sunrise to sunrise

took this a while back on a morning drive with mac to mac's house. although im a self-proclaimed monster child or im-not-a-morning-person person in the morning i truly do enjoy the touch of the morning dew, the soothe glides of cool winds, the gentle medley of chirps that signals the awakening of the land of each morning. although, the real beauty of the morning occurs upon the gaze of the morning sky. you see this, a subtle harmonization of the whites and blues and the rising sun. and its beautiful.

hence, on those rare mornings that i actually wake up on time to partake in the ceremonial sunrise of the day i would make it a point to pause to gaze at the unfolding of one of God's most awesome creations

"In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice;
in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation"
Psalm 5:3

today i checked off the 3rd paper to be completed in my series of 5. cant say i was really pleased with what i wrote, or rather, what i UNLOADED unto the exam script in an effort of catharsis perhaps of stored and pent up information that i've forcedly squeezed into my protesting head, but it felt pretty good doing that for a while, cuz it was as if i've been holding pee for a really long time and finally being able to let it all out. alright, bad analogy, i know, but you get the idea.

PGP's a really beautiful place if i may say so myself. i've never rly taken the effort or time to travel down that winding road that led to PGP, and so you could imagine my frustration and irritation when i found myself dreadfully lost and wandering, ten minutes into my Econometrics paper yesterday. i thought it was the end of the world, until i stumbled into the exam hall, (all eyes on the wild-haired, panting, and blushed girl), found my seat, and started scribbling away furiously, 15 min into the exam. i didnt really enjoy PGP ytd, but i took a walk with audrey today before my money&banking paper today, and saw for myself its modern architecture and sleek environment, and thought to myself, this place aint that bad afterall.

with 7 more days left till i officially declare the start of summer break, i think im starting to feel a little better about everything, esp with all those lovely people who've showered their blessings, prayers and verses each day for encouragement and reassurement. not to mention loads of midnight sugar snacks, leaving me drunk on happy endorphins. i like (:

die Deutsch Mann

having coffee with stephan in school got us talking about germany
while he's not too eager about getting back, i on the other hand would love to go back there
he tried to get me to speak some german, and after i squeezed out some "gutgut schlecht-schlecht" after racking my brains for eons, i realised i actually missed speaking in the beautiful language, although it did sound like you were trying to spit out some phlegm sometimes
most of all, i missed being in Deutschland, with that bunch of people in the picture
(okay and a whole lot more, but you guys arent in the picture so too bad)
this may, and last may is gonna be a hugemega difference, good or bad.
but i'll survive, cuz there're many more gd memories to come (:

crazyyyyy

since im pretty much in the mode for countdowns these days, here're a few of the things i'm counting down

-1 days to mac's ORD
YES, that was ytd!! NS has finally become history, until reservice that is
i was soo excited about it that i couldnt really sleep the night before
i dare say, i might have been even more excited than him at some points, i have no idea why
its as if i were the one ORD-ing lol
i went to pick him and his friend up at payalebar airbase, or the likes of it
i couldnt wait at his base itself, cuz its intel and whatnot, so i decided to park and wait at the airforce museum
it looked pretty cool, with all the fighter planes on display at the main entrance.
i was honestly itching to go in, but it was SWARMED with army guys in warehouse-suits-looking things
so i just stayed in the car -.- and took a picture (:
heres the backside of one of the jets. whatever its name is


18 days till my version of ORD - end exams!
im seriously counting this one down. this exam period is particularly difficult for me, in view of all the post-exam craziness to come.
also, it'll be like an 8-month holiday for me, half of which would be in the U S of A

24 days to start of internship
im really quite excited about this internship. maybe because its at holland v, and i wont have to travel super far to go to work, or wake up super early for that matter (: maybe its because i'd be taking up parttime job with my dad's company at the same time, which means more disposable income, higher consumption, and higher leisure! (pardon the econs thanks)

54 days to church camp @ port dickson
we're headed for some beach resort for our church camp. i think that speaks for itself the anticipation on my part hahaha!

83 days to melbourne!
planning for this is enough to get me really excited. lots of friends to meet up there, lots of activities (SKIING!!), and lots of beautiful places to visit. it'll prolly be the first time im traveling with so many gd friends of mine, plus the boyfriend.

idk-how-many-days till California roadtrip
i'll be checkin myself to hotel(s) California in aug-sept with Enru (: the plan is to travel in the land of america before our stated semester there. soo many people to meet there as well! (:

there. all my countdowns.
pls tell me how am i supposed to keep my head in the books

teethy issues

In today's New York Times, i found something mildly intriguing, but very amusing (to me)

Here's what the abstract said:
"LEAD: PEOPLE with especially small teeth may represent the advance guard of human evolution, at least in dentition. They seem to be at the forefront of a 100,000-year trend."

for those who know me, you'd prolly already notice/know that i have REALLY small teeth for some weird, annoying yet unknown reason. i get questions asking about whether my teeth are still milk teeth sometimes.

but hah, since those smarty-geeky scientists have come up with such a theory, i just thought that you all should know i have small teeth :p
so there (:

(here's the link to the article, in case you dont believe me)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFD91530F933A0575BC0A96E948260&sec=health&spon=

fever

a really vintage looking car/van parked on the 2nd level of my condo's carpark


it prolly doesnt seem very weird now, but amidst the audis/merc/lexus/MX8s/random-vans on that deck, this was the vehicle that stood out the most as i surveyed the carpark for a parking lot

exam fever has caught up on me. nothing else seems to matter in this period of time now haha
ok, aside for my movies (:

i've got my internship confirmation as well (: i'll be interning under MYCG, an insurance company starting may12
which means i effectively have 7 days of absolutfun&laughter before its back to the routine of early mornings and early drives to work
except this time, it comes with the additional incentive of a SALARY, which is more than enough to get my blood going, and my cant-stand-the-morning-body up and running (:

pictures! (that sophia juz uploaded)

Wii! you wont get it till you try it. you can get muscle aches from playing this!


blooies! one-for-one drinks + good food (: just at my doorstep *evillaughter*
ok the point of this picture isnt really about the food
its bout the unintended panoramic view of our side of the table
lide looks like he's in both pictures, if you ignore that hand HEE.

last one. i know this is damn bad, and i apologize in advance. but....



this is classic. in the midst of all that adrenaline at that =p
so just in case facebook crashes in the future, i'd still have it here to look back onto (:

point-form

crap, i forgot to blog again. and now i've forgotten like half of what's happened
here's what i remember

1. sophia's 25th birthday-badminton celebration @ my place: we had people come over for badminton session (IN AIRCON!) since it was her birthday, followed by wii-crazy olympic games, and a really fun time at blooies' steakhouse for dinner (: we got free sides + drinks from the birthday girl + bryan, sang the birthday song at the top of our lungs, played STUPID games with water forfeits until i kinda died and subsequently lost every single.. attempt at playing 007-bang

2. political science crash course: joshua and i went for a 2-day crash course for PS1101E (they should have this for econs too!) it was pretty info-intensive, and i paid $3 for the notes, but at least now i know where to start studying :p two really important thing i've learnt from this course, one is that i'll never do political science ever again in my life. two is that NUS is really very nice and serene at night, altho i got quite a few mossie bites while josh and i sat in the deck and chatted away after dinner

3. speeding tickets and parking fines: actually, i have nothing to say. im BROKE.

4. Cell group outing @ Sentosa: ok, i wouldnt say it failed, but it wasnt much of a success either, no thanks to the sudden downpour and windy uh, winds. it sort of reduced our captain's-water-balloon game into a survivor-style-fight to stay dry, where about 12-15 people huddled in a circle around our precious bags, under this PUNY little sentosa-beach-hut, while the rain and winds battered us down. it was so cold it was NOT funny. when we got back to our cars, we actually had to turn on the heater to warmup the coldeth and stop the chattering teeth. thank god for abel's house where we stoppedover for a nice warm shower (ok i didnt really shower but everyone else did) before we headed to church for band prac

crap, so much for studying.

49 to 56

ytd was HAPPY-BIRTHDAY-DAD day, but my dad was overseas
he came home today, and i went to pick both mom&dad at the airport
my sister, grandfather and i had a nice bday surrpise planned for him when he got home, and it all went well until....
we realised my grandfather had accidentally made my dad 56, instead of 49 years old this year by putting an extra BIG candle (i think he couldnt tell), and then realised there was no space on the cake for 3 more small candles, so just left it as 56
if it was any consolation, one of the small candles burnt down to nothing by the time my father blew the candle, so he's technically only 55

i went through more than 300+ photos, looking for the perfect ones to put on the collage
i think i literally scrolled through the pages of my dad's life through the eyes of these photographs
and i must say, it was heck of an interesting one.

a few of those really beautiful pics that i found in our 40gig photo library
the color's sooo rich and nice, i just have to post it here.


in gobi desert


and in italy

last but not least, the wacky things that are help me live out my 'laughter-is-the-best-medicine' motto

to end off on a random note, the UC has reviewed my application and transcript, and have decided to bump me up to my 1st choice for SEP --> UCLA!!
i'm going to UCLA for fall quarter baby!!