today turned out to be an unexpectedly happy and fulfilling day...

started off as a sleep-deprived zombie editing the IEP report at 6+am... edit edit then write own reflection then more editing before finally finishing all the editing ard 11am, which ironically was the originally stated dateline. lol.

took my time to get ready to go school to hand in peer evaluation form, as my part of editing was complete though the rest were fighting against time to print print print then bind and SUBMIT!! everything fell into place, thank God for His grace, cos Iryanti was nice enough to wait in HMS office till 2pm giving us sufficient time to tie up all the loose ends. ~beams~

managed to squeeze out time to visit my beloved Cove kids... i am biased but i just adore the 2+ and 3+ year olds.. somehow younger children just have this special appeal to me. and the 3+ year olds, as my first proper batch of kids will always have a special place in my heart :) just sitting them and patting them to sleep during their nap time also nice... little things like their individual unique smiles, how some of them scrunch up their eyes and squeeze them tight when i whisper to them to close their eyes and go to bed, how KY who was originally soundly asleep suddenly got up, flung off the blanket (which i had covered her with, oops! apparently, it was too warm. haha) and then settled down to bed again just warms my heart.. speaking of warm, i was also like "oops" when Ms M told me that the other time when i helped N put on his jacket before nap, he woke up suddenly crying cos it was too warm. uh oh... hahaha.. looks like i shouldnt be too quick to assume that they'll feel cold. guess the Cove has adjusted the air-conditioning to be warmer too hehe!

then, i convinced my OB project grp to go suntec for Astons celebratory lunch with me! :) poor them, all so tired, hungry and "seh" still got to walk walk walk so long b4 we finally enjoyed our meal... hee hee. photos up another time. anyway, that late lunch (3 pm) was super filling, and after lazing somewhat, we settled at MOF nextdoor (hurray for empty tea time cafes, 30% student discounts and MOF priviledge card! muahaha) and had the shortest YET most productive OB project meeting to date. See, satisfied people and nice environment plus good food works wonders for brain cells k.. i bet if i was in school, i'll be too sian to contribute anything. (oops.. :P) kudos to amy who as usual is the one who gets us started... many thanks gal :) great job :) oh and happy belated bday.... hahahaha... hope u enjoyed ur mini bday celebration eating brownie with melting ice cream and SABOTEUR!!!

speaking of which, i have really started the saboteur craze among the few of us ever since i intro-ed that game... yest's game was really the ultimate. i will forever rmmr how sherlene successfully conned EVERYONE into believing she's a gold-miner so much so that Evie unblocked her, only to have Sherlene bomb up a path! AND THEN, justina also declared she was a saboteur! oh MAN.... so cunning! she was the one who replaced the path that i bombed lor!!! sneaky... hahah... but really really great moves by these 2 lil darlings :) will miss them.. just glad we got to work on these last few projects tgt! :) hope we keep in touch and meet up for SaboTeuR gatherings!!! muahahha....

so, that super efficient OB meeting ended b4 5pm... couldnt believe it was so early, thus i tempted dot into shopping at cotton on with me.. lol.. and we spent an hour there on some pretty decent buys. so, quite happy too.

journeyed home, got a seat on the crowded mrt, ate some veg for dinner, read 8 days in the living room (family always complain i spend too much time cooped up in my room so was attempting to be sociable haha) and the M started making noise about the state of our living room.. think she was somewhat venting her frustrations on bro and i, tho of cos we have our flaws too. but like, er, is it our fault that the printers are placed there and that there are so many wires and plugs in the living room? nothing to do with me wor... so ya best is to keep quiet and do what she wants you to do. so, cleared some of my stuff out of the living and dining room. and then retreated to my room.

