Embrace love and life.

as i get older,
i tend to think much more. that's the pattern i've grown to notice.
i stopped viewing time alone as lonely solitude. now it's
peace.
still, sometimes i am at loss with this busy lifestyle that does not
embrace the unknown.

i want to be truly happy. really, that's all i want.

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HAHAHA ok, I suck at reflective thoughts, it seems to hinge on being emo.
But don't discount what I said in the above.

I love all my family and my friends, they make me feel so loved.
Even friends that I just made slightly over one, two months ago from SMU. Due to the wonders of technology (aka Facebook- REKHA GET AN ACCOUNT!), people surprised me with handshakes, hugs and wishes for a great year ahead. :)

To me, that's sufficient. Ok, I still wish for a Borders voucher (or just get Skinny Bitch and Nighteen Eighty Four for me), a new brown leather wallet, more tops, bangles, a good hair trim, new running shoes... and more time, more time to spend with my friends!

Today's been pretty hectic, and despite it being my birthday, it's still like another school day, another Monday. OMG I had Calculus in the morning and zzzzzzzzz....

And tomorrow, it's my first presentation in SMU tomorrow. Community proposal for LTB. Thing is, it's not graded. Haha. I am just so relieved that our group has something concrete to present. One week ago, we were at our wit's end, trying to contact various organisations for our CSP. Thank God for everything, and I feel our group dynamics are great. Pretty interesting as we all have different personalities and everyone pitches in now, at least.

LTB's interesting, at least we don't have to mug so much for it.






I can fully understand why people love photobooth so much!

Ok, keep well everyone. :)

Happy 19th birthday to Ms Lai Si Hua! :) ilu! She's such a cutie and a great friend; I mean, I can be SO honest with her because she's a wonderful listener and an amazing person to talk to.

So we wanted to meet up with the rest of AA3 again, hence the picnic cum birthday celebration at Botanical Gardens. I love informal gatherings like that. I don't have to dress up to the nines, allow my skin to breath without makeup, and just find myself being so contended admist the natural surroundings. If this is so great, I can't imagine how swell if one day I can fulfill my dream of going to the Grand Canyon, ski down a snow-capped mountain, cross the Gaint's Causeway etc. 

Oops, I just rambled.

I felt like a 9 year old kid all over again today. Sonia, my ex-student invited me over to her house for her birthday party. It was a small birthday party with only 4 kids, so no fuss, no excessive noise, no mess, which was why her parents decided on the small number. Her house interior decor is amazing, so zen, clean lines, monochrome colours- I love it as a showroom or a page out of a interior design mag, but it doesn't suit my taste. 

Anyway, after my meeting with the NLB member and doing drafts for everything on the Worldview Participant's Camp, I made my way down to Sonia's place. Yummy finger food served on girly pink flower and butterflies paper utensils, a slice of sinful chocolate cake accompanied with the birthday song, followed by trying to crack open the super-duper hard pinata made by Sonia's dad and herself. We took an hour trying to hit all the kuti-kuti, gummy candies, glitter hearts and other knick-knacks; we kinda cheated by making a small hole in the pinata after 15 minutes of hitting, but to no avail.

We did art and craft in her room, trying to stick little beads into crevices of the outer surfaces of the windchimes/trinklet boxes. My god, I was only 1/4 done, because I did it so slowly. I don't have nimble fingers compared to the kids, or either that I was being a perfectionist/neat-freak. I think it's the latter 'cos the girls went, 'WAH, MS JOYCE'S ONE IS SO NICE! SO LUCKY!!' And I went, 'What, it's no luck, it's skill, thank you very much.' Haha. You should see the floor after we (I mean, they) completed, it was filled with minute beads in 5 different colours. The poor vacuum cleaner. So, I was allowed to bring home my incomplete art work to finish up, because they were bugging me to bring them to the neighbourhood playground, and how could I say no to 4 sweet girls right?

There was the huge red tripod rope structure at the playgroud, just like the famous one at West Coast Park. I made it up to the top, twice, and all the way back down without a hitch. I passed the test, I'm still young and flexible, thank god. Except when Sonia and Steph, both kids who take gymnastics wanted to play 'Follow The Leader'. I was supposed to do a backward flip with the help of the horizonal pole. If I can recall, the last time I ever did such a dangerous stunt, unsupervised was in Primary2, at the school basketball court during recess, and knocked my head on the ground, and had bleeding lips. As a compromise, I did double cartwheels for them, very unglam, but like I said, you need no pretences when you're around with kids. Just let loose, and play man.

We even played board games like The Game of Life. So old school, I love it. Today's a good day as a break, I don't have to act prim and proper, I laughed and sang, with smiles coming from my heart. No worries, just living for the moment.

Unfortunately, time passes all too soon, and all things pink, flowely, girly was replaced by the fact that I am one year away from being a teen, and I have responsibilites and duties to take care of. At least I got a chance to relive what's it like to be a child again, and I hope that all of you reading this will take tine off your daily tasks to run away to your favourite childhood days and dance through those beautiful memories all over again. I tell you, it's a worthwhile experience, and don't let the childhood past slip away, unknowingly, from you.