I haven't posted in quite a while and there were random things that happened which made me really happy but i always procrastinated noting them down.

I went back to hwachong last week(i think, or was it 2 weeks ago?) to visit random teachers, grab some cheap lunch and just to miss school life. The staff room still looks the same and the same teachers still yell. Yet, i seem to feel like an outsider, someone standing from the outside and peering into this cosy little place. Next year, council wouldn't be the same anymore. Most of the familiar faces and voices will be replaced with new sweet young things. I hate to say this but i think it's a real loss that Mrs Ang is leaving.
When i was sitting on a random canteen bench drinking some ribena(50cents only!), i heard this loud noise which took me 2 seconds to make it out to be "Let's Jam!" I turned and saw a couple of j2s laughing and waving at me and i think that's what people really mean when you get the 'warm, fuzzy feeling' inside. It probably seems like i'm some AA idiot hungry for attention but i sincerely felt humbled to be remembered.

In the midterm break(2 or 3 weeks back) I stayed over at liting's house for a couple of days to have some sort of a study camp. It's the first time i'm allowed to stayover at someone's house and i quite enjoyed it. i'm staying over every friday from now because i go for frisbee with her on saturday and her brother can drive us there. (yes i'm exercising!)

i also went for 1 touchrug training because i was inspired by the naturaland growing occurances of cellulite and fat on my thighs. and tummy. and back. and whatever. sigh

and this other thing that bothers me quite abit. I wonder why people tend to be superficial and i truly believe there's this inner bitch in every girl waiting to be unleashed. i really enjoy reading www.thesuperficial.com because of the tons of tabloid news and and embarrassing photos or celebrities, but WHY, JAMIE? YOU ARE SUCH A BITCH! somehow there's this devil in me(which is awoken by certain friends and certain topics) which takes over the nice, normal person(i'd like to believe there's this nice and normal side of me haha) i usually am.

is it peer pressure? i wish i could find some zen and peace in me. no wonder i cannot get married. haha

I had nothing better to do (actually I had, I was just being lazy) so i modified my blog template a little bit. I just caught A Walk to Remember on channel 5 (yes i know i'm really slow) and I was just so sad! and happy. and i don't really know. I think its such a sappy show yet i can't help falling for how sweet it is. I've been listening to all these love songs recently, and disney ones too and I can't help wishing i was still young enough to believe all those silly childhood fairytale fantasies. Nowadays, I think I've become much more skeptical about things like that, except when I'm watching a movie. Somehow (most) movies draw you into this other world for that hour or two. and when i'm done watching them, the feeling still lingers for a while more as i indulge in these unnecessary fantasies. Ohwell, I guess it's alright to set aside some time to make-believe.

Time for adjusting entries(financial accounting)!

Have been meaning to blog, but ended up procrastinating instead. So many things happened!

Birthday!

Firstly I'd like to thank the people who remembered my birthday. And this means everyone who sms-ed me (I used to get so excited and wanted more people to wish me happy birthday, but now I've realised how it's so much more meaningful when the people who want to wish you really do). And then there's kailing, who was awfully sweet with the 'surprise' balloon and vouchers in the gym locker. And the surprise sunflower bouquet! It feels quite heartwarming because she probably knew I probably wouldn't like it that no one in the school knew me yet, and therefore didn't know it was my birthday(being the AA chics we were haha). And the next surprise was during my LTB lesson. My group bought me a lovely cake! I was honestly surprised for this one, because I've only met them for 5 weeks and thet were sweet enough:) So here's my sincere thanks to Carissa, Desiree, Irving, Sarika, Chuanzhong and Yiru. Finally, the nerdies came over to school before walking down to raffles city to have dinner at cafe cartel. There wasn't much of a surprise element(we somehow like to try to plan some surprise for everyone but i guess now that school's started, everyone is so much busier). Yet, I never fail to feel most at ease in the company of my closest and oldest friends. Life just feels good when we get to spend time with people important to us.

Social Night!

I was brendan's date and I went down with kailing to raffles marina club in a cab(because someone got lost and couldn't make it in time tsk! haha jk). The place was really pretty! with the boats and yatchs in the background, i don't think anywhere else would have been more perfect:) and of course, with brendan as a date, how can i not be entertained? we took countless photos(apparantly he counted and said about 250 HAHA) and did silly things. And also ate alot. And also went to coffee bean at paragon after dinner to chat until late. The rest of the people went to some club (kailing went zouk I think) and I think we were just too tired to do anything apart from sitting down. Unexpectedly, I quite enjoyed myself! I didn't think i was going to want to talk to 2 other people and their dates but maybe because they were such nice people, it was hard to be dao and anti-social. (I fell asleep in the middle for 1 minute though haha).


While trying to flag a cab outside my house



A lovely background, only that my date seemed to have something stuck in between his bottom teeth.HA


Laureeenn!



Trying to re-enact the titanic scene thing we did in the ecaco video haha



People Leaving

I went down to the airport twice, once to send gabriel and the other to send mark off. I missed mindy's, hon's and stef's, which i really wanted to go for but it always at untimely timings! I've always been a sucker for departures and people turning their back and leaving so it wasn't surprising i cried(i remember how my daddy went overseas for about 2 months last time and i cried tooo.i'm such a noob!). But I read in someone's blog a while back(i think it was joy's), how we don't have a good enough reason to make those people stay and miss the wonderful opportunites they are going to have overseas. It's so true, and they aren't even gone for THAT long! I'm learning to be less emo haha.and even though it was mark we were sending off, we hogged the camera for our own photos haha.


sending mark off with (from right) brendan, karin, shuhui, runi



the ones who love ourselves haha

Other Outings!

1. Miss Lim and Nigel, for bringing me out the day before my birthday to Sushi Tei, and then having dessert at Bakerzinn. It made me happy! :)

2. Joy, for asking me to lunch the day after my birthday (even though you didn't even know it was my birthday, you just happened to be free that day. idiot! haha)

3. Yueling, Freddie, Samuel, for bringing me to raffles marina (yes i made them bring me there cos i really loved the place). Dinner was great, as was the scenary, but more so the company! And i'll forgive freddie for trying to drive, and yueling for driving fast at the hump and making me hit my head on the ceiling. Haha.

School

I can't say i love school yet, but some people around have been making things more pleasant. And i'm trying hard not to say "school sucks!" because it's just a little childish and whiney since a lot of people would also be facing the same things i do. I'm still adapting to the multiple school projects, trying to cope with EVPI and debits and credits. Otherwise, things are going pretty okay for me.

BAD TWO DAYS
Did i say things were going fine? Other than these 2 events! I went to gym on Monday, and absent-mindedly forgot to bring my dirty clothes home(i only realised when i got home at 10pm). The next day, I went back to the gym to ask about it and they said that it was probably thrown away already:( it wasmy favourite sports bra and shorts and hwachong shirt toooo

And today, i was leaning over to ask sharon a question during FA class, and having such a small elbow and big table, i was lucky enough to land my elbow right on top of the screen of my mp3. which to my horror, had this awful CRACK and broke into many pieces. VERY SADDENING.

sigh. I swear i didn't walk into the path of a black cat recently!