Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Whenever i blog, i either have these endless train of thoughts on my mind, or something has happened... But let me just begin with my cutie pies today. Almost a year has passed since i started working at Berries for Doreen (she's family) since mid December last year, and i can't deny that i have grown to love the children at Berries so much they literally are my weekly dose of happy pills all year round. Little things like telling them stories in such animated ways, teaching them how to read and even holding their hands to write sometimes, they mean so such. Since 2012's coming to an end in approximately one and a half months time, i ended my last weekend of work since i'm leaving for a family vacation soon and Berries closes for holiday in the last two weeks of December. And God knows if i am going to continue going back there every weekend in 2013 because it'd be my A levels year, ugh. This feels really dreadful, but we I gotta move on! Managed to snap some fair amount of pictures with my cuties on my last day with sissy. Still cannot get over the fact that we're almost done with 2012// a brand new year = new classes at Berries = new faces. Apart from the cries and screams and any commotion that you can imagine coming from a kid when he/she attends class for the first time and is entirely reluctant to let his/her parents leave, i think i can handle anything else pretty well. Kids can be such emotional wrecks sometimes it's horrific but still, they have my unconditional love. Faces of my favourite siblings!

zhi en (elder sister) & yan zhe (little brother) love em' to death

favourite class / 4 years old

 

5 years old!

gonna miss them all so much *sobs*

On the other hand, dance practice finally resumed! Terence also started prepping us for next year's syf. The happy theme sounds quite fresh to us - 1960s rock and roll. I think it'd be really interesting with all the retro costumes and what not hehe! Anyway, we are having all our holiday classes at O School's Studio. And since Lisa is leaving for New York this coming Christmas and to Aussie for her studies next Jan, we met her early for brunch before yesterday's practice. Was supposed to just chill and talk and do some window shopping but.... girls being girls we couldn't resist the h&m opening sales that was ongoing *hides face*

(sorry for all the blur/bad lighting iphone shots, i should start lugging my camera out soon.. but its really so damn heavy!! makes me wonder sometimes why did i buy it in the first place)

Read the news a couple of weeks ago and found out that the whole judging system for syf is going to change to some kind of non-competition form. It's so lame but ah i think the process of learning and preparing counts so much more than whatever outcome. Had loads of fun with the dancers yesterday albeit the tiring session. I am aching every where today, glad to be home just lazing around with granny :')

9 more days to a snowy holiday!

“Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.” — Sylvia Plath

1 more frigging week of school & 3 more weeks to hokkaido!!!!! hang in there adelene just hang in there for a little bit more. these 2 days have been such a torture for my throat and nose. got the flu bug again..... hence a cough too. my throat feels so dry the whole time that i drink water almost every 10 minutes and ends up running to the restroom every hour or so. why aren't the more than enough sleep and medicine working yet? i need to get well soon. anyways, today's gp lecture lasted for 3 hours, it was prolly the longest lecture i ever had in my junior college life (plus i think my bladder was almost going to explode!!!) but hola, i survived and on a side note, i am so sick of the school's canteen food, i think the girls feel so too. whatever it is, just can't wait for the holiday to be officially here.

and because sylvia plath's quotes are so meaningful, here's another one:

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”

— Sylvia Plath

i am currently reading this book written by a korean author, it's a pretty heartfelt book. i wish i could spend everyday indulging in novels rather than my notes.

yes, this is purely a ranting/whiny post because i feel so sick and ugh. till then, x

Happy Days

was supposed to ask the whole clique out yesterday for xlb at holland village but decided to call it off last minute.. so it ended up being a girly day for me & lainey plus clara at night. these 2 girls spent one quarter of their lives ganging up to bully me but what is new!!

am getting a little lazy to type long ass entries recently. let me get my lazy vibes off before i come back here!

ten things i'd love to do right now:

1. go abroad

2. eat good food

3. meet new people

4. take pretty pictures

5. listen to nice music

6. go shopping

7. read novels

8. make art

9. breathe

10. repeat 1-9

Picnic @ Marina Barrage

finally hung out as a whole on saturday and against all odds (the drizzle that was on and off), it was a lovely day :)

Thank God it's Friday

did a little recording with two-third of the dancers today, the video is meant for the seniors' grad night! can't wait for the final product to be out, hope it's gonna be short n sweet :)



You can count on me like 1 2 3
I'll be there
And I know when I need it I can count on you like 4 3 2
And you'll be there
Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah
Wooooh, Wooooh
Yeah Yeah

