cell retreat

just came back from cell retreat.

I LOVE THE FOOD. :D but now its back to sucky albert house food...

anyway, we went to torquay [pronounced tor-KEE] via train and we stayed in a house 5 mins away from the beach. sun, sea, sand. it was also a house meant for 14 people but we crammed 20 people in there. shared 2 beds with ai ling & leanne. the house was quite nice and so was the beach. :D

friendship

in the past 2 days, i've learnt a lot about friendship.

and i've realised just how much a true friend is worth. and how difficult it is to find a soulmate and that i'm such a lucky person to have found 3 soulmates and several true friends.

lesson learnt: always let friendship take precedence over most things.

trials test. and i guess we failed this one.

its not the quantity of time that counts. its the quality. and i've found out that just because you've spent a lot of time with people, they automatically are your good friends, which i used to believe. i'm not saying this in bitterness or as a direct jab but as something that i've experienced for myself. thanks for at least, being friends, and having the courage to tell me what was wrong and for the good times we had. and i hope i have been a friend to you both and that we'll continue being friends?

i'm not an expert on friendship but this much i can assume:
true friends accept who you are and who you are becoming but they should have the courage to tell you if they don't think its good for you because they love you. nothing's hidden.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails

september

happy belated birthday to my dad.

and i have finished my mBs YET again. yup, finito, mei you le, no more, tah ada.

SIGH.

AND I HAVE HOLIDAYS!

maths

maths exam tomorrow. half the paper's on matrices.

i will not die.

ipod nano

ARGH lit essay.

dammit

anyway, happy birthday claire! you're ancient like me and melia now so accept the fact that you're a full 17 years antiqued. have fun doing PW on you're birthday mann!

oh and claire told me about the new ipod nano which i saw and totally fell in love with! GO SEE.

sg day

omg. i hope singapore day will not be like this:

straits times

$94 chicken rice?

LAKSA for the equivalent of $53, chicken rice for $94 and chilli crab for $144 - unimaginable prices for hawker food.

But Russian diners paid these exorbitant sums, in local roubles, to get a taste of some of Singapore's signature dishes at a food fair held in Moscow recently.

WOW.

happy 17th birthday jun kit! yi wen was so nice as to plan everything out for you... better thank her properly, and not just a kiss on the cheek this time!

september 11th

happy birthday to the derks!

yup. the twins are born on sept 11th so their cards were 2 skyscrapers. and we threw paper aeroplanes at them... heheh. so fun. quite a creative idea i think. and its definitely not being insensitive to the people who died in the 9/11 attack.

speaking of which, its been 7/8 years since the attack? and its only because its america that got attacked that the date september the 11th carries some sort of significance.
i mean, can anyone remember the date of the bali bombings???

movies

I HAVE FINISHED THE ENTIRE SEASON OF GOSSIP GIRL IN 3 DAYS.
if that sounds like an achievment to you, it is, considering the fact that i had school and an accounting essay due.

gossip girl's not bad. chuck is so irritating! to do: must learn how to be annoying while looking calm. blair's such a lovable bitch. reminds me a bit of wait. better not say it. otherwise a certain favourite bimbo of mine might not be too happy. all in all, gossip girl reminds me of mg and its been awhile since i've been in such a bitchy environment. albert house is a lot less judgmental i think.

watched DOA. i liked the last part when 5 girls are sitting there, at the jap girl's place and

naive girl: don't you think the guy in the second row's cute?
english girl: is there a guy in this world you don't have a crush on?
jap girl: you can have him. but what are we going to do about the other 300?
*scene of jap samurai army rushing to fight them*
american girl: why don't we just split them up evenly?

OOH singapore day is here in melbourne! food glorious food, what wouldn't i give? tadadumtadum. i MISS singapore food. i swear if i try to live in anywhere but singapore, please remind me of the FOOD and i'll stay. immediately.
ok nevermind. anyway, they're bringing in PCK too! :D

drama yay!

drama exam's over. phew. the applause we received was more than we hoped for. it went fairly well i think[only because i have a minor role in it otherwise it'll be majorly screwed]... dev badly wants to upload it on youtube but we all will kill him if he does

CHEERS to vices.[such a cheesy name] dev.handy.gwen.jass! you guys were great and made this exam tolerable. i had a lot of fun...

help help

bravery is not the absence of fear but doing what you have to do when you're bloody scared

its one more hour to meeting my drama group. ARGH

anyway, we watched kye ling's drama and missed derk wen's & bill's drama...
kye ling's really good at acting.

the past & present

i thank the past for the good times it has given me and the excellent memories it has given me. but at the same time, i want to live in it. don't get me wrong, i like my life now as it is. but at the same time, i'm missing everything that i've known for 17 years.

for ever and ever.
for it lives in my mind
for the crazy wild times
for the crappy sobbing times
for the blissfully happy times
for the hot humid i'm-sweating-like-a-pig times.
for the stability and rituals
for the unexpected obstacles life throw our way
for friendships made and pleasures shared and lessons learnt apace,

thank you God.

now is a gift, that's why they call it the present

watched cherm's drama, the guys in her group were acting out a fight and one of them slammed the other into the wall. AND THE WALL CRACKED. it was a really long crack...

spring is so nice to photograph... all the flowers coming up and although the trees look dead still, its nice to know they'll get their leaves back soon

eap & essays

there are approximately 750 000 words in the english language. Some words, like hierarchical, are difficult to pronounce but the hardest one to say is a simple 'sorry'

oh my gosh. a wiki page for eap actually exists... and we were all wondering who the heck came up with such a pompous stupid name for an equally stupid, condesending subject that assumes all foreign students speka no goot engrish.

still have 2 untouched essays: lit and accounting. drama performance is this friday. pray that i break a leg [literally or figuratively]

on a continous loop. school|food|sleep|school|food|sleep

ITS SPRING.

officially.
and it kinda feels like it... with it not being that cold anymore

i recieved marianne's postcard today, it was a free postage one since they advertise for you to come to singapore... its the most overdecorated thing i've ever seen with drawings, stickers and stuff. THANK YOU MEANNE. :D