam, ly and i were on 166 singing at the top of our lungs (actually more so beam than us two girls) our peirce song when we passed our old compound hahaha! That and seeing miss khai again which brought back so many warm fuzzy yellow banana peirce memories. Nothing beats the company of old friends sharing whipped cream, catching up and playing silly games :D

6 days to Christmas, don't wanna think i just wanna wait!

I love the holidays!

Ten days to Christmas, i keep holding out for what i don't know :)

Dizzy up the girl

Hung out with van and jt today at vivo... too bad dom's away but yeah i had a lot of fun playing air hockey hahaha and throwing plastic balls at a screen till my arm's still aching now. Since jt's leaving tomorrow for europe and won't be back till the 31st (when i'll already by gone), we parted ways saying 'see you next year!'. Which is quite weird. Can't believe i started 2007 and jc life with jt being cerebro mates in O1 and now its almost 2009 yikes!!

Here are the pics from jt's camera! Snap! :D





The only thing missing really was dom!

Heh and i have such efficient a13 girl-friends :D my whole email inbox is flooded with our christmas eve lunch stuff its great and i know i'm not actively participating and i'm sorry you guys know i'm quite laggy online whoops but i'll reply everything tomorrow i hope. Anyway it doesnt really matter where as long as i get to be with all you guys and laugh and talk non-stop like we do in school in the canteen heh!
And of course the BIG gift exchange (less scheming this year really) which i'm quite nervous about haha.

I think i'm starting to get used to life like the way it is now... though i'm feeling pretty guilty the way i'm spending with the gifts and eating out and everything. But more than that its also how i go to bed every night with my head pounding, slightly overwhelmed by everything haha ok i guess i just like it when there's less things on my mind. Then i wake up in the mornings, but these days i hardly read the newspapers anymore like how i used to during the A's poring over every article because i suppose its more interesting than studying haha.. now i just scan through because i get restless sitting at my chair! I wouldn't trade all the fun i'm having now for anything though heh. Its really nice just having more time with the family and all the friends!!

Getting late i'd better go..

I had a really great day yesterday :D at noon meiyi and i met our dear mr phua for lunch in parkway - its so strange sitting across him sharing dimsum at crystal jade instead of having econs tuition with him drawing graphs on blank pieces of paper. Still everything is almost the same with him telling us all sorts of gossip and sneakily trying to get info from us. Wish abc was there too though! But i think mr phua is so nice, i'm really gonna miss him in his black t-shirts and lonsdale cap and constantly telling us about his favourites in a certain xyz jc hahaha. Anyway after that we took the long 36 ride to taka where we met hwee and hung out for a while shopping a little before we headed to the airport for dinner at popeye's so i could see jon off to australia at the same time (thank you for coming with me!!). Then i got tricked on to 36 by evil meiyi and hwee, but it turned out really nice haha because we got to pass vj on the bus sitting on the left side.. yes yes i'm lame like that, but i really miss school. Bubble tea back again at parkway, was about to head home before js called and took me out for a drive!

See! Happy day. Haha ok then again since the a levels there's been many happy days like that, but yesterday was maybe extra nice because of our heart-to-heart talks and hwee's mona lisa smile and meiyi giggling away madly and being mean to me haha. Eee i love you two. Though i wish the rest of the girls joined us! Abc, mc, vera, leow and jac haven't seen everyone since the bbq?! And with js after that we didn't do much but sing jazz songs and christmas carols in the car and drink starbucks. Since the a levels ended so much has been going on i'm nearly about to explode (!!) haha i suppose i do wanna make the most of every minute, but its really kinda crazy.

Jon is gone for nearly two weeks i think, i miss him already even though its just been one night i suppose his noisy presence at home makes a lot of difference. No older brother around to pester or to pester me haha but now i just can't wait for the postcards he promised to send me!

Ok la i gotta go get started on my christmas gifts, i've been procrastinating so much that i've hardly started and i am feeling quite exasperated with myself grr. Happy holidays everyone! :D

Sitting wishing waiting

Pictures from dee's birthday! I miss the peirce people a lot, it was nice and kinda crazy too being with them all again for a while haha but too bad chris didn't make it on time for the picture.. and with the girls its like suddenly remembering how we all used to sit at the back of the canteen during recess together in sec 3 and 4 even though we were all from different classes. Two years on sitting on dee's staircase landing watching guitar hero and talking it still feels the same haha.

There's quite a bit i've to say on prom and all the fun we had but i kinda just got back from indo where i spent the weekend so quite tired and i don't wanna ramble on and on... so more again soon yikes can't seem to find time at all even though its the holidays!!

Yeah hwee meiyi abc now that the rest have vanished abroad lets meet! Plus i really miss you guys... and yes i have a terrible throat infection (i wonder if it came from the crazy swimming at 5am hahaha) and no meiyi, i am not a bionic woman or whatever you called it!!!

Goodnight :D

I'd wait forever

It was only just last month the a levels just began, and somehow because so much has been going on since it ended it feels like months and months have flown past - almost like it never happened haha. I've been loving every minute of it, just that right now i feel completely washed-out post prom and maybe because its december and the airy fairy bubbly mood is beginning to really dissipate.. everyone seems to be leaving singapore on their holidays or beginning to start work too. Guess its finally setting in that this isn't just the normal year-end break from school we had our entire lives because school isn't gonna begin in january. Time to get a job and stop procrastinating i suppose!! Only with the christmas season and everything and before i leave on the 30th i just wanna enjoy myself and not work work work.. but i shouldn't be too choosy haha.