So I'm back from my vacations!
Spent a good eleven days overseas,
in a way, you could say I needed that break badly.

But I'll save the trips for another post.
Just spent a good three hours mopping the kitchen and bedroom floor.
Haha just in time for Christmas!

In other news,
today was also my family Christmas dinner.
(:
And four more parties in the next few days.

I'm glad the year is coming to a close.
Ahh sorry my thoughts aren't coherent,
but it's after all, 5am in the morning.

Time to sleep now or I won't be able to wake up in time for church tomorrow.
Good morning world.

Twenty Firsts.

That the year is coming to an end,
I've finally got time to compile all the 21st parties that I've attended this year!

January.
17th: Hilary's 21st at Eno Oka Japanese Restaurant.

February.
8th: Benita's 21st at Queen's Condominium.

21st: Xuening's 21st at West Cove Condominium.

March.
7th: Cheryl's 21st at 8 at Green.

15th: Nathanael's 21st at Imperial Treasure Restaurant.

April.

8th: Chermmy's Candy Crushed themed 21st at Normanton Park Condominium.

10th: Charlene's El Dorado themed 21st at Nosh Restaurant. 

May.

21st: Zijie's 21st at Marina Bay Residences. 

June.

3rd: Sherilyn's Blue Floral themed 21st at The Madeira Condominium. 

16th: Jacqueline's Pastel themed 21st at Ocean Suites.

24th: Xueting's Beer themed 21st at her lovely home. 

July.

6th: Salad's Korescapade 21st at Dolce Vita Pension. 

September:
2nd: Joel's 21st at The Sentosa Resort & Spa.

8th: Annabel's Monochrome themed 21st at Hotel Rendezvous.

23rd: Glenn's 21st at Tony Roma's.

November.

2nd: Zhengyi's White themed 21st at The Studio.

8th: Taohan's 21st at A Pinch of Salt.

18th: Yaanmeng's 21st at Tudor Close.

25th: Carmen's Parisian themed 21st at Emily Hill.

30th: Michael's 21st at his lovely home.

December.

5th: Shanice's Enchanted themed 21st at The Hungry Chimps.

Today was run errands day!

Visited Juls for lunch at Raffles Place.
She's really like my forever friend,
it's always a good lunch over good soup and heart talks.

Changed money for my upcoming Phuket and KL trip as well.
These trips didn't come easy cos I was super cash strapped,
but God provides,
and He decided to give me a little getaway for working so hard this semester.
(':
Even with that said,
I literally have like a few cents left in my account.
BUT God will provide.

Caught a train down to town later to get a gift for Michael's 21st tomorrow,
and I realised I haven't been to town in the longest time.
The irony that my school is in town.

Walked down to school later to submit and collect documents for exchange and sell my textbooks from last semester.
School is really the eekiest place to be.
):

Chilled at a nearby cafe later reading The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks,
the number one to-do on my post-exams list.
Anyway I am still absolutely insanely in love with the latest Korean drama I just watched,
I hear your voice.
It really is so good.
My favourite drama of the year.
(:

Attended Shan's 21st later in the evening.
Shan is really one of my most genuine friends in Law School,
super beautiful person inside out.

And that's my most productive day yet since finals ended last Tuesday.
I can't wait for my holidays next week,
and when I'm back I've got four Christmas parties consecutively!

I think I might have just found my favorite Korean drama of all time,
I hear your voice.
It's so good I promise you everyone has to watch it at least once!!!
(:

If there's anything I did right for myself this examinations was to get enough sleep.
(:

In the same news,
one last Equity paper to go!!!
I CAN DO THIS.

I think the stresses of exams are getting to me because I've been having nightmares the past couple of nights.

The first nightmare was failing Legal Theory because my Professor criticised every single of my forum posts as being wrong.

The second nightmare was missing an examination and going on a holiday because I did not know that I had a paper later that afternoon.
And I realised that I missed the paper two days after, but by then it was too late because I was already overseas (in Phuket [I could not accurately dream Phuket because I've never been here before]).
This is where it gets abit effy because the paper I missed was my H2 Economics Paper 2,
and I remembered texting Ho Kong Mun (My Econs teacher in J2) telling him that I had missed the paper.

I also remembered eating Zi Char in Koufu (I must have been hungry in my dreams too) with my church friends and uni friends.

Sigh, hate nightmares like these.

And I prayed so hard last night that everything would get better,
and I know it would,
just that it isn't yet.

Nathanael was kind enough to pay for my Flat White today because I was so upset that I got a $6 summon for not putting enough parking coupons.
(':

Once upon a time, we used to talk about everything.
Now I'm just so busy and it really sucks.
):

So unproductive, ugh.
Hate days like these.

Just got my flights booked for KL.
So I'll be leaving for Phuket and KL this December,
which is totally unexpected cos I'm not even supposed to be traveling overseas.

Struggling to keep my eyes open because I really need to finish my negotiation assignment tonight,
sigh me.
:(

Christmas, indubitably the best time of the year, is just slightly more than a month away.
Thanksgiving is coming too,
what are you most thankful for this year?

So thrilled that the semester, assignments and exams are coming to an end soon!!
Can't wait for the Brother to be back too,
and then I'll be the next Insta-whore to show off all his gorgeous bakes.

So excited so excited,
less than a month to freedom,
let's get over with this already.

Where my courage ends,
Let my heart find strength in Your presence.

I think it might very well be a good thing that my iPhone charger is spoilt because it has limited my use of the phone tremendously,
and I was kinda needing that desperately.

Celebrated Zhengyi's birthday at The Studio this afternoon.
It's a really lovely and chill place,
and I think one of the better part of it all was catching up with Natalie.
Suddenly dawned upon both of us that we had not seen each other for more than a year,
and it doesn't even feel like it.

That's how busy I've been.
):
Time flies by you without even you knowing it.

Through it all I cannot help but feel that God has blessed me with many good and inwardly-beautiful people in my life,
cannot be more than thankful for it all.
(':

The Beautiful Zhengyi.

Happy 21st love!

NATALIE (:
(Pardon my very tired looking face ): )

And my favourite S28 girls, always cherished.

Guess who just got flights booked for Phuket this December?
(:

Just booked my flights for Israel!
The fact that I'm going on exchange next semester is starting to sink in.
(:

Every new day Your glory unfolds,

Filling my eyes with Your treasures untold

The beauty of holiness brings worship anew

My greatest love is You

Down with the last research paper of the year!
(':

Lunch with Lynnie, Jacq and Byje at Chinatown Point.
I realise how I miss talking to my friends so badly.
):
It doesn't even make a difference even if I'm in Singapore cos I just don't meet up with anyone.

Dinner at Orchard Hotel to celebrate Laura's birthday,
the most annoying and irritating oldest sister.
HAHA.

Time to start working on the last two projects and individual assignment,
and it's finals all the way.
This is so tiring,
there really isn't even a break break.

ONE MORE MONTH TO FINALS,
how is this even possible.
:O
Sigh my life and me.

Sprained my finger while sleeping last night.
):
Must have crushed it under my heavy weight.
O:

UGH THIS RESEARCH PAPER IS MAKING ME FEEL VERY FRUSTRATED!!!!
(Sorry for the caps)

Two things I really really want but won't be getting anytime soon because of exchange:

1. iPad Air
2. A trip to Japan

In better news,
I'm actually quite thrilled for exchange and the thought that school is going to be over in three weeks makes me super excited.
This is just wonderful.

This close to booking a flight to Tokyo for the holidays,
we shall see.
(:

Dear Lord,

Please give me the strength to survive the next five weeks,
five assignments and three final papers.

Amen.

It's been raining the past couple of days,
and I actually really like the rain.

Dinner with the S28 girls to celebrate the October babies birthday.
I really love these girls so much,
after all they played such a integral role in the important years of my life,
and I wouldn't be where I am today without them to.
Just another reason to thank God for His blessings tonight.
(:

Recess Weekend.

So I decided to give myself a recess weekend since I didn't get a chance to relax at all during Recess Week,
and it was good.

Caught About Time with Jacqqy on Friday,
and went for a day trip to JB with Jacqqy, Salad and Joel on Saturday.

We spent a large part of it getting lost though,
haha inept driving skills and lousy GPS.
Got myself a hair cut, (finally)
and ate quite a bit.
Ah Koong YTF for lunch, Aunty Anne's for snacks, A&W Curly Fries(!!), Korean food for dinner and Black Ball for desserts.

