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Sunday, December 31, 2006
Wrestling with Thoughts /// 12:14 AM

Why am i stopping myself?

Cause i have a bad hunch about this.
and I dun wanna get hurt.

My mind is telling me to go for it.
But my heart stands still.
It stays strong...


Whatever for?



-Thank You, L0rd, for the cookies :) -

*Im not missin you

Friday, December 29, 2006
Fell a little too deep. /// 11:19 PM

Kboxed for chem ouap yesterday. But only a few people went. Oh well.

Later, played a board game called CAREER in Old Macdonald had a farm with cheryl, zl, eugene and kelly. Darn hilarious cuz we kept trying to land one another in the 'unemployment' space.
And suddenly, there was this BLACKOUT. Perhaps Mac was just trying to save a bit of electricity. Cant blame them yeah.
And i won in the end! :) A first time! It was not a stroke of luck that led to my victory okay. Instead i would like to think it as the genius at work. :D
Then, we went to the arcade for a few games till midnight.
Later, slept over at cheryl's cuz it was too late. Btw, cheryl can cook really delicious maggie mee with sausages! Finished her grape juice too, which by the way, was very addictive. Then we played online bomberman and talked till 4. Was A Great day.
Friendships can actually last for many many years cuz cheryl's actually a long lost kindergarden good friend. whee!

Tuition in the morning and met up with classmates for homework session. After a short while, we succumbed to temptation and went to KFC's for dinner.

I HATE HOMEWORK.
I REALLY DO.

-Thank You, Lord, for doodles and noodles. -

*The Power of Love

Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Seventeen Going on Sixteen /// 11:49 PM

A Crazy day with the ladies! :)

Went to wheellock for lunch at Fish & Co. It was my first time eating there. Food is not bad. The company was great. Lots of catching up to do. Miss Mabel, Wanling, Eileen and Chialing real lots. We could be like complete cuckoos in public and laugh our asses off. Not our most dignified moment but we were too delirious to care. Like when Tom, Jerry and Tweetie Bird get together. :P
WEll, memories not to be forgotten. simply love them!

Also realised sth. That I also really like being with cheryl and the people (zl, eugene, kelly, junjie, daniel) who usually stay up into the night, just to hang out or do something together. When we're out, we'll usually spend the night together over at one another's house or somewhere in puny little dot, Singapore. A great bunch of friends. Friends who would make you laugh, friends who would accompany you and just be there for you. Could talk, play, eat, laugh, sing, whatever together. Glad to have such people in my life. :)


Anw im like sooo screwed.
My homework is either missing in action or crushed up into small papers, tiny enough to be stuffed into my purse. Beyond Recognition. And i just realised there's so much more homework. Oh, but i've come up with a brillant idea: Skip the first week of sch to complete those crap.

It's Christmas Party tml! Can't wait to see Sarah and Sabrina. :)

-Thank You, Lord, for quiet times together. -

*Little Voice

Sunday, December 24, 2006
It's Christmas Eve! /// 5:19 PM

Merry Christmas in advance!

YEah. Christmas is like finally reaching. One more day to Jesus' birth 2006 years ago. :)
Our youth sang 'Twelve days of Christmas' in church today. It was really really last minute. But we pulled through the entire songs and our funny actions made the audience laugh. yay! :)
After that, i sang 'Amazing love' while playing the guitar. The entire time, my voice was kinda shaky. Even though it was already like my fifth or sixth time singing solo, i still felt afraid. But thanks to God who gave me courage!


Anyway, cheryl will be reaching my house anytime soon. Gonna dress up :) and meet eugene and the rest in orchard at 6.
Dress code: formal wear.

Hope the rain wont spoil our night!


Merry Christmas!

-Thank You, Lord, for your son, Jesus Christ. -

*The way you look at me

Friday, December 22, 2006
It was priceless. =) /// 10:48 PM

Was supposed to tutor Joyce today and we ended up playing her computer games, trying to beat the com's high score and all. It was sinfully entertaining. Geez.

Anyway, i realised that i've been to Vivo for the past consecutive 4 days. my sister even called Vivo my second home already. But it's not my fault Vivo is just a stone's throw from my house. The temptation is just too strong to resist. :)
Tingyou and I were there yesterday to get some christmas presents but we bought ourselves earrings, anklets, necklaces and other accessories instead. yepp. wasting money during Christmas.

Met up with kelly cheryl zl eugene and junjie at suntec later. walked to marina circle where some of them went plate-ing (alright, bowling ). Had a delightful time laughing at Junjie cuz he kept trying to spin his ball and got his team losing when the ball kept rolling into the gutter. After about 5-6 tries, his score was only 6. No joke! =P

Later, we went to Carls Junior for dinner and sat outside marina circle for a while. junjie taught us lots of card tricks there. i was seriously impressed.

After that, we caught the 11-3am slot in K-box JEC and the best thing is that K-box was free for the ladies yesterday! i only had to pay for the stuff i ordered. Cool or what? The coolest thing was when kelly and zl sang 'One Night in Beijing'. It was super hilarious! One was singing ultra high while the other ultra low. Both ultramen. :)

Then we intended to go to the playground to chat and play. But it rained while we were walking halfway so we just took shelter at a bus stop where we shared seats and talked till 6 in the morning. But well, the content of our little chat will only be kept among the 5 of us. Silly zl and kelly kept calling me the 'Godmother of all secrets', making me sound so... so old lar. Still, our series of constant chuckles kinda filled the cold empty night. They were such great company!





Late night Kboxing :)











Cheryl and I giving Ronald a once-in-a-lifetime Kiss






Btw, Kelly is gettin cranky. Better Beware!

YAY YAY YAY! It's carolling night tml!

-Thank You, Lord, for thousand-watts-smiles. -

*Cartoon Heroes

Wednesday, December 20, 2006
What you said is too good to be true. /// 10:17 PM

Went to Snow City,which was ice-age-cold and my hands were almost frost-bitten there.
At first, i thought it was gonna be a triple boring trip but, it turned out the exact opposite. Got attached to these two sweet sisters, Sarah and Sabrina, from Ayer Rajah Daycare Centre and they were like two little angels.

We kinda like distant ourselves from the rest and entered our own world of chatting and playing. I realised that they liked to link my hands through theirs. It just feels good knowing that i can give them the security and love they wanted. And also sometimes they would just come and give me a hug, saying 'i like you' and everything. Really cute. I simply adore them! yay! :)


It was raining kittens and puppies yesterday!
But the day had been lovely thanks to cheryl, tian, eugene, zhengliang, charmaine and daniel. They came over for some leisure activities like card games and movies. It was enjoyable! :) For dinner, we cabbed to Charmaine's house and ordered Canadian pizza there. Continued our card games and intended to go over to Kbox for a song-singing session till 3am. But we were too lazy and most probably we couldnt get there in time for the 11pm slot too. Oh well.
Oh yah, i saw hoyin in Vivo! Surprise surprise! Glad to see him there cuz it's been a looong time since i last saw any of 06S16 people. :(


Hmm just found out something unexpected. :)


Adios.

-Thank You, Lord, for Sarah and Sabrina. -

*More than words

Monday, December 18, 2006
A Christmas Wish. /// 4:47 PM

I've fallen in love with a carousel! :)

Today, i saw this perfect, slightly-bigger-than-a-hand-sized carousel and i couldnt get it out of my mind since then.
Really really really wanted to get it.



It will cost me $289 though.

Well, should I? :)

Saturday, December 16, 2006
Back Home /// 10:52 PM

I'm back. Again.

For the past weeks, it's been all freedom, over-the-seas, money-spending, crazy adventures, and so i've many highlights for keeps.

