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Friday, July 28, 2006 Caught up with Denise and Chern over dinner today. Denise got the MOH scholarship!! I'm so happy for her :) She bought us chocolate tarts from her workplace and it was very very rich chocolate with my favourite wafer-like layer in the middle, yum. Watched The Lake House with Chern after that which was pretty good with the right amount of humour. A little confusing but we managed to figure it out! The songs were really nice and the scenery, beautiful. If you liked The Lake House, go read The Time Traveller's Wife my all-time favourite book! Except that it's getting a bit too commercialized.
They're coming out with the movie and I hope it's as good as the book. Borrowed
a couple of books when I was out with Kel the other day but I doubt I'll have
time to read it, with hall orientation coming up. Packing is crazy, my bags
are gonna be huge. I hope there are nice people on my level. Actually half of
me wants to move to hall and the other half just wants to stay put. And my body
clock is definitely messed up -bad. 02:23 a.m. |
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Sentosa with Den and Let today -our long overdue kayaking trip! We pretended to be pirates and they chased me across the seas cause they made me the enemy. But they shall always remember today as the day they almost caught me! Bubbles, sandcastles and laguna beach moments (they're obsessed, I don't watch). We spent dinner lazing the evening away with mellow conversation and the sea breeze. Had ice-cream later on deck-chairs while stargazing upside-down and getting lost in the night sky. The stars were really pretty and it was such a beautiful day! Hopscotch across the train platform and then, home. I felt like I went back to being seven :) 01:56 a.m. |
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Monday, July 24, 2006 Everyone has a possibility of falling in love with someone else. Chris came over today and we pigged out like crazy while watching our show! It's quite funny how I still remember the song above from three years ago when I first watched that show hmm. I really like it. Anyway I just realised that since I've stopped working, I probably won't get my ndp tickets which means no fireworks :( Oh and there's more photos up. 10:39 p.m. |
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Monday, July 24, 2006 I think I messed up my body clock. 01:21 a.m. |
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Thursday, July 13, 2006 Went down for welfare night with Kel yesterday. I learnt bridge (yes, finally)
and I'm ADDICTED. Learning was quite hilarious..should have picked it up earlier
when everyone wanted to teach me cause I see what I've been missing out on! Snapshots from the past few days here. 09:37 p.m. |
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Sunday, July 9, 2006 No more shopping for me. Went out with Manda yesterday and Ling today. Feel-good retail therapy but my very poor pocket. Ling prompted me to calculate my expenses over the past week and over my three shopping trips I realized I spent quite a huge amount. I think I might be in deficit. Cycling tomorrow at sentosa.. HAPPY! I've been wanting to go to the beach and cycle for really long. Now I can strike something off my to-do/ wish list! Oh, caught Pirates on tv which was pretty good and funny. The show was really long though. Can't wait to watch the movie on Thursday :) Mark and I stayed up with the intention of catching the match yesterday and we had a pretty long talk till 12plus.. We shared secrets! Haha! Actually only he shared. We both missed the match as I found out when I woke up to daylight. He fell asleep and therefore didn't wake me up. So wasted right. Hmm decided not to stay up for the finals later. I need sleep for my headache. Which means I missed the entire World Cup. Ah well. I suddenly feel like watching gymnastics. 11:32 p.m. |
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Friday, July 7, 2006 Today has been an odd day of sorts. From the time I woke up till now, I went about the day with a loose paper in my head. It was like this typewriter somewhere in my mind that formulated my thoughts into strings of sentences, complete with fullstops and commas. All inked onto that paper with soft clicking noises. And now that I'm back home typing out a real entry, I can only recall bits of loose sentences floating around in my head like 'and suddenly I felt myself slipping into this sad darkness' and 'I was glad I could just lose myself in numbers and stacks of paper'. I must have been in some strange and sad stage of my day for no reason at all. Too much Sylvia Plath maybe. Finished reading The Bell Jar today which was really quite good! Her words and descriptions are so pretty even though the content's depressing at times. How beautiful can you make mental breakdown sound hmm. I was caught in a dilemma between wanting to finish the book and slowing down to appreciate every sentence. I think I stopped reading for too long. Work today was enjoyable. I spent the day sorting piles of papers and ticking a list of numbers while half lost in thought. Don't you just love sorting? That and a long talk with Manda near the end of the day about well, things and startling revelations. I've been thinking..How is it that one can see such beauty and joy in the world
for a few days and then see the complete opposite the next? It's like someone
introducing you to this perfect world and then telling you the next day that
he forgot to show you the other half that's completely juxtaposed. (Okay, useless analogy.) See, I think
I'm perfectly happy but then there are these moments where I just slip and fall
and the funny thing is, I don't even know why. Anyway, I think things just come
out sounding a lot worse when you pen it down. Like now. 11:32 p.m. |
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Friday, July 7, 2006
so cute right? 12:17 a.m. |
