whoa, my legs ache like crazy! from all the helping out in my cousin's wedding. and haha, wearing high heels at that. but yeah, it was fun! talking to the aunties and uncles while helping to give out the 'door gifts', they are pretty friendly :) and of course, talking to my cousins, nieces and nephews. food was awesome as per normal. i tried the chocolate fondue thingy for the first time! ahaha :D
nah dinah, this pic specially for you. haha agaknya bila abang-abangku naik pelamin? :P
SISC cultural night went great, alhamdulillah. and i thought yesterday was pretty fun! sharah and haslinda are funny to the max sey, tak boleh angs ah! haha and the playing of games with angklungnites :) thanks mum, bro and sis for coming down to support me!
"Don't think that coming for CCA practices is a waste of time. Don't feel that while you are practicing, you are losing out to your friends who are mugging at home because you are developing your soft element in your brain."---Mr Dzul
(taken from qimin's blog)
i made the right choice joining angklung, just like with NPCC in secondary school :)
k this was ages ago but i thought he sang this song rather well.
How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
what if you feel suffocated just by looking at the content you need to cover for history? what if you know you have to work hard but your brain refuses to absorb anymore information? what if you feel like giving up and no words of motivation could make you persevere? what if you are so pressed for time but one maths question can hold you back for more than half an hour? what if everything and anything seems to be more appealing than studying? what if your brain can't retain anything it's given? what if what if what if .....
omg, i love durians! i ate durians for breakfast yesterday and lunch today. da bombzzzzzz man!!! haha. i don't know how, like really HOW, my brother can stand NOT being able to eat them his WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE. it's like super duper totally to the max sweet and creamy and i really have to thank my uncle for buying them for us. i just like ate a whole packet of durians. woohoo!!! i've been liking durians like since don't know when la. i can eat EVERYTHING related to durian. like durian puffs, durian ice kachang, durian cake, durian porridge, man you name it! haha, my favourite fruit of all time. even my second most favourite fruit, mango, doesn't come close. haha.
yay yay, durian all the way! maybe i should go find a durian blogskin.
and wooperdeedoo, my elder sis just got her driving license. :)
wooperdeedoo. breeks cafe dinner with sisters was fun! duhh la, free food what right :P
haiz, my dear minah sister just loves staring at mats openly. tsk tsk.
my classic avocado won hands down la. but i seriously had trouble finishing it. hehe
see that teeny weeny fry in my elder sister's hand? my younger sister got angry cause she kop it from her food.
delicious!
my sisters sho pweety!
it took quite a while for our food to come and my sister got impatient.
this is called nothing better to do. haha, but i didn't join them ah, don't worry.
and oh, cause my mum threatened to cane us if we came back after 8 pm, we literally ran from braddell mrt back home past the traffic lights and blocks of flats. funny la, cause my younger sister's pants were slipping and my elder sister needed to pee. haha! should have seen the way they ran. great night out girls, minus the super cold marina square air-con la that is.
:D (and i learnt that marina square is not actually at marina bay)
i love meet-ups. so thank you deepthi, yvonne, vathany, syikin, diyanah and fateha :) it's been really nice talking to you all.
and i've been eating out quite frequently nowadays. meaning my cash is kinda depleting :( gotta start saving up again now. recently i invaded bedok corner and seoul garden. seoul garden was like whoa, eat like never eat for months sey! it was super funny la, haslinda and sharah's jokes. didn't know all the petite ppl in angklung could eat so much, surprise surprise! even after we left, they were still taking food from the buffet table, haha.
so now's pretty much just mugging for upcoming common test. insyallah boleh lulus semua.
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible. -Bertrand Russell
i realise that when something bad happens, like out of the blue, i will get affected very easily. my thoughts will be affected and my emotions, possibly too. i don't know why but maybe it's because like for that moment, i lost control of my life. well, it may sound ridiculous but i prefer to have control over my life. my actions and my thoughts. i like everything to be order so when something disrupts the way i perceive the day to be, i get agitated. i do admit that this is a weakness but now, i am learning to take things in my stride. being more positive. maybe it's a sign that i'm maturing. haha :) ___________________________________________________________________________________
anw, this year's mother's day was really special. for the first time, me and my sisters decided to bake a cheesecake for our mum! it's sth she's always wanted to do and she said she was glad we fulfilled it for her. alhamdulillah, it turned out great, like seriously, it was delicious! can ask my brother who ate a lot but had refused to help us bake it. -____-
and on sat, went for a dialogue session on counterterrorism. i found it extremely insightful and interesting. the speakers were really funny and nice to listen to. it made me think about a lot of things and inspired me to learn more about my religion :) on a side note, the food served was great too, haha.
We all learn even from the earliest stages of schooling that we should put ourselves in the other person's shoes, we should make an effort to see every issue from all sides, and ultimately we will arrive at a better understanding of people and learn not to fear but rather love one another. But we don't.
It is perhaps human nature to cry foul when we feel we are on the losing end in life. Yet, we do not possess the character to call for justice when we are winning in life. If anything, this behaviour is symptomatic of just how self-centered we are as people.
-Tony Yee, Broader Perspectives-
i guess i am guilty of that.
mr dzul shared the possible reasons as to why we got bronze, on wednesday. part of me could not accept the utterly 'what duh' reasons but part have me has kinda moved on. i mean, the disappointment will always be there but oh wells, there's many other things to look forward to :)
and stupid me went to blew the surprise we were gonna have for mum on mother's day. i went home asking my sister (like a bit too loud cause she was upstairs while i was downstairs) whether we were baking the cake for mum. there was silence for a moment and by the time i realised my mistake, the damage was done. AHHHHHHH! haiz. dumb sey!
went to rj drama just now with safa. it was kinda hard to understand. okay, frankly, i didn't understand the plot at all. but i thought the acting was good. yeah and i enjoyed the night-walk with safa :)
and of course, congrats to my dear kak sulaiha for being accepted to medicine in NUS! haha, i was telling my brother how weird it felt. like 10 years ago, we were playing doctor-doctor (as in pretending to be doctor and patient), using the earpiece as a stethoscope! but then, 10 years down the road, my sister is going to be a real doctor. how time flies eh.
today, i talked to my friend mi dzung who's a vietnam scholar. she was telling me about her vision to fight corruption in her country due to her personal experiences. the reason why she is studying very hard now is because she wants to attain a position that will enable her to make that change in her country. so, she's found her purpose in life. now, i'm inspired to do the same.
so, my whole family headed down to macs at 7am yesterday to eat breakfast. totally love it, like duhh, since their hotcakes are simply the best! haha
managed to rush to causeway point after that for a meeting with mldds exco to discuss on the upcoming competition that we're organising. there was some girl talk after that, haha, seemed like ages since we had one :)
yet again, had to rush home cause we were heading off to grandparents house in johor. surprise surprise cause the house was renovated! it's lovely now, really.
it was really peaceful at the kampung. i love being able to sit outside and read. i saw my grandfather climb a tree and wished i had the opportunity to do the same. since i've never actually done it before. sad right?! and then of course, eating and talking with my grandparents. oh and on the way back, mum bought food and we all got to try the pretzels from auntie anne's. super delicious la, the cinammon and almond one! too bad it's not halal here in singapore :(
and then today, outing with sisters to buy my younger sis' bday present. everyone was in a good mood and i laughed A LOT, like to the max. haha. even my elder sis was nice and treated us to frappe at mccafe. but then, my stomach ached terribly from don't know what la, and all the laughing made it worse. but yeah, i had a good time :D
i've consumed too much chocolate over the past few days. tsk tsk, must learn to resist temptation man. ok, back to work!
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.
nah dinah, this pic specially for you. haha
haiz, my dear minah sister just loves staring at mats openly. tsk tsk.
my classic avocado won hands down la. but i seriously had trouble finishing it. hehe
see that teeny weeny fry in my elder sister's hand? my younger sister got angry cause she kop it from her food.
delicious!
my sisters sho pweety!
it took quite a while for our food to come and my sister got impatient.
this is called nothing better to do. haha, but i didn't join them ah, don't worry.
