Below are the most recent 8 friends' journal entries.

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
_rollaround	11:02a	she picks sea shells from the sea shore and throws them back again LONDON in 4 days! I am not looking forward to the WORK and the STRESS and the LAUNDRY and the BAD FOOD but I'm looking forward to .... seeing all the crazy people and ice skating at somerset house part 2!  I guess one thing that I can say with some conviction is that friendship is the most awesome bond that exists between people! It requires low emotional maintenance, is permanent (at least most of the time) and brings great joy. Am really sad that I missed the humanzz gathering but okay at least I got to eat some awesome dimsum!!!! st regis really makes you feeeeeeel goooood...while my brother was busy looking out for bentleys I was busy admiring the little bouquet of purple flowers on each table. These purple things made me change my mind about flowers that are too outstanding for their own good (i.e. roses). Flowers that bloom arrogantly normally put me off, but these purple ones seem to bloom with...humility? And so they (and the dimsum and my family and our family friends) really made my day and compensated for the lack of bsb crap + humanz gossip :( Yesterday I had a great time bonding with my little brother (who isn't that small any more!!!! seeing how he fawns over taylor swift and says that I have eye bags while taylor swift has wonderful eye mascara). I drove us to keppelclub for tea and then I finally decided to swim! First time exercising in about a million years. I want to spend more time with my sister but she is always so busy with all her meetings and hitting her targets and packing her room...the education system nowadays is too demanding for its own good (now I sound like some whiny straits times forum contributor)... Had fourers class dinner after that which was cosy (nice way of saying poor turnout) but yes jia we're grateful that you organised it!!! Spent all our time eating and I'm still quite disappointed that we ate fig and olive instead of bakchormee but NEXT TIME...we will!  OKAY I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY can't believe I just typed such a crappy entry please don't despise haha okay bye.  (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
prolliness	2:07p	1305 I've got a deadline (2 Comments |Comment on this)
_rollaround	10:37a	We have to stop these nocturnal outings, they are screwing with my body clock. Yesterday I had to force myself to wake up at 7:30am to run errands. Relied of caffeine and drove to the airport to send my relatives off to USA. The rest of the entourage left in the evening for the UK, and so this marks the end of my family's yearly stint as host to All Relatives Living Abroad. (btw yiming my red-bean-soup-aunt sends her regards hahaha) TFP, I have something to say to all of you. We have to stop this obsession with outings that start at 11:30pm and end at 4 am!!! They are giving me really bad eye bags (what's new) PLUS I actually get nagged at for waking up at 2pm (unlike jiaen who wakes up at 6pm every day)  Although I must admit I really enjoy all our crazy night escapades. Jiaen's black beauty (named by bert obviously who else will be so retarded) has served us well, it is the lifeline of our night activities!!! Spent the night at holland v until cold rock closed, headed to YISHUN because the cafe there opens till THREE in the morning. We are seriously crazy. But still...it has been 5 years....so I'm sure we can make the LONDON/PARIS/ROME 2010 DECEMBER TRIP a reality!  Council gathering was nice, in such a large group we inevitably gravitate towards the ones that mean more to us, towards the familiar, and that is often enough. There is definitely a sense of deja vu, the guys playing random songs on the guitar, retarded jokes from retarded people, threats to pull people into the pool, taboo - the ultimate welfare room game, shiwei making a random speech/giving of instructions....as much as all our lives have deviated from each others, it doesn't feel too bad because after all friendship isn't that hard a connection to maintain, even on such weak grounds.  Today, I wake up with the sun streaming through my window, I realise that I forgot to close the sliding door completely last night. The entire house is peacefully asleep - there is no big breakfast spread this morning, no guests to entertain, no activities to plan. This feels normal, normality is returning to our lives...and then I realise that in seven days I will return to what is normal in a different place, different time. It doesn't feel that bad, it just feels slightly....disconcerting I guess. I'm going to miss all that is familiar here, but I feel more ready for London, and for the cold, long, hopefully happy months ahead. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
