right outside my room window, was a gift of colors and life
there's something magical about rainbows that makes everybody really excited and happy
besides the secular symbolism of gay pride, the rainbow represents God's promise of faith and His presence through it all
its a reminder that there will be sunshine after the storm, if we just believe
how timely.

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i've been spending quite a bit on concerts/productions/workshops lately
the most recent one is Junyan's EH hall production @ UCC.
cecilia, enmei and i paid $18 to see Junyan waltz and hiphop, as well as perform some high school musical dance at the end of the production.

it was pretty worth it; alotta effort was put into the production, and the play production was peppered with timely themed dances at each segment, making it alot more intersting as well.

in other news, our cell group + a few more people had lunch after church to celebrate Iris' and Zhenjie's birthday today (:


beef noodles at liang seah street was a treat; its apparently a taiwanese specialty
and most of us had set meals that came with bubble tea (or boba loca, as referred to in the US), i think my first since i came back to singapore (:

lastly, mac's coming back from Brunei tmr (:

YAY.

i like thursdays, although i have my earliest class in this semester, having to navigate peak hour traffic and reach school by 9am.
but after a 1h philo tutorial, the rest of the day is free for me

so today, i finished class and made it to mac's for macs-breakfast - geddit, geddit?
and then proceeded to spend the whole day doing absolutely nothing but lazing around
being satisfied with guitar hero, online shows, jamming and chilli crab dinner
and some attempts to run at the park and do pilates workouts
and also some research work and internship applications
and messin around with a polo ball



BLISS (:

in a bid to maximize the usage of our SUV before it gets traded in for a Beemer, i decided to take the dogs to botanical gardens
it might be a few months before the careful treading around the new leather of the BMW will relent to the responsibility of being a dog owner
so it might be a few months before the dogs are allowed in the new car :(



the after-rain botanical-garden scene was really beautiful and peaceful


or at least until ginger came along and tore up every last bit of serenity, freaking out the swans by attempting to hunt them down, and running everywhere frantically like she had enemies hot on her heels




in other news, i made jello-shots! (: vodka, ribena, and blackberry jello


i wanted to do lime+tequila, but i couldnt find any tequila! it is pretty amazing, considering tequila is found everywhere in the USA, even in pharmacies.
anyway, mac&i met up with ernest, lide & zhenjie for drinks @ lide's old condo
it marked the end of my 4 midterms all packed into one week, a really tumultumous week considering the difficulty of the papers

it was a good talk with the boys; we havent caught up this way in a long time
ernest brought his guitar, so there were some emo-song-singing,
and some malibu-MANGO cocktail in a shotglass (we didnt bring cups, smart),
and some melted jelloshots despite my trying to cool the jello in an airconditioned car :(

revival

i had this thought to revive my blog ytd after the bell rang for my last midterm
it was a weird, oddly-timed thought that probably came with the gush of time that came as i put down my pen and wrote down my name
there was alot of pent-up frustration over the last 2 papers i had ytd (public finance & environmental econs)
for the amt of work i put in, i expected it to be a breeze
but not only was i stuck for a few questions, i actually left blank one entire 10-mark question in public finance, just because i couldnt do it
the only redeeming grace, however uncalled for, is that everyone else wore the same black face when they came out, and complained about the same questions

HEE.

on thursday, my heart broke for JASON MRAZ, who serenaded me 700m away with his guitar and musical-legend-voice
there are many bands/singers who sound better live than on record, but for Jason Mraz, he was just PERFECT live
i was sold the minute he started his first song - dynamo of volition




amongst the 1000-2000 hearts which melted that night, someone else's heart melted too, by pure musical genius

thankfully for that, he didnt mind me gushing about how i was in-love in the middle of "beautiful mess" as i became a beautiful mess

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to end off, a really beautiful scene that i saw on my way to mac's place the other day
the clouds were ominously looming over the trees, and the gusty winds were blowing at the pink flowers, causing a flower-shower as i drove down that stretch of road
really serene (: