2013

 2013 is finally coming to an end, and actually I'm not ready for it to end but sadly mother nature doesn't listen to me. 

Like when I'm swimming. Purposely must keep calling me when I want to swim. Do you know how troublesome it is? Swimming and thinking "IneedapeeIneedapee." 

Anyway. It's the last.. hour and a half (?) of 2013 and well I'm sitting at my table full from my hotpot (hurhur) and doing what I love/enjoy the most; drawing.

In any case, because I'm blogging just for the sake 'It's last day of 2013!!', and also because I want to go back to designing the clothes for my original character, I'll keep this so-called 2013 reflection thing short and sweet. 

It's been really fun! 

Cheers! 

YanEr

PS. See you next year lol. 

PPS/PPSS/PSS. Told you it was going to be a short reflection. 

Flashbacks

I can't remember which year it was, probably sec 1 to 3 I guess.

The girl guides were, as usual, serving food on speech day. Or was it cca commendation? Well, either way its the same.

Obviously on either occasions none of us were very happy about serving food. We'd just marched the whole parade thingy on speech day and you want us to rush to the canteen to set up while the rest gets to relax? And what about cca commendation day? Get dressed in the whole full gear just to serve people.

Looking back now, it was actually really fun bitching about having to lug the uniform and boots to school, and also setting up and all that. But anyway.

For some reason, I was always posted to the so called VIP table. I used to hate the idea of it. But come to think of it, it was probably the most entertaining Booth out of them all!

And by entertaining, I really mean most troublesome.

The teacher there I swear would like breathe down our necks every other minute to ensure we fatten up her colleagues.

"Fill up their plates when it's empty!"

"Arrange the food nicely!"

"Help them fill up the water!"

"Clear the plates for them!"

Sheesh! On that day, the teachers had their own set of waitresses decked out in full guides uniform. They were all like "wow such great service!"

Why yes thank you because I was the only one running around filling up their cups (would like more water sir?) since one of my dear partners ran off to slack somewhere.
But really, it was fun! Guessing when they needed refills and all was quite fun. By the end of the day sarah and I declared we could work as waitresses.

Of course we can't but hey sense of achievement! 

Okay bye!

PS KOKIA ROCKS.

Walk straight

Those were the exact words my cousin gave me as directions to my grandma's place.

Not surprisingly, I got lost. So basically right now, I'm standing in front of macpherson secondary waiting for my mother to get me.

You'd think that directions as simple as that would do the job, I mean, how hard is that!

Just walk straight darn it!

I guess that just goes to show how little a sense of.direction I possess. Sigh.

Oh there they are! Well time to go.

I walked straight all right, to the wrong place.

Bye!

Drawing

Right now, I'm fangirling over Saiyuki. 

Ohmygoddd they are so so so so so cute! 

Ahem. Anyway. 

Because of my recent obsession with them, I decided to try drawing Kenren from Saiyuki Gaiden. 

Obviously I'm not posting the photo because that takes work. Well, maybe I will but moving on. 

He was so darn difficult to draw oh man. I ended up completing like his eyes and nose before giving up. 

Yeah, yeah. Rome wasn't build in a day.

I will might get to finishing it ... some day. 

What? Rome wasn't build in a day. *wink* 

A bad wink if anyone tried imagining that. I can't wink well. And when I actually succeed, it looks so weird! Like awkward-ish and just ... unglam. So please, for the sake of your eyes, imagine some hot person doing a perfect wink instead. 

Like JiaWei winking when playing murderer. HEH. That one was funny. So unglam but so hilarious, but I digress. 

Did I use that right? Ah whatever. 

Anyway. What was I saying? Drawing, right. I was drawing. And then I realised just how much I missed drawing for the sake of drawing. What I mean is, recently, I've been drawing for the sake of colouring. 

Had this colouring craze. Just wanted to use my colour pencils and water colour it all! It was so damn fun. Trying to do shadows and all that. 

Before I realised it, I started drawing because I'm so eager to colour them. I couldn't wait until my drawing was complete so I could ink and colour them. 

