#16 - Cheers to friendship

Dayre is awesome! I can just update my day now and then and it becomes a long ass post by the end of the day so Blogger is looking a little too tedious to update right now HEE.

Blogger YOU NEED STICKERS. I tell you man, stickers are like the reasons why I find every reason to FB chat or to update whatever nonsense I am doing on Dayre even if nobody reads it. I don't care. The stickers are too cute to say no to!!

So this week was an awesome one as usual and November is starting to become my favourite month but on a side note, NOVEMBER IS ENDING. [inserts sticker of shock face]

It's just 13 more days till December is here and I am finding it hard to let go of November because it has been nothing but really awesome. Every week I'm just in awe by how lovely all the people around me are and it's like as if I finally opened my eyes and see the wonders of all my friends (not that I have seen them before but it's overwhelming this time round).

I have to say CARDS, were the biggest blow to my little heart. I love writing cards for friends, I love designing them and making them pretty because to me it's my way of showing them how much they mean to me. I have always gave cards out with all my heart felt words written and so this time round it's really special to be the one at the receiving end.

Receiving cards by the MMQM family, Bendito and Eunice was just, I don't know what to say. Even if the tears didn't fall from my eyes but I know my heart did tear. And funny enough the cards are in different shades of red/pink haha. It's like receiving their hearts (:

And reading it all, apart from the love I felt, I have also come to realise how much I have lost in those friendship due to the different path in lives. Seeing my girls Germaine, Aletheia and Eunice today was just enough to make me feel overwhelmed and upset that I haven't had a chance to make time for a conversation or just a simple meal. Something that was so frequent last time has become a thing that happens once in a blue moon and this blue moon hasn't appeared in a long time.

A picture with my girls today, showcasing our #OOTD haha. 

It's nice to see how our styles have evolved over the years but I am not going to dig up old photos cause let's just say we have grown up well. Didn't have one with Eunice but we will soon! ♥

Although I had plans for a studious November, I think all the times I spent with every one of my friends were worth it all (not that it is an excuse for not studying) but I have always believe that there are certain things that can never be caught up with and that is time lost with a friend, with someone you love. I have learnt a valuable lesson in the past of how being busy with other things cost me a chance to spent time with someone that I loved and how this time I can never catch up with because just like time, this person is gone forever.

So I WILL embrace every moment spent with people I love because when you love someone you will make time for them no matter how busy you are. So Bendito and girls, wait for me! And prepare yourself for a looooong chat when I get hold of you (:

My 94 liner good friend, Corliss! Another person that I am trying to meet up with! ♥

The lovely Bendito who celebrated my birthday although it was over a week ago!

Touched that they still surprised me nonetheless and it was so overwhelming to have them surround me and pray for me. It's like this aura of love just surrounding me. Simply Amazing.

Now I feel so ultra loved that I think I will have a really sweet sleep tonight! It's yet another week again and hopefully it will be just amazing as the rest of November!

P.S. Have been driving around and I have to say....driving is kinda boring meh. Oh well, beats taking public transports during peak hours.

Cheers to a wonderful week ahead guys! ^^

#14 - Food. Family. Friends. Flowers

I have been excited and lazy to do up this post. Excited because it's the first time in a long time I had such an eventful week and I have so much to be thankful for but then again I'm lazy because well, I am just lazy to put my excitement into words. HA. But you can tell my excitement over rides my laziness at this moment and I pray hard it lasts through this post. MOVING ON!

Last week was my birthday week and I have just one word to summarise how I felt that week: Grateful. 

I have always thought 19 was a weird age because it was in the middle of 18 and 20 in which both age has a certain meaning to it. 18 being the legal age for things like drinking, clubbing, driving and such while 20 is the start of the age with "2" in the front so I have always thought 19 would kind of be neglected since it is of not much special value; but this birthday week has proven just the opposite of weird.

It technically started with the amazing birthday surprise I got from my lovely MMQM committee on Sunday at Coastal Settlement and that is one birthday celebration that I'll never forget. It was the first time I manage to get surprised since I am a natural suspicious person but strangely I did not realise anything until I heard the birthday song. Apart from me dropping my guard and trusting this group of friends I think I get a little blur when I am with them too. Hahaha. Nonetheless, it's good to be surprised once in a while (: Really thank them for the effort in planning this so smoothly.

Thank you all once again ♥

Monday was spent studying at home and freaking out over my driving test the next day and truthfully I don't remember anything about Monday hahaha. But no school on that day so NO MONDAY BLUES YAY!

Tuesday was a really happy day because I PASSED MY DRIVING TEST! :D *throws confetti* I was honestly SO DARN happy that I almost broke into a dance right there and then in front of the tester. Thank God I was still in my right mind or else I would most probably be on Stomp. I did run happily on the road towards my teacher's car with the piece of paper doing a twist sign to him hahaha. And for the record, no, I did not wear short shorts or spaghetti top but jeans, T shirt and boots. The whole day I was just smiling to myself I fear my muscles have gone numb. I CAN DRIVE NOOOOOWW!!! 

So to reward myself, I went shoe shopping on Wednesday with my sister. As strange as it sounds, it was kind of our first time going on a shopping trip together and it was so fun (: Really grateful for my sister because two is always better than one and she is just so good at nail art, clay art, hair art, just about anything arty farty. 

We always joked if I ever become a superstar she would be my stylist (not that she isn't now haha). I can always ask her for fashion advice or squash beside her in her bed and annoy her with questions like "Do you love me? Why are you ignoring me? Mei. Mei. Mei." In which she will push me off the bed and give me the judging face. It's always fun with her around and I wouldn't trade her for anything else ^^

We lunched at Hot Tomato, munching down Chicken Chop with aglo olio before embarking on a walk through the many levels of 313 Somerset before heading to Scape and Cineleisure for more shopping. My main goal was to get shoes so we just browsed through everything else keeping in mind the nicer things we saw. Bought two gold necklace at F21 for only 5 bucks each! One of the necklace was previously 17 bucks so it was a really great steal. Too tired to snap pictures of them when I got back, hopefully I'll snap one in due time. 

After searching for some time in the underground shops of Scape I finally found a bad ass pair of boot heels which was totally kick ass but unfortunately when I brought it home it was a size too big for me so now I'm stuck thinking whether to sell off this pair and get one in my size or just to put insoles inside :| 

Nonetheless it is a really chic looking shoe that adds 5cm to my height! Although that 5cm proved useless when I walked beside the two tallest friends I have. Even after hopping onto those shoes I'm still at their shoulders T.T But it was still nice walking around the shop houses in Holland Village with the two of them searching for good food to eat on a Thursday. 

The two of them suspiciously asked me the day before if I was attending lecture the next day and if I was going to have lunch with them in which I replied "Fine, I'll eat with you two lonely asses." And the next day they bugged me throughout lecture asking me what I felt like eating and I just said "Eggs" to shut them up. When lecture ended they sat there seriously and said "Actually, we know your birthday is coming so we are going to buy you lunch." I was honestly touched and surprise although I didn't say it when they kept asking if I was happy and touch. It's the smallest gestures from the people that you least expect that touch you the most and I am really grateful to these two friends. As annoying (in a good way) as they both are, they are truly two friends that I would like to cherish, hopefully forever.

They wanted to bring me for some Dim Sum but didn't manage to book a table so I dragged them to try Hatched instead. So grateful they tried it with me although they aren't people who like eating Western for brunch. Thank you Mat and JH again! If you both were girls I would totally hug you two but no. So here is a virtual hug instead *hugs* (:

We ordered three different mains and everything was just eggs, eggs and more eggs. Honestly I have never eaten so much eggs before in a meal and I was really full after that. How we managed to gorge down one and a half pieces of Mudpie Cake at Island Creamery after that is still a mystery to me.

Verdict for Hatched is that unless you really love eggs from the bottom of your heart and you are starving to death, if not once is good enough for just a try of their food. The place was really nicely decorated though with everything eggy and they have the cutest chalked wall ever. Great for a chill out session with friends or just on your own.  

Friday was a crazy cafe/restaurant hopping for me as I bounce from Stranger's Reunion to Tiong Bahru Bakery and lastly Everything with Fries. With all the eating going on I think I need to swim 1000 laps before I could get rid of it all. After lugging an Olympus Pen around with me the whole day I am seriously considering if having a DSLR is a good thing, I have red marks from where my bag straps lie on my shoulders :( However the nice photos make up for it all, bringing me to this struggling-decision-state-of-mind which I shadn't bore you with the details. 

ON WITH THIS!!

Miraculously dragged myself out of bed at 730AM on Friday to travel down to Outram for breakfast with my lovely friends Wenyi, Huijing and Eelin at the Stranger's Reunion. The place is about a 5-10 minutes walk from Outram Mrt depending on how fast you walk and whether you know the place. We took quite a while deciding whether to head left or right at a junction but thank goodness for Google Maps. The little tiny blue arrow guided us to the right place without us sweating much. Was surprise to see that it was almost full house when it wasn't even 10AM in the morning. I guess good company really drives you out of bed early in the morning. The place was full of flowers which really brightens up your morning and if you asked me what I feel about Stranger's Reunion it would be flowers. And nice font.

Flowers at the cashier. I need a pot of this.

Flowers again. This time in a jar.

And more flowers.

Love the oak table which gives off this really homely feeling and nothing beats a hearty breakfast, some coffee and good company early in the morning.

The food was alright. I wouldn't say that it tastes exceptionally good. Honestly I was disappointed with the quality of it. Didn't get poached eggs cause I was sick of those so maybe they aren't really good in cooking the conventional scrambled eggs. Okay, I guess how nice can scrambled eggs get right? I would say I have tasted better food so this is a "been there, ate there, not going back soon" place. 

The ambiance make up for it so it's one of those places that you can just chill out and watch life goes by.

Got surprised by the girls with a chocolate cheesecake and this was way better than the food. 

Good photos to make up for the food.

Sneaked a daisy out of the place cause the flower is just so cherry (:

We chilled out at the void deck of a beautiful HDB in which I forgotten the name so here's a photo of it.

Really spectacular architecture and greenery.

With the girls. 

Here's to a awesome university life and more meet ups! (:

Head down to Tiong Bahru Bakery next to meet up with Vivien!

Funny how we ended up at this place since none of us are much fans of bread.

While waiting for that woman I saw throngs of people buzzing in and out of the bakery and was truly in awe by how well this bakery is doing and how much bread everyone eats.

We settled for Berries Crumble, Macchiato (mine) and tea.

Love the heart shaped coffee art ♥

The Berries Crumble was too sweet for the both of us and it was kinda hard swallowing it down. My mouth must have produced tons of amylase just to break down all the sweetness in my mouth :O Apart from it being too sweet, I guess it was worth a taste and I don't mind trying the rest of the desserts the next time I visit this place.

Nicest photo in this series: Vivien's pumpkin soup 

Had a great laugh and talk with this woman and I'm grateful for her in my life. 

It's really funny how we got to become so close when the only relationship between us last time was that her younger sister is a close friend of mine. Never have I thought then in just half a year we would have grown so close just by serving in the same team together. I guess God works in amazing ways putting people you have never thought of being close to, in your life, allowing you to learn great lessons from these people, good or bad. 

We headed down to Bugis afterwards on bus 65 which took us on a scamming ride making this loop which we didn't know of. But then stopping of at the tip of the loop allowed us to visit an old colleague so that scam wasn't that bad after all. Was searching for a good leather bag pack to carry to school but I guess I was too stuffed to shop so we just ended up walking around laughing at things people sell and finished the shopping trip with mens tee. Yes, mens tee. Saw a sales for mens clothes and we just browse through for pieces for our brothers and that's just about the only shopping we did. Totally want to dress my brother in those coloured berms and tribal tee. Almost bought everything in that shop for him. Boy, hurry grow more fats and stop being so skinny!!

Completed my date with Vivien and met up with Donovan for dinner at Everything with Fries.

I was so stuffed by that time that I passed on most of my bread and fries to the growing boy. EwF is not bad but I feel that it is just higher end fast food. So eat if you prefer higher end fast food to Macdonalds.

Finished the day out early because my dad suspiciously asked me back early for we were supposedly going to have a photo shoot in our house (what kind of lousy excuse was that?!) I grew more suspicious when I probed more about the issue and more or less guessed people were going to pop by and surprise me so I went along with it until my sister showed me "If Disney Princess Had Instagram" on her phone and out pops Huizhen's message saying they were at Tampines. Surprise gone. LOL. My sister dramatically falls to the ground screaming how failed she was and that she is going off to bed since there is no need for her to be around and locked herself in our room as I sat patiently watching Totoro. 

