Selemat Hari Raya to all Muslim friends! It's actually past midnight now so I hope you guys enjoyed yourself during the public holiday heh.

Honestly, the holiday came at the best time possible, or so I think. It's just before all the JC kids plunge into their mugging phase before A's and before the poly kids have all their final assignments to rush and spend sleepless nights over. So yeah, what a timely holiday. It's sad how National Day falls on a weekend though. I could use another day's worth of break.

Just sometime this week, I decided to be a little artsy fartsy with the tea flowers I got from Malacca last weekend. I was actually just gonna pack them into jars but I thought I might as well take some pretty shots with my dusty DSLR while I'm at it. So yeah just a couple of pictures that stemmed from free time and boredom.


^This is my favourite shot hehehe.








(French rose // Apple Rose // Lavender - can't wait to make some tea with em flowers)

School days aside, I spent the long break fruitfully. Friday night was catching up with my bros over some russian vodka and Whiskey at Ziman's place. And I really really miss Kelvin and Ziman cause I haven't seen them in quite a while. Seriously can't wait till the end of their A's for our overseas trip together!! Got myself rather tipsy that night but it was crucial to relieve myself from all the shit that's been coming to me. Thankful for the crazy fun night with them. :)

Saturday was a dinner date with my boy and food was good. A rather impromptu decision made cause I just wanted to get the hell out of my house. But company was perfect as always. He knows just what to do to make me smile when I'm a mess inside. Thank you, love.

And this year's Hari Raya is spent at Miao Lin's new home with some steamboat!! Always love the steamboat prepared by her family cause there's just so much good stuff hehe. With the usual old group and some of their partners but with some alcohol going around this time. I don't know why so much alcohol is going around at this time of the year (or maybe it's just me/us) but I think everyone needs it to destress somehow. And Miao's mum was really generous to have given each of us an antique to take home! I got some vintage teacups that go perfectly with my floral teas. Yay to more photogenic shots!!


This pretty much summarises my long weekend before I plunge into 5 final assignments due in 2 weeks. Honestly, I just want to get this shitty semester over and done with. But I want my grades, so I can't screw up now. Argh.
The semester hasn't been particularly nice to me either. But then again which semester has? Maybe I'm just being too pessimistic or a wet blanket about everything. The problem I had since poly started never really went away, even though it's been a good one year and 6 months since I've been in the school. Last April I mentioned something about making the effort to blog more about my poly life, didn't I? But the fact is I still dread going to school and I'm just trying to get by the days. Unlike everyone else who's probably getting by more than just fine, I'm not. At all. Yeah it's kind of pathetic I'm living the end of my teenage years like this but I can't really help it. Maybe it's social anxiety, or my fear of trusting anyone. Either way, it feels like turning seventeen meant I've "stepped into a cruel world where everybody stands to keep score".

I wonder how long I can keep this up. Another year? Will I be strong enough to pull through? Or will I just crash and burn with no one to save me? Then again, it's not like I'm the kind to play damsel in distress. Lol. My childlike naiveness will be the death of me someday.

Well, at least there's only 18 days left till closure for this semester. That's comforting enough.

It's been forever since I came home from school without any pending work to be done. In fact, it feels so weird not having any assignments to rush at all. Well, this break is only temporary though. I'll pretty much be a slave to the assignments in days after the lecturers hand out the assignment briefs this week. And the previous hell weeks was only over like last Friday?? ):





Spent the last Friday celebrating the submission of my assignments, which I can wipe my hands off totally for good. Goodbye dreamweaver, goodbye news writing, goodbye photoshop. Till I see you again in a week (or less).












(how do you like our flower power combi? LOL. I think the tropical/floral T-shirt I got him from Bangkok is super nice and fits him really well.)


The next day was kinda just chilling around before checking out and leaving at 2PM. I think our biggest regret for this trip would be not bringing our swimwear and our gym clothes (laziness got the better of us) cause the pool was really nice and they had such good gym facilities... ):
After having clay pot rice for dinner once we were back in Singapore, we headed to the gym at my place for the sake of our crying bulging bellies HAHAH. Really got some working out to do after my recent binges - at bangkok, at the buffet and lastly at Malacca.

I should be busy as hell for the next two weeks because of the two assignments that I have to hand in but one of my lecturers extended the deadline SO YES I do get to have a little break today before plunging myself into dreamweaver for the next 10 days or so. Hah it seems like every time I actually do get to blog, my first mention is always school work isn't it. Sigh.

Well anyway, just this weekend, I spent it with the bunch which I haven't seen in quite a while. God I really miss them especially Trisha because we've both just been so caught up with our course assignments we don't even text each other anymore?? LOL. That is until about two weeks ago.
On Saturday, we went back to visit our favourite primary school teachers at Canberra's Open House. Damn, I really miss that place even though a lot has changed and many teachers have come and gone. But majority of the teachers who have impacted me the most during my years as a primary school kid (e.g. Mr Fauzy and Mrs Sebastian) were still around and being able to talk to them now but from a different standpoint is kinda heartwarming. :)

I guess it's just one of those days where you take a trip down the memory lane that leaves you with nothing but nostalgia. Hahaha.



On Sunday, the rest of us with the exception of Miao Lin and Jerry planned for their birthday surprise that was taking place in the evening! I basically slaved my entire afternoon on dreamweaver and was famished when I headed out for dinner with them. Taste of Thailand is just sooooo good.
So it was just dinner, followed by KTV where their respective partners would come in and surprise them with cake! Um, Brandon did the worst job of trying to be less obvious because while me and Miao Lin were screaming to Super Bass while everyone else claimed to have gone to the toilet, he just skipped our song out of nowhere and held our room door open for a minute as if expecting someone to appear LOL.

Miao Lin obviously saw through it but Jerry was just blur. But neither expected their partners to arrive hehehe (thumbs up to Trisha and Victor for contacting them and all) so things turned out really great!
It's been ages since I took my DSLR out man and I finally brought it out for some air just yesterday. So yay to higher res (but grainy due to the crazy high ISO) photos!


























We kinda ended everything off with releasing the sky lantern. Hehe so smart of me to decide to get an extra one on New Year's Eve. Though it's not the first time I'm doing this, it still has this sort of whimsy feel to it somehow. Guess I'll never get bored of these things.
And how could we end a birthday without any mess right? Almost immediately after, we took out the water bombs that Trisha has prepared and started tossing them all over. Typical us being typical kids. Hahah this is why I enjoy their company ^_^

That pretty much concludes my weekend! Thank you Brandon for sending me home, and for helping me with my work even though I was starting to go hysterical from the pressure. It's been a tiring week, but I'm blessed to have the people around me that never fails to support and motivate me :) Thank you guys <3