Church on Sunday morning and I slept the rest of it away.
I really love/need to sleep.

Four more weeks before school's out!!!

So I really really am swarming in work!!!!
And this is the only "person" I can talk to.

I just really really want to jump in bed right now, but I can't.
Little Superhero Girl Little Superhero Girl Little Superhero Girl.
It's a blessing to be busy, so time to get back to work!

I need to stop talking to myself, of sort.

Things I really need right now:
1. A haircut (I'm not even kidding but I'm dropping hair at a crazy rate, it scares me)
2. A break.

And one thing I really don't get is people using "cray cray", it just sounds like seafood to me.
Does "cray cray" really sound / look better than crazy?
Just seems weird to me, personal opinion.

Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
Mark 11:24

Back to my favorite place to study,
and it's nice knowing that a place has been reserved for me,
as though it knew I would come.

On hindsight, I think I must have been really hardworking during A's,
if only I still had the focus, confidence, determination and drive I had back then.

But it sure does feel like nostalgia looking at those around me doing Complex Numbers and Graphing Techniques,
brings back the good old days of H2 Mathematics.

Okay back to work!
Have a good mid week everyone.
(:
The year's coming to an end.

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes, how do you measure the life of a woman or a man?

Like everyone else,
I realise I really don't want to go back to school tomorrow.
)':
It wasn't even a good one and a half week of break,
sigh.

Okay quite whining and complete up my Equity readings, Negotiation Research Paper and Legal Theory postings on the forum.

I inadvertently fell asleep at 6pm just now and woke up at 10pm.
And there's class at 8am tomorrow so I can't really decide what's the best thing to do now.
):
Sleep? Study? Sleep?
Horrible sleep cycles are the hardest to deal with.
And I woke up at 1.30pm today!!!
Haiz, don't really know what I'm doing with my already-no-time-rushing-against-dateline life.

Happy birthday to the best Aunty ever.

(:

Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde

I know I should be working on my research paper,
but I'm spending this evening reading through my birthday cards again I got this year.
And it never fails to bring a smile to my face and tug at my heart strings,
I've been so blessed over the years, too blessed.
(':

To know that I've got all the love, support, encouragement, trust and believe in all those who matter to me just makes me want to give my extra 200%.

So annoyed that I have the messiest table and all my notes are piled up every where cos I've got no time to pack!
Anyway I've this feeling that my beloved MacBook Pro is going to crash on me anytime now,
do you get that noise coming out from the fan of yours?
It's scary cos my research papers are due within the next two weeks and it's not funny if everything crashes right now.

So the recess week is over and I'm not so pleased to say that I did not do anything fun in particular.
):
But there's the road trip to Malaysia next Saturday which will hopefully make up for it.

FIVE MORE WEEKS EVERYBODY,
we can do this.
Christmas oh Christmas is coming.
(:

The mandatory rant:
Research Paper Woes )':
Frustrated.

5k in two weeks. I can do this.

Wow time is passing so quickly I can't even remember what I've been doing the last few days.

I've been complaining to everyone that this has got to be the fastest passing semester ever,
and also the most demanding one.
):
From here I've got an assignment due every week til school closes,
yet I feel compelled to just give it my 120% because it's really a make-it-or-break-it semester before I go on exchange next year.

And I don't know why but I just cannot focus on doing work at all,
like I have an attention span of a goldfish and there seem nothing I can do about it.

In other news, it's recess week this week!
Not that I have anything exciting in particular planned,
just a truck load of back log.
Sigh me.

Despite the lackluster in this post, I'm actually very content with life right now (:
If you should know.

Thing I miss most about my OCSP?
(Apart from my darling ChenChen)

Kids lining up to massage me,
on days like those,
I really felt like a Queen.
:P

September happenings.

Massage with Amanda.

Amanda's Farewell.

Tiffany's Farewell.

Sundays at CM.

Glenn's 21st.

Tony Roma's.

Lady M's Mille Crepe.

Study over at Bao's.

Best Vegetarian Beehoon.

CHEAP eggs.

Grocery Shopping at Redhill Market.

Lunch with God's People.