I've been enjoying my shortlived holidays quite a lot. However, not working this holidays make me feel a little empty inside. I'm such a workaholic.

Ever since the start of the holidays, I've been shopping, meeting up with my friends and going to places which I've not been for quite some time. Shopping with my cousins and christmas celebrations have been really fun!

Finally, I visited the birdpark again yesterday! :):) Visiting my old friends(the birds) at the birdpark is just lovely. The feeling is just so nice. I had lories jumping on me at lory loft and parrots licking me at parrot paradise. I really really love the iris lorikeets, cockatoos(sulphur crested, blue eyed, moruccan), sun conures(hey, that's the breed of my pet bird too!) and red faced eclectus parrots. And there was this cute couple, they followed suit when they saw me letting the iris lorikeets lick my fingers. haha!
And the pair blue eyed cockatoos that came to the front of the cage to play with me are so so so loving! They were caressing one another! :)

Thinking if I should visit the zoo and bodyworlds next week!

I'll update some news related stuff on my other blog. You can go read once I update.
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Today's christmas eve! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
Christmas spells the end of the year. As the year draws to an end, I can't help but think of everything that has happened in the year. Hopefully you friends out there had an awesome year!

So much happened in the year for me. Both happy and sad. Earlier in the year, I remember myself and my UOL friends being extremely stressed from the UOL exams. To yanqi, peiying, alicia, weiling, sophia, sabrina and my other uol friends, do press on for the exams for the next 2 years alright? :)

Then after the exams, I made my decision to switch to State University of New York, University at Buffalo, Arts in Communications. That was quite a hard decision to make but I surely am not regretting it. I'm relieved that I switched course to something I like and enjoy. I think it's really important to do something you really enjoy so that you don't just do it for the sake of doing it.

After which, I had the very special opportunity of an internship at Mediacorp. My internship there was a really fun one, getting to know how everything works for the current affairs and news and getting to know the people there. They are awesome, really. Got to know quite a few lovely friends there. Cheers to irregular work hours! I love it!

Halfway through my period of internship, something heartbreaking happened. My grandmother passed away. She was suddenly being hospitalised and then just passed on. It really came as a big heartbreak to me more than anything else. Well, at least I left work early in the morning and spent the entire afternoon with her, by her hospital bed before she died. I'm still missing her badly and will never get over her death for the rest of my life. Yes yes, I am emotional, so be it. No one has the right to stop me from being emotional over her death because no one will understand those feelings that I feel for her. I still feel her presence around during some nights but I don't see her physical self. How I wish I'll see her spirit sometime.

Then, I started my UB life soon after and had loads of work. But all was worth it I guess.

Now's christmas! Time really passes so fast! I celebrated it at Edna's place together with all my cousins, aunts and other relatives! It was extremely fun and Renee's super cute! :D She's such a cutie pie! And a real tiny one indeed! But something feels missing without my grandma around. :( Even though I did enjoy myself with all the food and company, it just won't be the same without her. And as I type this, I'm crying and crying:(

Okay, year's coming to an end soon! I wish all of you my friends a merry blissful christmas and a happy new year! :)

My father is a KAYPO FREAK. DAMN IDIOT! :S get out of my sight please.
I shall not make myself angry over such useless freaks.
Forget it.


Anyway, yesterday's christmas party at Rachel's place was super fun! :D
People who were present were Rachel, Jun Ying, Liyin, Shu Ling, Li Ni, Justin, Marilyn and me!
Too bad Celeste was sick. :(
We ate so much food! :) GLUTTONS!
Photos up on facebook on chuyuan and junying's profiles!
And not forgetting, I simply love Rachel's dog!

I've been shopping and shopping ever since the hols started. Actually, I didn't spend as much as past years though I think I shopped more. I think I spent on clothes that are less expensive, either that or the prices of clothes I buy went down. But still, money seems to be flying away. And more outings to come with friends. Sighs. Next time maybe I end up eating only bread when I go out.


