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yb was nice enough to wait with me (:

saw my dad enthusiastically waving to me across the viewing screen

couldn't wait to get out.
Dad, auntie ching, my sis, li hang and waffle were all there to meet me.
da-baoed barchormee from meng's kitchen
talked to tis till her parents came to pick her up
slept in my own bed after three months

felt so good to be home.

day (2) in singapore
got awaken up at 11am by waffle
a hug and a sunflower
had lunch and talked for hours
played guitar hero and developed blisters
decided to wear matching pajamas
took tons of spastic photos
talked even more over cadbury chocolate

best friend love at it's best.

met nat for a short but sweet while at somerset 313
shroomy mushrooms and garlic butter mussells
met nicharna at sakae sushie ( wheelock place )
talked and giggled and laughed over dinner
went to dairy queen for icecream after
nicharnamer and our matching hairbands
"let's tattoo nicharnamer on our wrists"


day (3) in singapore
errands, errands, errands.
watched television after 3 months
spent quality time with pebbles
wishing time would pass faster
so that i could finally see jacketboy

day (4) in singapore
got awaken up by 12pm by a phone call
daryl on the line
"get your lazy ass out of bed
and come for free lunch"
went to thomson plaza
met my relatives and ate porridge
bonded with the cousins daryl and clarissa
over hilarious experiences in notts

came home
watched "you've got mail" halfway through
received a call from jacketboy
went to pick him up from camp
proceeded back to his newly renovated house

jacketboy holds my hand
and brings me around his house excitedly
lights up the christmas tree
we order sinful kfc
and watch a weird but gd choice of movie

talking to him face to face
with his arms around me
a moment which is mine
ours, to keep

day (5) in singapore
breakfast at mengs with jacketboy

slept in the afternoon
as the world rained down on us

rushed frantically to shaw house
was 15minutes late for newmoon
wore a shirt with a werewolf on it
team jacob
had dinner with dad&auntie ching
steamboat, meatballs, tons of chilli

walked pebbles around the estate
fixed new furniture from ikea when we got home
watched soccer together

so mundane, so simple.
i love it.

day (6) in singapore
kiss on the forehead in the morning
haven't had that in 3 months
got literally dragged out of bed by jacketboy
at 11am. too early.

ate chicken curry
went to nam kee
chicken rice for lunch
died and went to heaven



went to orchard
did random shopping
jacketboy and his pretzel
me and my crystal jade chicken wing
body massage at kenko
cooked at lentor
magee mee, egg and vegetables
hugged and watched tv

and all too soon,
the cab came
and he was on his way back to camp

time flies when you are where you wanna be
and with who you wanna be with.

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I'm looking forward to my sis coming back from langkawi,
gracie coming back from cambodia
tis coming back from hongkong
tess and darien coming back from their dad's place

looking forward to meeting so many many people

I would stay here forever if I could.
I would, I would.

no studying done
books are still untouched in my luggage
notes are tucked away in a torn paperbag

wish that things could be simple back at notts
the way it is back here in singapore

simple weather, simple clothes
simple friendships, simple love

the simplicity of it all.

I would, I would.

Christmas drinks while shopping with Yb! (: I love starbucks and I get really really excited when it's christmas time because I'm a huge sucker for christmas products and pretty decorations and soaking up the whole atmosphere. Christmas is my absolute favourite time of the year, i think i may actually look forward to it more than my birthday. haha. Especially here at notts where it's getting incredibly cold ( negative degrees! ), it's a great feeling to have a cup of hot christmas starbucks drink while we walk down the streets.

AHAHA. i love this picture because it's hilarious. I quote from harry's blog directly "Went to the city today with mer and yb to do shopping. Shopping with 2 girls. no joke… seriously no joke. you will soon see a picture on Facebook of mer and I with a teddy bear in the picture – I have a very reluctant smile on my face". oh come on, the teddy bear is so cute!

I love our party hats!


My favourite boy in the block lol. COLIN!

The tree was so ginormous that it got cut off. lol. It was a pretty fun night I guess, we got served turkey, there were christmas carols and stuff like that. I'm not very close to the girls, but it was good fun that night. Like i said earlier, sometimes i wished that i had moved in earlier just so that i would have had more time to get to know them before they all formed their own cliques. then again, if that was the case, i wouldn't have met and made friends with ralph and chris and nicole so i guess it's not that bad after all (:

I know I've said this many times, but I really do think that we're all really fortunate, in so many ways. It's just that it's almost natural to take everything good for granted, and to assume that it'll always be there. even though i'm in a completely foreign country freezing my ass off- there's just so much to be grateful about. I have such great friends here, and back at home as well. Best friends like grace and tis who will text/email me whenever they're concerned about me, a family that can't wait for me to be back, and an extremely thoughtful jacketboy who constantly makes me happy.

Speaking of jacketboy, I received a package from him ALL THE WAY from singapore! It took extremely long to arrive ( it was 2 weeks, i think), but i was so excited when it finally arrived. Don't know why I took so long to blog about this, but everytime I think about it and look at the book now sitting next to my bedside, i get a warm fuzzy feeling. My blockmates were super excited when they saw that i received a package from singapore, and they all gathered outside my room to see what jacketboy sent me.

