Happy Birthday Sunshine Boy Girl!



Went to Spageddies at Paragon for the itsy-belated celebration.
Their food is really quite good, and we had a fun time of affirmation.
We were supposed to pick one of the items in the categories that we are given to represent Yiyou and explain why we chose that.
Matthias got household appliance and he said Yiyou is like a refrigerator, you can put many things it in, (like how Yiyou has many responsibilities), but it stays cool~ haha!



It's feeling more like family now.
Though I miss my shepherd. But she is ending shoot!
And Puay. She is coming back when she has enough fun there >: )

Long day today.
Enjoyed Michael's sharing a lot.

"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God."
-eleanor powell
I know this concept/principle since long ago, but I guess it's really aptly put here.
I guess in the gift box I have for You now, some gifts are weathered, some are incomplete, some sit proud and glad. I know You are waiting for the best one I can ever give. I will do what I can.

I want to let go and let God, and I trust in His promise.
Do your work where I cannot. Please..

Fuzzy shot and I am not inside ); but went to meet the clique after class and after panghuishan's guitar concert! We just hung around good old amk hub and did nothing much.. They were all like half dead people after a whole day of class I guess.

Seeing them like that is quite sad. ):
Can't imagine it when it gets even closer to the nasty As, but I guess that is when I won't even be seeing them much. But come to think of it, we pretty much brave through Os on our own, 'cause we just talk when we mug together. Lol. I pray that every one will go through this victoriously! As for dear Jo, may you really do very well for your modules too!

Ahh, miss the good old free, happy-go-lucky, spontaneous, young, silly days of sec two.
Can't wait to meet you guys up again. Please take care dearies.

I guess this Friday night that I was looking forward to ended on a milder note.
Ahh, life. hahahaha.

There's always the longggg Saturday.

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Can you say that you broke something when it was never jointed before?
Lukewarm, like sweat on clammy skin.

My Jap lecturer told us something interesting about the Japanese culture today.
She said that Japanese do not make any noise when they like, pee.
(At this point, the sound of liquid hitting the toilet bowl must be going through your head, and I am sorry you have to think of that.) They have music in their toilet or even a button to press to have the flushing sound to cover up the sound of someone pee-ing.
Cool ah.

I have been relaxing since reaching home at about 10pm plus and I am feeling happy I ate dinner without the computer, spent some time with my Dad and watched TV.
All my liking for TV has diminished since Poly. And I caught some part of Healing Hands, which was one of my fav dramas since the primary school days. (Esther, remember talking about miao shou ren xin?) Then caught America's Next Top Model Season..10? This is an awesome show if you put all that massive bitching aside. But I guess the bitching is why people watch the show? I love their photoshoots and I would love to be there to see how that cool guy-that-i-hope-isn't gay takes those shots and how the editing people make them so breathtaking and so pretty pretty colours...! Link to some of the photos...!

Guess these two hours of rest did me some good. I watched TV...! :O
Looking forward to tomorrow. My dear clique, miss you guys so.

...Thinking of it as a mistake makes me cry.

This something has the ability to make you really happy, exhilarated and feel as though life is all so worth living for. Yet it also has the very ability to tear you apart, break you, allow sadness to creep all over you. And it's a 50-50 chance. Will you go ahead to try for that joy, or will you miss it to save yourself from that anguish?

Read Nuo's blog and I really agree with what she said about freedom.
I am trapped in routines and loaded with things I cannot run away from. If through all this, I find real joy, that will be liberation to that wearied soul man.

Night classes are making me a tad more emo.
I come home to a silent house when my parents are asleep, 'cause I reach home kinda late every day now. And I wonder to myself, what if it's really like that when I/we all grow older. Due to the commitment of work/demands of life and all the manymanymanymany things on hand, you miss the time you can have with people that is much more important to you than those manymanymanymany things. But what if you don't have that choice..?

Idealistic nature makes me adore equilibrium. If I can do all the things I want to do and achieve, and yet retain that passion and gain much joy, and have the ability to spend all the time I want with people that matter so much, that'll be a happy happy life.

For now, I am busy, tired, a little lost, swallowing down all the desires of escapism.

Konbanwa,
I just had my first lesson of Japanese today.
It was a little scarier and more boring than I expected.
It doesn't really help having a classmate who already knows jap, yet sign up for Jap Basics as a CDS, depriving people like Shern, and shows off her ability ever so often in class. I don't know her personally, maybe she is just enthusiastic. haha.