Just now, because the starting of Sakura no Ki no Shite was stuck in my head, some really sad sounding song but so awesome, I decided to draw in my smaller sketch book and bam. I realised that it's been a while since I last drew... for the sake of drawing(?). Like, the intended ending was for it to be a black and white piece, not coloured. 

And oh man it felt so good to be concentrating on drawing itself and not rushing through to finish so I can colour it. 

I guess even sometimes for the things you enjoy doing, you forget all about the process itself. (?) 

I don't know what I'm saying. 

Oh to hell with the deep sayings and all that. 

Moral? 

Drawing feels damn good. I love drawing. 

Cheers! 

PS. Kenren and Tenpou is so hot.

Christmas Eve! (It is, right?)

Christmas sure came quick this year!

And this time, my nails are properly decorated with the Christmas stuff hah! On time, too!

Anyway, this morning, I risked being yelled at by my sister and barged into her room at 9am to wake her up. THE SUN WAS SHINING SO BRIGHTLY OH GOSH. PERFECT FOR SWIMMING!

Thankfully, she just covered herself with the blanket again and I backed out of the room before she could scold me. And minutes later, she emerged from the room! Mission accomplished oh yeah!

Watching her struggle to remember how to swim was amusing but I have to remind myself that that's probably how I looked a few months back when i first went swimming with Kezia. Oh the entertainment I must have provided you with, huh?  =)

Right now I'm on the bus to woodlands to accompany her to get some stuffnso I thought might as well blog or something, although my diary is suffering for want of use badly. Did I phrase that right? I have no idea.

Okay I shall continue enjoying my music so ... merry pretty holly everyone! Yes, I'm looking at my oh so pretty self manicured nails. So bimbotic, but whatever.

Cheers!

Burn lady burn

Its probably not nice of me to be like this during Christmas week. BUT TO HELL WITH THAT I'M EFFING PISSED OFF OH MY GOD.

I'm sitting at toastbox in tampines 1 and just UGH I have to rage. DARN AUNTIES DAMN YOU. JUST ARRGH.

So. Just a few minutes ago I was trying to look for a seat since toaatbox is usually quite full. And well, one perfect one just popped out so i went to the table and was about to sit.

Then. This dear aunty with her granddaughter came up from behind me, and even though i was already touching the table (which everyone knows it means taken if you understand basic ... I don't know! Its just basic!), she was like 'come come here got seat!'

And poof they sat down.

It was so in my face.

WHY DID I HESITATE OH MY GOD I'M SO STUPID UGH SO ANGRY SO ANGRY SO ANGRY!!!!!!!

Damn you aunty and your aunty mannerisms. I would curse, because in my mind I already am. But it would be crude.

@#$% you.

There, at least I censored it. For all we know, it could mean love you!

HAH. Yeah sure, toootally.

Burn lady burn.

Week before Christmas

It's been a really busy two weeks! Which is kind of sad because the days just flew by and I can see my much awaited holiday ending. 

Not to mention I've been avoiding checking the Blackboard since hey, who wants to do projects in December! 

Anyway. On Monday I was supposed to go the the Chalet but well, cramps that was bad enough to warrant a whole day sleep, so I skipped both the squash training and the chalet. 

On Tuesday, I went to the Chalet with Samantha since well it was Zhi Yu's birthday so I might as well. As usual, the day time was a little boring, played cards and all that. Which, hah I can do combos in Daidi ~ 

Sadly, because BBQ-ing isn't my thing, I spent most of the time hiding in the AC room using my phone and giggling at Tumblr posts. No Christopher,  don't be silly, I wasn't sleeping. 

Well Samantha seemed pretty happy munching away at the food that the guys were cooking and was definitely a much bigger help than I was. Since cooking and I don't mix well, I helped in the best way I could, staying out of the way. Which suit me just fine hurhurhur. 

Anyway, later that night, the guys rented a mahjong table and set (Oh yeah now we're talking!) I teamed with Samantha to show her how to play and we played until around midnight. 

