Recently, my family has been facing the problem of MISSING SOCKS! I’ve already got some suspects on my list already. It’s hilarious. Really! The only people who wear socks in the family are my brother, my dad and me. And my black socks has been missing for quite a long time already. At first I had around 3 pairs? Now its reduced to zero! Either its my dad or my brother. But the point is my socks are much SMALLER than theirs because they have longer feet! Plus, I’m sure its one of them because all my black socks are gone but the coloured ones like hot pink and purple are still there (intact). Argh. What kind of family members steal socks! LOL.
Nineteen
28
Oct
Counting from now, 364 more days till I reach the big TWO. Every year during my birthday, I would get reminded of how old I am now. Nineteen is pretty old, at least to me. As usual, this year my birthday fell during the exam period but for the first time, it landed exactly on one of my exam days. Lucky or not? I have to admit that I wasn’t in the mood to celebrate my birthday at all. I mean, which normal soul would be?
Surprise surprise. Definitely surprised. I didn’t expect anyone to celebrate with me actually. I was expecting it like last year, since everyone was stressed out by A’s, we celebrated it over a meal and thats about it. After that was still books, books and more books. This year wasn’t really DIFFERENT, we still celebrated it over a meal but the difference was huge. I was pleasantly surprised. Very surprised (:
I’m a lucky girl. I feel very fortunate to have such good friends and family members.
After my Business Statistics paper (which fortunately didn’t crush my mood, it was easier than Accounting at least), I went to find YinXiu. First surprise, I never expected her to get something for me. And I did not expect RENZHI to get something for me :X In the morning when he text me, he was still joking around telling me that my present would be a contract with IKEA’s meatballs. Endless supply of it. A normal person would be super happy with that of course, but not me. Thanks to CHEEWEE who made me hate meatballs now -.- Back to what I was saying, I got this really cute dress from them ^^
After that, my brother, karwee and I hung around (not literally) school while waiting for his mum to drive his car here. At that moment of time, I thought something was strange but didn’t thought much about it. On the way to find Jas, Jolene called! Been so long since I’ve heard her voice. Have not seen her in ages :O Miss her much~ Haha. And have to credit her for being the only one that called me to wish me happy birthday. Hope to see her soon!
Reached Velocity and got to Bishan. Frankly, like karwee’s mum, I was thinking why do we need a car since we are going Bishan? Never thought much about it since half my brain cells were killed by the paper. Since they planned it like this, I just went along with them. So at that moment, I still believed that it was only the four of us. I was actually very happy that I get to celebrate my birthday with them and especially Jas since I don’t see her around much compared to our Uniqlo days ):
While walking to Pizzahut, my brother suddenly told me to go look at bags -.- I was like “huh? but I don’t wana get a bag…” I knew something was wrong at that time, but in the shop, he reassured my suspicions by saying that karwee forgot to get the present so I thought we were delaying time for that. So oh well, we looked around the bags… not very fancy =x
Then we walked over to Pizzahut. Uhuh.. I saw Shah’s head. I’m like …. hmmmm… then I saw so many people. I was seriously shocked. My first reaction was to bend down in shock. When I saw Linglan and Yuanxi, I was more SHOCKED. I certainly didn’t think that they would turn up, especially Yuanxi. He’s supposed to be in NS. During the morning, he still sent me this message with YangJie “Happy birthday hwee. May you grow chubbier every year”. We ended the conversation with him enjoying his time in NS and me in school. Shock shock shock.
Best actor of the year goes to JIN. In school, she still kept asking me where I was going and stuff. I kept replying her I didn’t know because my brother only said to bring me out. Then she was telling me “oh.. then never mind. we’ll celebrate for you next time okay” Even in our messaging conversation after the paper, she was telling me that. Of course I was shocked.
When I saw Sandy, Jialing, Jiajun and Junqi. Suddenly everything fell into place. Because after the paper, I went to the toilet. While in the cubicle, I heard Sandy’s and Jialing’s conversation but all I heard were “You going later?” “Yah, Jiajun also right” That was all I heard. At that point of time, I was thinking “they are going out on my birthday and never ask me ): ” LOL. I’m such a selfish kid :X
So happy to see the rest. Thank you so much ^^ Jasmines, Linglan and Yuanxi became good friends. rofl. Jaslyn and Hito became BFF? lol… karwee became our daddy. Total randomness.
