#385

one of those nights when i feel horrible about everything in life.

urgh.

i need to get over it.

#384 flurry

these few months have been nothing but a quick blur.

since finals ended, i've played for a couple of days and then started my internship. it's been pretty fun and now 7 weeks have flew by?!

kenot wait for today to end hehe. i'll be having the time of my life tomorrow and sunday (i sincerely hope tht nothing will go wrong) and when i come back to work on monday, i'll be having the WORST withdrawal symptoms ever in my entire internship stint haha.

cheryl's coming back next week too yay. something else to look forward to :) hopefully the plans of steamboat will materialize and it will be awesomeeee.

i feel like my life is pretty hectic from now till i fly off for exchange so.. LIFE'S PRETTY GOOD.

oh crap i'm not even half done with the card that i was in the process of making.. and i need to get it done by tonight (NTS)

okie time to get back to letting time pass by and tying up loose ends here and there hehe.

#383 reminiscing

so.. i got a haircut on sunday. hair's really short now and i'm avoiding seeing people cos my fringe is super short!!!! :/ can't wait for it to hurry grow longer so i don't have to go to school with pinned up fringe and feeling so extremely self conscious about it sigh.

projects. projects everywhere.

i'm feeling so tired recently, no matter how much i sleep.

and i'm suddenly missing the old times. especially the times w the nutella babes :( missing how we giggle over how Hubbit behaves, and how we all got punished for skipping one measly math lecture haha. oh and the creative nutella-bread-cake with pocky as candles for Jinni's 20th! hehe. and bitching about you-all-know-who(s). and sitting beside Mab and annoying the crap out of her haha loved sitting at the back row with her (even though i think most of the teachers wanted me to sit right in front so that i'll freaking pay attention to them.) and the first outing in J1 when we weren't even hanging out tgt yet but most of us had a common (bad) experience related to this one person HAHAHA.

too many memories already. this is so overwhelming.

#382 gloom

recess week has.. ended.

that was fast. it literally flew by and i haven't started on revising accounting yet. am super worried right now that i'll fail :(

i need something to look forward to. something that will help me to pull through this horrible semester.

#381 feeling bored. blessed, but bored.

am feeling blessed hehe. these few days i've been doing a little bit more than nothing much but oh well. recess week is coming soon and i gotta catch up with accounting 2 and also sci or fiction.

oh but HO is coming as well!! so excited to see him perform on stage hehe i hope our hall does well this year :) hehe am going to watch because i have a ticket! (2 tickets actually cos i got one more from the ballot too HAHA) 

kay time to shower haha.

#380 hectic

it's gonna be a really hectic week 5 ahead and honestly i freaking can't wait for it. my POM prof probably thinks that we only take his module, cos he gave us A LOT of work which i heard that other classes don't even have :/

on top of that, there's still the other burden MR module too to complete. sigh. and PA searching/registration.

but there's hall CNY dinner to look forward to, and Vday too! :) and not forgetting LSDN's steamboat.. i felt so bad that i couldn't make it for the picnic the other day cos i was with Euge, sigh. but i'll definitely go this time hehe. yup anyway just gonna look forward to the end of all my work done whee.

staying in hall tonight but i'm feeling really moody right now idk why. mood's swinging like.. urgh.

#379 Happy LNY

Happy Lunar New Year everyone! :)

this year is a pretty slack CNY for me so i'm feeling really good right now. usually it's a mad rush from place to place but this year it's just sooooo chill and i'm lovin' it. had time to snap photos with relatives, take a nap and also watch half of Wolf of Wall Street hehe.

am currently waiting for ck to come over so that we can go on our movie date hehe.

tmr's the day that cheryl's flying off omg i have to face it already this is too fast :( i'm so sad but oh well she's gonna have an awesome time there (with lorraine tooooo) so i'm happy for her too!!

k this was just a short update because i don't want to do anything else but chill.

#378

haven't been posting for a long time and i guess i have plenty to update about.

2014's started already and i feel blessed thus far. here's a couple of my new year's resolutions which i hope/want to fulfil this year :)

1) Study hard and do to the best of my abilities
2) Eat clean (try my best) and workout more!
3) Be a better daughter/friend/bestfriend/girlfriend (hehehe)
4) Show more love to those who truly matter
5) Be a happier me

honestly there's so much in my life to be thankful for and i feel that i shouldn't be backsliding anymore to the past me. there was a period of time, as i reflect now, that i have been taking things for granted and i haven't actually been focusing on the more important things in life. but now, that's all in the past and i am going to focus more on what the future holds for me, be it in terms of exchange or getting a summer internship.. i'm going to try my best in everything that i do :)

so much has happened in a short period of time. this holidays, i've
turned 20 (finally)
lazed around in hall (Jel and I slept for 12 hours on several occasions)
worked a little bit
started a workout and became a little more toned (but currently lost it all due to lack of working out)
went for Zoukout with my favourite hall people for the first time
did a little bit of CIP, had a block BBQ and overnight gambling playing Baccarat
spent Christmas for the first time with my best friends
had Christmas gift exchange with my fav hall people at Louis's place (his bed broke, too funny)
slept when the sun's already up more than just once or twice
waited a full day before finally checking my results (but i did badly, sigh)
got asked to be someone's girlfriend hehe
spent NYE with my best friends, with Ding announcing that he was going to HK for interview
spent New Year's Day on a date :) (omg we didn't take photos at all)
slept over at Euge's like a staycation and had supper with her bf and his cousin as well
supper hopped with my fav hall people
finally moved back home after 2 weeks of renovation
went on another date: cafe hopping
overnighting at Bao's with my fav hall people
worked for 2 more days and helped Jel with banner painting
Bike X, which was so much more fun and less tiring this year

that pretty much sums up my holidays i guess. even though i didn't manage to travel overseas, i realise that i've actually made good use of my time by spending much of it with good friends :) hopefully i'll get to travel soon, like real soon!

school's started already and there's another piece of joyous news that i received ytd.. our small little boy, Ding, is Cambridge-bound OMGGGGG. he got the scholarship!! (interview in HK) so proud of him but at the same time a little sad.. cos he's always the one who i meet for dinner like almost every saturday when we both are bored and have nothing much better to do. sigh i'm gonna miss him like cray :< and that's why i'm bummed out by this piece of news too.

#377 Dayre

i've created a Dayre account! haha so far i've updated it only for 2 days though. it's like a mishmash of Insta and Twitter i suppose? it's more of a mini blog i guess.. i love it cos it uploads quick and is easy to use!

hehe currently i'm just updating whatever nonsense i want :)

#376 week 13

it's the final studying week of this semester! and i can't help but feel that this sem has flew by wayyy too quickly. it has been a damn lazy sem for me, cos i have a three day week hehe.

but i'm just gonna pass away next sem man sigh :<

this week is gonna be hell but hopefully after that it will be pretty much more smooth sailing..

i feel so so so stupid right now about something.. LE SIGH.

#375 series of thoughts // probably boring for you

word

disclaimer: this will probably be pretty boring for you haha. so you may just skip this.

i'm stuck in class right now and thus am gonna spew out a pretty incoherent post so please forgive me.

i'm currently feeling that school is extremely draggy now.. like, there are so many other things that i can probably be doing with my life but i'm stuck in school.

haha oh well, life.

i've also come to another realisation, just now. this one's for myself only though because i guess everyone's at a different point in their life currently. i'm not really focusing everything on my studying now, and there are a few reasons for it. one of which would be due to my laziness (as usual), but there's another reason for it too.

it's a really boring lesson that i'm sitting through now, 4 hours of dreariness to be exact.

i hear thunder from outside and it'll probably rain soon.

Ben and Jerry's coming to Hall 10 later though, *excites* and the biz mag is gonna keep a few for those of us who end at 6-freaking-30.

btw i'm extremely sorry for the lack of updates on my blog, i actually have quite a lot of photos (from my I4) loaded into an untitled post and more photos that aren't on yet but i've yet to find time to word out the photos into a proper post. however, please check my Instagram out @alvinaaa_ cos i upload photos q frequently there, hehe.

confusing feelings and thoughts occur in my head on a daily basis and this accounts for my lack of focus too. thank goodness i'm only taking 3 finals this semester. otherwise i'll be soooo super screwed.

kay it's raining outside now. i can hear it.

the prof is droning on and on, i wonder how people actually pay so much attention to everything that he says.

on a random note, i am super thankful for friends who are there for me. when i'm upset i have people to turn to, and i am really extremely grateful for that. you know who you are ;) hugs to you.

and this very special friend of mine who has the same name as my roomie.. she climbed up to pass me a small gift (twice already actually) and i love her a lot for that. random small acts that put a smile on my face. she doesn't even know what made me sad but she's so encouraging about it; telling me to stay positive and to think like her (hahaha)

honestly i'm super grateful towards what i have in life now :')

funny isn't it, my thoughts have revolved around the different aspects of my life and now at 4:52PM i've felt bored/dreary/sad and now finally thankful.

am gonna learn to channel more positivity into my life and do it every single day.

done with this post now, shall attempt to listen to what Master Robert has to say.

