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HELLO. 你好。

Aha. After, let's see, 4 years (no actually I don't really remember when the last time I had a blog was, I don't even remember my password..) I'm finally back to blogger. Tumblr is not meant to be a place to record down your daily happenings la, it's a little too troublesome regarding the formatting. My tumblr would most likely remain, but I probably would be less active.

Now that I still have some time before going out for dinner, I shall post about the life after A levels (mainly pre-prom and rws stayover~), before I leave for my trip on Wednesday night.

Pre/Post-prom period
Let's just say that as much as shopping for outfits with friends was a rather fresh experience for me, I would rather have spent that time just chilling out or catching up. Because we had to settle our prom stuff urgently, we ended up focusing on shopping alone and couldn't really get to catch up with each other's lives. And I must stress that such formal events are not my cup of tea simply because IT IS TOO TIRING AND TROUBLESOME (and extravagant). From deciding on the dress, to settling the details, I swear it was unnecessary stress. Especially for my shoes, which I only managed to buy last minute, and by last minute I mean the night before prom. Oh but I must really thank my mum (who was basically my make-up and hair stylist haha) for accompanying me to find my shoes after work even though she must have been tired. And thanks to my dad for being the driver (as usual) and sending us to prom! :) Despite all the trouble, it turned out well in the end I suppose. Prom was....food. Hahaha I was mainly waiting for the food la, which was only okay... Oh yes and it was cool seeing your schoolmates dressing up so glam-ly, a drastic change from the usual dull and boring school uniform. Like what yiksheng mentioned, prom was basically a more glam version of graduation day. It is even more obvious when people uploading graduation day photos with prom photos in FB. In the end, prom ended with no one from our table winning any lucky draw prizes :( Hahaha

RWS stayover
After prom we travelled to rws to meet up with the rest who (er herm) didn't attend prom haha (thanks cass' mum!). Once we reached there I (almost) immediately removed my make-up lol, unlike yik and xm who wanted to remain glam (tsk tsk hahaha). I just feel uncomfortable in make-up, even though you can't really feel it, 'cos it's like there's a layer of something on your face??? I just prefer nothing on my face I guess. So in the future, as far as possible, I would want to remain bare-faced. Must be because my skin too good already. Hahaha that's what people like xm would say to me, but no, even if your skin is bad it's good to let it breathe. And I refuse to become over-reliant on make-up (like my cousin) which would only make myself look weird when I don't put on any make-up. Natural is good :) That night we didn't do much and went to sleep at around 3am. Probably 'cos the prom peeps were too tired by then haha.

The next day by the time everyone woke up and blah, it was already noon so we met up with kn and yik for lunch at Fish & Co.! I think that was my first time eating there (haha what don't judge!) but it was too much fried food for my liking. Shall skip the part about their inefficiency... Afterwards we bought some drinks (these alcoholics!) then headed back to the hotel for games like Bang! Oh and let me just say something - I must be a genius at playing Sheriff HAHAHA. Nah just kidding. I think this role suits me the best because everyone knows my role and I don't have to try and trick people about my role, which I really suck at 'cos I wouldn't know what I am trying to do. I don't think that much when I play games LOL. Sorry la, I'm a noob :D That night was more interesting than the first night. X-Factor, K-POP star search (which was lol), more Bang! and a small talking session at 5am. Slept only at 6.30am! Oh but the two nights took a toll on my weak body (:P) and so I ended up with a mild flu over the weekends... Once again thanks to Nic and his generous mum for the hotel and car ride to dump our barang at rws before prom!

This would probably one of the last time we can all gather together like this and stay-over in quite some time... If only I realised this earlier I would have treasured those two days more.

(shall continue with this tonight, gotta get out of the house soon!)

Saturday: B'day celebration
Celebrated Lee Hwee, Alicia and Jasmine's birthdays over lunch at Kith (their b'days are all in Dec!!). Let me just express how over-priced the food at cafes are. Got a Turkey breast sandwich at $12, which wasn't that fantastic and I had difficulties cutting through the bread. I would rather have gotten 2 6-inch Subways. If you say we were paying for the ambience, sorry there was no great ambience because we were sitting outside near a road. Talked a little about Finnick (from Hunger Games. Idk the actor's name lol) and it seems that almost everyone finds him good-looking haha. Well done dude. Settled some Taiwan stuff. Oh yea looking forward to the trip! :) Afterwards headed to MBS to meet my parents and grandma after dropping by my sister's booth at the Public Garden flea to pass her her jacket. While waiting for my family to reach, who took like 1.5 hour, it was nice to just sit down at a bench listening to my music and enjoying my cup of milk tea from Gongcha haha. Really felt like I was cut off from the rest of the world.

Sunday
This was the day that was almost non-existent. Probably because of my mild flu that made me feel drowsy throughout the day and resulted in a 3-hour long nap (which I wanted to use the time to do up the itinerary for my trip!!). Anyway, went to the temple with my parents after breakfast. I'm not a Buddhist and I'm not too sure how to go about explaining it, so I'll just leave it like this. After my long nap when I reached home, headed out once again to pass my sis some stuff again (troublesome sister haha) who was at her 2nd day of the flea. Went to settle winter clothings for the trip. Speaking of which, we never seem to be done buying winter clothings?! I think my parents spent a huge sum even before we go for the trip. But I don't think we will be spending much there la, other than on food and transportation. I guess people go to Europe mainly for it's ambience and not so much on the activities.

Monday
Ah let me admit something: I had wanted to write xmas (cum graduation day) cards on this day and send it out today, but somehow I couldn't get myself to start writing them T.T And just like this my whole day just went by doing nothing!? I'm sorry guys. Laziness got the better of me. Afterwards went out to meet xm and yik for dinner at Tiramisu Hero. Cute name haha. But the food was okay only I guess. Oh but the bacon and egg thingy was nice. The curry wasn't exactly what I expected to be :P The tiramisu was so-so, but it could also be because I'm neutral to tiramisu. Still, food aside, it was great time spent talking and sharing our thoughts.


Got to start packing my luggage today, my mum has been nagging. I really don't know how this trip will turn out, considering how big this tour group is (49 people in one bus, seriously?!), but hope that all will turn out well. Otherwise I could choose to simply ignore most people on the bus. Spending 14 days with 45 other strangers and yet still enjoy yourself is something not that easy especially if it gets NOISY.