she's only happy in the sun

This is my ideal life! Summer. I love how I can wake up each day without rushing to class, go out and play all day long, meet up with so many dear friends, catch up on novels, have random outings, aimlessly surf TV channels, reflect, go to my fav spots in Sg, visit new spots and hope they get favourited, have cafe days, just chill at home, shop, exercise, keyboard, rent dvds and actually finish watching them before i get fined, visit cheh and noelle, and of course, learn more about myself each day and IMPROVE.

Reach me via sms/calling ok guys? we'll keep in touch via the mobile phone! (: my blog's hardly updated these days as u can see haha. I think I'm into the lets-meet-up-and-i'll-try-telling-u-bt-my-life phase. I used to think that I'm better at expressing myself through words (still am) but I guess its always good to have a balance! Still, writing remains one of my first loves in life among the others. Cheers (:

Dashed my millioner dream

"Since the beginning of 2005 Turkey took out six zeros of its money and has introduced new bill notes. At 2004 you could buy a coke with 1.000.000,00 Turkish Lira, yes one thousand turkish lira ?!?! but now it cost you just 1,00 New Turkish Lira. When Turkish people received their salary they would feel like milioners…" Source: business-with-turkey.com

Just 4 days ago, I felt $93,750 richer for the whole of Thursday afternoon. A BMW in my drawer all this while. Or 10 Harleys as Dawel said. We combed money changers and banks like two goons on an amazing race. I feel so bad. Sorry for not checking properly on Google before leaving my hse.

Anw, I'm back from my weekend dive trip! Scuba dive. It was so awesome. I went to Tioman with around 15 others to do our Open Water dives in order to get our dive certification. U can call me dazz the diver now...I'm so proud of it :) Diving ain't no easy feat. Can't wait to go for more! I'll blog more about it soon..Once I feel that I'm off the boat.

Purpose

I love summer. Finally took a break from going out. Enjoying solitude.. typing away on the timberdeck...loving the breeze and the gentle hue which the 5pm sun tiredly casts on this part of the world. Perfect for Qt.

Vee told me that there was much personal time during this yr's retreat.That's great! I wish I could have gone but my sore throat was really bad then. cant wait for the photos!

Anw, just had to do this post as I think I've found my 'muse'. LCK cemetary. haha Ok not really my muse, but a source of inspiration. Whilst wandering around the place, I felt this sense of there's still purpose in wandering. The bigger picture? That every single thing/person has a purpose. This is something I've known since I was a kid... it's funny how what I learnt and subscribed wholly to for so long, could evoke such feelings in me all over again. Reminds me of 'when everything seems lost,remember, just remember the cross.'

Walking on the asphalt road
Far away from home
The trees called out to each other
But I was One, alone

Soul of mine, wander thus
Flit among the marble headstones
Stroke the faces of beloved tombs
Peer through what twilight cuts
Start a tremulous hide-and-seek when dark

Then I was Two
And we meandered onto the gravel path
The stars refused to show the way out
No matter
It’ll always be out there laid bare

Just that
You choose to wander in hopes of evasion
Afraid of future altercations

Purpose comes even if unsought
Wander free, wander naught
In this thrilling night
When the breeze caresses your hair and when your heart is jumping everywhere
Just follow, follow the light

Report to Jess (when can i ever end this haha) - I cant rly rmb babe...i'll try.. shopping, dbl O, cafe, steamboat, cemetary, 'impromptu' bus hopping (haha thx to bryan's great planning), surprise visit for Celesttt and i finally got to see mopol, sign up for driving. There (: and babe i got no pics...they're all on facebook haha.

more activities coming up. I love summer.

i'm home

Just dinner with the family at home. Noelle was being very funny haha, check out the facebook video! (:

I'm doing fine after the wisdom teeth extraction, love

Would you get married at the library - the place which houses the greatest love stories of all time?

Haha kams said that's too cheesy. I asked her when she called me...in the middle of my watching Sex n the City on dvd. Hahaha it's ok babe (: Anyway, Carrie almost got married there. The movie's really good. I thought it would be a total chick flick without any substance but I actually did feel for the characters at some point in time! There were some realistic elements that I liked - love, fashion, love and love. All types of love...familial, friendship, man-woman. I just realized that life has recently been chock full of love. In fact, it's an everyday thing!

Just now, James, my cousin, came over and shared with me how he has begun to appreciate his parents so much more now. I could feel the love in his voice as he talked about them. And to all my friends who offered to come over to visit me, to buy me soft food etc, who msged me out of concern, THANK YOU! I'm sorry that I couldn't see you guys today... needed to rest and some me time.

The movie somehow stirred in me that desire to start writing again. A few days back, I was searching for a new muse. CJ told me that his idea of a muse would be someone you constantly think about i.e. 'constant rumination'. I don't know man... now all I wanna do is pen pen pen pen whatever I have down. No matter who the muse is....perhaps one day I'll find that person...or even that thing.