For one, the Australia trip was FABULOUSO! Truely truely truely! Loved it!


i missed the company of friends, the weather there, the many first-time experience, the 'honours' (a secret between the girls of 06S16), the projects, the late-nights (one time even till 5am), the teachers, people from other strands. Oh well. :P
But most of all, i really really missed the company of those people who went. The chemistry peeps like Kun Jie, Daniel, Roy... had been a really fun bunch of bananas. :) Really really lovely. Could joke around and talk serious stuff with them all.
The weird thing is that there's this sudden spread of rumours between Roy and me. Im not sure how and when, but it definitely got the whole group starting. Strange.
Also missed those late-night talks with Tingyou everyday, about what happened during the day and sharing our feelings and everything.

Project work was really tiring and time-consuming for many of us, getting kinda frustrated over the dateline and toughness of it all. But ultimately, it was a good learning experience. Sadly, i made a fool of myself during the group presentation again. Misread the word 'physical' for 'psychological' and the sentence was about the physical appearance of the water. Imagine reading 'psychological appearance of water'. Even though it got the whole room laughing, it also made me laugh non-stop in front of the audience for close to a minute. Felt like a clown then. :(

LOVED the star-gazing, sand-boarding, the beaches and the shopping too.

During the star-gazing session at night, Tingyou, JingMing, Roy and I were spreaded out on a mat, leaning on one another and started talking and admiring the night sky. learnt more about one another then. Something sweet happened that night. :)

Anw, the beaches are beautiful! i told myself, that one day, i would definitely bring my kids down and share those gorgeous scenery with them. :) Angie, Hui Yi and I were also shopping like insanity and running all around the area on the last day of the trip. It was sheer madness but i truely enjoyed it all. :D

was fooling around in the bus. hee :P

yay! the 6 of us!

chem ouap rocks on!

Did something crazy after that.
Booked a last-min flight to Penang the next day, like 2 hours before check-in time and i've not even packed my bag yet. Still, i managed to catch the plane before it flew off and it's another week for me overseas. This trip can be summarised into a few words.

Shop, Eat, Shop again, the seas, driving.

Oh yes. Driving.
Felicia taught me driving and with her help, i managed to drive round the estate, without knocking anyone down!! well, but the comical thing is that i was driving her parents' BMW at a slower than snail's pace.
Literally.
Almost got us killed actually when i accidentally stepped on the accelerator full blast. But thanks to the handbrake, the car just vroooooomed real loud.. Without the handbrake, i guessed insurance would come in handy now.

Went up Penang Hill too. I remembered on the way down, we opened the top cover of the car and i stood up into the open and waved to the people walking. i felt like a princess in the princess diaries, waving and acknowledging the presence of the people. hahah. lame i know.



The Jet Ski was another adventure. The many comments after i sped in the seas were
'you drove too fast'
'you're such a bad driver'
'you could have gotten thousands killed'
'there's no way im letting you ride on those again'
...
...

nevertheless, i really enjoyed the bumps over the waves. the sun was setting then so i was like heading the jet-ski towards the direction of sunset. it was beautiful! i just felt so carefree, speeding over the waters and into the rays of the sun. minutes later, joanna pointed out a rainbow over the sky. it brought smiles everywhere. :)
Tt's been hell lots of fun.perhaps it's cuz my life's too boring, so i needed a little adventure to spice it up. Guessed i also got the 'dangerous' genes from my dad too. :)

Well, when we werent shopping or eating or getting close to doing something silly, we were just hanging out at the hotel. Made new friends in the hotel too. it's been a great time.



Missing the people over there, especially Felicia... Had loads of funky dunky time with her and Joanna. Falling asleep on her bed halfway after watching movies, sleeping on the car, swimming in ParkRoyal, kayaking on the beach, laughing ourselves silly, driving around, going everywhere together.
Oh yah. i had my first kayaking session over there too.



Anw, i cant wait for the stayover at Mabel's house tomorrow.
Know it's gonna be a crazy night with the girls. :)


-Thank You, Lord, for adventures. -

*All my Life

Saturday, December 09, 2006
/// 10:43 PM

I'm back!!! :)




even though i guess i dont really want to...