It was so hilarious because Christopher was like so damn blur. Anyway, halfway through the game, the door suddenly burst open with a table and a cake on it. Like, oh surprise Zhi Yu Happy Birthday! 

Of course it didn't turn out that way. The ones who got a shock when they came in was Samantha, the guy next to me (sorry, can't remember who, was it Chris?) and me. We were like all wide-eyed and thinking holy crap, did not see that coming but lets bob our heads and clap along like we knew that was going to happen. 

In any case, too lazy to describe anymore. I won a few times in a row that night and had crab when I got home so yeah good day! 

Moving on to Thursday because this is so noteworthy; I wasn't feeling very well so I skipped training and told Adam to drop by after training so try the court shoes. 

Oh yeah he came, with a pretzel and a bottle of honey lemon \(^-^)/. It was so nice of him. Thanks man~ 

And then proceeded to download Amnesia into my computer to scare himself. 

Lastly! Yesterday I finally met up with Gen and we went all the way to some unknown area in East Coast road or something to try Penny University! The food was okay, but the pie! Oh the pie. Was so nice! 

We had a, what was it? Strawberry Lemon meringue or something. Soooooo good! And pretty too. >=) 

After that, we decided to try playing pool without guys for once.

The end result? I mean, besides the fact that we sucked so horribly our first game took slightly longer than half an hour. 

Oh my gosh I love playing pool! It is so addictive and fun! 

We played three games, one of which I lost, but they were all so fun oh my gosh. The amount of beginners luck I had was amazing! 

And the extreme failure at breaking. My white ball literally slid past one side of the triangle and straight into the pocket. Nice. 

In any case, I totally have to play pool with Gen again. Oh! And thanks so much again for teaching me how to end the knots and stuff for sewing! You're awesome darling.

Okay I have talked way too much. Bye! 

Back home.. in Tampines!

First, before I forget, thanks Mark for willingly coming down all the way from Dover to eat dinner tonight! Otherwise there'd only be me and Ryan and that means no dinner out which means dinner at ah mah house with that and that equates to an extremely pissed off and unhappy me since I'll have to see two people I really don't want to see tonight. So thanks!

Oh, thanks Ryan too, I guess!

Well I'm on the bus now reaching the interchange and I just thought... what if oh dear god I open the door and that damn woman is there?!

Thank goodness I have sims3 to play. Why? Because my darling internet is down since my wonderful father defaulted his payment thanks dad.

Whew. I just reached home and finished bathing and YES THANK YOU SHE'S NOT HERE.

House is in a mess though. Really need to scrub and mop the floor.

Today's dinner was fun though! Three of us went to strictly pancakes to eat and because both mark and I are clueless in Bedok, we trusted Ryan to bring us there. Dear Ryan made us walk so much there instead of taking the bus like most normal people would. But thanks anyway. 

Then because we all got full before we could finish our meal, we started playing the thumb game to decide who would eat what, which got grosser and grosser by the turn. As usual, I lost quite a number of rounds and ate like, some pretty ugh stuff. Which actually didn't taste that bad so whew for my weird tastebuds! Maybe trying canned dog food last time helped!

Then, we walked even more to East coast park, to the Macs there then to the skate park and was like going to reach the jetty when Ryan conveniently remembered the turn to the bus stop was actually before the skate park.

Insert loads more walking before we finally reached the bus stop and took 31!

Pretty fun day!

Oh and mom got me a dress yesterday so I wore it to work but I still feel weird in it. But! That means my new year clothes are done hur hur hur.

Nights!

Sims

I am so so so soooooo annoyed. And pissed. And annoyed.

Firstly, my sum got robbed twice and when her savings and everything is like, less than 1k. Damn you robber Avery sage who has no compassion for a poor sim living on so little.

And then. My game crashed a few times before I could save it. Which means, oh so lucky me has to replay the game again to get to where I was before the cursed game crashed.

Damn.

But is this the end? Oh noooooo.

I made friends with a really pretty sim and I decided she and my sim will become gal bffs or something ( so bimbotic, I know ) but I forgot that I didn't turn off vampires in my game. Guess what. She became a vampire oh my god. But that's not the worst of it, at least her skin isn't all pale and pasty.