Opened the door minutes later to the faces of Huizhen and K-Chuen being glum about the fail surprise but I secretly was grinning in my heart because I haven't seen them for ages and I wanted to scream dramatically "I MISSED YOU TWO SO MUCH" and sob in front of them. Of course I didn't. I am 19, I don't do such dramatic things anymore. Or maybe just "I MISSED YOU TWO SO MUCH" without the fuss and the tears. 

They gave me the cutest cupcake made up of supposedly unicorns but according to Chuen, the seller got hungry so she ate the horns off so they are now just horses, and rainbows. Why they always link me to unicorns and rainbows is such a mystery. I AM A KICK ASS GIRL. NO FAIRY TALES. REALLY.

MAD LOVE the red boots they gave me which brings my boots collection to FOUR! :D 

Paired them with a simple white tee, blue jeans and blue denim and added other tinges of red in the outfit.

Had to send Huizhen off to the bus stop because she wasn't really suppose to come all the way to my house so THANK YOU BERY MUCH MY DEAR :') Hope the next time we meet we can talk for hours!! End up sitting at the bus stop with Chuen after sending Huizhen on the bus just catching up on our lives and listening to his endless funny army stories. It was a really simple meet up but I'm extremely grateful they made an effort to surprise me ♥ MEET UP SOON!!  

Just realised how long this blog post is. Grateful if you made it all the way here! Here's a ♥  :D HAHAHA.

Spent Saturday, my birthday with my family, getting a try at driving the car for the first time and my left leg feels so neglected. It feels great to be able to drive my family around especially my dad because he has always been driving me around since I was young and rarely did he ever ask me to come home on my own (I'M NOT SPOILT, MY DAD JUST LOVES ME) so being able to drive while he sits short gun beside me was a really nice feeling. Wish I get better so he let's me drive him around more. So nice to see him close his eyes and rest as I drove my parents home on a Sunday evening. It was a really great way to end the week being able to do a little something for the parents that brought me into this world and took care of me all these while. Whether you two see or not, Daddy Mummy, I love you and I'll be eternally grateful for all that you have done. ♥ 

Thanks for sticking around guys (:

FIN.

#8 - Wake Me Up When September Ends

September is almost coming to an end and I'm not sure whether I'm glad that time is flying by so quickly. On one hand I am excited for the things that will be happening in the months to come especially in December where I am packed with loads of fun and awesome events. I think half the time in December I wouldn't even be sleeping on my bed.

Speaking of my bed, my new blanket is feeling oh so comfortable that it is a torture getting out of bed these few days and every night I rush to sleep early so that I can have more time with my blanket hahahaha.

Back to me being unsure about the flying time, one thing I worry about time going pass so quickly is that I'm lagging behind in my studies which isn't a good thing because confusion piles up on confusion and after awhile I'm stuck with this pile of confusion shit that isn't going to explain itself.

SO, SIGH. At least I'm enjoying Principles Of Accounting (: Those accounting terms are calling out to me~

Wanted to be more hardworking and blog but I got distracted, again. But this time because I was looking at Youtube videos on the Introduction To Economics! #hardworking #convertingtoanerd #onlytonight
I swear I was going to blog diligently, I even made a list for myself, see!

9/9 Monday - Percy with the siblings
13/9 Friday - Surprise Huizhen x Macrons x Just Acia
14/9 Saturday - XIMI Picnic x K-session
16/9 Monday - Chill at Starbucks w Vivien
18/9 Wednesday - D'good with FOC clique
21/9 Saturday - #Tworeminiscence
22/9 Tuesday - Chock Full Of Beans w Huizhen + Chuen

I even transferred photos over to my computer but now....I just want to snuggle in my bed.
So I shall just say one sentence to conclude the above things that I have done. (laziness at it's extreme)