The next semester is starting in about 2 and a half weeks. I'm looking forward to it although it spells me becoming super duper busy because of projects, assignments, quizzes, exams! And I'm taking 6 modules next semester! So I'll have to work doubly hard I guess!

HAHA! I'm a little slow here!
But anyway! EXAMS ARE OVER! AND IT'S TIME FOR SHOP SHOP SHOPPING!!
busy busy busy shopping!

Really am glad the exams are over.
I'm like booked almost everyday for next week! seriously crazy partying up ahead. haha ok not really party party but celebrations.
today(sat): shopping later in the afternoon! :D
Sunday: most probably going for the Dan and Young run in the morning and then shopping with my younger cousins in the afternoon.
Mon: out with christina, valerie, terence, debbie, isaac, jeremiah and a few more to Flying Chillies! YAY!
Tues: to rachel's house for the Xmas Party with liyin, rachel, celeste, junying, lini, chuyuan, shuling, justin, marilyn.
Wed: possibly shopping again!
Thurs: Christmas eve party at my older cousin's house! WHEE!
Fri: Christmas Day. No concrete plans yet but I think I know what I'm gonna do!


Crazy hols! Wanted to work but since the hr haven't told me anything about needing extra staff and another department is having a whole group holiday leave, hahaha I guess this holiday will be spent not working. Quite unproductive right?!?!
Nevermind. It's okay.


Waiting for my 2 cousins to be back from taiwan! haha such a long wait! But they'll be back today!! :D
And I guess I'll use this holidays to brush up on my korean language..something i haven't touched for an extremely long time.


Although there's so much fun stuff going on now, I still can't get over the sad stuff. Sighs. I guess I'll never be able to. I may be happy at one moment but sad at another. That's the emotional me for you! I wouldn't say being emotional is bad. In fact, I think being emotional helps one's feelings to flow naturally. Well, in a way.

And oh gosh! I want to go to the BirdPark! Damn. Haven't been there for so long and can you imagine, my aunties went there last sunday without me! Because I was still having exams. Sighs. I don't care, I am going this week no matter what! I don't care whether I have to pay for the admission tickets or not! HAHAH!

And ARGHS! Damn irritated with my parents. They are totally idiotic creatures. They screamed at me and nagged at me nonstop for an hour last night. For no reason at all. IDIOTIC AND RETARDED CREATURES. Such big bullies. Get it straight! YOUNG PEOPLE DO NOT THINK AND ACT IN THE SAME WAY AS YOU MUCH MUCH OLDER GENERATION PEOPLE DO AND THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH IT OK! Shoo if you just can't understand this man. Stupid people.

Love you Ms Ek! :)

Although I had to tackle my final paper for this sem in the afternoon today, I still decided to spend the morning at my secondary school(rv) at the boon lay campus.

I guess Ms Ek's just as important as my exams! :)

Special thanks to Mr Choy Ban Heng who informed me about the farewell for Ms Ek today.

Admittedly, I was rather affected when I found out that Ms Ek is being posted out of RV. I couldn’t concentrate 100 percent when I was studying for my sociology paper the next day. Being the emotional person I am, I felt totally awful.

She's been really the best ever principal whom I’ve come in touch with and probably the most caring one ever. Although most of my time in RV was one filled with joy, there were also periods where I felt so down, especially when I didn’t fare well academically for a particular year where absolutely too many unwanted things occurred and zoomed out of my control. She stood by me and gave me the encouragements which I really really needed at that point of time. With the exception of her and a handful of other teachers, no one else really stood by me. But what really touched me were Ms Ek’s words. They were filled with genuine love and concern, something which even my parents didn’t give me during that time. In fact, my parents were wet blankets at that time. The support shown by Ms Ek and that little handful of teachers helped me pull through that tough period, especially Ms Ek’s.

And of course not forgetting, she’s been with RV for a long 10 years(something most principals wouldn’t have the chance to). Throughout my 4 years in RV, out of which 3 years were when Ms Ek was the principal(my first year was Mr Tham). I’ve seen how much heart and soul she put in although many of my friends complain about her(well, mostly for no valid reason at all! Haha!) Really.

