Currently on a personal mission to learn Japanese as much as I can right now. Largely due to the fact of my Japanese classmate who's been teaching me almost everyday during class breaks. For starters, I'm familiarising myself with the hiragana chart, and I can proudly say that I recognise the character あ by myself without having to refer to the chart. HAHA wth you loser, I hear you say. Its hard okay!! So many words and they all kind of look the same somehow or another okay.. And after hiragana its katakana. Then after that its kanji which comprises of old chinese characters. Thus begins Racheltan's long and slow journey towards upgrading my status from Japanese-retard to something more decent.

Found out from Gen I can take Japanese as one of my elective subjects next year in univeristy.. That's what she's doing now, and omg my dream is finally going to come true. I'm going to get proper japanese lessons!! よしゃ！ I hope that spells yosha (yes!).. Haha. Hopefully I'll be able to get permission to learn Japanese. :DD

This week's chemistry test is over! Think I didn't do that badly.. Though I didn't exactly study for it lol. My last weekend was packed to the brim with activities. Went to Mt. Buller on Saturday for a day trip with my dorm and school friends.. It was super fun. Ended up tobogganing with Gen, Lingchi and Sharon and played in the snow. Made a really hideous snow monster (it was too ugly to be called a snow man), had snow ball fights and took many photos! Will put some up another time.

Sunday was Kico's baptism at her church, so Pris and I didn't go to CrossCulture. I was really glad I went for Kico's baptism anyway.. I felt the Holy Spirit there that day. Started during worship because I felt slightly overwhelmed and teared a little. Then during the baptism when Kico was waiting for her turn, I saw the faces of the other people who were being baptised and I was even more overwhelmed by the sheer sincerity and humility on their faces as they surrendered their lives to God. It was truly humbling. And when it was Kico's turn, I felt so proud of her for taking that step of faith. I just hope that I will be able to set a good example for her to follow as a fellow sister in Christ.

Another biology test on Thursday! Been mugging all night long although the topics tested are things that I did last year and in Cedar. Seems like biology is still the only subject that I'm willing to study so diligently for. Hmm.

Going to die for physics soon. Newtons Law just annoys me. But Mr Watts is staying cute so for that I will try to maintain a positive attitude towards physics. Haha wth right.

Singapore's birthday in 4 days' time!! Can't wait because Singsoc (the Singapore Student Society I think) from my university is organising a celebration party in one of the function rooms in Glenn and Pris and I are going! They'll be screening the NDP and we'll even get the goody bags!! YAY! Heard from Pris that this year's NDP is nice, so I'm really looking forward to it. Being abroad makes you more patriotic, for some reason. I'm really proud to be a Singaporean here.. Haha and never before have I been so excited for National Day to come, and I'm not even getting a day off! Lols.

Still waiting for the box from my parents to arrive.. Its taking eons to come. But for the cheapest postage price, the box was sent via ship (-.-) and will take approximately 5 weeks to reach. It hasn't been 5 weeks yet, but I keep hoping that a miracle will happen and it will reach earlier. Ms Liu's package came today though! She sent over last year's Yangshuo pictures from her camera and the videos that some of the groups made. Looked through them just now, and it brought back so much memories, sigh. Really miss SR, miss the people, the building, the food. Really looking forward to December when I can go back for a visit.

I need to climb!!