Catch-up

So many activities over the past month and here we are, ushering in the lunar new year But before we get to talking about the festivities, here’s an update on school. School’s been alright so far, and I’m really thankful for answered prayer (I got all the mods I want, plus a 3-4 day week). Other than that, I need to start catching up on my already-starting-to-pile-up readings.

Over the weekend, I got to witness two of my good friends getting married and I must say I am very happy for them – yh&yx. Like finally married!

Some photos taken on that day…

This year CNY came so fast, I didn’t really feel prepared for it – no time to get new clothes, pjs, bedsheets… But this year things were slightly different because we managed to have reunion dinner with both my dad and mom’s family, which by the way is something I have always wanted for quite a while. So I was pretty much happy to have 2 reunion dinners in a day even though it meant being stuffed and super full that evening. Well, it’s already the end of the first day of cny and here are some of my favourite photos taken so far:

Here’s one with the popo dearest. Love her soooo very much. <3

And here’s one with shaun the nephew. Oh how we have all grown up… It’s becoming a yearly affair to have our photo taken together. More of this to come!

Beginning to really enjoy time spent with family and close friends very much these days… signs of aging  maybe?

Hello 2012

My my how time flies, and I realised that I haven’t officially ushered in the new year over here on my blog, so HAPPY 2012 to EVERYBODYYY! It’s been a busy start to the year, or so it seems, and many exciting days are up ahead

The year began with…

1. Some baking – our very own dessert pizza!

2. Some cooking…

3. Preparing for the upcoming wedding & trying out some products from Korea hehehe

4. Attending the “surprise” bridal shower 

5. Attending and helping out in my cousin evelyn’s wedding

School’s starting (has already started) and the semester doesn’t look too good for me, but well, ready or not, Year 2 Sem 2 here I come!!!!

 

Korea 2011

Snow, cold temperatures, strong wind, kimchi at every meal, Teseum (teddy bear museum), Waterpia, Skiing, Everland, Jeju Island, salty crispy seaweed, tatami beds, wax museum, duty-free stores, cosmetics, nail polishes, bibimbap…

2

2 weeks of camp just passed. Feels like a long time since I went for such camps – last year I had exams so I had to miss both camps but this year I managed to get a good timetable that allowed me to attend camps, super thank God for that! I’m still trying to recover from the camps, have been catching up on my sleep these few days, trying to get as much sleep as possible before my family flies off to Korea for holiday.

Children’s Camp 2011 – The Pilgrim’s Progress

It was a privilege and a blessing to be able to serve in this camp as a helper, and I was placed in a rather nice group. I am thankful for every single one in “Hopeful Hikers”, both helpers and campers. And even though this year we seem to have kids who were younger, I thank God for the opportunity to speak to those little ones and the not-so-little ones too. One thing that I learnt in this camp is that I am indeed very blessed, some things I don’t get to face in life but some of the kids already are facing those “trials” in their lives, I remember that night when I took time to speak to J for a long while and it kinda made me upset to hear what she was going through yet I was not able to help much, except to listen, to comfort, to encourage and to pray for her. The crying episode even though was a little dramatic reminded me how the devil is real and how he is always “seeking whom he may devour”. But I’m thankful that God gave me the patience to sit through while she shared with me and told me what she was facing, because she later told me she was thankful that I was patient enough to hear her whole story. I’ll be keeping these young ones in prayer, that’s for sure. In all, it was a good camp and I was blessed to be a part of it

Meet the Hopeful Hikers

Youth Camp 2011 – A Life of Abundance?.!

This time it wasn’t so much being a helper but it was also a time to be a camper as well. Thank God for the opportunity to get to know some people much better I was blessed by the messages that were simple yet so necessary to know and understand. It was a great week spent at camp and I’m glad I came back from camp w/o the flu bug. Everyone seems to be falling sick! :<

Well, that’s a summary of my two fruitful weeks spent at camps. Next up… KOREAAAAAA

The Big E

More than halfway through my exams, and so far, it hasn’t been all that good… Let’s just say, I’m glad those papers are over. ONE day and TWO more papers to go! Can’t wait can’t wait can’t wait for Friday to come!

Ahead

So finally we bid farewell to the semester. It was a rather trying few months, especially the second half, but well, by God’s grace I managed to pull through, and here I am – having completed Year 2 Semester 1. Now for the exams… I’m going to take things a little slowly this time round, but of course, try to put in as much effort as possible. But I am going to attempt to make it through this 2 weeks without any late nights (by late I mean anything after 1AM) and have as little stress, pimples, eye bags, dark eye circles as possible. hahaha it’s going to be an exciting albeit busy and tiring few weeks ahead, but I’m excited and ready for what comes my way!

Anyway just a note, it’s nice to receive a little encouragement sometimes, makes your day really (at least for me it did).

