I'm quite excited because I love clearing up things. Okay gimme a minute - I wanna tie my hair so my head doesn't ache so much - okay back. Right so I was saying.. yes.

I just felt like writing here, because I was reading some of my entries back and I realized how skimpy it all has been.

We had lunch just now - Mom cooked, which, as you know, is rare. I was glad for it because I haven't been eating properly. I've been sleeping at odd hours and not eating - in fact I can't remember when I did eat and when I didn't - because of my assignments. There'll be one last one to turn in on Monday and then it'll be revision time - or starting time for those books I haven't touched.

I am quite excited for this holiday.

Of course I'm not going to London anymore - hate the whole drama that ensued because of it, and the realization that my mom wasn't going to let me go Anywhere even though I'm 21 already - and nor am I going to Australia to visit Yvonne but Alex is coming back, I'll have more time to do the crafts projects that I want to do, and I can plan little trips to wherever.

I will find a way around my mom's rules somehow. And anyway there are lots of things I can do here that I very much enjoy. :) Teehee.

I think I'll start drawing again - there are lots of things I want to draw, oh I'll have to go visit my grandma and bring her the things I bought a while back, maybe think about what to do for my FYP, groom my plants properly - there are some that died long ago but the pots are still there and I should really transplant those too large for their pots into bigger ones - and just do overall maintenance. Clean up my room - although I did that recently - and throw away the books I don't need anymore, maybe sell my Lit texts to juniors.

This semester break will be for cleaning up and re-organizing.

If I can I'll go on attachment, since I passed up on the sign-ups for attachments because I thought I was going to London with my cousin, but if it's too late I'll just go back to regular work, work every day and earn lots of money so that in the future I can go wherever I want without having to depend on anyone.

I haven't been spending a lot of money - because I've been so busy - which is good cos instead of me using up the money I earn and my allowance every month it's been slowly accumulating.

I cannot wait to be my own person, unaccountable to anyone.

It may sound reckless or something to some people but right now that is what I want to be.

I also have to start searching for actual potential jobs and companies to work with.

Ah well.

Such is life.

I'm just glad I have some sort of goal now, and that I'm no longer that unmotivated, close-to-giving-up depressed soul that I was last March.

Regards,

Lydia

All right. There's nothing much to say, well there was filming at work last week. It was very fun to have a camera crew around. They were very fun - there was this big burly guy with an intense stare and really long hair in ponytail - he added me on facebook and I loled because his name was unfamiliar until I saw his picture - he said it took him 3 years to grow it and asked me how long it took for me. There was also this guy - the guy in charge with an accent that I couldn't place. He was very gentlemanly and sweet and didn't scold me even when I made them retake a scene because I sniggered, "Oh really" and it could be heard in the take.

Weihong was there and he wheeled me around. I held on to his swivel chair and he went spinning round the room. I was laughing so much. I had a lot of fun. I was exhausted, though, as I'd only had three hours of sleep, working on my American Modernism essay, so I was actually closing my eyes during the last scene which filmed our backs.

I listened to Daniel complain about the bad quality of the female voices in the igave song, and listened to basically anyone who spoke to me.

I love my job so much.

Anyway it's the last week of work til after exams so I won't be calling til then.

Today my mom got up to her weird antics again. She came tottering out at midnight (my mom's walk at night is the dictionary definition of the word totter) after napping and asked my dad to bring her a pear and asked if it was soft or hard.

Well it was hard so she ate one side and left it on the table. She whined for my dad to finish it for her and my dad said, "If someone has to choose between eating this pear and having a death sentence they'd go for the death sentence!"

Which is a bit of a stretch but okay it kinda looks like a carcass lying there.

Then not long after I heard a rustle and she was fumbling with her bag of chips and my dad didn't take it from her properly and all the chips fell on the ground. My mom was grumbling and picking pieces up from the floor to eat as I took this picture. They were actually arguing with each other when I said, "WAIT LET ME TAKE PICTURE" and my mom went off into peals of laughter.

Yes yes I love my family very much thank you.

So basically I am very happy with where I am now.

And I'm going to relish this last year while it lasts.

Because then it's the workplace for me.

Gotta go or my dad'll kill me -

Lydia

Firstly is aforementioned Dad on jetski with Uncle Ben. I like how you can see the open sea here.

I took it, actually. LOLOLOL

Dad and Ben.

:)

I wike you wery much!

Love,

V

I scrambled out of bed, and we went downstairs half an hour later to be greeted by Angeline, Mark and their sons Darren and Darius. We were to go jetskiing, snorkelling and boating.

I KNOW RIGHT. LIKE HOW RANDOM CAN YOU GET.

As it is I have an essay due on Friday - which I swear I will get done by tomorrow so I can concentrate on my presentation due next Monday, and then write the other essay due next Monday as well. How could I resist when they said jetskiing :( Mom and Lewis wanted to go too but Mom had to show a new batch of students around her school at open house and Lewis had some prefect thing. So anyway here're the pictures that I took. Darren took a lot more and maybe I'll post some when I get them. I'm feeling woozy, like there's a floating feeling around me as if I'm still on the boat -.-

So, first, at the club. Raine walks ahead with Darius.

The yachts.
Darren fixing things.
How clear the water is at Pulau Hantu. Those dark patches are a strange sort of seaweed that look like leather but upon closer look is actually just square-tipped sea grass with moss on it.

Before we even left the harbour we spotted jellyfish in the water.

Dad is happy.
Raine & I.

One of the other islands we stopped at. We drove for about one hour. When I first got on the back of Uncle Ben's jetski I was so frightened by the extreme speed and noise. You should know what a scaredy cat I am. But after a while I got used to gripping the sides of the seat and leaning into the dips and splashes. It started to feel like when someone zoomed around in a car at night, and that thought calmed me through the stretch of clear water. There's this thing about wide open sea that both thrills and strikes fear into me.

My sister. Being silly as usual.

Dad lowering the anchor for our short stay. We snorkelled around trying to catch fish in a tiny net. Lololol so funny. When we looked up we were no longer in the shallows, the boat was so far away and the parents were waving us back.

Uncle Ben caught two fish. Darren caught a larger one, with yellow fins, but I didn't take a picture of it. We threw them back before we left, though they'd been through "dental".

Back on land at the jetty.

My face is red as hell and I've got burns in places I have never had burns, and I am constantly floating on my chair in the study, bobbing as if on the boat.

:)

I had fun.

Reallyreally. On the way back, when we were nearing the jetty Uncle Mark stopped in the deep sea and we jumped off the boat to swim around. The water was so refreshing after the fierce sun but the current was very strong and Auntie Angeline was tired so we climbed back in the boat. After that we returned to the club and Raine, Darius and I went to the pool to dip ourselves. There was an old man who kept staring at us and we went down the tiny baby slide (there was nobody there other than him) and then to the jacuzzi where I aimed my butt at the jets to massage my glutes that were sore from clenching against the side of the jetski and bumping on the seat of the boat.

:)

I'm exhausted. Will be up tomorrow to do my essay and then go to work - which I missed today, thank God, because I couldn't make it in time.

Have a good night, you.

Love,

bobbing V

Hahaha.
:)

Sigh. I handed in my essay last night..and went to work. Wanted to withdraw money to eat but the machine was out of money so I called dear Weihong who went to find me and gave me money.

He's so sweet.

But there's this girl.

Hahaha.

Anyway we're great friends at phonathon and last night was my first mentoring session. It was fun actually to mentor someone. Mmmm.

I'm in my room with my sister. She's on my bed watching Glee on her iphone and has been all day.

Mom is home today so she's gonna cook which is good because I've been losing weight like nobody's business and I don't want to. So I've been polishing off bottles of chocolate and getting chapped lips.

Ahwell. Nobody's gonna kiss me anyway. Not anytime soon, at any rate. Busy period. Essays and exams coming up.

Jiayou all my mugging friends.

Peace out.

I was like, what???? Buy a helicopter?? LOLOLOL.

Ah this is very true. :)

Hahahaha my dad just shouted, "YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH HOR BEFORE I MAKE YOU REALLY SAD HOR,"

Hahaha. :D Ah well. I'm happy. The presentation went great. I had fun yesterday. Oh I didn't tell you? I went on a date. Well it was nothing much really. ...Just been a long time. Mom's cooking dinner, I'm feeling happy. Y'know. :)

Ah well next week it'll be the start of the heat - essays coming up real soon so I'll be typing them instead of being here and other places.

I worked a lot this week. Had tons of fun of course, as is always the case ;)

Mmm. That's all. I think. Don't really want to go into details. Yep. That's it. :) Have a good day, you, and I leave you with this gasp-worthy picture.