Here's a snippet of the past week at Indo! :) We headed down from Jakarta to Cirebon to Bandung and back up to Jakarta!
I fell sick mid holiday and I slept a hell lot on this trip. Which is exactly what I needed. I've never felt like I deserve a holiday as much as this one. On the whole, it was such a pleasant trip, save for the fact that I was sick. Prissy's family + driver were all SO hospitable to us that I didn't feel like leaving! :(
Anyway, back to reality for two days before I'm off again! Heard that Mongolia will be 8degs at night and 20degs in the day. That sounds pretty damn good to me! Please weather, stay that way!
But I am still awake. On the brink of falling asleep.
Stayed back at work till 10pm yesterday and sweetie boy V surprised me by ordering maccas for me via the Internet! I can feel your love from miles away!
Cleared most of my work and w the help of my colleagues I feel ready to leave for Indo next week! Sigh, I really can do with a break.
Away from technology and just embrace the world as it is. The past few months have been taxing emotionally. Work albeit stress, is somehow relieving. I still look forward to work, my workload, my colleagues and lunch!
Look at what Joella did to poor buttercup! Silly girl. Alright, it's Friday tomorrow! Looking forward to my holiday instead! Night night babies!
V just convinced me to buy tickets over. I AM SO TEMPTED. You have no fricking idea how much I miss Australia. It's INSANE. Plus, given the dates that I'm thinking of booking, it'll be two Sundays worth! That means, 2 church days there! And I miss church there.
And I'll get to drink my fav sakuraya, eat my tomyum maggie mee, eating Gerine's food, chilling at the balcony, seeing Sky, back at good ol' Carmody, meeting my friends, meeting V, taking the city cat, Sunnybanks, HARBOUR TOWN, OH MY GOODNESS. LONG DRIVES. Just the thought of it excites me to my bones.
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BUT THE PROBLEM IS. I have exhausted all my leaves on my Indo and Mongolia trip. Little did I know that they will be extending me either. This is sucky. Plus... it's gon' be nice and cold over there when I pop by! :(
Sigh, feel like crying at my plight... Was feeling so excited just a moment ago, but right now I'm at the brink of depression (my rare spoilt brat mode is switched on). I'm torn between being thinking rationally like how a mature adult should and how I am usually like - the kid inside me still lives on..- This is a want, not a need. But then again, the most irrational decisions are usually pretty damn fun aye?
Between the two of us, I am the impulsive and irrational one. I even typed down all my deets and told him to hold back his cc deets lest I book it impulsively.
Shall head to office on Monday and see if it's possible. They're prly gon' say no...
SIGH. Why make me reminisce now when I was doing fine holding it all back...?
Indecisive me couldn't decide on what to have for lunch. Was bent on having duck rice at Amoy food centre... But everyone was having porridge!
And I tell you, if you have a craving, fill it! This was SO awesome. I always look forward to lunch! Keeps me going through out the day!
Well I have been too busy to update this space. My days have been filled with work, swimming (which is probably the only time I have to myself something I treasure deeply), eating (hahaha), studying for my June paper whichhh I am making slow progress with and sometimes, meet ups w friends.
Have time? Lunch w me at Tanjong Pajar/Raffles place today! I guess working in this prime area allows me to meet up w many of my friends for lunch or a short catch up seeing how we can't really do that on a normal day basis.
Clock work lifestyle, loving it somehow!
P.S I don't play games on my phone, but when I do... It's pretty fun! Where's my water was fun, where's Wally was fun, draw something was fun for a short while and now I am currently hooked on to "diamondash!" hahahaha. Yeah that sums up the number of games I have had in my phone through out its lifespan.
Sweetie pie V arranged for me to hang out with his family tomorrow! I cannot wait because I miss them already!
My colleagues and friends are usually baffled at how V lets me hang out with guys and how we communicate so minimally through out the past month but yet we are fine. Well guess it's good. I like how I tell him everything and even though he says I am fat on my bad days, I shall forgive you.
Who else on earth will let me be who I am and laugh as if I am a joke and at the end of it all say "Even though your jeans makes your hips look huge and those hips don't lie. I love you still."
Okay, he's quite low on the EQ side which I will work on (HAHA). On a side note, can't wait for tomorrow, can't wait for new clothes and I will need to fill my semi-empty heart and soul with goals and things I can aim to achieve within this year. Distractions, bugger now off now. & if you see this, I love you and happy half a year in a few more days! <3
Ho boy, do I miss my holidays. It's weird how when we think back on our memories, it's in third-person perspective. Haha or maybeee it's just me! (But nah, I bet all of you do it too hehe)
The past week was exceptionally draining for me and this will last for the next two weeks. Rushing from work to class everyday. I really am grateful to my colleagues as well as my friends in class. Enough motivation to tide me through these dark days.
Which isn't so dark. Come May I will be more or less free, that isn't something that I am looking forward to. Holiday(s), exams and a huge question mark after. But lets not sweat on the small stuff!
Had FABBB crab yesterday (thanks Jas!) which was worth the 1.5hrs queue! Told a friend who was seeking help with regards to Australia that I miss Australia SO MUCH it is indescribable and I am primarily here in Singapore for the food! ;D
Hah, what am I talking about. As if I have the choice?! Okay time to stop talking to myself. Have a good week everybirdie!
Last week's Friday saw me meeting Jo for some really good Lava cake! And we spent Saturday at Gobi Dessert along Katong which was Fabbbbb! We bought this $19 coupon and they served us generous portions!
Speaking of Gobi Dessert which was inspired from the Gobi Desert which, is in MONGOLIA!!! And guess who is heading there! Well, me! Hahaha. And I am not too sure but I might just head down to Beijing as well! Alas, it isn't a friend-trip but I'll be w my folks so I guess I'll be the only youngbie there.
And a week before that Juls and I will head down to Jakarta to meet Priscialla who is coming back from the US of A! And she's going to bring us around Indonesia (p.s the Last time I saw her was on our Bali holiday just about 1.5years plus ago)
And Xian and Tubs will meet us later part of that week to join us in Bandung! And back to Jakarta and back to Singapore! I AM PSYCHED TO MY BONEZ.
*Calms down* Anyway, nothing much to say so here are some photos from last Saturday when we attended our Biology tutor's wedding at the Legands, Fort Canning! It was really nice to see her again after so long! The food was quite the yum. I will definitely serve Ee-fu noodles at my wedding next time. Yummmmm.
And I didn't take photos this whole week 'cept for Friday where it was Miss B's last day! We had fab food at some cafe called ASquare I think? But the food was really quite good! Do go!
Alright, I've slept my whole Saturday away, feeling like a complete pig now. Grunt. Need to bathe (scratch scratch).
I might be swaying off the integral meaning of my beliefs. And I know that I shouldn't define how I feel with a church because that defeats the whole meaning of putting God first. (But no, I don't base my religon on the church I go to.)
I love the way the churches in Australia make me feel. That video, above, is of my church. Man, I miss Brisbane City Church SO much. Serving and waking up at 6am to catch the first train to Bowen Hills. Making coffee, serving, praying, attending Creative on Tuesday nights.
Life group, bonding, laughing together and sharing with each other. Sigh.
If I can name 5 things I miss about Australia, it'd be.
1. Church, church and church.
2. The complete liberty that I was offered, released me of what was once emancipating and suffocating.
3. Friends and of course the lifestyle we led.
4. Taking the CityCat around. Especially when nightfalls.
5. The vast fields and the bluest skies with specks of farm animals grazing ont the fields.
Yeah, I am getting all emotional about this again which probably explains why I have yet to edit and sieve out photos of my trips last year and upload them.
Well, half constitues of my well-known laziness. But the other half? Maybe I am afraid that if I looked through those photos again, the feeling of longing mixed with nostalgia will surge and consume me.
Life back here in Sunny Singapore is on the whole, very fun and enjoyable. Not a day goes by without me laughing away at the silliest things. Filled with things to do. Places to go. Goals to achieve. But someone once said that sometimes we do things to fill up the void in our hearts.
I've been feeling this sense of 'void' or rather feeling of 'emptiness' lately, and it's not a wonderful feeling to feel. I can't put my finger on why, but I'd blame me missing Australia a little too much.
In retrospect, I have learnt a considerbly large amount of things, experienced what most couldn't and I should be grateful and accept that, that phase of my life is over. But I can't. Right at the bottom of my heart, I wish I could for a moment deceive myself and give in to the temptation of splurging a good $700 on a plane ticket back.
Just to experience that life once more. (& Of course to see my loverrr) But sigh, I hate how reality bites so hard and it is virtually impossible to cough up that kind of money and time just for me to play pretend.
Silly me, feeling so attached to the strangest thing.
OK SO EMO. I will take a breather, bathe and hopefully do something about my 9 month overduded photos and oh! Get down to posting about XT's wedding last week!