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Thursday, July 6, 2006 I'm in a rather bad mood right now but my annoyance is ebbing.When you're angry with someone, it's so hard to be nice to the rest of the world. Then you start feeling guilty for being annoyed with everyone else. At least the rest of the world is only one person. But still. Thankfully I didn't let pride get in the way this time. Anyway I'm alright now, prayer really helps. And then now when you think about, you realise it's not such a big deal after all. This is like some train of thought all mapped out hmm. Alright, on to happier thoughts. Pictures -IJ carnival can be found here. Work today was really funny, lots of laughter. You should hear the stories they tell about the people they survey. This survey was about Tiger Beer.. Susanne: What comes to your mind when I say Tiger? And a lot of other stories.. Manda and I had a good time laughing out loud! Both of us want to drink beer now. After a whole day of computing survey answers, you really want to buy a can and drink! Not working tomorrow though cause J and I have a dental appointment tomorrow. I'm REALLY dreading it. The dentist is my least favourite person in the world. Whenever someone came along to class with the red dental clipboard in primary school, I'd be praying it wasn't my turn. And now I have no choice but to go. Helpppp. Before I forget, driving today was terrible. I almost crashed my instructor's car! Luckily my clutch was down when I stepped on the accelerator. If not, I'd probably burn a huge hole in my pocket compensating the driver that was in front of me. Ohh and I managed to squeeze in jogging which was good! So it's been a day of ups and downs. 12:08 a.m. |
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Tuesday, July 4, 2006 Day out with Chris and Den- there was no monday blues except for Den haha. Ben and Jerry's + shopping + exciting updates makes every girl happy :) The zara sale was GOOD but at this rate, im going to be broke very soon. Went for evening mass at novena with Chris and Den later on. Novena has this peace, quiet and reverence about it that makes it so conducive for prayer. I feel very at peace and it has the sound of ventilating fans which is my comfort noise :) Hmm, there's so much things I want to blog about the past few days.. The weekend felt like a mad rush but a fun one! Carnival pictures soon. Anyway over the course of the past week, I've realized that (even though they're such a given):
Work tomorrow with Maaanda cause shopping plans with Michelle got postponed.
Decided on a whim that maybe I should start earning back what I've been spending. 12:17 a.m. |
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 My day in point form cause I'm too tired: Ohh yes impromptu tuition session with my brother after dinner was fun! First time I saw him doing sum after sum so happily. I was really tired actually but all his silly antics really cracked me up and we both got pretty high. I laughed so hard my Dad came out to check on us! Thankfully, he understood what I taught him through all that laughter. It's moments like these. 10:45 p.m. |
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 This is my third sleepness night in a row. I need a nice long sleep without waking up at intervals. To add to my to-do list: go back to Enotria..my favourite restaurant around pricewaterhousecoopers! boat quay lunch with joan and mag on monday got me missing all the food..raffles place/shenton way guarantees horizontal expansion! Okay, off to meet Michelle for lunch followed by rag junior comm meeting..clementi is too far away. 10:21 a.m. |
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 Things I really, really want to do: 05:18 p.m. |
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 First entry! :) I was reading the yescamp blog and the other blogs that were linked and I was just so amazed at the extent to which God touches the lives of the people around. I thought, what is the degree to which I make God present in my life? Can I put as much focus on God as all these other people do? As I sat there thinking amidst the silence of my house, with a slight breeze coming through, I felt God there with me, so gently. A quiet, comforting presence. At that moment I thought, I want God to be a big part of my life! but well, thinking and actually making it happen are two very different things. Certain things to mull over.. I think I’ll just let things slowly fall into place. I really enjoyed that moment of silence and it’s so beautiful to know that God is everywhere, in the quiet and in the smallest of things. Which brings to my mind all the photos we took at yes camp! I realize that some of the photos we took were really personal, in the sense that if other people look at it, they wouldn’t get anything out of the picture but for the photographer, the picture could speak a thousand words. And then there’s the other way around where you take a bunch of photos and they don’t mean anything to you until you sit down and actually look at them and think. A picture can be beautiful but it’s made even more beautiful when we give meaning to it and we associate and relate our lives, feelings and reflections with it. I think that’s when the best picture is taken, when you make it your own. Back to yes camp. I don’t know how many times I’ve said this but I’m so thankful for Kelly because she brought me to the camp. Reluctant as I was, I went in the end and I don’t regret it a single bit! I truly felt God there and I saw his love, glory and power in the people there, every single one of them emanating such glow and joy, praising His name. That surge and burst of happiness that night was so so wonderful! When I think back, I can still feel that moment. But yes, feelings are dangerous because it cannot be there forever and it is fleeting. Already, I feel myself climbing down the mountain, down from that spiritual high and it is getting a bit hard to continue with daily prayer and quiet time. Business camp was a sharp pull from all that I felt and experienced from yes camp which was something I didn’t like. (Business camp was fun nonetheless!) But I’m going to try very hard to make God a constant in my life. Actually I should say with conviction that yes, I AM going to make God a constant in my life. :) Hmm now that I think about it, I’m glad today has been plans-free for once. Lunch plans got postponed to tomorrow which gave me time today to just idle around, reflect and calm down from the flurry of activities that have been going on. 03:02 p.m. |