But wait! There's more!

I had to search and all that for a sim that looked decent enough (I'm not even asking for good looking) to date my sim so I can hurry up and expand the family. And through her (haha) online dating I found this okay okay looking guy and was like YEAH MAN I GOT ONE!

That is, until I made my sim go out with him and discovered that he's attached damn that effer how dare he still friend me on that dating thing when he's married that pervert that cheater that two timer.

Looks like I'll have to (yes) set my house on fire and get together with the fireman instead. What? Its easier and better than getting someone to rob the house so i can meet a policeman. Welcome to the life of Sims people.

Little things

Strange how little things can influence your mood. Take two days ago for an example; the sky that morning was such a clear baby blue that I couldn't help but smile looking at it. (Before the econs paper screwed up my mood damn it.)

I'm sure there're many other examples, just that I cant remember. Like the cool December breeze in the morning oh man I love it so much its so awesome. Or watching the sunlight bounce off the vivid green leaves of the trees. When I'm in an AC room of course, not sweating outside with the sun reflecting off me.

Or just now, when my dad passed me his wallet to pay for a drink. I caught a glimpse of an old photo of my dad holding my sister and me back when we were really young.

Maybe its weird but it made me feel a little happy, or reassured at least. Reassured that my father actually does still care and love us both even if we dont feel a hint of it anymore.

That, of he just likes how he looks in that photo. Come on, it is a possibility.

Cheers!

Which to choose I wonder

SiP. 

Another headache. 

Which is retarded because it shouldn't be something difficult or stressful. 

I'm supposed to rank the option that I want to do next year, namely Active Aging, Social integration, Environment and Healthcare. 

Honestly, none of them really interests me. At most, the one that seems most interesting and etc to me would be Environment. 

Yeah, I'm a nerd. 

The problem? Oh, nothing new. As usual, it's something no one in class wants to do. 

As usual. 

But seriously, I am not going to do active aging. What can I say? It's not my interest. Which sounds kinda mean. But really. 

And once again, a part of me is refusing to apply for this alone. Which was the same for SFL, and sad to say, my diploma course. 

Well for the last one it wasn't a main factor but definitely a contributing one. 

Also, I know that if some people sees this it'll be bad because... yes. Already received a quarter-lecture from him about things like that. 

So here's to hoping he concentrates on studying for the MSTs  and not see this. A good chance, no?

Is that rain I'm looking at outside the window oh my god I thought it was just cold and windy today not rainy wow. 

Wait, it's just a super light drizzle, doesn't count. 

Anyway... there's no guarantee that I'll be in the same class as my friends. 

But... there'll be a good chance right?

I just asked my sister's boyfriend about his SiP and it sounded quite funny, though not surprising coming from him. Apparently, he chose Social Integration and their project was : 

PokeLand

Bascially, Pokemon Land!

Which is just hilarious because I was not expecting that at all. Well it did make it sound a whole lot more fun than it originally did. 

Okay, shall go back to deciding on my options. 

Pineapple cheesecakes everyone! 

I don't know where that came from. 

Bye! 

So screwed

My exams are in a few days and my motivation level is at pfft zero. I have absolutely no idea what I should be doing as revision. Which sucks.

I finished the practice papers in school and made notes... what else am I missing? I really can't think of anything else to do. For my mst, I really am slacking quite a bit.

Which, is why I am so screwed.

Its really times like this I wish (its something stupid as usual) that my grades were average like everyone else's. No expectations to live up to.

Although most of the time people say I'm stressing myself out.

Even little things people say make me wonder if I should really be studying all the time. Is there even a point? I mean ... I don't know, its worrying.

Haha, now I'm worrying.

Right now I don't feel like I should say what I'm worrying about. Maybe if I leave it alone, I'll forget all about it.

Which is cowardly, I know. I can practically hear a certain friend saying 'Excuses.' in my head now.

Yeah yeah, I get it. I'll just continue studying hard first. and hopefully, the candle won't burn out anytime soon.

For like, the next 10 years or so?

Cheers.