1st Genting trip!

back from Genting...

1st trip there, and it was AwEsOmE!! great company, great time... highly entertatining and fun bunch of people, and just the getaway i needed. (longer would have been nicer of cos, but i guess sometimes u just need to learn to be contented with whatever u get) :D

Thanks are due! to my wonderful big bro. it's been a looooOng time (too long for my liking!) that he's brought me on a trip. i love tagging along on his escapades. haha! dun have to plan/worry abt anything, just go along with the ride and enjoy :) he pays the expenses for me too ;) hopefully there'll be more of such trips to come... :)

got to know estella better, never really talked to her in rj band previously. she's really nice, and very easy to talk to and comfortable to be with :)

got to know Mrs Lee Soon Bee's nephew!! how small is the world man.. pretty cool :P nice guy, grateful to him for the use of his laptop/internet! through him, got another wake up call abt my walk with God.. like.. sheesh i really know far too little than what i should. 1 step at a time.. let's stick to the daily quiet time and 1 book every 2 months for now..

only drawback was the sleep deprivation. fri night on the bus, barely slept, and very interrupted sleep. maybe like 3-4 hours? then sat night... hahah.. slept from 6.30 till 11.15am... attempted to rest/sleep on the bus back (super long journey from 3pm till 10pm...:X) sp that when i get home, can work on that... thing. makes me kinda wish they had chosen someone else to talk.. DuN LIkE being high profile.

so... it's gonna be a long night ahead. Thank God for the good short break, the fun and laughter, and the safe journey home.. now to commit the rest of the night into His hands... :)

of breaks and holidays..

who could have predicted that when i applied for 2 weeks leave then, the actual 2 weeks break would turn out so differently from planned/intended?

firstly, the 2 weeks was meant for overseas holiday.. in perth and melbourne. Aus trip put on hold cos Grandma just went for operation (at the grand age of 89...) to remove 1 big 2 small tumours, now comfirmed to be malignant. the most irritating thing is... now after the op, we're all like clueless as to what next... because we have no way of knowing if the cancer cells have spread, how long more etc (what a morbid thought..) so aside from the increased urgency of sharing the Gospel with Grandma, we're just taking it slow, and praying for as painless a recovery as possible...

Well, back to the topic of how plans change - i have no complains la. first week was spent mostly with shuen :) i'm glad for the quality time we had together... and wells.. a bit sad that it was prob my last sleepovers there since they're gonna sell the house. oh yes, a highlight was the 4 of us meeting up! our 'clique-less people clique'.... lol... entertaining to watch shuen and cheryl 'flirt', though i was so darn tired that night. haha.

and of cos, the finger-lickin good michelin standard dinners cooked by Ah Kor! Shu's aunt :) 1 a very sinful gong bak bao (i ate ALL the fats k... haha) and another healthy popiah session. YUM!

then there was shopping with dot on sat... oh man.. hahahaha 2 aunties lugging stuff around singapore...

oh and, clique outing on thurs.. but jojo didnt come :( SAD! watched The Lovely Bones, made me wanna re-read the book... oh and many thanks to 2 lovely girls for helping me with my prom shopping... u know who u are! :P

a relaxing and heart warming Sunday spent with my baobao after church, our first prayer and fasting session, and C.E.T class. silly LENAS... of all times to have their internet fail, it had to be then! GRRRRRR. Thank God for M.O.F upstairs.. tho we wasted precious time and $ and caused much frustration to baobao... (i wonder tho, if i hadnt tried to find another location, what would he have done? heh)

and this week... its already thurs!!! time FLIES man. been slacking at home with occasional outings. and also, all the Prom stuff to settle, of cos. quite exciting. tho unfortunately, my last min nature shows again... haha...

wanna give thanks to Jesus for my results :) this whole 3-year journey... would never have made it through without Him, and lots of support and encouragement from beloved folks of s8 and s11!

a lil ambivalent about upcoming tasks.. may God's name be glorified through me, come what may :)

met my baobao and his navy friends for dinner at Tamp Mall last night.. what a jovial bunch! that darren... wah... so 'irritating' now they all know how loud i can be... whooops!

re-connected with Xin xin too... so so nice playing with her on tues! she's SUCH a darling... so precocious.. so obedient... so adorable... so sweet... so well-behaved and well-mannered... no wonder jing min said "if only she was ours....".... muahahhaa! looking forward to seeing her more often... hopefully later today! :)

dinner at pastamania on tues with the girls... walked from PS to Bugis for mango dessert with Shuling! oh man... walked there with all the barang i had, darn heavy... lol. good exercise though. haha. and yummy desserts at 记得吃！will definitely go back for more... so many more flavours to try :)

alright, i'm STARVING. lunch time for me!

need /want to sleep more!

munching on my meatball marinara subway now... lol. children's nap time ending soon, sobs! but, HURRAY cos holidays start next week! at least, i finally get to relax for a while... seriously need to sleep more and just slack and exercise.. now no time for anything!

going to sgh later to visit grandma.. must really pray hard for a speedy recovery with no complications for her.. so sad la, 89 years old liao, then still got to go for operation... no joke man.

it's been very entertaining and enriching working at TCC. subtly picking up skills here and there... and getting 'bullied' occasionally by the kids. haha. but i am most certainly very happy here.. :) (except that the sleep debt has caused me to sometimes feel sian in the morning, but usually once i get here and see the kids i get all perked up)

i wonder when the writing test results will come out? if i can get exemption, then the chances of me going M trip are higher... :) put it this way, if i have the writing course to go for, i definitely cant go M trip. on the same subject of overseas hols, my Aussie trip is on hold.. and church camp at sunway lagoon (!!!) clashes with start of school :X DARN SAD!!! i wanna pon school to go... heh... oops

wells Thank God i have my staycation with bf to look forward to. tho its partly due to that making me sleep deprived - been staying up till 12+ to search for the best bargain. finally found one that i am quite pleased with... just keeping my fingers crossed that it will indeed be good :)

dot has signed up for theory test liaos.. i should too, asap. next mon ba!

and there's this weird interview for i-dunno-what with HMS on fri... ~shrugs~ i just wish we knew what it's for

been quite a nice couple of weeks tho, i meet up with my baobao regularly, watched like 3 movies (if u know me well enough u should know i typically DON"T watch movies at the cinema... haha), ate at nice places, met people whom i rarely see! aka 'shifu's' parents (i guess calling her shifu is just more reminiscent of old times), Mrs Lee, Aunt Mary... :) very interesting visits.

oh and, shu's back!!! sleepovers next week... i hope :)