9.10pm now, should go sleep.. dear God please help me get a good night's rest and replenish my sleep debt incurred yest... and take away my eye bags too... (oops so bimbo haha).

happy :) shall blog about the things i like and would love to pamper myself with another time... hahhaha....

it's a sunny saturday afternoon and i am lazing on my bed, intermittenly editing the final report for submission on monday, with many long breaks in between spent watching "Fathers and Sons" (TVB hk drama)

gonna have lunch soon then go CNY shopping with my family :)

i guess the urgency of the LAST 2 ASSIGNMENTS of my poly life hasnt really sunk in yet that's y i am still feeling relatively relaxed as of now. haha. Or, maybe it's due to my typical 'last minute syndrome' and the fact that i have wonderful group mates who are accomodating to my working style.. and who get things moving when i slack. hee. I hope that i do pull my weight though and make up for all my sian-ness during project meetings with my last min work! :D

in lecture theatre now.. hahaha thank God that can use laptop cos got electrical outlet. heh heh. was attempting to multi task but err not very successful alr. Mrs tian's lecture quite funny ma. ahahah.

thank God that cell for this week is shifted to fri night! so at least i have tonight to work on OB..

last minute me again. ah wells!

the weekend was rather happy, got to know more of bear's friends and another family of cute kids. :)

it's week 7 alr... can't wait for week 9 to come! church camp in malacca!! woohoo~ :)

i'm glad this storm is over :)

looking forward to meeting my mei for dinner tmr! squeezing out time from assignment-chionging to meet her. havent seen her in ages! more than a year. haha. :)

my bro has free tickets to Jennifer's Body for this mon to wed! sadly dotdot has to do assignment and cant spare time to watch it... her FAVE genre - horror. *shivers* horror is not my thing.. i stick to romantic comedy or hk/chinese influenced shows :) hmm korean and jap are fine too.

Thank God i FINALLY have some idea how to do the silly AYC checklist...

and Thank God for the highly entertaining chat with TWW on thurs night on msn. was so nice chatting with her again :)

probably only 3 people wouldn't mind me turning to them when i need someone to confide in. at least, they're the ones whom i feel i can turn to cos they've been constantly showering me with love and concern, especially at certain specific periods

the first one, will probably never see this cos i dont think the person reads this or know of its existence

the second one, is the one i would still watch a movie with despite being sick and yet enjoy myself.. :) *ishi ishi*

the third one, just triggered an emotional night and an avalanche of tears and probably doesnt know it.

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it's mommy's bday today. should have video-ed her expression when kor n i gave her the presents haha. the hours spent doing the photo collage were worth it. 10+pm then my bro and i went to her room to wish her happy bday, and she was in the midst of exclaiming ("complaining") that where got people wish the bday person only at night right before the bday person sleeps, when i pre-empted her by taking out the collage. hahaha. her expression was so cute. all smiles :) then kor gave her the wrapped up hp :) we asked her to guess, she guessed a watch. (maybe next year? lol) but yes i think she was quite happy cos after that she totally forgot about 'complaining' how we wish her so late at night instead of first thing in the morning. (plus i explained cos i havent finish the photo collage yet.. thats why havent give her present and wish her :S )

no bday cake / candles for her to blow out though.. but well to her it doesn't hold the symbolism that it does to me so no issue.

so that's mission accomplished 1 :)
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ali, gin, oct, swe and i shared a bouquet for xh's bday, ali initiated it, cos she felt bad not being able to celebrate with xh on that day due to law exams. (the good thing with society today is how so many things can be delivered tho one cant be physically there. she originally wanted to order a cake, but xh's mum said dun need. cos their familyalr getting. haha) i helped to coordinate with xh's family and the florist/restaurant to have it delivered to the restaurant on xh's bday night where she was having family dinner. she got a pleasant surprise :) Thank God the heavy rains didnt interfere with the delivery of the bouquet to that bukit timah area!

so that's mission accomplished 2 :)

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the 3rd and toughest mission of all............

ALL THE SCHOOL ASSIGNMENTS + IEP. Sigh. so many things to do. hElPppppP!!!

i want to sleep... it is not funny to not be able to sleep especially when you're trying to recover from flu/fever...

dun understand why i keep waking up in the middle of the night and either take forever to fall asleep or cant fall asleep after that

i want my baobaobao...

i am hungry...

6 days to physical fitness test. am i ready?

hahahaha. wat do YOU think... (obviously not la.)
2.4 should be ok, but not shuttle run, incline pull up (think u-l-t-r-a w-e-a-k a-r-m-s), and standing broad jump. i have an MC for standing broad jump though.. but quite pointless cos it's either i get exempted from everything or nothing. actually i hope to pass everything and get a Bronze. ah wells.