The previous two weeks have been entertaining with late night movie that consists of about 88 minutes of introduction and 2 minutes of Greek gods action and dying and reviving and cyclops which is fairly a good sit-down and chillax show before adventuring on a hike to a block unknown in the dark with army boy Chuen to give a surprise to Huizhen with Macrons so that she knows we love her and she must study hard but for now she can go off to eat with us at Just Acia and take photos of our food before commenting about the chip on my plate and calling me #swaggersu and going back feeling satisfied with ice cream and laughter and having a good nights sleep, waking up early in the morning the next day to travel all the way from Tampines to Marina Barrage to sit down for a picnic for less than an hour but still worth it as we (XIMI) take advantage of the nice backdrop to take plenty of photos with our amazing self shot skills and self timer and mini tripod and rushing off when it starts to drizzle to have a K-session with 10+ people fitting in a single K room singing Korean, Chinese and English songs dancing now and then to familiar dance moves calling each other superstars cause we are cool like that and then slowing down abit to have a chill dinner at Starbucks with the one and only Vivien and having her steal 5% of my heart out to invest in this group of people that I am trying hard not to feel nonchalant about, but all is good with food when you have English Breakfast for Brunch at D'good and camwhore session with the camera and the polaroid and learning that I have up-ed my skills to be able to fit 6 people in a polaroid photo with my short flexibly long arm and having more people than who you are suppose to meet is good because you can slave them ask politely to help you in snapping clique photos and I am reminded of how people that constantly sing the same songs will go crazy adding their own animal sounds to represent every animal named in the song and how grinning of a bobcat will result in chuckling and when you are performing you tend to forget all the rubbish you did and become these normal bunch of people that just sing but it was fun while it lasted on our own and I can finally indulge in fried and spicy food which my stomach is not taking in well hence all the cut out lemons I have in every cup and bottle that I use in hopes of detoxifying when sometimes all I have to do is to stop being lazy and go exercise, sigh it's so hard to start once you stop, WHY IS THE POOL SO FAR AWAY (!) Chock has been alrighty, not cake worthy but coffee worthy although 9pm isn't a good time for one to be consuming Iced Mocha and alcohol at the same time but all is well with the stupid and embarrassing things that we do and the deep conversations we had spoken like as if we had lived 5 decades, society is weird, and all is well, for now at least it is.

My GP teacher would not be proud of me.

And I'm going to sleep with this hair,

I am really extremely lazy. I forgive you if you don't ever want to come back here to read everything because I would to, but I know all of you are nice people so you would forgive me :D

Cheers! ^^

#7 - TWO is better than ONE

Because black and white takes away all the other noises and concentrates on the friendship that we have.

Because stoning in a room is better when you have someone else stoning right there with you.

Because when you have left over aloe vera, you can just pass it on and proceed to stare into the same mirror trying to erase off all your pimples.

Because stringing paper clips together is faster when you both do it at the same time and join it together so that 6 polaroids can be showed off nicely instead of a short yellow string.

Because having someone that does the same embarrassing thing as you doesn't make it that bad; like realising a place isn't actually as big as it looks and finding out what you are looking at is just a mirror and pressing the keys as hard on the xylophone, making the sharp "ting" sound and having the same people turn around and judge you.

Because you can just randomly decide to go shopping for shorts to avoid the crowd on the train and guard each other's fitting rooms to look for smaller sized pants.

Because journeys back to the east is no longer as lonely although you are both freezing your nose and legs off on the mrt trying to look at the same blogshop at the same time but giving up cause you are in the tunnel so you go to sleep and waking up to realise you are closer to east and then proceed to use your phone again looking at tumblr and facebook.

Because going to see the pasa malam after alighting instead of heading straight home makes sense although it's the same old things and it's late but you are already there so you just take a walk through.

Because realising it's always nice to have a friend beside you even if you don't talk to each other all the time but you still know each other well.

Because I'm glad you are my friend that makes this rainy Thursday warmer than any other rainy day ♥

#6 Throwback Week - And We Talked All Night

I am not someone who likes to talk, about myself especially. Yes, surprisingly as that may sound, I do get annoyed by my own voice sometimes. I prefer to sit in the sidelines watching people converse, I realise I pick up more keeping quiet than voicing out although sometimes conversation is necessary to avoid awkward silences.

I learnt how awkward me keeping quiet has actually turn out. (I'm sorry friend for staring out of the bus on the way home, please don't unfriend me lol.)