 

 

Bee-zarre (II)

Hi everyone, I’m back with more bee adventures! It seems like I always have encounters with bees, not too sure if that is a good thing or not! This time I have a useful tip on how to kill bees (this is not meant to be a cruel post). But first, I’ll like to start with this resident bee.

So this bee has been at my house for a long time, the first time I spotted it, I was shocked at it’s size. I first “heard” it, but chose to ignore it, then it appeared and I was like W.O.W. that is a huge one.

See the bee!

After taking some photos of it, I opened the window and it flew out

But this evening it appeared once again, and it landed on the blinds. Since my sister was being very frightened and all, I decide to close (roll up) the blinds, thinking that the bee would be scared by the sudden movement and fly away. BUT IT DIDN’T. So well, I decided to pull down the blinds to see if the bee really did escape, AND THERE IT WAS. With it’s abdomen being squashed :< It fell on to the table a few seconds later… and there it was, struggling for it’s survival.

See the angry bee raising it’s fist in anger, trying to protest… 

I really didn’t mean to kill the bee… I really thought it would (be smart enough to) escape. And as I type this post, it is still lying there, just a few inches away from me. I need to wait till my dad comes home to help me clear it ):

Near(ing)

hello november.

I’ve been pretty busy this few days/weeks, with all the assignments due around the same time. I’ve completed 3 out of 4 and by completed I do not mean printing, editing and proof-reading, but they are more or less done (well sorta). I’m approaching the end of yet another semester, next week’s the last week of lessons before exams, fast or what! And the picture above is self-explanatory, November is going to be a busy month.

Well, the blessing this week was the postponing of the deadline for the essay/research paper which almost everyone was clueless about. Plus I was sick/down with flu for the first half of the week so the postponing was a great relief for me So next week when I hand in all my assignments, I’d be officially done with the semester (I still have to take the final exams though). Will update more later, right now I’ve got to go settle some stuff :<

Long weekend

It’s been a pretty fast week! And my weekend’s already started since yesterday! (:

I think on Monday I was already in the holiday mood - I woke up on time, stepped to my cupboard to choose my outfit of the day, and stoned for a good three minutes, before deciding that I would skip the first lesson of the day (it was a three hour seminar). And well, I crawled back to bed. I don’t always skip my lessons, you have to understand, I had a long and busy weekend, so I could do with a few more hours of sleep. Anyway, so I only had to go school for a tutorial that lasted for less than an hour. So I made my way to school, and I think I made a right decision to skip the first lesson. I was greeted with such beautiful skies the moment I stepped out of the house. Oh, the skies were really beautiful the whole day, pretty and fluffy (:

Okay so this was what I went to school for. We had to record ourselves presenting :/

Well, just felt like eating cup corn the whole day so I got a cup for myself on the way back home, and it was yums!

So, the next day was the 201 test that I was worried about, but well, it turned out manageable. Everyone else probably thought the same which make it scary! I’m quite proud of myself that I’ve actually managed to tick out many things from my to-do list, although I haven’t started on my 3000 word essay which is due next week :<

Quite sad that we may not have a holiday to look forward to at the end of the year, all the change of plans. Well, just hope we’ll be able to visit somewhere… anywhere…. (fingers crossed)

Pause

Well, I’m pretty glad the weekends are here (for me at least). It has been Busy with a capital B for me these few weeks, and it isn’t coming to an end pretty soon. The semester is coming to an end, and before it does, there are many projects, tests and assignments that have to be submitted and done, 2 assignments and 1 test done this week though! It’s been raining pretty much lately, which means good night’s rest for me mostly, and that is something I am thankful for. And I’m thankful for a sister (jie, I know you are reading this) who’s paying for the top that I got right?

I’m having iphone withdrawal now, like I can’t take photos conveniently, I can’t instantly upload on instagram, fb and twitter, I can’t check my email whenever I want to… But no iphone means I do my readings on the train rides to and from school without much distractions. Well, at this point I have something really random that I want to add, yesterday when I was on my way home from school, I was waiting for the bus with a friend and THE LIGHTNING STRUCK JUST BESIDE THE BUS-STOP. Is that even possible? But I really saw that the lightning flashed in front (not directly) of my eyes. And there was a loud sound also, pretty scary.

Oh, have you heard about our plane tickets? Well, we were supposed to fly off to USA in dec, so we paid but the agency kept postponing the date which we were supposed to get our tickets. And so one fine day, they called and we realized that we were never going to get our tickets – WE GOT SCAMMED. I thought scamming incidents only happened on crimewatch. But ohwell, now everything’s fine (not exactly cause we haven’t booked our tickets yet), we got our refund. So hopefully we still get to go on our holiday!

Going to end off this post with some photos shot during the week, not much though.

This is a sad photo because that is 59mins, and it happens to me everyday :<

Starbucks before heading to school – keeps me awake, no kidding.

Have a great weekend everyone! <3