What have i been doing

Series of pictures updating you guys on what I have been doing lately. These pictures are all taken from Instagram but well, i will add in a few more words lol

Taken @ Bicky's last night in SG. We went to have supper at Jalan Kayu together. I miss her already, wonder how is she now though. I can't post photos on facebook to update her because i don't know if she knows how to access it from there..Jojo seems sad at night especially though..

Found this meaningful quote from a magazine page. I was at Niks with LW and we waited for bloody 5 hours for our turn! Thank god DJ and Richard took us home. We ended at 1am please.

Don't you think this quote makes a damn lot of sense? Sometimes people would just choose personality over character, i cant say that i wasn't one of them.. 

My new sweater i brought from Primark! Super chio and i love it! It was around 30 SGD my most expensive apparel i bought from UK. Bought it because i haven't seen it in SG and their sweaters are super chic! I LOVE PRIMARK the stuff they sell cheaper than singapore and a lot more variety and designs! 3 storeys please. BRING ME BACK THEREEEEEEEEE

Photo taken with Jolyn during a chinese dinner. She's my cousin and she's only 12! She looks like 14 to me though.. children these days grow so fast..

My first teachers' day present! It's my first time tutoring so of course im super happy to receive one and i didn't even expected it! These 2 monsters are sometimes quite lovable. I said sometimes... lol. I teach P4 and P5 English btw. It's at Punggol and its just a 10 minute walk! Super convenient!

Bought nail polish for 2 freaking pounds at Primark so im trying them out. It actually looks better on the picture. I don't think i did a good job painting them. I love the coral green though. Always wanted to try a new colour so im super happy.

CANDY NAILS! The nail polish came in a set with 4 colours. I was deciding which to use and i just decided to heck it and use all of them. I kept staring at them though, not weird meh the colour?! Again it looked better in picture. And it's chipping off already with the bloody housework i do ALL DAY.

Taking the dogs for a walk. Because i own 3 dogs i have to go 2 trips! So it adds up into 6 trips per day? My mom brings one per trip so she has to go for 3! Luckily we take turns so we wont be so tired. Anyway when i bring the dogs down i don't bring my phone, just the keys and newspaper to clean their poo, and i was freaking lazy to take the keys cos i have no pockets. Plus the newspaper would be used up so my hand is empty, so i dont wanna hold the damn keys jiu dui liao. Good idea right.

Okay abrupt end lol. Pictures taken in UK & France shall be up when i get the pictures. I should start studying soon which means a hiatus is coming. Sob right. I know, i'll miss me too.

Liwen

My youngest sister left for UK last week.

I think it's pretty hard for the three of us, seeing as we are really very close. Disgusting close. Everytime one of us comes home late stays outside overnight we will be BORED TO DEATH. I mean 2 remains at home but it feels different. And when the late one comes home it has to compensate. With food or proper password or else can't get in LOL. DJ (大姐 for short) is pretty successful because she always comes back with food.

Why do three of us have to be home? It's because we CAN'T watch shows first without another. It's like a sister thing. No one set a rule but nobody does it.. only rarely when we really not interested in chasing the dramas. But sometimes we always end up watching together. Like one time I watched this taiwan drama alone and my 2 sisters keep making fun of it (jokingly lah) and at the end everyone just quiet down and watch it. Even after they groan when im watching the next one. It's either groaning or they distract me with something else and I ended up not watching the show lol. I remembered the last week before we left for UK both LW and I were super mega bored at night because HL wasn't home yet, was super funny because we ended up doing stupid things like arranging itunes music and painting nails.

Yes we share itunes also. Iit's on home share mode so her's sync with mine over here. UK WILL NOT BREAK US UP LOL

Sometimes HL is pardoned because she is really too tired/busy with her tuition but we will harass her when she is resting in her room. The power of food..

At home, when we talk about UK trip we always changed the word to 'Hougang'. Example if I ask LW 'Eh start packing leh don't last minute then pack' She'll be like, 'Going to hougang only need to pack meh?' and then DJ will agree. And the conversation will sort of end up with 3 of us agreeing and the packing issue is forgotten lol.

I can go on forever but as you can see, it was pretty hard.

When I was young, I love to be a leader to my sister. Show her what is this, what is that. I tend to think that she was following me around, she would share the same CCAs as me, we would go to school together, even earlier on days i had prefect duties, she would come with me. I think I was even her buddy for her first day of school (coincidence or not i cant remember, but i was a prefect so i may have pulled some strings... lol) I was also her buddy for her first conducting class thing. And I was so proud to show her off. All the primary school teachers and friends know my sister is in the same school. (I would like to go on and digress the same happened with DJ when we were at same sec school lol)

But when we start growing up, i realised that she was never following me all along. I was following her. I would find out how her day went, she would tell me about her friends, what did she do and stuff. I think I had a hard time grasping the fact that no matter how much i want to, i can't follow her to UK. Both of us (me and DJ) can't. I guess it's a very special experience that she has to go through herself.

I gues it is prolly a half regretful/sad, but also half relieved feeling for the 3 of us. Relieved to know that this experience will teach her a lot, and that she is growing up.

