Tuesday, 29 December 2015

Twenty Fifteen

Year 2015My 2nd and final year as a University of Melbourne student.

Twenty Fifteen is a special year in many different ways:

1 - It was my first ever time, living all alone in a single studio room. I remember the many times that I wondered if anyone would know if anything happened to me. With the balcony unlocked (there was no way to lock it), I slept many nights overthinking: 'what if someone climbed up and break in, what will I do?'. The craziness in every thought that made me fall asleep in fear that have now become memories to laugh at. 

But, it was through my stay in cobden (& mx) that I met Cher & Bee. And that became the best thing that happened to me in the year. :') They brought life to my solo-living, the videos we would watch during our dinners together from anime (fairy tail, soma, one-punch man) to cartoons (rick & morty) to etc... ('how its made', modern family, doraemon, dee kosh). Our 'fab' outings to town shopping. Grocery shopping trips. & not to mention, our doto sessions. There's just so many things to be thankful about when I think back, & the biggest would be being friends with you two. :')

2 - It's SG50. Fifty years of Independence with many many events, discounts and offers that I couldn't participate in since I was away in the country down under. It was also the year of the general elections, the 1st GE that I could have participated in but... oh well. 

3 - Graduation! Just 17 days ago, at the Royal Exhibition Building. Its so surreal. The past two semesters were filled with doubt, 'will I be able to graduate on time', 'I'm so going to fail my finance papers'. And there I was, on stage, receiving my certificate of completion of my degree. To be very honest, there was this part of me that wanted to drag out my degree, just so I could stay on for a little longer. I was afraid of leaving the student life and there was just too much uncertainty. 

Even now, I'm still afraid, but I believe, things will work out somehow. So thank you twenty fifteen for a fabulous year, here's to a brand new Twenty Sixteen and I'm sure you'll be a great year with many new beginnings! Cheers!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! :D:D

Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Travelling with a Teething Kid

Note (17 Oct 2016): Found the below note/rant that was kept on my Google Keep and thought it would be a memory worth looking back on in time. 

"NZ has been rather tiring, flying in on a midnight flight while having a teething niece. All she does these days is whine. Good gawd.

Sometimes i just wanna go do my own stuff y'know, being around family 24/7 is just too much."