oh my goodness! i haven't blogged for a really really long time! and now i suddenly find myself with absolutely so many things to blog about. i really been missing from singapore for the past three weeks. spent 15 days in vietnam and then 3 days in malaysia! and now i'm gonna have 3 days in RIPB retreat this coming week! so so many things to blog about now, where should i start?

i guess i'll just blog as i go (: and there are lots of pictures too! i haven't uploaded most yet so maybe pictures will come in another post! okies, here we go! (it's not gonna be
in chronological order ><

KL Trip (22-24 November)

KL trip was quite fun! and it was short so it wasn't so tiring. in the end, most of the time there was spent talking, eating and shopping! and i kept doing lots of window shopping and looking out for nice stuff to buy and looking out for cute things to take photo of ! haha. in the end i didn't really but much, but oh well! three days pass really fast i guess. and so now i'm back here in singapore again, facing the famaliar but hectic life all over again ><

6 hour bus ride up to KL which turned out to be quite smooth in the end. i watched "Bridge to Terabithia" and then slept for most of the remaining way since there was nothing much else i could do. the first day was pretty much spent shopping (which turned out to be what i did for most of the other days too). haha (:

2nd day was basically another day of shopping again. there was this giant 'pao' at the coffee shop we ate lunch at. and it was probably like 5 times the size of the normal 'big pao' in singapore coffee shops! i bet you you'll never find such huge 'pao' in singapore ><><) so we had a good laugh over watermelons. and we stayed up until 2 to play cards and some random games!

3rd day was quite slow ): spent some time in borders and bought a book in the end. and then after a while, it was time to leave back for singapore. but then the bus had a problem, so they had to send a new one down from genting (which took a million years). it was 4pm when we finally left ): and i slept on the whole bus journey back again! i didn't want to sleep, but then i plugged my mp3 into my ears then i just fell asleep! and then vvv soon everything was becoming dark and all. reached back vvv sleepy at 11pm. finally (:

in the end, there were many things which made this trip fun. the friends (: , the antics at tuas, the watermelon table, the aimless walking around, the late night games, the persuading _____ to take the roller-coaster, the chit-chat, the liveliness, the cats!, the craze over bananas, the trying on clothes at F.O.S and everything else! yay (:

To be Continued...

+ RCC Moving Out
+ Vietnam Trip (:

i'm leaving tomorrow! so fast already! & that means tonight will be the last night i'm online for 15 days (unless there's some miracle internet connection in vietnam).

okay, so please don't call/message me until the 20th cuz i won't be bringing my phone over to vietnam. and if i don't respond to emails, i'm not daoing anyone! it just means i can't check my email over there. sorry people ):

i just almost finished packing omg. and there's like so many million things to bring! (i jus heard from shoujian that i missed out some stuff! ahhh.) okay so i gotta continue packing again after this. and i still need to find the guitar chords for the songs we can perform over there! and write some speech. haha ><

okay, so byebye people (: see you all in 14 days on the 20th of november!

hiatus: from 6th nov 2007-20th nov 2007. ><

p.s. get well soon okay! (:

omg! i don't believe i can't constantly remember how long i'll be in Hue for. my mind keeps telling me i'll be away for 20 days somehow >< it's only 14 days btw ): sorry!

okay, and so i'll be gone from singapore in one and a half days time! it's so soon i can't even believe it. then 14 days without contact with singapore i think ): (i'm not bringing my handphone) unless i borrow. but oh wells. y'know a month or so ago when i confirmed my participation for this, it never felt the same way as now. perspective change, views change, feelings change. but this meaning in the trip didn't. although i might go with a different set of feelings, i know my purpose and meaning to this trip. i hope i carry it out (:

i think tomorrow and tuesday morning would be weird >< i don't know what my mind would start to think and what thoughts it would generate. tuesday morning would be even more weird in the airport! sometimes, even if i'm not the one going anywhere, i can feel abit emo at an airport. seeing gates open and close, planes landing and taking off, seeing the cycle of things move on and never cease. i don't know. ahh, but this time it's me going off for 14 days. emo at the airport ? let's not make it the bad sort of emo but the feeling sort of emo! (omg i don't know what i'm talking about) haha. but i'm gonna write something at the airport or on the plane. the prologue to my journey.

ahhhh, but the next 15 days will feel really weird for me because __________ ):

gotta make sure everything is all set by tomorrow. make sure that all the work is assigned. make sure that everyone knows how to work. jianxiong take care of orientation! james take care of moorhouse (until you go too)! kangjie take care of RIPB HR Dept! haha :)

okay, i really have to blog on my wordpress tonight! i have to okay! haha.

-rule the world :)

i <3 ikea!

haha went to ikea and queensway with shoujian today to get more stuff for the vietnam trip! sigh, but i really hate the heavy rain. especially when i have to go out ): meant to meet shoujian at 2 aft going home from school but in the end only reached at 3 cuz i was stuck in the rain. ahh, i hate being late la ><

anyways, we managed to get enough stuff and printed the cards! i think things are pretty much settled for the trip already and almost everything is set. 3 and a half days left from now. have to tie up all loose ends before tuesday and so i hope all will be smooth (: vietnam!

you know how this sense of loss and anxiety and all comes to you sometimes when you see something. today, watching the last part of the secondary 4 graduation ceremony, the batch song and the UNITE cheer and all, it was really overwhelming. this feeling just came over me again. in one year's time i'll be in that very position, receiving the cert, shaking hands, taking photos and knowing my time in this institution has come to an end. in one year, everything that i've worked for here will come to an end. my time in RIPB would have terminated. the fate of moorhouse would already have been decided. my grades would show my performance. everything would be in place for this farewell. and i'll be walking down these school halls one final time.

RJC provides a whole new environment. with new friends, old friends, better friends and sadly, broken ties too i should presume. and my time there would be even shorter. less time to make an impact. less time to just be there. i have so many hopes for 2008, what i want to do, gaps i need to fill, relationships i need to heal, people i need to care for. push hard. let's go raffles!

i wanna go out in the next few days!

this is really the wrong time to get emo again. really not the time. but i don't know if i really can help it. i wanna just stare out a window into the rain and try to sort myself out. again. i thought i had passed this stage. i thought but it has not really materialized. i'm confused once again. maybe i just think too much.

-i wanna blog on my wordpress. i think i can express it better there under a pw protected post.

who wants to go with me to nice places to buy stuff before my vietnam trip? anyone? haha (:

i can't believe i'm leaving in 4 and a half days! things are just moving at such a fast pace for me now.
tomorrow we're having final group meeting and then i'm probably going with shoujian to shop for gifts.
saturday i have church and maybe class party in the night to watch arsenal vs manutd!
sunday i have church again and then anyone wanna go out?
monday i have the destinationimagination briefing/selection in the morning. and then anyone wanna go out again? i need to pack in the night! ><
tuesday afternoon flight out of singapore. byebye for 14 days ):

thats how fast things are moving. before i know it, i'll be in the airport with this large suitcase and all the group logistics, waiting to board a plane from singapore - saigon - hue. i don't know how i'll feel, but i think i'll write a poem at the airport. i brace myself for intense feelings.

talked to paul about his experiences in hue last year and from what i gather, it'll be pretty interesting for us! maybe the vietnamese love for soccer, the activities we need to plan and the stuff our team needs to do will take my mind off other stuff and thoughts. but still, i wanna write every night in vietnam if it's possible. poem, journal, prose, photo reflection, anything. i can post all those here when i return!

sometimes, i think i think too much. after listening to some stuff said in the library today, i stand to ask myself: "Where am i now?" I question the complexity in the issue, i wonder what i want. truth is, i seem to touch my ideals, but i don't know in the end. or maybe i do. maybe not.

This is the 57th post here! Okay sorry, that was really random.

Anyway, this isn't meant to be a post on its own but rather a post to say that i've posted THE FIRST POST on my wordpress (:

sunshinepromise.wordpress.com

bye. for now.