You and I, we're like diamonds in the sky.

To the one who is always there for me no matter rain or shine.

Living the life of a princess

(Part IV)

(That day with the kiddo)

Glad to bring my kiddo out to Orchard after work, where I finally got to try Supply and Demand. Everyone is saying how nice it is etc etc, and it kind of excites me... So I pulled Seah along for dinner there using my birthday as an excuse. LOL!

Supply and Demand is an Italian-fusion restaurant, serving mainly pastas and pizzas. Their appetisers look amazing and I'd had ordered some if only their prices are appealing to me too. Their truffle fries cost SGD17 like whut?! /cries/ I could just top-up SGD3 more to get another pizza. ._____.

(Provinciale)

(Macchiato)

Our menu for the day:

Provinciale - pizza with chicken chunks and a soft egg in the center

Macchiato - which Seah claims that it is super bitter

I love the pizza. I love how the toppings complement each other perfectly, bringing out an unforgettable taste on my tastebuds. I love the soft egg in the middle of the pizza, especially when the egg yolk started flowing out. The pizza is perfect, if only the crust is softer. It is a bit hard for my braces T.T (Burden braces) And to be honest, I do not feel full after savoring the pizza. LOLOL, it is more of a tea rather than a dinner although we ate 4 slices each. x.x

P.S. I did not eat supper that day. I don't feel full, neither do I feel hungry. LOL.

(Camwhore)

(More camwhore sessions)

Sitting in the middle of the bridge/walkway while we camwhore, whilst being judged by many eyes around. Hahahahas! I love the lighting and everything, but why can't my lousy phone brings out the beauty of the setting? T.T Sighpie. Apple ought to invent a product for Android users to download Apple camera hahahas!

(Santa Claus is coming tooooo ... town!)

Hahahas, special thanks to my kid for her lovely presents. Kudos to the scrapbook handmade with love by her, it is truly a beautiful art piece. I will call it a masterpiece (only our mutual friends will understand how lousy her art is). Hahahas! And I am in love with the cutesy socks that she got me!

I am grateful for her existence in my life. She is an innocent sotong who is super blur at times most of the times, and sometimes she will 气死我 by asking idiot questions. But I still love her nonetheless. She is a great bestie to have. Thank you for everything. Loves.

So shine bright tonight.

You and I, we're beautiful

like diamonds in the sky.

Eye to eye, so alive,

we're beautiful like diamonds

in the sky.

This innocence is brilliant.

Living the life of a princess

(Part III)

Yours' truly finally turned nineteennn today. Nooooooo T.T And I'm suffering from the oldie symptoms - the older you get, the more you dread your birthdays because you don't want to turn old - and I'm not even that old yet. Sighpie :3 But ohwell, this special day still calls for a celebration. (I hope. In case you have no idea, Titanic sank on this very special day T.T)

P.S. I'm actually typing this post on a laptop without the lights on, and I am freaking proud of myself because I can type without looking at the keyboard, hahahas! (:

Anyways, back to topic. So guess who came to find me for lunch on my birthday! :P Hahahahas, le beloved bestie who lied that she was working and that she sneaked out during her lunch break to find me. And guess where she works at? Taiseng. From her workplace to Jurong Point needs an hour plus T.T AND I CANT BELIEVE THAT I AM SO GULLIBLE TO BELIEVE HER, thinking that "wah, she sacrificed being scolded by her superior for taking an ultra long break just for me." Hahahahas, but nonetheless I'm still thankful for her presence.

So Vian showed up with this humongous Minnie helium balloon that is longer than my body's length, and wtf, so damn freaking embarrassing. I wonder how she brought it over to Jurong all the way from her house. I mean, I have loads of trouble trying to bring it home because it was peak hour when I'm going home and my balloon just kept slapping people on their faces, and I just couldn't control Minnie. So sorry to the commuters that I caused inconvenience to! Oops! :(

(Cutie pies)

Credits to the ahgong who helped us to take a picture. It was probably his first time with a smartphone, so he had pretty much difficulties trying to take pictures, and he took pictures that cut off my Minnie balloon. But it is okay, because he is a nice elderly. :D

So we went to Seoul Hotpot for lunch, and we had a nice and sweet chat over a scrumptious meal. I was late for work (we took a 1.5hour lunch break) and thankgawd my superiors did not scold / did not notice I was late. Hahahas! :D And I received yet another present from her - cutesy little teddy bear with an alphabet Y printed on its tee.

(Trying to show the difference in height -.-)

Thanks to le bestie for the special trip down to the West although she lived so freaking far away in Sengkang (it's like Pluto and Mercury). Hahahas, she is one of a kind, a great bestie that I could ever ask for. Thanks for everything, especially your pleasant surprise! Loves.

xoxo.

Let the light guide your way.

Hold every memory as you go.

And every road you take will

always lead you home.

I'd take another chance. Take a fall, take a shot for you.

Living the life of a princess

(Part II)

(Day out with Christel)

Met this lady for dinner two weeks ago for a short catch-up session over Pepperlunch and Laoban. Hahahas, we have been wanting to go out on a Laoban date since day one of J2 but it never materialised until now lmao. It took us one year plus .____. Hahahas, but still special thanks to Christel, she's the very first to celebrate my birthday with me. LOLOL! Loveyou truckloads!

Anyways, this week should be full of meetups with my babes because starting from next week, I will have to work OTs. Sighpie. Like whut?! Life of an accountant is shit. T.T Speaking of work, these few days I witnessed an ugly side of a workplace. Remember how people always say colleagues will always be colleagues, they will never be your friends? I finally understood why now.

~~~

Person A: Eh Boss ask you to do this. Do it faster, Boss say she wants it immediately once she returns from overseas.

Person B: Huh? Why me?!

Person A: Boss ask me to tell you to do it lehs. Besides, you attended the training for it, so there's no other people that will be better than you to do this!

Person B: But this is not my job to begin with. I got other stuff to do also. Think I very free is it?! Last time who do one?

Person A: The secretary do one. But she quitted, so I helped to cover for awhile.

Person B: Then why not you do?

Person A: I got other jobs on hand also!

Person B: I also rights?!

-okay, fight-

~~~

Then their cliques joined in. So it sort of became a 3 vs 3 kind of fight over who should do the assignment. -.- I'm not in any position to say who's right, who's wrong. But then Person A is an accountant, Person B is an admin executive. So...

Lesson learnt: There are no friends in your workplace. There are only colleagues, and colleagues will only remain as colleagues. One moment they can be like best buddies, the next moment they can start to be very competitive and defensive and resort to doing things that only benefit themselves. That's the 'true spirit' of a workplace. Sighpie... That cold harsh reality.

You're picture perfect blue, sunbathing on the moon,

Stars shining as your bones illuminate.

First kiss is just like a drug under your influence.

You take me over, you're the magic in my veins.

This must be love.

Strike the match, play it loud. Give love to the world.

Living the life of a princess

(Part I)

(Sweetie Pie)

Mandatory selfie @ the Rooftop of Vivocity before we embark on a seafood feast @ No Signboard to celebrate yours truly's birthday. An advanced birthday celebration last week with my maternal grandparents, uncles and aunties. Thank you! ☆

(The dancing lobsters)

(Lobster Salad)

(Crayfish)

(Frog)

(Tofu)

(Veggie)

There are other dishes but they were gobbled up quickly before I even had the chance to whip out my phone to take pictures of them. Arghs! But yay, they were truly delicious. I enjoyed the food but most importantly, I enjoyed myself. :D

Today, I give thanks to the people around me who celebrate my birthday together with me. It means a lot to me. Thank you. (:

You are the light and I'll follow.

You let me lose my shadow.

You are the sun, the glowing halo.

And you keep burning me up with

all your love.

And love is a word used too much and much too soon.

(Ripped from pinterest)

It has been a tiring week for me, having to spend approximately 12 hours everyday at the wake. Reaching home at 1am, 2am is not surprising anymore. Meal times have been super irregular, and I'm pretty sure I stuffed myself silly because there was nothing much to do except to eat and fold the paper thingy. The worst thing ever? I exceeded my 4g T.T So no internet, no Whatsapp throughout these few days.

But these are the only things that I can do for my 爷爷 now. No complains, no regrets.

I am fine now. Special thanks to my company for the condolence money, especially my direct superior Rachelle. :D Thanks for being understanding. && also to Seah and Vivian for their countless times of comforting. It is really heartwarming. I love you guys!

//

Anyways, I headed down to SMU for an interview for business management on yesterday. As I have asked for a reschedule, that slot that I went was actually meant for people who need to take a English test. So in the holding room there were only three of us (because the three of us ask for a reschedule). We mingled a little (really a little because I was late), and I realised the other two was from RJC. *intimidated* One of them had asked for a reschedule for 5 times, like whut?!

So we waited till the English test was over before heading to the common room to read an article and discuss with our groupmates. They gave us toilet breaks and all before reading the article. I talked to my table mate a little, and he turned out to be a nice person, very sociable as well. Then we were given around 20 minutes to read and discuss the article. Ohgeeez, I CANT OPEN MY MOUTH. I have no idea what to say. And everyone in the group is just buzzing around discussing the article, and I took notice that only me and this other guy who did not contribute at all. Not even a one-liner. Okay, I feel so bad :/ But I absolutely abhor awkward situations, especially with 8 strangers T.T

Then it was time to head into the interview room. My heart shuddered as the professor called my name and pointed me to my seat. It was like a debate style of sitting, 4 on the right side of the aisle, 5 on the left. Then when everyone was seated properly, the professor started with "Discuss. What are your views?" or something along that line. There were two professors by the way, and I recognised one of them. She's the professor for Quantitative Finance, me and Seah bombed her questions last time during the SMU talks in January. Hahahahas! (:

So back to topic. The moment the professor ended his question, a girl raised her hand and started rambling on. Then after she finished, another guy followed suit. It soon became a super competitive kind of thing, where people just jumped at every opportunity to speak whenever the previous speaker ended his/her speech. There was no pause at all. None! I was super intimidated I swear?! I was under such a huge pressure that it compelled me to start raising my hand to speak as well. T.T And believe me, their points were so well-elaborated that I felt very tiny, very insignificant in there. I figured that I have to speak up more to make the professors take notice of me, but my mind went into a blank state. Zzz. '心有余而力不足'.

After the entire interview, I headed to the restroom with a girl and started making small talks with her. To my surprise, she was also from AJC! Hahahas, I didn't see her before though. Oops. Anyways, as she was heading towards Clementi and I'm going home, we took the same train ride and started talking about everything under the sun. From the interview, to school, to work, to driving. Wah, the advantages of talking to a stranger. Hahahas! I'm glad that we can click so well although we just met. But of course, this friendship would not last. We didn't exchange contacts or anything. But it still feels great to be making friends. Hahahas, this shows that my interpersonal skills are not rusty yet :P

Anyways, I learnt from her that 2/3 of my groupmates are from poly, no wonder they speak so well with such confidence! I felt threatened omg. Thank gawd Mr Adrian Bell had trained us a little in presenting our work during GP lessons last year, if not I would have performed even more badly during the interview T.T (To be honest, I felt that the interview was way more relaxed than Mr Bell's lessons because the professors did not have a chance to question us back, or perhaps because my group didn't give them a chance to talk LOL; whilst Bell's favourite past time is to refute our points).