I was pretty sad on the way home. Teared a bit after we seperated, teared a bit in the taxi, trains, teared a bit on the plane. All I was thinking was 'Im on the train/plane now. Am i sure i want to go home? I am now further away from LW compared to XX minutes ago.' And this continued until I reached SG.

It still feels pretty weird though. But the thought of her on her way into being a better/stronger person makes me feel a lot better. And that makes me wanna be better too.

Yes im ending this post because she is whatapp-ing me now BYE

“Sisters. She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child.” - Barbara Alpert

Bicky

I have been wanting to write this but I feel that my words cannot best comprehend how I feel. I try my best though.

How do I begin? How do you muster courage to say goodbye? I am too soft hearted for all this.

I feel sad though. An empty kind of sad mixed with a tinge of warmth. Things will no longer be the same. My stuff will never be the way she used to made it. My home suddenly feels a bit more foreign as I start to rediscover stuff from which drawers..

and then the sadder part comes - you just see traces of her everywhere. I was just doing some chores when I found her blanket here, her green shirt there, her tote bag here. Everything seems the same but different.

But I do feel happy for her though. In a way I know that she will begin her own life instead of supporting ours, and that she would be very happy. She would not have made a better choice.

I will miss her. She is like my second mom evolved into an elder sister. I'll miss her cooking, watching telly together, disturbing/helping her in the kitchen, saying I love you to her randomly in which she will totally -.-, shouting while talking from different rooms, watching TFC or chasing Korean dramas together. All these little things.

The Past

Someone asked me a special question today. I guess I always knew the answer in my heart but I didn't really acknowledge it until i said it; when the weight of words just came through. But I guessed it made me feel better about things, in this perspective especially.
I guess somewhere out there, things, incidents, coincidence are always placed randomly, and it's up to us to decipher or decide what comes out from it. It could simply be a blessing in disguise.

The Past is very beautiful. But that's all there is to it, like a beautiful picture. Once created, it's eternal, in my heart. I just want to remember these happy moments. They are called The Past for a reason.

I'm very grateful for things as they are now. They may not always turn out to be the best, but next time look carefully, there is always a silver lining.

Parting Ways (All Good Things Come to An End)

“I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense.”

― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

Astons @ Bugis

Wolverine lol

Spent my Thursday praying at the temple, followed by shopping around Bugis Street and the new Bugis+. Bought shoes and top there so i guess my shopping's all done. Had dinner at Astons', and it's my first time there lol. Food was good and affordable so yes i am happy and full :)

Cheers to a good day tomorrow. I hope everything goes smoothly and well as it should be.

Healthier Lifestyle

After a very severe procrastination (used to be unable to wake up in the morning to jog for THREE weeks in a row), I FINALLY went for a jogging session. The last time I probably ran was for my NAPFA test during senior year at Temasek Polytechnic. I passed the timing but my stamina sucks. Can't run non-stop, and I will start to walk (fast) if I get stitches.

Anyway I managed to run for 3km yesterday. Sadly I didn't run for ALL 3km. Walked a bit, ran for a bit. I perspired so much that it started dripping from my face. I haven't felt so healthy for a long time. Prolly will get my sisters to play badminton with me next week.

I realised that I am REALLY not a healthy person. From my eating to sleeping habits, I am a total fail. So I'm trying to get a bit of healthy back into my life. I'm only 21, need to start developing healthy habits.

Oh shit hell I just ate a full Mcdonald meal. Wow, I am really determined. Hahaha

Anyway I stretched my legs after my jog to prevent/reduce the aching, but my muscles are still aching a bit. It's not really bad, but when I walk my legs go all stiff and it looks like i am marching lol. I'm serious my mom was asking why I was walking so weirdly and that it was ungraceful for a girl lol! Anyway when I climb the stairs my legs feel funny and I will start smiling or laughing to myself cos the sensation is a bit fuzzy and weird. Me go loco already.

Btw the sports shoes aren't even mine! I borrowed from my mom. Zzzzz

And yes i did not attend a WHOLE week of night class and have not been revising AT ALL. Okay I declare study week next week!

Why we shout in Anger

A Hindu saint who was visiting river Ganges to take bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples smiled and asked.

'Why do people shout in anger shout at each other?'

Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm, we shout.'

'But, why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner.' asked the saint

Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples.
Finally the saint explained, .

'When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.

What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly, Because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either non-existent or very small...'

The saint continued, 'When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other and that's all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.'

He looked at his disciples and said.

'So when you argue do not let your hearts get distant, Do not say words that distance each other more, Or else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.'
-Spiritual Story by Unknown

PS: Chanced upon this while googling for stories sites like fictionpress. May post more of those I like.

