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The Chinese New Year holiday is coming to an end, which suddenly made myself give a kick in my own butt to start up my blogging again. It has been awhile, because I just couldn't bring myself to blog about anything. Recently, all I can say to questions like, "How's school?" or "How are you?" is the dissatisfied "Ok lor". I want to say more and I feel like I need to say more, but the words do not flow as easily as I hoped they would. So I am going to attempt to at least write something before I completely give up/forget about blogging. Through some effort on my part to consolidate some of my emotion, I realized that there are changes I need to adapt to as a result of decisions I made this year. Changes that are, I find, not easy to get used to. But I'll find a way! [Here, I am reminded of how my classmates in Tung Ling, Jonathan and Joanne, sang to me the song that goes, "God will make a way, when there seems to be no way" the day I m...

I'm left with about 4 episodes before completing this Korean drama serial, and I'm so glad it is coming to an end. Despite the incredulous but interesting plot/storyline, it is slow-moving and requires that I watch it in silence in the fast forward speed of "x4". There are the "super duper you could die of sugar overload" scenes that can make you go "awwwwww", but I hate the fact that it is the girl who falls in love with the guy first. She chases him and he seems to like her enough to marry her. During their marriage, he appears to love her but he doesn't show it in a way that is obvious enough for the girl to feel secure of his love for her. But at times the girl becomes VERY annoying. There were sooooo many moments where I wished I could tell the girl, "He loves you already lah . He hugs you, buys you an expensive new dress when he is not the kind that will spend money on things like that, he wants to save your marriage and gets jealous...

I rushed home from school and then rushed out again to meet Jien at Outram Park MRT station by 5.45pm. We were rushing to my dad's law firm, the place Tina is working at now, to give Tina a birthday surprise because it was the only time slot all three of us were free. In the train on my way there, I smsed my uncle, asking for 2 favours: 1) Stall for time in case Tina decides to leave work early 2) Help deliver a rose and note to Tina when we arrive My dearest uncle did exactly that and he was so understanding and patient! I also found out that he bought a cake for Tina and got the office staff and lawyers to celebrate with her! She had just sat down for about 15-20 minutes after eating the cake with her colleagues (wow, sounds cool just putting it like that. heh) when my uncle passed the flower and note to her. In a matter of minutes, she read the letter and came down to the reception area where Jien and I were waiting with ice-cream (BEN AND JERRY'S!). By the time we opened th...

I'm going to be alone at home(discounting the presence of my maid) from tomorrow onwards until Thursday. Bummer. My brother is going to be in camp while my parents and sister are flying off to Bangkok tomorrow morning and will only return Thursday night. Those lucky piggies. I WANT TO GO TOO! And it is not like I can give my sister a shopping list of the things she can look out for me and probably buy for me. DOUBLE bummer. So I'm staying in Singapore while they'll be overseas. At dinner today, the subject of my university education came up again. I was playing with the idea of asking for another dog as a super early birthday present. But I was reminded (very cruelly) that if I was going overseas, I cannot get a dog now, or ever, at least until I have come home for good. My dad wasn't even thinking of getting another dog. Man, I miss Keller very much. I hate it when it draws nearer to my bedtime because I'll get so emo and I'll begin to think over and over of K...

Initially, I really didn't want to leave the house for Orchard because the weather(rainy) was perfect for the activity called "staying home". I got myself moving though because One-Third was meeting up with the reason that this was the first weekend Daniel is booking out of camp! The "star" was late though. I met Tina first and indulged in ice-cream while Tina satisfied her cravings for bread and sushi. Eventually, Daniel came. Just before that, we were worried we wouldn't be able to recognize him. Tina even wondered aloud if Daniel would look really 'buff' now. However when he came, we had no problems recognizing him. He looks pretty much the same! Except for the part about his hair:) The 3 of us walked to Rouge to say hi to Bella. After which we walked and walked until we ended up at Coffee Club. Julie met us there and we did alot of talking. Tina embarrassed us many, many times with her extremely loud outbursts of laughter or exclamations. You sh...

When I was 8 years old, my father got a labrador retriever for me. I remember how, as a family, we sat in silence in my parent's room in our house at Pasir Panjang, as we thought of a meaningful name for our new dog. We wanted to make sure that our dog would have a nice name, something that special and unique. Then somebody suggested Keller, inspired by Helen Keller. Labradors were well-known as guide dogs and since we were getting a labrador, we finally decided on the name "Keller". By the time Keller officially arrived in my house, he was already quite big, although you could still consider him a puppy. The one and only time I carried him into the house, it was on someone's(I think mine) birthday. He was only a few months old and yet I was already struggling to keep him in my arms. It was not because he was wriggling about. Instead I remember him to be rather still, actually. Keller just looked around in slight bewilderment as I brought him out of the backyard into ...

To say thank you to Pst Tony for such a WONDERFUL time of listening to him lecture on spiritual journalling, my cell group and Leroy(He was SO sporting!) put up a short medley for him. The medley consists of 4 short songs that Pst Tony sang at one point in his lectures over the 3 days(Mon-Wed) he taught us this module. The first song was "Are you Lonesome Tonight" by Elvis Presley(Pst Tony kept referring to Elvis Presley and sang quite a number of his songs. He even let us listen to 2 songs from an 'extinct' CD). The second song was "Above All"(Again, he referred and sang this song many many many times). The third song was "One Little Boy called David" and the last song was "This little light of mine" but we sang the verse that said, "Don't let satan blow it out, I'm gonna let it shine". I'm presently uploading the video clip onto our Tung Ling Multiply group website. When it's done there, I'll post it over h...