#374 sunday morning/rain is falling

extremely lazy Sunday again hehe but that's cos i have nothing due in the coming week.. am so gonna die the next week as i have 3 quizzes!!

baked chocolate chip cookies yesterday cos i felt like it.. and they turned out pretty decent i guess. besides commenting that they were a little on the sweet side, my parents both felt that they tasted good YAYYY. am bringing a whole bunch to hall hehe so sorry to those who want to try but i'll be stuck in Pulau NTU so please make your way there if you wish to try some.

there's a public hol this coming tues.. BUT I'LL STILL BE HAVING CLASS WTH zzz this is nonsense. i'll probably leave during break cos the prof is boring :/ sigh.

k that's all from me now, haven't posted a lot of photos yet haha that'll happen in another post.

Love is a game
of tic-tac-toe,
constantly waiting
for the next x or o

-Lang Leav

#373 things will only get better

one week flew by in a flash and now recess week's over already boo :( to counter back to school blues, here's a cute photo:

it's damn cute omg haha credits to Cheryl Chiobu.

everyone, please try to inject some positivity into life because we only live life once. this is not a YOLO statement or something, but i've learnt that life will turn out the way that you want it to be, IF you want it enough. the outcomes of things are usually how you want it to be if you do it with the mindset of the wanted outcome. it's a little difficult for myself to explain this but i experienced it for my own just 2 days ago on Friday :)

if you guys are free, please take this test to see if you are an intro/extrovert:

http://www.psychologies.co.uk/self/are-you-an-introvert-or-an-extrovert.html

i thought that the description fitted rather well but it could just be my brain fitting bits of me around what was said.. hehe but i asked a few people to do it and it seems pretty accurate for them too :) fyi, i'm a public introvert and a private extrovert. 

#372 reasons why he wasn't the right guy for you

well, i'm not being the irritating whiny sort who can't get over a guy. honestly, i'm not that sort (most of the time)

i read something on Thought Catalog though, 22 Reasons He Wasn't The Right Guy For You

there was only one reason which i felt was applicable.

oh well, i guess that's life.

22. He wasn’t a bad guy. He was actually a decent guy that you were reasonably attracted to and got along with well enough. But something was missing or as luck would have it, the stars were just not aligned at the time. Everything happens for a reason. And sometimes that’s the only closure life can give you.

am home on a thursday night and am feeling so bored and kind of lost sigh. not sure why this is so.

#371 Supper Hop/Farewell for now

(another extremely overdue post)

the last event of the Social portfolio would be Supper Hop! this year, we made a trip to four places and they were Satay By The Bay, Swee Choon Dim Sum, Simpang Bedok and Rochor Beancurd.

i've never been to SBTB before and i thought that even though the satays were not bad, it's a little bit pricey and a better alternative would be good ol' Bedok 85 hehe.

stingray that a few of us shared! it's not really fantastic though.. i still love the Lau Pa Sat one that i had after fireworks on NDP hehe.

my freshies :) sigh it was a pity that none of the girls came :'<

next stop for the 50/51 bus was Swee Choon! :)

yum yum yum har kows and siew mais aplenty! ^^

XLBs!!

prawn and banana fritter nomz

first time trying this.. this is fried mee sua and i love it!! hehehe.

after this stop, i stopped taking photos.. haha everyone was in a state of food coma i think. swee choon really hit the spot for all of us and we were all super full after that hehe.

Simpang was a complicated affair as the pre orders were slow (despite being preorders) and everyone was feeling so stuffed!

Rochor Beancurd was.. i kind of forgot actually, cos i only shared a bowl with derek and i was in a food coma then hehe.

okay but anyways, along the way people went up to sing songs and it was all pretty fun :)

one of the group photos we took that day :)

with the last event down, i felt a sense of relief.. hehe cos it means that it is time to PANG KANG whoop!

supper hop happened on fri night till the wee hours of saturday.. and on sunday we met up for Derek's farewell lunch, before he flies off for exchange in Philly!

decided on Kenny Rogers for lunch and i had the creamy chicken pot pie! sorry for bad lighting for this photos, i edited a little for my insta photo but not this one :<

GROUP PHOTO!!

on monday night, looee came to pick us (raq cheryl me) from hall and we went home so that we could go to the airport in the morning to send Derek off! hehe. had breakfast with him and then he went off! gna miss his quirkiness and all the fun he brings to our group when he's not around for this semester :/

but of course i hope that he has tons of fun and comes back with exciting stories to share with us ^^

Bon Voyage, Derek!