Package contained a cd which had songs from several movies which we watched together, a letter, a purple shirt that had my name and "drops of jupiter" on it ( i told him before tt i wanted that tattoo-ed on me, CHICKEN RICE MIX, and the book 1984 by george orwell which he left post-it's in (:

While opening the package, my blockmates couldn't stop commenting and cursing at the same time.

louise " I want a package too! one with a soft toy in it"
josh(louise's bf)" baby, i'm here. i visit you for 3 days every week!"
louise" so? you can still send a package when you're back in london! "
andy " oh shut up, coffee wench".

esme " this is so f**king unfair. i've got to be the best girlfriend in the world and olly doesn't send anything to me. I'm gonna call him now to scream".

lol.

CHICKEN RICE RAAWR (:

Thumbs up for the Chicken Rice
Huge thank you to Jacketboy (:

I know that ever since I came, jacketboy and I haven't had it easy. We've fought like crazy, I've cried numerous times, and there are moments when I felt like I didn't wanna try and do it anymore. We've gone through so much in 3 months, and the thought of being in a LDR for three whole years just cuts my heart and honestly, i still have doubts that we can make it. But here's the thing- even though I know that we may not last, I'm still willing to give it my all, right now- because it's worth it. I dont know what's going to happen in the future, but I know that I'm happy, ready and willing to hang in there, day after day, together with jacketboy. i have no idea what it's going to be like 3 years from now, but the most important thing is to live and to appreciate every single day as it goes by. baby steps- this is here and now, and you're right in it (: Thank you for being so thoughtful and for putting in so much effort, I am really blessed to have you as mine.

I shall do another blogpost this weekend, I have yet to write about so much stuff [TIS DONT THINK I'VE FORGOTTEN ABOUT UR CRAZY ANTICS, skype moments, moving out and finding a house, being behind in work :( ]

oh and tis- no matter what happens, i just know, know KNOW in my heart that you are going to be a fantastic med student. love you very much.

okay i gotta go prepare for my seminar tmr, too much work to do in too little time. have a great week ahead!

Simply, brilliantly- fantastic.

I was just listening to the radio and Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" came on, and I was just suddenly overwhelmed by a huge sense of nostalgia and longing for Tis.

Where is the moment we needed the most

You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost

I didn't have a good day today, mainly because my constitutional law tutor was being a complete codfish. She made me so demoralized and humiliated, I felt so down. The weather was cold and it couldn't stop raining, and I had to use my paddington bear coat to stop myself from getting drenched. Water seeped into my 80pounds ugg boots and made my feet soo itchy i couldn't stop whining to yb.

You tell me your blue skies fade to grey

You tell me your passion's gone away

And I don't need no carryin' on

When I got back and signed in, the first person that talked to me was my best friend all the way back in Singapore, asking me how I was. Even though I joke about it all the time, sometimes i feel like there really is "unagi" between us. Anyway, we did a spontaneous impromptu skype for slightly over an hour- bitched about my consti tutor, showed her colin and andy (and laughed like crazy), sought advice for my delimna, coo-ed over my penguin pencil box together, giggling at rustie's antics... and way too soon, it was time for dinner and back to reality.

Because you had a bad day

You're taking one down

You sing a sad song just to turn it around

I just miss tis, I miss us. I miss having my best friend around 24/7 for 4 whole years. I miss calling her every night and talking for hours even though we've already spent the whole day together. I miss knowing that there is someone by my side who understands me completely and thoroughly. I miss sitting next to each other in class and sharing an mp3, taking turn to choose our favourite songs to play. I miss going over to each other's houses every week, watching random movies, talking the night away, walking our dogs, hugging each other just because we feel like it. I miss writing each other random notes, scribbling our favourite lyrics and pasting photos on them.

You had a bad day

The camera don't lie

You're coming back down and you really don't mind

She was my world for 4 years, and I dont want that to change. I miss the fact that she was always the first person who knew what was going on in my life, whether it was something major ( like having fights), or something random and hilarious ( having something obscene carved on my door) .

I count my blessings every day, to have her in my life. Many people say that friendships can't last, and that as we move on, people will drift apart. I guess those who say that have never met Tis, because if you have, you would know that nobody would want to move on without having her in your life. I feel that way, everyday. To me, meeting Tis is one of the best things that has ever happened to me in my 19 years. I love her completely and unconditionally, and i know that 50 years (and more from now), that will never change.

videosnapshot of the family!
dad's birthday, with cake (:

I miss my family. I miss having them around, even though at times they're neurotic, dysfunctional, suffocating and paranoid. Despite all of that, my family has never let me down and I love all of them so much. After taking that picture, my dad cut the cake and all of them were eating chocolate cake and skyping with me. Being able to have family time over skype even though i'm not there physicallly, is one of the things which i'm very grateful for.

I'm rushing off to do work, and i can't really do a proper update, but i just wanted to do a short post to write down how much i appreciate my family. It really hasn't been an easy journey, for all of us to be happy together, but we've managed to achieve that and it's something which I can't imagine living without now.

My nextdoor neighbour Colin (Colin melia, not colin ee LOL) just came over to pass me a pack of caffeine gum because he knew that i was going to have to stay up all night to complete my tort essay. Simple sweet gestures such as this makes me feel like I can take on the world, and it makes me have just a little bit more faith in myself and what i can achieve.

[reminder to blog about sleazy and her crazy antics on skype, the incredible "fantastic four", missing grace terribly,more on notts games and floorball, singaporeans here in the uk]

I have so much more to write, but I've gotta go start on my essay now. I hope that all of you had a great weekend and that you'll have a fantastic week ahead (:

p.s - jacketboy is finally done with his mission in taiwan! <3 Looking forward to many more conversations and catch-ups.