Why do we go with the flow

Or take an easier road?

Why are we playin' it safe?

Love came to show us the way

Love is a chance we should take

I'm movin' out of the way

Don't let your lights go down

Don't let your fire burn out

'Cause somewhere, somebody needs a reason to believe

Why don't you rise up now?

Don't be afraid to stand out

That's how the lost get found

The lost get found

finally got into my hotmail account and cleared the emails that piled up over the week. my silly hotmail was down or somethingla! (GRRRR) and found this song from a friend... Britt Nicole's The Lost Get Found.

i have to confess. life gets so busy with the 101 (x infinity) that we need to do or want to do or should be doing. at least, thats how i feel now with the start of school.. my energy is focused on getting thru each day, following each lesson and keeping up to date with assignments and datelines. it's the last sem afterall, and tonnes of assignments due around EVERY corner. suffice to say, there's always work to be done. (important but not urgent? ahaha) throw in all the other committments, like time in church, cell, puppetry, exercising (or rather, attempting to train for NAPFA test next wed), plus things i want to do (prepare 'nutritious' food to bring to sch), that really doesnt leave much time and energy for much else.

side note: havent even been getting enough sleep! It's like 4.08am now and b4 u exclaim WHY ON EARTH am i up at such an... ORBIT hour when i should be resting, please let me clarify, this is not of my own volition. Nope, nobody pointed a gun and me and ordered me to wake up. i just couldn't sleep. was lying on my bed and sniffing away using tissue to stuff my nose and being conscious that i was awake and that i want to sleep... yet just.. couldn't. went to bed ard 10. woke up at 2 plus 3. so only slept 4+ hours. Well done to me. this at a time when i purposely wanted to sleep till 6am at least... sigh. the past few nights alr not enough sleep and was feeling ill yest, sneezing away with runny nose. so really wanted to rest more tonight one. SIGH.

listening to that song and thinking about its lyrics reminded me about what this life is supposed to me about... which i am very guilty of frequently neglecting. at the end of the day, souls saved are worth infinitely more than any earthly achievements. yet. it's so easy to get caught up with life. becos being part of this world.. how to not be? (ok is that my excuse) i can only conclude that i still havent learnt to draw a balance and simply be an everyday testimony just by being myself doing everyday things.so help me Lord!

people interested to hear the song can go listen to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtHujNOjItU [this kind of youtube videos i fully support... NOT jap animes. hahahaha ;) ]

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i thank God for my poly clique :P i love them all.. though i guess i'll always wonder if some have completely forgiven me for things i said/did that unintentionally upset/hurt them, i really like having this special group of friends to call my own :) it's something that i never experienced much of before. friends who celebrate your birthday and do things together with.. haha. it's our last sem tgt.. not close to some of them.. hope we keep in touch and not just that, but may the friendship live on and continue to blossom :)

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when i compare the 2, i cant help but feel sad.. i guess it's like how people say it's the bad that helps you appreciate the good. cos the contrast was so great.. it couldnt help but show even clearer how... sad this time round's was.

it's when u assume, subconsiously or otherwise that u get hurt. by your own self. cos you were taking it for granted.

it goes to show a lot about me huh. that.. about the impact i must have made.

maybe i already anticipated it. cos i splurged a lot on myself :D hahaha! bought myself lots of things... now just wondering if i should indulge in that Canon digicam... oh and, Jazz Performance Series Basic class starting on 4 Dec! 12 lessons, 1.5 hours each, fri nights... oh man... for once it's at a timing i can't attend! plus..it's FINALLY the beginner's class... but 40 bucks per lesson... should i or should i not.. havent been to dance classes in more than a year... sad.

anyway actually life isn't that sad. i'm actually reasonably happy :) Dotty friends in school keep me happy :) oh oh! and today Evie and Justina said i have a sexy figure... hahhaa thanks for the compliment but i think it's just FATS lor. so funny yet flattering. ego-boosting. LOL.