#370 over

they say that love is blind.

I won't deny, that I would definitely need a long time to fully get over you and also to put everything past me. i'm glad that things ended well between us and that we are still friends :)

i know things in the future would definitely change between us as we get more involved in our own lives but for now i guess i'm just slowly letting things go.

(crap i lost the whole damn post and idk why.. this was typed about a week before but its gone now)

but yeah i've joined the singles club now (as put across by Raq) and it feels.. different from what i used to feel.

#369 overdue photos and memories

before school officially started (and after FOC), i met up with Mab a few times and on this particular day we made an impromptu trip to PasarBella!

good food and good company rocks ^^

we managed to hunt down some awesome foods! 

photo below shows a normal white paper cup. but it contains the most awesome drink ever! extremely thirst quenching and fresh PEAR JUICE. it's handmade, with no preservatives whatsoever and it tastes damn good! being cheapo us, we took at least 2 cups each because the aunty was so nice and let us finish the sample that she had :) there's another cup and that was something we bought hehe. iced passion mango tea, with a scoop of fresh mango sorbet!! this is so damn tasty too hehe i don't understand how can mango sorbet be so good yknow haha it tastes just like real mango, but even better cos its freezing cold ^^

2 of the best drinks i've ever tasted before

as for the types of food we had.. we shared 3 food items but i've omitted one of their photos because the photo wasn't nice plus the taste was just BLEH. 

anyway, we ordered one of the hotdogs (from Huber) but i forgot what it's called already :< it was good though hehe i loved it :) BBQ sauce was added by yours truly ok hehe.

we had the mushroom truffle pasta too!! it was my first time trying truffle, and the smell was really strong. the pasta is damn rich haha lucky we shared it, otherwise i would have been too stuffed!!

the foods above were all worth it, so if you ever make a trip down to PasarBella, please try them too! 

PasarBella is located at 200 Turf Club Road (Bukit Timah area)

shuttle bus services can be found at a few locations.. i took the bus from the stop outside Botanic Gardens MRT!

after PasarBella, we headed to TPY for desserts and we went to Creamier!! the waffles were damn good hehe but some of the flavors of ice cream i tried were sadly disappointing :( idk where my photo of ice cream waffles went to already sigh but it's on my Instagram (@alvinaaa_) if you haven't seen it before! it looks really heavenly hehe *slurps*

on the same week, i went to The Coastal Settlement for brunch!

photos speak for themselves! the food there was pretty good and the ambience was pleasant too hehe definitely worth a try and i would wna go back there again!

The Coastal Settlement

200 Netheravon Road

(relatively close to Changi Village)

still on the same week (last week of holidays), on National Day we had a block outing to Nook Pancakes and got featured on their FaceBook page!

Derek and I shared the rainbow pancakes which were pretty good! each color of the pancakes tasted different and when it all came together it was q tasty :P

i love block 50!

the next day at night, we went back to school to play this new game called Resistance which was similar to Polar Bear but with cards and slightly more high leveled.

i think we played till 6 in the morning and then slept till 12 before heading out for brunch!! it was really good food and good company hehe brunch was chicken porridge at Jurong West hawker centre. there was ALOT of chicken and yusheng as well and it only cost abt $6 per person for that whole bunch of food as seen below ^^

on week 2, we had our traditional supper to Ah Fang which happens every start of the year, and this year's turn out was awesome man. so many people came along!

Colour Run 2013 with Bao, Der and LX!

it was a memorable and i'm glad to have shared it with this bunch of people hehe :)

as my shoes gave way even before the run, i decided to get new kicks with the 25% discount off New Balance stuff! (form color run) got these pretty new kicks the day after the run hehe ^^

sorry about being so lazy and not updating my blog sigh i have no idea what's coming over me :( and for the slipshoddiness of this post cos i'm rushing! another post will be coming up soon! (hopefully) i've already uploaded the photos but haven't started typing anything into the post yet hehe.

hope that all of y'all have a good week ahead at school! :))

#368 stay/go/stay/go

some people stay while others go.

i'm an only child, and hence i treasure my friends (probably) a lot more than they do, me. sometimes it gets a little bit frustrating because i expect too much from them sigh.

but i'm so glad that i have friends who are always there for me, to talk nonsense as well as to hang out with me :) i need to express my gratitude more than ever.

am glad for nights in hall too, where we just slack and play without a care in the world. these moments mean millions to me, more than anyone would ever know.

haha, incoherent thoughts being typed down while i'm doing up work for my green module. yucks man i have no idea what i'm supposed to be doing also. Derek is flying off tomorrow, and another friend has already flown off today.

exchange seems so damn fun, i really want to go! more than ever before. i want to go with a bunch of close friends and just play without a care in the world, without the worries of an adult.