terb	5:02a	2009 I have not updated in ages! So much has been happening but I have been penning (is there such a word?) down my thoughts in my black book! Okay it's 2010 I should summarize 2009 :D 2009 has been a great year! Been to crazy overseas trip like taiwan, collected A level results, new life in university, new life in hall, new life at home. I guess I'll just list the people I wanna thank in non-chronological order (PICTURES ALL FROM FACEBOOK :P) ( Byeee ) (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 1st, 2010
_rollaround	2:40a	ten years two hours and thirty-seven minutes It's hard to believe that 10 years ago, we were counting down to a new millennium. I can still remember how it was like to be 10, sitting on a mattress trying my best to stay awake for the countdown, falling asleep every five minutes and finally succumbing to the sleep monster before 12.   2009 felt like a year that belonged to me. For the first time, I was in control of my life. There were no strict schedules to follow, no real plans to stick by. Last year, I think I learnt the meaning of compromise...I can't have anything and I don't have everything (omg hahaha there is a sense of deja vu here), but I have enough, sometimes even more than that, and so I am satisfied.  I think I have grown older, maybe not wiser, but definitely older. I now know who and what I need in my life. I still don't know what it is exactly that I want (and if this choice is mine to make in the first place), but I know that these people are the ones I will depend on whenever and wherever life takes me.  In the past year, I became acquainted with disappointment, hope, and satisfaction; I found friendship in the most unexpected places; experienced love gained and lost and the pain that it inevitably entails; became less dependent and grew to seek comfort in the solitude that I once loved; I have seen more of the world and want to see more and more of it before it becomes too difficult to do so; I can now understand what it means when they say that Singapore is a red dot in a sea of nations characterised by large green blots, yet simultaneously I feel more strongly than ever before what it means to be a Singaporean and to be Chinese.  I am now 19, not looking forward to turning 20 but embracing every day that comes. In 2010, I hope to make myself proud (and maybe my parents too haha), I hope to be less antisocial and more proactive in my university life, and finally, I hope that the people who matter will be happy.  I know that the year ahead will be harder than this, but 2010 sounds like a good year. 2010 is nice and round, it isn't angular like 2007, or inverted like 2009, it is balanced and round and peaceful....of course it's too early to tell but still....it is always good to be optimistic so. Happy New Year everyone (: (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
emocratz	6:15a	NYE rant WTF IS WRONG WITH MY BODY CLOCK?!?!?!?! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
_rollaround	6:33p	kampong 101 spent seven and a half hours driving and we arrived at Tanjung Malim, my grandfather's hometown. this town is pretty amazing, it's small but self-sufficient and peaceful....I met a man who stuck a needle into my right forearm, felt my pulse and said 'you get really bad cramps every month and no one understands the pain you go through' to which I said YESSSSS but do you think I can give birth...and he said YES no problem so I am rather relieved hahaha. I met relatives that I have never seen in my life, they are owners of provision shops, rubber tappers... every single person is interconnected there...the owner of the noodle stall is an old friend of my grandfather's brother, the doctor is my uncle's classmate, the owner of the fruit stall married the daughter of the landlord etcccccc.  ( malaysia truly asia ) ultimately I am grateful that my grandfather decided to sell cigarettes in KL, that he found his way to Singapore, worked in the day and studied at night and decided to stay here because as much as I love the life there....I wouldn't trade anything for xiaolongbao buffet with awesome friends after crossing the tuas checkpoint :) (Comment on this)
Friday, December 25th, 2009
_rollaround	7:00p	thank you for christmas This Christmas I took many photos. I want to have a huge family in the future (haha), how else will I have family parties like these, with buffet tables overflowing with housewifely pride, forty people talking, laughing and eating at the same time; enough children to play charades, polar bear and taboo, and enough presents to flood the tree?  This Christmas I want to keep the friends I know I can and will trust, the friends who call and come down immediately when they hear that there's a fondue to finish, the friends who eat up the leftovers from my family party at 1 am, who try their very best (despite their severe lack of housewifely expertise) to clean up the fondue machine, and leave at 5 a.m. in the morning because that's when their bedtime starts.  I leave for Malaysia tomorrow, but before that! I have to try to look like ____ for dress-up-as-a-tfp-member-day and figure out what HOUSE pour to serve later since making chocolate truffles seem a bit ambitious right now :) (1 Comment |Comment on this)