But okay great. I got an offer from SMU business management today, one day after my interview. Ohyeahs baby! :D Cheers! I'm grateful to my 爷爷, perhaps he was the one who blessed me. I rescheuled my interview because it clashed with the funeral procession, and I heard from Seah that the article for my initial scheduled day was on some business structure management don't know what. Sounds chim -.- My article is more on social issue, which is easier I guess. :P

We could all be blown to pieces,
because time is a ticking bomb.
We could all be dead tomorrow,
but our love will carry on.

Memories are timeless treasures of the heart.

(Ripped from wallpaperswide.com)

People come, people go. That's part and parcel of life. We may cry and grieve over our loss, but that should be temporary. I'm sure that you will want us to continue leading our happy lives, rights?

I confessed that we have been very unfilial, visiting you only once a year during Chinese New Year. And you weren't even out in the living room half the time to spend time with us, as you get tired easily and want to get more rest in your bedroom.

I always thought that you will always be there for us. Death is not something that I will associate closely with, because when popo passed away I was only around 9 years old. I have no memories nor idea of what death actually meant until now.

And everything is so scary. Suddenly, you started burping non-stop. Then Daddy brought you to the hospital for a checkup. Then you were diagnosed with fourth stage cancer. Everything happened in a blink of an eye. And you know what's the scariest of all? Not feeling a tinge of pain at all even till fourth stage cancer. And there's no treatment available because it was too late.

Thud. The crashing of reality on us.

The doctor said that you could survive for another 3-6 months. But little did I know, you decided to bid your goodbyes to us after a mere 3 weeks. Why didn't you pull on a little longer? The pain and heartache that I went through were nothing compared to that of my Daddy's - to be not able to see his father for the last time. I hope my Daddy will pull off this ordeal.

I'm glad that you have left a significant impact in our lives, building up this family into a harmonious one. You have dedicate all your life to your family, ensuring that we 不愁吃，不愁穿, and you had worked hard all your life, it's time to take a break now. May popo and your souls to be reunited in that nice place called heaven.

Looking at the bright side of life, our families have once again reunited during these days. We have grown much much closer (and I even got to see my 'long-lost' cousins who don't join us for CNY gatherings). My another cousin even brought his girlf home for us to see. Are these your intentions? To ensure that our families stay knitted together?

Rest in peace, 爷爷. You'll be fondly remembered. I love you.

Holding onto baggage from the past

will leave no room for happiness in

the future. Maybe it's time to let go.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

My idea of a perfect Sunday morning:

lazing on my sofa reading a book. In the background, music will dance to my ears as I take a sip of my cuppa of caramel latte.

Yeahs wishful thinking. T.T

I was tasked to clean the floor today. Armed with a vacuum cleaner that makes irritating buzzing noise (what a nice background music) and a mop, I spent all my energy travelling to all corners of my house, wiping and cleaning them till the floors become shiny with no speck of dust. T.T And yeahs, I did drink caramel latte (the instant kind) :/

My back is sore after all the fuss, and yet I was tasked with the next household assignment: ironing clothes. The exact reason why I hate buying apparels that need ironing. Arghs.

P.S. I bet I am the first choice as a daughter-in-law now. Hahahahahas! (:

&& in a bid to live a healthier lifestyle, I bought a packet of Quacker oats to eat for breakfast. It turned out to be super duper sweet, too sweet for my liking. Yeahs, oats are supposedly no fats, high fibre, blahs blahs blahs, but this Quacker brand turns out to be HIGH sugar. T.T Like wts, no warning sign given. Arghs. I'll be better off with my bread. :/

(With the bae)

Throwback to the mini meetup with Wanying to celebrate her belated birthday. (: We went Star Vista to dinner, before climbing to the sky garden there to chillax and chit-chat. And yes! I finally found my favourite night spot. The view there is nothing short of amazing. And I love the feeling of cold breeze blowing on my face. Terrific! ♡

Hahahas, anyways off topic:

11 more days to the special day :D

LOLOLOLOL

Picture perfect memories,

Scattered all around the floor.

And if you hurt me, well that's okay baby,

Only words bleed.