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Tuesday, December 22

RACHIETAN IS BAAAACK!

Its my third day back in Singapore, and I've been too lazy to post anything. But since I'm supposed to be studying now I guess I'll do a quick one here. Its only normal, isn't it? That we procrastinate whenever we're not supposed to. Hahah.

The flight back was pretty smooth for me, apart from the fact that I was quite bored during the 7-hour flight, and my ass got really sore from sitting. Managed to watch UP and Gokusen The Movie. UP is so cute la, I really like the dog Dug. I think the producers did a great job in scripting Dug's part! Because if we could hear what dogs think and say I think it would be exactly how Dug was portrayed. But anyway, I was so happy when the plane touched down in Singapore and I was grinning to myself in my seat haha. Surprisingly immigration was empty when I reached, and thanks to Singapore's ultra fun thumb-print reading machines for citizens I cleared immigration immediately. Got my luggage from the belt and went through the gates!

First people I saw were Fang, Tiff and Hengtiong. And they made banners that read, "WELCOME BACK RACHEL" and held it up for me as I walked towards them. Hahha damn cute lah! Then I saw my family and Shawn, Tine and Turtle came too!! I was so happy to see so many of my friends again (: After talking to everyone (except Shawn haha) for awhile, my family and I headed to MAS AYU to have supper!! Mee goreng pattaya, yay! Haha then we dropped Puay back at home and I went to see her new puppy Flex. Omg Flex is so cute la. Haha going to play with him tomorrow! :D

First full day back was on Sunday, and Brian and I met up with Puay and Stella to have prata brekkie near church before heading there for contemporary service. It felt good to be back in KKMC man! After being away for so long. Though I gave up following the sermon as usual, I enjoyed sitting in the familiar surroundings and being in God's presence. So many of my old church friends came too!! All of them were there, actually.. Shawn, Jason, Andrew, Gloria, Joce, Ann-marie and Wendy. I really missed all of them! Had the famous $2 laksa for lunch that's near church before going to Plaza Sing to watch Avatar. Ended up not being able to get any tickets, and resulted in rotting for about three hours. Then we went to the outdoor atrium to support KKMC's choir who was caroling on the stage as part of CCIS. I think the performance was lovely, and God was good because it didn't rain and many people stopped to listen to the songs and the message being read. And I must say, I really like this year's CCIS decorations at Plaza Sing! From the sculptures of the nativity scene, the three kings and the sign post that has like "Nativity Square", "Bethlehem Lane" on it, it was a good way to reach out to the public about the real meaning of Christmas. Headed to my grandparents' place for dinner after that, and had fun catching up with my little cousins and family. (:

Finally went climbing for the first time yesterday in school! I must say, SR has changed quite a bit form the last time I was there.. New coats of paint on the walls, some weird water fountain sculpture thingy, the terrace among others. But SR still feels the same and it felt good to be back. The J1s had training, but managed to boulder because they were mostly at the speed wall. Alvin, Suemay and Adriel came too, so they set routes for us. Though it was pretty depressing that I suck to bad at climbing now (after not climbing for six months), it was really good to be climbing again and getting annoyed at myself for not being able to complete routes. Haha. Hengtiong, Fang, Rai and I met Tiff after climbing and ate lunch at Kovan, then we went to Taka to stalk Edmond who was working at G2000. Haha he looks so funny dressed smartly and attending to customers. I wanted to laugh so hard. But we left him to it, met Kenny and went to Starbucks to sit and talk cock. Omg it was hilarious la, laughing and talking nonsense haha. Almost had a bitch fight with this group of fat old ahlian bitches who tried to take a table that I was already at but in the end they stomped off because I refused to budge and basically stared them down. What retards I tell you, trying to take a table that already has someone standing over it. Haha whatever, I won. (Y)

And today! Rocmoc picnic under the stars at East Coast Park later! Fang's coming over first, I'll bake brownies, then we'll head off to meet the rest at Parkway. Omg I'm so eggcited haha I miss everyone! May God bless our time together and give us good weather please!!!

Okay better go do some work now, before Fang comes. Ta! <3

prayed; 2:13 PM

Tuesday, December 15

With just four days left till I finally go back to Singapore, the anticipation that I'm feeling with absolutely immense. And its hard to express it all by cheering with your other friends who're leaving on the same day as you, because shouting, "FOUR MORE DAYS, WHOO!" doesn't exactly justify how I really feel. And I'm always left with a lot more excitement bubbling within me to contain. Like this -> OMGOMGOMGOMGI'MLEAVINGINFOURDAYS'TIMEHAHAHASHIETICAN'TWAITTTT!!! :DDDDDDDDDDDDD

And I've come to the realisation that everyone has a little countdown of their own, no matter how big an event it is or not. Counting down the days till I go home is one, and even looking forward to an outing or whatever is a countdown in some way or another. And there's always a main countdown in everyone's lives, out of the other little not-as-significant countdowns.. I wonder what countdown's in your life now? (:

Math test today! Thank God for Eva making me study yesterday and Eugene who came over to tutor me because he was bored. I finally know understand how to do the linear inequation problem sums and yay I got full marks for today's test! As well as last week's test which I hardly studied for (as usual). Haha and so that marks the end of topic tests for the rest of this week! Of course there are more tests when I get back in January, but WHO CARESSSS haha its time to concentrate on packing and GOING HOMEEEEEE. :D

Off to Northland with Eugene soon! Gotta get presents and souvenirs for people, ugh. So many things to buy, but so little money in my bank. HOWHOWHOWHOWWWW. ): And Melbourne is in serious need of places that sell cheap, cute things for presents i.e. like Asian markets. Why can't there be an equivalent of HongKong's Mongkok or Bangkok's Chatuchat? ): But ohwell I guess this hones my skills as a shopper then.. Since I have to choose presents more wisely HAHA wth. But anyway if you're reading this and I don't get back anything for you, it doesn't mean that I don't care about you okay!! It just means that I really don't have enough money. Haha so I do apologise. (:

Saturday's outing with Chris was awesome, to say the least. She came over at 8 in the morning, cam whored in my room by herself while I showered, then I took her on a quick tour of the campus while walking to the tram stop. Met Alexis there and we headed to South Melbourne Market. SMM turned out to be relatively expensive for us though, so we didn't buy anything save for a packet of heavenly-smelling coffee for my dad. I was pretty disappointed because I was hoping to buy presents there, but ohwell. Then we went back to the city and Chris went crazy at Supre. Practically had to drag her away and we went to Chadstone. Then Chris went crazy at the Valleygirl outlet there and bought like what, four tops? Hahaha yeah. I got a tie-dye print vest which was really nice! Chris got one for herself too (: Walked around and chatted.. Really enjoyed my time with her. I had forgotten how fun it was to be with her and made me reminisce about the times when we used to be so close and all. I guess times change and people drift apart, but I'm just happy and thankful that we still keep in touch once in awhile and its really comforting to know that we're still more or less the same. (: Apart from the fact that Chris is so bloody-hell skinny now! But she's still my Chrissy-poo, and will always be. (: Anyway after shopping her uncle came in a mini van to pick us up, and lo and behold her whole gene gang came along too! Her parents, brothers, cousins were all in the van haha omg it was like meeting the family man lol. I was so happy to see her parents again, though! I really missed them!! They're so awesomely funny la hahaha. And omg her brotherssss. Jeremiah is so big and handsome now! And Samuel, omg. He got even cuter and yeah, is more handsome too. Goshh I really miss themmmm. The last time I saw them was like what, two years ago? So gotta meet up with them when I get back in Singapore.

Okie dokes, gotta scram now! Pray that my shopping trip will be fruitful!

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Makes me wonder: should I or should I not? /:

prayed; 12:35 PM


Who the hell cooks a meal at 1am in the morning?! And makes glutinous rice balls at 12am?! Wtf la, I'm so fed up with that stupid woman. Absolutely no sense of consideration nor common sense. Thank goodness there's only four days left to endure her shit.

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Yes, you read correctly: FOUR DAYS LEFT!

prayed; 1:23 AM

Saturday, December 5

Yay, the weekend's here, and I finally got some rest! Woke up at 1pm today hahah and spent the whole afternoon preparing for a presentation on Monday. Stupid OP, it better turn out well lol. But I guess with such a fun topic like rock climbing, it can't really get that bad, right? :D

Which reminds me, I totally HATE my Academic Study Skills teacher whose name does not deserve to be mentioned. But basically she's a total BITCH and hag who doesn't have any patience whatsoever and who always seems to be PMSing although I'm sure she's way past any reproductive age. Locking me and two other classmates out of class just because we went to the toilet and someone's presentation had resumed is just plain downright mean, and she probably thought that it would be rude to walk in halfway. However I have to say, that she had walked out of class during another group's presentation without a word, which is even more rude if you ask me. And she was the one who gave us permission to leave anyway. But anyway I decided that it was the last straw so I started stomping around on the wooden floor outside the classroom HAHA. According to Kico inside it was pretty loud, but I don't giva shit anymore. I made up my mind to give her shit from now until the end of this bloody foundation course. She doesn't deserve my respect, or the respect of everyone else, for that matter.

Anyway I forgot to say that in school on Tuesday I had my first dissecting lab practical! After waiting since Secondary 3 to do dissections, I finally got my opportunity! So we cut up kidneys, brains and worms.. And it was so fun. :D It wasn't as smelly as I thought it'd be (flash back to the day that Mrs Chaiw showed us a sheep's heart in Cedar and it stunk to high heavens) though at times when you got too near you'd catch a whiff of the stuff. Sadly though, I've concluded that Racheltan isn't exactly a good dissector because my hands are just too damn clumsy and un-delicate. Whereas Eva on the other hand, has like some God-given talent of dissecting things. Haha yeah, so I kinda left most of the cutting up to her, except the brain which I did. :D So here are some pictures!


The kidney is so cute la! And when cut across laterally it looks like a heart. <3



BRAIN.



WORMM.


So anyway, the excursion to some water recycling plant on Wednesday was really fun! It was nice to have a break from school and go out to see the countryside. Got up early in the morning to prepare sandwiches for our picnic at the plant, and then went to school! The plant is located in Weribee, which is about an hour's drive from our school so we all piled into a bus and took off. Settled down for our lunch once we got there, and everyone loved my sandwiches, yay! :D Though they were really easy to make, I don't know why everyone raved about them. Haha and we had apple pies for dessert, courtesy of Kico and Kaman! Which were delicious. (: Went inside the discovery centre and looked at the different displays, played some recycling game and then embarked on a tour of the area where the water is processed. Learnt quite a bit on the tour, and the place is huge man! Like dunno-how-many thousands of hectres. Crazy-ass huge. I think its like the world's largest water recycling plant. Got to see many birds too, like black swans and their chicks, Australian pelicans and ducks. Then we went to this part which opened out into the Pacific Ocean and took pictures. Really nice day it was! Thank God for the good weather. (:


Sandwich-making in process



Food, food, glorious food!











One of the many processing ponds




Life in Chisholm has been pretty smooth-sailing for me so far.. I'm getting more or less used to it already. (: Especially the cooking part! Omg cooking is SO FUN. Made stir fried beef in oyster sauce with onions, spring onions and garlic for my first proper meal. Omgg it was simply fantastic haha. Don't mean to brag but it was really good!! Even the girls in school kept stealing my food. :D Then for my second cooking meal I made fried rice with ham and egg. Again, it was nice. :D Made quite a big batch, so it lasted me for about two days. Wonder what I'll make for dinner tonight though.. Just wish I had more space in the fridge! So I can buy more ingredients and cook a wider range of things. But anyway, ever since moving into Chisholm I've felt more independent and grown-up. I think its because Chisholm isn't as sheltered as Glenn, and the people here are older and therefore more responsible? Not sure about everyone else's responsibility in the kitchen though, considering how everyone's pots and pans are always left in the sink. But yeah, the feel is different in Chisholm, and I kinda like it. Though of course I do miss the prepared meals in Glenn (even though they taste like shit), the bigger rooms and bigger toilets. But I guess you gotta make-do with whatever situation you get, right? And besides, Glenn was too comfy already, and I don't want to be spoilt by all its little luxuries.

Since Puay the Pig doesn't believe that I can actually cook good food, here are some photos to PROVE HER WRONG.


LOOKIT THAT! :D



DELISHHH



FRIED RICEEE





My neighbour from Glenn and current neighbour, Pri and I :D


And, of course, my room in Chisholm:


prayed; 4:41 PM

Wednesday, December 2

I have finally survived the Great Exodus from Glenn into Chisholm and am spending my first night in Chisholm! The move was pretty smooth, much thanks going out to Alexis who was an incredible help and guide. Without her I would've gotten lost and died along the way or something haha. And also to my friends who came to help me - Eva, San, Stephen, Ali, Vanessa and Sharon. Everyone was a great help. But of course, not forgetting the most important person, God! It was purely through His grace that such lovely friends came to my assistance during my time of need. I am so truly grateful to Him.

Well after managing to lug/drag/carry/hoist/whatver Jeri and my stuff from Glenn into my new room in Chisholm, Alexis and I has a very satisfying lunch at Ping's Cafe before heading to Northland to get some groceries. Digressed a little and bought a cute portable iPod speaker from this shit-ass awesome stationery shop that I never did notice before. Came back, and started to unpack and organise my room. Omigod it was like a nightmare to me, trying to fit everything into the limited space. But again, all thanks to God, I managed to sort things out and my room doesn't look like it was hit by a tornado or something. I'm quite happy with the result.

It'll take me awhile to fully get used to Chisholm life though.. Especially the cooking part. And jostling for fridge and freezer space. But heck, I've already marked my territory all over the kitchen and people better respect that. Hahaha.

Excursion to some water recycling plant tomorrow! YAY NO SCHOOL. :D Haha but gotta get up early tomorrow to make sandwiches for the girls and I for out picnic lunch during the excursion. I hope I don't screw up my first proper Chisholm meal!

Anywayss I'm gonna ta for now. I need my beauty sleep.

LOVE YOU RAI! Glad you liked your card. :DD

prayed; 12:17 AM

Tuesday, December 1

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY RAI!! <3


I love you so much dear! Hope you have a good one. (: And hope you like my surprise! :D

Guess its goodbye, Glenn! Thanks for being to awesome to me during my 6 months there. Really enjoyed every single moment. (: But well, its time to welcome Chisholm life! Yay, cooking here I come!

The Great Exodus. 1/12/2009.

prayed; 1:45 AM