Ok - Jess - here's what I've been doing for the past week - you wanted a report right? haha. I guess what rly stands out are a Pj party that I had at my place w my ocip friends.. and watching Much Ado about Nothing + picnicking at fort canning hill! Of course my wisdom teeth extraction was a major highlight too. And tonight, dear dah is flying off to europe...i'll miss you babe...pls take care of yourself, dont be too friendly with the over-friendly spanish boys and come back in one piece. dont forget to msg me! <3

Kris Allen

My fav American idol! I only watched 2 episodes out of the entire season but I knew Kris would win. haha :P His rendition of Falling Slowly is way better than the original by Glen Hansard. and its nice hearing To Make u Feel my Love from a guy's perspective. Adele was good but we're both female so yeah.

wubang pajama party happening soon! am bummed that i had to miss out on smux mock camp. really hope i'll get well in 12 hours time. Rest

Project Xinyuan II

HELLO THERE! This post wouldn't be the same without photos. But there are literally more than a thousand photos of PXYII on facebook and I don't have the patience to go thru every single one haha.... Shall wait for the nice big group photo to be uploaded then paste it here ok? :)

For the uninitiated, PXY II was my ocip (overseas community project) for around 16days. About 50 of us SMU students went to Guangzhou, China to teach sec school kids English. We split into 2 groups cos there were 2 schools so I went to Wu Bang with 22 others and we had a ball of a time. AWESOME!!! So many things happened.....the joyous, the hilarious, the emo, the sad (esp when we were leaving), the odd, the empowering, the scary.. Up till today I still can't really put my finger on what my true feelings really are. To make it simple, I guess I could break it down into Gains and Losses haha

Losses - weight, internet, comfy bed.......ok basically all the luxuries we're used to in S'pore
Gains - More than I ever expected.

Living in the hostel and interacting with the kids from the sch made me even more aware of how blessed I am to be living in Sg and to belong to my family. I wouldn't say that the people there are terribly backward - some have internet access etc and the school is quite modern. But yea it sorta pales in comparison to Sg. Still, they have some things that I could nv find here. Look out of the window and you see rolling mountains! The air gets fresher and sweeter as you climb higher.

Bonding with my fellow team mates was also very memorable. We only had each other so other than during teaching time, we'd hang out. Confining 23 young people in dorms for 10 days either means love or war. Thankfully, our team chose the former. Showed the love thru' the hthts, dares, jock hours, random moments, meals, logs roomies and the christening of my dorm as the best dorm to be in (coz sarah is the cleanliness mama). Really wld like to thank everyone for their dedication and willingness to look out for each other..... everyone has such distinct personalities... i could name each one of them as Mr or Miss something now...yup that distinct. But differences aside, I'm glad that friendships were forged (:

i'll tell you how the teaching was if you ask me. Too tired to continue now.... shouldn't be actually. Cos I slept 22 hours upon returning to Sg. whereafter I went to the gym to WORKKK OUT. Ooh yeah. Ok time to unpack properly then study for my diving theory test. Tioman soon :)

Noelle and Trip updates

My cute niece, Noelle! She's very intelligent, esp in making ppl laugh at her antics :)

Her favourite 'hairband'

She loves running around and exploring my room
Now for the real treats! Uploaded very entertaining three videos :)
This first one has Noelle screaming/squealing/squeaking (?) out loud with happiness as she runs around. Basically, most of what emanated from her that night consisted of all this SSS-ing! (turn down your volume just in case)



Cute as a kitty


This is Noelle's milk entertainment! My sis has to sing cute songs to entertain the cute one haha

So cute eh? Haha.... ok enough of the gushing. I've been going out for many dinners with all the loves of my life these few days. It's been great meeting up and I really enjoy the deelish nosh. will miss it once i fly off to china this thurs. HK food is good though?

THE PROBLEM IS I STILL DON'T KNOW WHETHER I'M GOING FOR THE TRIP! :( Just in case I really do go, I have to be at the airport at 3.45am, budget terminal on thurs morn. 3.45AM!?!! Will be gone from 7 to 28 May.

In the meantime, I won't pack yet haha. Will continue preparing my 'surprises' for two dear people in my life. I think virtual presents will be the next rage. It's completely possible. Or it could already be the 'in' thing yea? For example, once Doug was as usual sending me links to view all the photos he commented on, on Facebook. He enjoys commenting alot. Haha so I told him that for his bday, we'd upload albums of new photos and let him comment to his heart's content. Very feasible.

Holland V tmr :D

Ideas, anyone?

B4 I get to the main point of this post, for those who wanna know bout MIMBY, do check out the post about it on http://snpblc.blogspot.com Here's one of the collages I made using Picasa :) yeah, i don't know how to use Photoshop haha

And now straight to the point, I NEED TO DESIGN MY ROOM! I've been really busy ever since I moved in (Dec 2007). It's now time. Would like to begin with my bed area. Besides hanging pictures (I was thinking of not just photo frames, but collages, or like literally hang pictures from the crevices in b/t) , what else can I do? String lights here and there?

There are alot of bare walls in my room too. But I'll take this one step at a time. Really feel like getting some interior designer to do up everything for me. Haha but nah...wait till I earn the big bucks. Right now using the parents' big bucks for this ain't right la.

P.S. I'm really bummed that I had to miss out on Adrace.

P.P.S. I will be flying overseas from 7 May onwards!

oh freedom, oh ohh ohhh freedom

EXAMS ENDED YESTERDAY!
Can't believe my first year at law school has just whizzed past like that. Freshman year at SMU - check. I'll be a Sophomore in 4 months time!

will blog soon. going out now! Feel my EXUBERANCE? -hugs hugs hugs-

To all who supported, encouraged and prayed for me throughout, thanks! i appreciate it very much :D