#367 bored.

i'm reallyyyy bored in hall now i think imma take a nap again haha. late nights haven't been doing my complexion any good at all sigh. since saturday night, we have been sleeping at 4+ (earliest) every night!!!

week 2 absolutely cannot be like that anymore sigh :(

Colour Run this saturday!! i haven't ran for like a month though, haha.

this post is just full of random thoughts and ramblings as i'm waiting for Bao's clothes to be done in the dryer before helping her to take them out..

recently finished watching Glee Season 4, and they have an original song for regionals!! :) haha i love Marleyyyy~

[Marley]
I can't stay here,
I am not the girl who runs and hides

Afraid of what could be and

I will go there
I need time but know
that things are always closer than they seem
Now I'll do more than dream.

[Chorus]
Yeah, I'm gonna fly,
gonna crash right through the sky
Gonna touch the sun (Touch the sun)
Show everyone (Show everyone)
That's it's all or nothing
All or nothing
This is my life
I'm not gonna live it twice
There's no in between (There's no in between)
Take it to extreme (To extreme).
'Cause it's all or nothing
All or nothing
Or nothing at all

[Blaine]
I can't give up
Can't just let it burn
And watch the fire
Has starts to turn to dust.

[Marley]

Yeah, yeah,

[Marley and Blaine]
And now please don't judge me.
Take my hand and say
you'll always wish be well and send me luck
'Cause that would be enough, yeah.

[Chorus]
Yeah, I'm gonna fly,
gonna crash right through the sky
Gonna touch the sun (Touch the sun)
Show everyone (Show everyone)
That's it's all or nothing
All or nothing
This is my life
I'm not gonna live it twice
There's no in between (No in between)
Take it to extreme (To extreme).
'Cause it's all or nothing
All or nothing
Or nothing at all

[Marley and Blaine]
Nothing can stop us now
There was never a shadow of doubt

[Chorus]
That I'm (gonna fly, gonna flash right through the sky)
Gonna touch the sun (Touch the sun).
Show everyone (Show everyone).
That it's all or nothing
All or nothing
'Cause this is my life
I'm not gonna live it twice
There's no in between (No in between)
Take it to extreme (To extreme).
'Cause it's all or nothing,
All or nothing at all. (oh-oh-oh-oh)
(Yeah- yeah) (oh-oh-oh-oh)
'Cause it's all or nothing at all (Nothing at all)
All or nothing

All or nothing at all
All or nothing

 

#366 Day Zero

officially starting school only tomorrow (just out to make everyone in hall jealous hehe)

my modules are still pretty screwed right now, cos i only have 13 AUs (2 cores, 2 electives) sigh. not too sure if it will be like this or will i get something else? i'm a little lazy to do anything about it already just want to slack my last day of holiday away~

i had a pretty good last week of holiday, went for facial (but my face and skin color is still chao ta due to camp), and had A LOT of good food which you would have seen if you follow me on Instagram ^^ hehe. explored PasarBella and Creamier with Mab, had Sushi Tei with Ding the next day and went to The Coastal Settlement the day after. photos are all in my phone so i MIGHT upload in my next post hehe.

had an outing to Nook House of Pancakes with my freshies too, on National Day! turnout was much better than i expected man, honestly. initially i was quite worried that the freshies wouldn't come so it would end up being more like a seniors outing! but quite a lot of them came down yay :) twas a good night.

Saturday night was a trip back to hall, with dinner at Poulet with Cheryl Louis and Derrick! then we played this new game called Resistance (bought by Kenn) until.. 7+ in the morning? slept till 12 and had brunch at Jurong West hawker centre! the chicken porridge and yu sheng was damn filling and goooooood. sigh soon there won't be Bon and Derek around anymore so sad :(

soooo. that was my last week of holidays! school starts tomorrow lezzgo!