Lastly, thank you everyone! Especially my brother who planned so much~ All the difficulties and stuff, I understand yeah 
Photos to end off the post:
Will upload the rest of the picture soon ^^
Changes
23
Oct
Yesterday, Nich was reading my blog and gave me some constructive feedback (OB-ified LOL). I was just thinking about what he said. About how my blog could be more personal, as in it didn’t felt like a private blog. I tried to understand his point of view and stuff like that. If I thought about it, my blog content definitely changed over the years. When I first started out, I blogged whatever that was on my mind, not caring if I offended a single soul. However, as time passes, I started to get more observant of my surroundings. I started to get afraid of people’s stares and self-consciousness crept up on me. Now my blog’s no longer that critical. Am I losing myself?
I do feel constrained. My reason to blog in the past was actually to let out all of those feelings which I bottle inside. Right now, this channel has been blocked. I guess I need to find another way soon before I start developing some split personality or something.
Sometimes, it’s too difficult to say “I don’t care”. Because once you’ve said that, you would have already lost.
The Haze
21
Oct
The title almost seemed like the latest blockbuster movie except that the cast includes everyone which means you and I. For the past few days, I have seen so many tweets and facebook comments about how much the haze is affecting them and their daily lives. To say the truth, I didn’t even notice that the air quality was getting worse nor did it much affected me until a couple of minutes ago. The reason being I have been staying at home and what accompanied me was my books. Not like they would complain about how bad the air was.
However just now, when I stepped out of my room, there was this stench which filled my nostrils. I finally REALIZED that it was for real! PSI hit around 100 and above which was the unhealthy range. Looking out of the windows, it almost felt like being in Genting Highlands except the temperature is way off.
Oh but the point of this is actually to point out some funny comments/tweets/whatever that I heard/saw the couple of days regarding the haze!
Tweets/Facebook comments:
The haze is so bad that its affecting my phone reception.
It’s causing my stomachache.
It’s so bad that I can’t see the notes in front of me.
Smokers are complaining about the haze but they are adding to it!
Need to clarify that whatever that I quoted above wasn’t meant to offend anyone. Plus, one of them was by me. HAHA. Just sharing it so that everyone can have a little laugh and not focus so much on the haze. Okay maybe I’m making you focus on the haze more. Argh. Whatever, you know what I mean *hints*
Anyways people, study hard! Those who’s exams are near~ For those who are having holidays, play hard! Don’t play too much outdoors though (: Take care of your health!
Have a good night ^^
Closer, perhaps not
14
Oct
Technology makes the world smaller, maybe. In my opinion, thats false. In the past, we couldn’t connect with people at the other side of the world because of the distance. Right now, just switch on your computer and you can instant message whoever thats across the globe. Furthermore, you can even “poke” a stranger at Facebook. Find people who has the same interest as you on social networking sites. Make more friends every single day. But somehow it feels really ironic somehow.
Think about it. You feel that the world has gotten smaller because you are now much “closer” to people who live miles away from you. However, people often forgot about people next to them. To make it bluntly, your neighbours. How long has it been since you’ve exchanged words with those who just live a “wall” apart from you (if you live in a HDB that is). You could have mumbled “just now” in response to my question. But, what was the content of it actually? Was it something constructive? Or just a mere “Hello” or “Goodbye”? You could even talk for hours with a stranger online than face to face with an acquaintance.
I’m affected, truly affected. I can’t speak with people when I’m beside them physically as compared to relying on technology tools now (this is a terribly good example). It sucks. I know it. Sometimes I wonder if I’m actually close to a person at all. The argument always leans towards the ugly side. Every time I feel that we are close enough to talk about personal stuff, it seems the opposite when I’m with the person. What’s wrong? Really.
Has technology made me more distanced?
Has technology made us more distanced?