"What if instead of the right words, all that it took was the right pair of ears and the right beating heart?" —Mary Kate Teske

i just finished reading my second book since the end of promos. sometimes, i amaze myself at my ability to tear over a book. but how to not cry when a person is dying/ has passed away?! tell me my heart isn't that fragile. anyway, i'm just done with 'the girl in the mirror' and it's so touching (can't help loaning sad books every single time i'm at the bookstore), call me weird. thought i could do 3 books in october but looks like project work has deprived me of some reading time, or am i just becoming a lazy bum teehee. gonna start reading 'chinese whisperer' later or tomorrow, new book for the new month. gonna start off november with a bang! op exam is in 6 days' time it's ending it's finally endinggggg!! have i mentioned how school has been so utterly dull for the past 3 days it almost bored the hell outta me. our subject teacher was on course/mc so most of the lessons we spent doing our own things. half the time i was on tumblr and the other half i watched we got married, yes in school, how meaningless is that but oh well.
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here are some overdue pictures from monday a.k.a mommy-and-me-being-vainpots-day.

the joy of reading whilst getting your nails done nicely :')

 

mai ah meh ree ca no nails

 

 vain girl being vain (my dark circles are so fugly asdfghjkl)

 

momsie

 

and her 3D flowery nails (65 bucks ok and she calls me a spend-thrift hmpf!!!)

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although it's only november, the family, especially sissy and i are already anticipating the arrival of december!! cheers to the hopeful months ahead yay. 

Yet another week has passed. and the good news is..... we are all halfway through the project work "ordeal" can you believe it, written report submission was yesterday. am so so proud of the hard work and effort that my group mates and i have put in, especially cutting down almost a thousand words from the report in a few days so that we wouldn't exceed the word limit of 3000. now i just feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my chest! so, it's just left with the oral presentation exam (40%) on the 7 november and final group project file submission on the 12 november and i will literally be a free bird. well... except that lessons for the j1s are gonna be extended till the 23 nov.. ugh pj why you want to do this to us?!

since school ended early, the girls decided to push forward the halloween trip from saturday to yesterday. it was a good night with good companies :)

today is friday but it feels like a saturday somehow. sissy brought me to the book cafe to have brunch and we stayed there for hours just to read. i could really spend everyday reading there, with the nice ambiance and what not. definitely going back!

1:23am and i am lazy to continue typing,

x

It's been such a long day today and I am truly thankful for parents who fetches me home from school. Am on the car right now and i feel like puking with this stupid headache. Can't wait to step into the bathroom and have a hot shower...

"As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself." —Haruki Murakami, Dance, Dance, Dance

it's a wonder huh? that i've been blogging so faithfully for the past few days. since exams are over, i figured out i should write about my life more often, just for the benefit of myself. have i mentioned that i actually love re-reading my own blog posts? some days i can spend hours scrolling through my own archives.
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back to the main point of today.. yes, it's THE day! release of promo results *gasps!* how did i do? no i did not pass with flying rainbow unicorn colours but thank god i cleared all my content papers, including math!!! cleared, meaning, proper pass heehee. but i scored a sub-pass for my gp (technically, it's still failing by 4 marks, meh) but hopefully the school's gonna moderate the paper across the level since majority of the cohort didn't do very well. just keeping my fingers crossed! i'm already satisfied that i managed to clear all my H2 and H1 subjects :) though not every single one of my class/school mates did well, i am really happy for those who achieved what they've aimed for themselves, especially the ones who moved from an 'u' grade to an 'a'! for those who didn't do as well, i hope they don't be overly disappointed because like what the teachers said, it's not the end but it's a new beginning because for some of us, we're gonna have to make decisions that will determine what the next path brings. so cheers! what's happened has happened, gotta be brave and..... -challenge accepted!-

here's a few group of people that i am utterly thankful for in my junior college days thus far, and in my heart, i earnestly hope for the best for 'em!

1. my dearest class 12A08! though we aren't the most united nor smartest class. it's been great, i want to see each and every one of you in jc2 next year!! pw all the way for noooooow. and minah & flo, i know i never ever mention it, but i think i wouldn't have survive classes had it not been you 2 & the avengerssssss

2. pjc modern dance club, just as terence always put it! love every single one of you so much. love how we're always one big big family no matter what. brace yourselves dancers, we're gonna put up the best show for cny performance & syf next april! to my hungry girls: hang in there!

3. MG18, don't know how i would survive the first week of school without you guys, all you silly kiddos!


of course, other than the people in pj, i can't emphasise enough how much i miss the new town gang. all the retarded times during recess, stall 6's tom yum meatball noodles/ stall 8's fried rice with the fish/ stall 2's nasi lemak and fried chicken!! omaigawd i dread eating pj's food everyday.. it's time i visit ntss :< that aside, most importantly, good luck for o levels people! you have da adelene spirit with you every second. love u all the most ♥♥♥♥♥


especially le favourite girls:

 

you both have my support all year round. x

nighty owls it's time to crash.