Tampopo

Met the girls before Cheryl left for UK that week. It was so hard to meet up, with my impromptu trip to GZ and all. But I was glad that we finally did. We are like the 3 dummies who didn't know our way around anywhere so it was hilarious. Had dinner at Tampopo and it was good, will definitely visit next time. Finally we took photos and got freaked out by the ghost effect which brought us laughing to tears. Such a fun night with food and laughter. Will miss them and hope to meet them soon :)

Guangzhou w Dad

Just came back from Thailand after a week, my dad called on a tuesday and asked if we wanna go GZ on Thursday. Yes another spontaneous trip. Said yes immediately and tickets and hotels were settled by dad. Had some hesitation as to whether we were REALLY going on thursday as Dad had problems finding a flight to 石家庄 (Capital of Hebei Province) for a business trip. But he managed to find a way, which was to fly on wednesday evening. So yeah..  we took Jetstar @ Terminal 1!

In a way this looks so simple to figure but I AM SO INTRIGUED BY IT. I can't stop staring I really cant. It's fascinating! Okay everything is fascinating because I seldom take a flight to Terminal 1.

Yep took a 4 hour night flight. It was one of the trips which we slept totally well the night before (assumed trip was on thursday instead of wednesday so didnt had insomnia due to too much excitement) and we were totally bored on the plane. Slept a wee bit though.

Went to the same hotel as before - 如家快捷酒店. It was quite small thus hard to find the way there. Had some difficulties reaching the hotel, met a dishonest cab driver but luckily we got there eventually. Had cup noodles for supper as it was already midnight and it tasted so bland. THANK GOD for that because the seasoning didn't smell good.

 Dad's plan was to leave alone the next day but he ended up postponing the trip a day later to save time due to the inconvenient flight time. Anyway, he was off to business stuff in GZ anyway so we just explored the place ourselves since it was my sisters third time there and my second time already. Impression of GZ is still the same - they speak mainly cantonese and mandarin, and they are quite rude actually from my perspective. Said thank you to most of the vendors but success rate is 0%. In the end you just don't bother already. And they just like to push/shove people around like it's nothing. I guess it's their culture? If you don't buy from their shop that's it they just give you a black face. Some will still mutter under their breathe and nag you. Yeah.. and you must be super dare to bargain because they mark up price to tourists more than 50%! HORRIBLE. But their price SUPER CHEAP EVEN CHEAPER THAN THAILAND OMGGGG We spent that day shopping and walking around for a while, and went to arcade.

HERE IS  THE BIG BIG  广场!! Many malls built around it and there were many stalls open from our hotel area to the mall and hence there was a lot to shop! It was SUPER hot even the wind that was blowing was making me sweat like crazy!

 Yeah saw another filming squad that day.

Arcade so damn bloody cheap, 40 tokens for SGD4! The normal rate is about 3 tokens per game (Max) so yes I was just so bloody happy. We could spend a good 2 hours playing inside!  I think we played the arcade a couple of times and tried house of the dead. Because among my sisters I suck at Time Crisis Im proud to say Im good at House of the Dead *tears*

Anyway we spend the day shopping and rested at Pizza hut for a short tea-break before meeting dad in the evening. Yes we bought matching rings!

Dad took us to 岗顶站 via metro to this local shopping mall, equivalent to BHG or Isetan in Singapore. Clothes were going on a 90% sale!?!?!? I haven't seen it in SG yet lol and yes we went crazy

Wanted to have the hotel buffet within the hotel - 3SGD per person but we didnt wake up early, enough, but we managed to have it the next day though!  It wasn't grand, but it was sufficient. We had a good meal, talking and binging lol

Saw a scratchcard booth and we went there to try our luck. costs like SGD 2 per card and since it's for a good cause, why not? Liwen and I kept winning back the SGD 2 so we ended up scratching a lot cards! LW got like 5 times the vendor got a bit irritated cos we keep calling him. (Can't remember which day it was...second day i think)

We were so early that we had to wait for the malls to open. Meanwhile we walked around and this jewellery shop - Luk Fook is opening YET another branch so we went to see the lion dance ceremony

It was so draggy we left halfway lol

Oh there was Saizeriya there so we ate there for 3 times? LOL it was good, possibly better than Singapore. They didn't have the chicken stew and i didn't dare try the escargots there though. Oh and DEFINITELY cheaper than in Singapore. We ordered so much and it always comes down to about SGD 20 TOTAL BILL

Yeah had so much clams i am gonna just abstain from it for a while now..

We had mani-pedi and we turned in early, and slacked at the hotel. The red ice tea is a MUST BUY because it's so damn good we drank like 5 bottles for 2 days! Crazy. Anyway dad suggested going to Macau and postpone our flight back but im like nooo flight tickets expensive so yeah..

It was either a saturday or friday night and there was SO MANY PEOPLE

Dad dropped us off to 状元坊 the last day for some last minute shopping. Things here EVEN cheaper. 

 They were selling these adorable kitties and bunnies and it was around SGD 7 each?! if i didn't have 3 dogs or any airport hassles i would have bought one home! Shopped till evening and went to the airport thereafter.

There were some delays so we reached SG about 6am? Tired max. Bought a bottle of wine for sunny's dad at duty free but i broke it accidentally T.T Bought for him and his brother stuffs too.

 And... this concludes our trip. So spontaneous recently, which isn't a bad thing because we have to allow some surprises in your life no? But bad thing is i have a lot of shit to catch up too. So i foresee busier days ahead!