Anyway, today’s farewell was just a simple one in the new rv campus at boon lay. But it was so touching that I cried when the powerpoint messages were being screened. Then there were the speeches by my dear vice principal Ms Soh Kah Lay who cried halfway through. After which, we had the flower presentation to Ms Ek and then the mini lunch buffet.

Me and qingyue prepared a little gift for Ms Ek beforehand so we passed it to her after the ceremony was over. It was just a simple gift of chocolates but I hope she’ll like it.

Ms Ek’s leaving of RV is really one that is bittersweet. I guess it’s good for her to join moe hq and of course I’m sure she’ll enjoy her future journey but at the same time, it’s really sad to see her leave. Some of the teachers were tearing today too. That should be enough to show how lovely she is.

Love you Ms Ek!

Whee! My last paper will be on this monday! Yay, date me out friends! Well, before I get a job or get other commitments. hahah.

I'm so tired trying to practice using all those computer science stuff! Html is quite interesting but at the same time, it's difficult...especially the javascript part. I hope the paper will be more manageable!

Bye! I'm back to revising my stuff for CSE!
:)

I would like to dedicate a post to Ms Ek.

Just last night, I received information from one of my ex-teachers in RV that our dearest RV principal, Ms Ek is leaving. After I got the news last night, it affected me quite a bit as I really liked her.

I'm really really sad that she has to leave RV after having contributed so much to the school and when the school is finally going to shift to the boonlay campus, where the efforts really go to her and of course, not forgetting the teachers and students(me too!) who also contributed in terms of funds. I remember clearly those days when I was still in rv, at the west coast campus. That was the time when Ms Ek started collecting funds for the building of the new campus. She roped all of us into the donation of funds, to get our friends, family, relatives and so on to help raise enough funds for the construction. I'm proud to mention that I've played a part in it and as an alumni now, seeing the building ready for use for my juniors, I feel a sense of elatedness.

And I remember her addressing us during assembly that she spent sleepless nights mapping out the new campus architecture together with the architects. After that, when she showed us the temporary plan of the new building and all, we were all so excited over it.

Then came the time we moved to the commonwealth campus as a temporary site before the new site will be completed. The planning were still continued and when the final plan came out, I believe it was around the time when we were about to graduate.

Thinking of all the efforts put in by Ms Ek, and seeing the land at the boon lay site turn from nothing to such wonderful and beautiful buildings with pretty surroundings as I pass by almost everyday on the way to school or to the mrt, I can't help but tear when I got the news of her leaving.

Ms Ek, you were really a wonderful principal in my heart. You never failed to spur the students on with your kind words and demeanor. And not forgetting all the caring and encouraging words you gave me. It was really touching. For all that you did, I salute you! You're really the best principal I've come across. Thank you!

Well, 2 of my papers are over now. Which is good news!
But the first paper(communications) was a killer! Everyone was complaining about it after it ended. And trust her to tell us that it's manageable and easy. I can't believe it was that difficult and I wonder how badly I'll fare. I'm seriously super afraid.
Today's paper(sociology) was much better although I defined something wrongly. But overall, it was considerably okay in my opinion.

Now I'm left with just 1 paper! :D Computer science paper. I hope all goes well!

Decided to come and blog because of something, which I'll mention in my next post because I want to dedicate one whole post to the matter.

Just had the urge to blog after reading some of my friends' blogs.
It's really really a busy period, that's right, preparing for finals. Although the finals take up 20%, 20% and 25% respectively, it still, it is rather important in my opinion because it'll somehow affect our final grades.
So I'm trying to keep away as much as possible from some possible distractions, with the exception of watching CNA online and listening to 93.3, 95.8 and 98.7! =D
And study as best as I can.

Anyway, I really miss work a lot, especially the friends I made there. Wonder if I can go there again during my super short hols. Hopefully. Haha, I'm praying hard!

Also, this is a rather emotional period for me. I still miss my grandmother loads. And while exam stress is building up, it does not help. So if I do cry suddenly, please don't be astonished alright?

:)Okay, I think that'll be all for now. I'll update again after 14dec probably!