So comfortable silence me, is starting to learn how to break out of conversing only with myself in my head to having conversations with actual people.
It is really difficult to bring texting into talking because texting allows you to think as long as you can before actually responding and most of the time the "Clear" button is so conveniently located there for you to erase things that don't seem right but words that are spoken, you find it really hard to take back.

And you can't really sit in front of the person for half an hour trying to figure out what to say.
"Hahahahaha" and "LOL" also serves no purpose in real life.

That's why I guess I'm making baby steps talking to people closest to me. And I have to say my first ever (in a long time) sit-down-and-chat turned out scary and comforting at the same time. Actually after we parted ways to go home, I still couldn't put words to what I had just experience. Having a meal with a friend and just chatting about things that WERE NOT just rubbish.

Most of the time table talk is easy if it surrounds "So what you wanted to share with us? What did you do over the weekends? What did you eat last week? Oh, I saw that dress you bought, where did you get it? "

But this time, semi opening up to a friend I realised, talking requires a lot of effort and a sincere heart. And after the talk I realised I don't actually know this person before me although we spent more than a decade as friends. Communication is really an important tool in every friendship and after that talk, I felt scared because this was an all new experience for me.

It's like opening up the book (story) of my life and letting someone read everything. It's truly left me vulnerable but at the same time, it felt so comforting to know there is someone who is curious to know the story of my life.

I don't trust people easily because to me everyone has a motive but my friend, I have to say, you are one of the first few to step onto the front porch of my heart and I'm sure one day I would invite you in for some tea (:

After that talk, the next day it was much easier opening up to the "Coffee Gang" which comprises of Vivien, Jing Jing and Lobbie. These three people have somewhat woven onto my front porch and are there to stay. When you ask me one year ago if I would ever imagine being close with these three people I would most definitely stare at you weirdly and ask what's with the question. 

But I guess God works in really amazing ways. Who would have known I would grow close to these people who I have somewhat a previous sketched connection to but now its like we are all tied together with twine that never breaks. We talked about school, life and about our spiritual lives. And I have to say it felt really great to finally put down and say what I felt about my spiritual life. I guess seeing how they faced their spiritual lives made me felt like doing so to. 

Feeling the strength of prayer and God bonding all of us really makes me thank God for putting them in my life. I guess now the Student Camp Committee is no longer just a Committee that come together and part ways after 6 months, they have become my family. And I would love for them to stay. #throwbackthree

#5 Throwback Week - Miz Belle

Oh look it's Belle Day! 

We headed down to Ion Orchard and had Monster Curry for lunch after two rounds of circling all the food places available. This was our fastest decision ever made I have to say. We have improved! 

Monster Curry's portion of food was truly monstrous, I couldn't even finish this whole plate of rice. The chicken wasn't really nice though, it felt like it was half cooked :/ All so tough, chewy like bubble gum. I guess sharing is caring for your stomach too in this context.

Look at my split ends! :(

Had a really great time catching up with this girl and camwhoring during the long train ride and it was really fun shopping because I finally threw away my habit of not buying a single dress because I thought they were asking for too much for that ONE piece of cloth. But I was desperate for dresses so thus my desperation overrode my usual keep-all-my-money-in-wallet-and-only-open-for-food and I bought three dresses YAY! And my wallet opened again when I saw an abstract looking dress at Cotton On a few days later. 

We went to shop at Prologue before the real shopping cause they were having closing down sales and I bought the City of Bones book I and IV. Recently finished book I and I was like "Why did I waste my time reading this .____." It's just so...boring. Like what my sister said, this is just a well written Wattpad story. I don't even want to waste my time on the movie. Heard it was worst than the book. Oh well, you never know till you do something right? 

After Prologue we went out of Ion to realised it was raining :O Never so glad to have went shopping at a bookstore before clothes shopping! Saw many pretty dresses at Scape but why are they all so SHORT!?! And I was still being a little wary of spending too much on clothes but opened my wallet willingly for badges and stickers. What is wrong with me?? And doing this throwback, I miss this girl again. Her cake tin is still sitting beside my table, waiting for the right day to dump pass it back to her. Hall Visit Soon! :D #throwbacktwo