keep believing

There is really something wrong with my left upper thigh, it’s been causing me pain, and it gets worse these days when I’m just about to leave on a journey in a foreign land by myself. (And erm some seventeen other people..)

I cannot have roaming for my phone line. I cannot suspend it and the contract ends only in July when I’m back. Basically I just need to pay 180 bucks for thousands of smses and hours of calls that I won’t get to use.

I wish I can be more useful and helpful and wise..

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you.

1. I procrastinate. I don’t exactly enjoy doing it, I just do procrastinate.

2. I forget things. This is another thing I don’t enjoy doing.

3. I have a face that can only show two emotions. Happy or sad. People often wonder why I smile all the time, but when I don’t, they ask me why I am sad.

4. One of my goals this year is to finish reading the whole bible. Feel free to ask me about my progress, I need to feel guilty.

5. Whenever people talk about food they don’t like, I can only think of one: passion fruit.

6. I think I eat almost everything else. I’m not a fussy eater.

7. My friends are somehow getting younger, but sadly I am not.

8. My superhero is my mom.

9. I’m known in my old neighborhood as the little girl who cried all the time, and loudly.

10. I wanted to be a Math teacher because I once had a crush on my Math teacher.

11. I wanted to be an English teacher when I was failing my English.

12. I’m crazy about berries, pink, Spongebob Squarepants, F.R.I.E.N.D.S, and rainbows ;)

13. I love to have just enough sleep. Can’t have too much, can’t do with too little.

14. Eucalyptus oil is my best friend.

15. I tried to spoil my eyesight because I wanted to wear specs. And fortunately, I kinda failed.

16. I love reading random and meaningful quotes. I’d love to come up with ones of my own.

17. I’ve ranked first in a class of forty something (and twenty second in a class of twenty five) before.

18. I love small kids. Babies are too fragile, teenagers, too cool for me.

19. I think unglam is the best way to sleep. As long as pictures and facebook are not involved.

20. I don’t think I belong in chemical engineering.

21. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. A can of coffee a day keeps me awake in class.

22. I love good books. And I really enjoy reading books when I have nothing better to do.

23. I had my very first friend in Primary 3.

24. I eat the strawberry on my strawberry shortcake first.

25. I am always amazed at how boats float on water. But I still don’t believe that I can float, too. (And that’s why I can’t swim.)

that is ending soon.

I met up with lots of people :)

Last semester’s projectmates with Pat to be photoshopped next to Thomas
Our style of working was easygoing and almost clueless (which translates to panicking and immense stress at the last minute). But I think we’re good, very good :)
We met up for dinner a few days ago. It’s weird how we are doing different things now, no longer skipping the same lectures, rushing/copying the same assignments, doing lunches after lectures together, worrying about the same tests/projects..

Did some hard work ;)

We walked Bukit Timah Nature Reserve to prepare for treasure hunt next week. It was initially kinda painful with the scorching heat and the walking itself, but it got very fun with all the swinging and sliding and the monkey attack!

Had fellowship,

I’m gonna miss this..

And some other not important stuff..

Like chasing cockroaches.

Oh and of course, prepared for a semester in far away land.

(to Bangkok)
Departure: 9pm 31st Jan
Arrival: 1020pm Bangkok

(to Zurich)
Departure: 1215am 1st Feb
Arrival: 645am 1st Feb

A friend has just told me how blessed I am, because we arranged to meet up on the day she’s getting her pay and bonus = I’m getting a treat, I guess?
Well, it’s really not about the treat. I just think it’s noteworthy how she’s never failed to find a reason to call me a blessed girl, again and again, which should really nudge me to continuously count my blessings and thank Him.
(And hold that faith and hope, no matter how ugly things are looking at the moment.)

It’s my eldest sister’s birthday today, and she’s treating tonight :D

I saw this on facebook and I just think it’s too funny. We were caught in the camera!

Oops.

A friend who’s going to Zurich with me was saying that she’s kinda lost the excitement of going and actually doesn’t mind staying in NUS this semester. I’m still excited to go and am glad that I can escape physically and temporarily from my problems here, but I think I don’t mind staying.. I’ll miss everyone.
And I still have so many things unsettled.

I finally went to the Swiss Embassy today to apply for visa, like eighteen days before my flight to Zurich. The Swiss Embassy is so visitor-friendly and slack, unlike a few embassies in Singapore that I’ve visited before. But it is so ulu, I had to walk a long road of posh houses to get there, not to mention the distance I walked getting lost.

My Macbook is here. But my Macguru is all the way in Davis.

I need to quickly orientate my brains to English again.

2008 has passed for over a week now. Without even having to look back and reflect, I do realise that the same old problems still existed throughout the year.

Like how I actually have been giving out the wrong address to everyone. See, I do not have a fixed address here in Singapore, so I have actually intended to use my sisters’ address for matters that require an address. Both important and trivial matters. I have just ordered a new laptop last night, courtesy of my eldest sister, and I almost had it delivered to a unit in the neighborhood that doesn’t even exist.

Laziness, lack of discipline, confusion, last minute-ism, playfulness, lack of focus, unwillingness to know God more.

By experience, I came to know that merely writing down resolutions will not change anything. But I still made them anyway (and will try harder to stick to them this time). I recently read Resolutions by Jonathan Edwards, and I’m totally inspired.

Though there is not always a ‘how-to’ for everything, too abstract and sloganish goals can hardly work for me. I now keep a private journal where I’d write down my resolutions in details, a prayerlist, a booklist, and things that are worth remembering. I guess I’ll be more honest  in keeping track of my life this way.