The stress is building up from all the stuff I have on hand now, some I do not wish to do but time is not waiting for me, some I would love to do but due to the previously mentioned things, I cannot do them. *gets frustrated and starts throwing stuff.

Yesterday was pure fun though.
Spending the afternoon with some a bubble bottle, a windmill and cameras at



a grass field with not very green and not very dense grass, not very blue sky, random trees and very annoying buildings. Looking for green field and blue sky with no trees and no buildings in Singapore. Any ideas?





Looking for this windmill since sec3. Cannot find. And Zhiying has it!
If anyone sees this, please buy it for me...! Haha.



"Cheap fisheye" hehehe.



Zhiying so pretty! Too bad no bubbles.


(Hahaha sorry dear, this photo makes me laugh)

The cute girl with the camera above is tissuepaperbeggar and she took the following shots..
Pretty pretty stuff!







All I ever want is to capture pretty photos of skies that require no editing.
Someday that will come.
Going to shoot with people like them teaches me more than my module ever did, haha.



Took this with my hp, reminded me of sweet arooomaaa of worshippp, that rises to your throneeeee.

Thank you dear God for the director's list surprise.
I remember looking at the seniors last year and silently thinking it would be cool to get something like this and that it will be really glorifying. Guess it means working even harder now.

Okay. Escapism time over. Got to tackle that whole long list of things.
Ganbarimasu!

This is our very last Sunday before school reopens and everything starts flying again.
Spent some time with the family at amkhub, super heartland family right! hahaha.

Had Rachel over till like, 3am this morning, spending time, talking to calebii (calbee hot n spicy~) over skype and catching up. She actually bus-ed home with me (: Just enjoy talking to her, about what's going on in each other's lives, lamenting over how fast time flies, etc etc.

Friday was a sunny pretty day.
So we went to climb mountain.
More like 136 steps up.



Lol, went to Mount Sophia with YT and Zhiying for their makeup birthday celebrations.





We had some good food at Recess, one of the cafes there...

and started walking around the place and the two of them began to find me a very interesting photography subject >: (







Am not going to post up the countless unglam shots.



coming soon, yt!



happily self shot outside 2920 gallery!

and to end off the green-white-gray-black post
(photos courtesy of hakidame and tissuepaperbeggar),
happy happy ice cream.



Our usual choice.

Got to be awake in six hours ):

One year flew by like that.
Thank you both of you for being the sweetest friends.
I will always remember us self denying on fridays, going for photoshoots, chionging together, squatting outside printshops, staying up late together...

Today I went to meet dear Bernice at tiamo when she was having her three hour break (:
The lunch kind of got a little off track 'cause I remembered my timetable was going to be released so I went on to check and got super excited, so sorry ber :X


This is it, re-written in terms easily understood by human. Thank you God for the timetable. I would say I am really quite happy with it.

I GOT JAPANESE!!! though it is 6pm-9pm and I will probably disappear from caregroups and some meetings for a month... I can continue my sleep-at-5-and-wake-up-at-noon routine. I go to sleep at the sound of the uncle sweeping the floor downstairs. It's gentle, peaceful, ahh~

Got textile manipulation too, think it's quite interesting though I was initially super shocked seeing it on my timetable, kind of forgot I actually chose it. The entire conver with YT was super entertaining. We were LOL-ing and laughing at each other and everyone's plights. I guess we have learnt how to laugh at the fact we might not see each other much this whole half-a-year. A sense of humour is necessary to survive.

One really saddening thing is I think I cannot go for camp ._.
But then again Design school has the most flexi timetable so I might be able to when God works His miracles. Man, I wana go campppp.

Also, dear classmates, remember to check here if you want to know about the modules.

And I am not having any official holidays besides this pathetic two weeks in May for these five months of school... Working hard time...

Guess I will enjoy my first feels-like-holiday block. It's as though I am going for part time class to learn Jap. This probably means I can meet all the people I have wanted to meet but could't this holidays. (Yes, Xin, Tea party.....)

Oh and Prata at night, anyone?

The Pierces, a sister duo.

Like their songs and their wacky MTVs. Should check out the songs Secret (Utter love, the song that made me notice them, can fit nicely into any Tim Burton film!), Sticks n Stones (Dont play at night loudly)!

Still very thankful to Yao for the songs. (:

Yes, I have been youtubing.
Finally got my account there and faved some vids I like for a long time.
My account name is laughlikelays (thanks to Janice/Sharon..old joke).

Check this out!

Indeed, Polaroid enthusiasts are doing something about them not producing any more polaroid film.

(:

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I am feeling better than previous days.
My head still feels as though some weird parasite is chewing on it, but the fever is gone. Even managed to get out of the house, returned lib books and get food for myself. Aye, it's quite a breakthrough after being stuck home for four days straight and being so miserable.

Irony? I am like taking the same anitibiotic as my 10month old nephew, due to my inability ro swallow pills. The difference is that I probably got to take three times the dosage? That antibiotic is evil. When you first put that 10ml into your mouth, it tastes sweet and bearable. Just when you are swallowing, you realise all the horrible bits of bitter shit suspended in that grossly sweet liquid. It's like it's out to cheat you.

Good news is that I would have finished two bottles of evil by tonight. And hopefully, won't have to see it ever again. Every time I am sick, I am determined to keep myself healthy, exercise and learn how to swallow tablets.

Then when I am well, I completely forget about them. Maybe I should like practise swallowing stuff. I know people who can't swallow tablets, just that they don't fall sick as much as I do ):

Oh well. Tomorrow is a long long day. Not sure if I can last from ten to ten. :|

Head's been hurting since I woke up this morning...
Wonder if it's due to over-eating yesterday :/
So, got to call off Zhiying's bday lunch, so sorry ):

Sleep isn't doing any good.
Was praying that God would send some kind souls with food so I don't have to stagger out and get food. And...

Dear Cixin came over after her school and got me lunch and the medicine that you see up there. Then dear Esther the nice neighbour got me a sandwich and drink. And, I gobbled everything down already. My appetite seems to be improving ._."

Hate being sick, hate having to change all the plans. Was supposed to meet jotng tml but today's lunch will be postponed and... haha chain reaction. And.. I can't swallow tablets so got t smash up the tablets into gross gooey paste and down that. ):

But, thank you all you who cared. (:
Hope to be a-okay by tml.

Haven't blogged for a week.

Welcomed April with a play.


The pillowman was just awesome.
Amazed at how the four-men cast could grab and hold attention for 2 and a half hours. Puay told me the story when she went to watch it last Nov but thank God I have poor memory, so I still enjoyed all the suspense and the horror bits.

I wonder what kind of life the scriptwriter led. As much as I love horror, macabre and twisted humour, these things are not within my system for me to actually come up with something horrifying good. Yiyou was saying I can do my "research" now, expose myself to all this and gradually be like that. Is that a good thing?

This week we said byebye to Aloy, as he moves over to MinOps2.

Had a simple dinner at Pastamania, and shared this Pizza Calzone style with Yiyou. So cute right. It's like they folded the pizza of our choice and made it into a giant currypuff, tastes pretty much the same.

Yiyou got all of us great stuff from Japan~ She got me a cute Monster tote bag. I WANT TO GO TO JAPAN MAN! And carmen got us really interesting food from Taiwan, Think marshmallows packaged in a sanitary pad look alike package.. (If I get to go Taiwan again, I shall buy a pack and give it to the guy who loves to advertise sanitary pads) Blessed life to have giving cgmates that travel, wahaha.

Had my first mega stayover at Natt's place with half the class. It somehow became an all girls thing with like ten girls. Was duper fun, doing stupid things at the playground, movie-ing, chatting about everything, watching sunrise (Nuo and her Australian flavoured side of the balcony) and so on. I have an awesome class!



skip a dida dip~





I think this is super funny







Visited the National Library for the first time in my life.
Well, unless you count the time when the clique went there for cheap thrill elevator rides on Jasmine's 17th.

Went there with the team to do research and all.



It's been 2 weeks since we first got together, "for peace and prosperity".
The grass is greener on the other side of the fence? When engaged in hard work and brain-blowing thinking, I wish I was somewhere else. When all this came to a halt, I wonder if we did enough. But it's been a fruitful two weeks, I learnt more than I ever would on my own, and I guess that is what counts.
Thank you you all.

See you when the next time comes about (:



(OwenT is missing in this line up because he refuses to get into a tiny box to take a photo.)

Ahh, holiday, please fly back less quickly.