it's MOONCAKE time

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to ALL! It's the time for reunions, mooncakes and embracing the beauty of the moon. 
so, while I wonder what my fellow friends have been doing... I am sitting here in front of my lappy giving an account about my own life. 

So, I have finally ended the 16-days-long job for Goodwood Park Hotel (Mooncake Festival) yesterday, it has been a tiring yet fulfilling job. Though there were many unhappiness along the way, am still glad and grateful for the people I had met. We may not cross paths again, but the fact that they had appeared in my life among the billions of people on Earth... I guess that's something to be happy about. 

During the period of working at Century Sq, I had met ex-colleagues from Finest.. Looking back, I wonder why I had been so afraid of stepping into my ex-work places.. being scared of being recognised and all. Haha, so I guess I have passed that stage, and so... perhaps I have grown up quite a bit in the past 3 years huh. hah. 

Due to a hectic work schedule of an average of 13 hours everyday the past two weeks, I wasn't able to practice driving since passing the test.. Just in the afternoon, daddy decided he wanted to go to the FairPrice Xtra next to Changi City Point.. With ME driving the car. hah. Having not drove daddy's car before.. I cant help being scared. hah. But it turned out fine, with a few sharp turnings and stuff.

Alright, just gonna rest and slack while I can during the next two days.. once again, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!! =D

a Happy Day

It was finally d-day for my driving test! Went to the driving centre for the warm-up session at nine in the morning.. Had the test around 10. I had thought that I was going to fail.. *there were mistakes here and there* but unexpectedly, I passed.. Quite lucky I must say. 

After being flown to cloud nine, we had a last minute decision to have a catch-up session with the army-boy whom starts his two-years of duties from tomorrow, Jon and the forever MIA guy. haha. Mak didn't come in the end. )= 
Went to AMK, walked around while waiting for HJ to join us. Went to the nEbo cafe and played board games! =D We played the guessing 'who am I' game.. which was really challenging for me since my general knowledge wasn't good.. at all.. haha! So we had a change of game.. to Saboteur. 

Saboteur is a mind-game. haha. It was confusing to play initially.. but it got addictive.. It was really fun trying to trick each other.. to the point that we didn't really trust each other in the end. It was absolutely hilarious. 

I guess fun days like this is where time passes really fast.. so, I had to go off before dinner since my family had made a pact, saying that, if I were to pass, they would have a celebratory dinner at Swensen's at Changi Airport T2. And so.. we did! =D 

Hopefully, we would have more days like this.. where more people could come along.. It would be more memorable. (= 
Anyway, so hip hip hurray to me for passing my driving test.. and it's time for me to rest before I start work on Friday. *Hwaiting* 

a New Look!

Its been awhile since I had changed the blogskin, thus the change. (=
This blogskin is credited to http://www.blogskins.com/info/375734 ... I have nothing but respect for these blogskin creators.. wonder where they learnt the skills from. The time and effort spent.. simply amazing.

Anyway, heading out with Jaws tomorrow. Hurray to catching up after 6 long months.. =D

a "marathon" day

It was an as-though-it-was-a-marathon kind-of-day today... Went from place to place just to get things done.. with much frustrations along the way... =.="

Summary of the entire journey:
Home - Eunos (Driving Lessons) - Serangoon (I was lazy to take the overhead bridge, so I took the bus to the nearest MRT station) - Raffles Place (to have my ID photo taken) - Cityhall (which I exited and realised illuma wasn't at City Hall -_-") - Bugis (to register for JLPT N5 exam) - Home (:

Got kind of irritated from finding the ATM of that respective bank at Bugis. I was being so dreamy after driving that nothing was going right. ): 

And yeah, I registered for JLPT Exam for level N5 (the easiest level), which means, I have approx. three months to study for it. Considering that I just paid the class fees for IJ202 (Final Jap module with NP) + the entire JLPT test fee.. I'm considerably broke. ): I have literally no allowance this month since everything went to Japanese ): 

Shall eat air for the rest of the month. ): 

Semester Break!

Hurray to completing the crash course for Intermediate Japanese 201, which signifies the start of my semester break! =D So... what's my goal for this holiday?-:

Goals for Semester Break:

1. Catch-up with friends! - It has been nearly an entire month since I'm back and no one wants to see me. *sigh* -except for those lovelies who's been meeting up for nth times the last 3 weeks.. :')

2. Learn the basics of the GUITAR! - this has been appearing on my resolution list for a considerably long time... In fact.. too long a time. It's time to get started! :D

3. Revise Japanese & Memorise Vocabulary! - Ought to be more diligent if I want to improve my proficiency in Japanese... I barely scraped through the Japanese Module this time round.. ): 

4. Visit Gardens by the Bay! - Been hearing about how nice the place is.. the infrastructure and etc... Would love to see how it turned out since it was a million dollar project? or was it a billion dollar project.. hmmz.. 

I don't think I'm being too ambitious here. p(=^-^=)q Hwaiting!  

Dedicated to Grams.

- With Special Dedication to Grams. (: -

From the day I was born, the only grandparent who was alive to watch me as I grew from being a baby to who I am today.. was my maternal grandmother. Going to grandma's house to celebrate CNY, Mothers' Day, Grandma's birthday and even Christmas was a routine almost every single year... till seven years ago.. when grandma had another stroke and was bed-ridden ever since while the siblings quarrelled over the dumbest things and refused to acknowledge family ties. 

Ever since then, even though mummy would go visit grams every single week, I often refused to accompany her when she asked and would only visit under forced circumstances. As young as I was, having watched the siblings quarrel while shouting at each other at grams house wasn't a particularly good memory. 

During the five months that I was on internship in Sanya, I received news of Grams being in and out of the hospital.. probably 5 or 6 times during that period. Mummy thought Grams wouldn't make it till I came back. But she did. The first day after I came back, I went to visit Grams. Like any other day, she was lying on the bed with all the medical tubes on her. While mummy was telling Grams how I was finally back from Sanya, I could see Grams staring pretty hard at me. She had probably forgotten about me.. considering the fact that she doesn't particularly care about girls, not to mention an external granddaughter.. Though I secretly hoped that she does remember me. :') I wanted to hold her hand so badly, but I was afraid... so I left, murmuring that I would come back to see her again. 

The next weekend, my sister and I went with mummy to see Grams again. This time, she was panting really hard. The sight of her suffering.. was unbearable, so we just stood outside, waiting for mummy. Little did I know that, that was the last time I was going to see her. Just a few days later, on the 21st of August, I received news that Grams had passed away. I was just staring at her a week ago, and the next moment, she was gone. It may have been a good thing, that she could finally be relieved of her sufferings of seven years and return to her husband's side after 31 years of separation (Grandpa passed on 31 years ago). Mummy kept saying, 'I thought you won't be able to see her for the last time, but you did, she waited for you.' But I believe.. that it was just a coincidence of events. 

The next few days after the 21st, was the funeral. It was considerably grand, which was what Grams would have wanted.  As a granddaughter, I couldn't think of what I could do, but to stay by my mummy's side and give her mental support. Mummy isn't the type of woman who would cry easily. The only time I saw her tear was when she was telling me the story of how grandpa cheated on grams. 

On the cremation day (25th Aug 2012), I saw through the ceremony from chants to cremation. I told myself, no tears because Grams is in a better place now. I thought mummy would have thought the same way, but while we were circling the coffin for the final time (Chinese  funeral ritual), I saw mummy broke down, she really did. It was the first time, I ever saw her cry like that. At that very moment, was when I started to tear and cry with her. Not actually because of the passing of Grams, but because I could feel the pain of those being left behind.

Mummy often said, 'what matters most, is caring for a person when they are alive, and not the other way round when they are dead'... If you had put in your 100% in caring for a person while they are alive, then you would have no regrets when it's time for them to move on. 

I'll miss you Grams.. Thank you for being with me.. You'll never know how grateful I am, for you were the only grandparent whom I had with me for the past 19 years... :')

In loving memories of Grams... (Died at the age of 88 Years Old)

Home Sweet Home

And so... I'm back to Singapore.. the tiny, warm & sunny island called Home. Just in time for our 47th National Day.. *how patriotic*, though I didn't even watch the parade on TV since I was rushing my final internship report which was due yesterday... =-= 

So, with the final report submitted, yesterday marked the end of internship, which technically speaking, I'm already on holidays.. but NO.. I'm not, simply because, while everyone is going to be enjoying their holidays after their examinations, I am going back to school for my Japanese crash course classes for IJ201 from the 21st to the 31st of August. 
Well.. Japanese has always been my interest, and I AM determined to master it. its just that the laziness within me isn't helping.. T-T

Hence, I shall try my very best to be diligent and work hard for my last module this semester.. (Jap.) 
Wish me luck and to friends whom I am supposed to meet up but had not seen for the past five months.. catch up soon.. (: