its drawing to an end...

come to think about it...

so much has happened; i mixed with kids and taxes, embarked on a straight road to hellish yet interesting field of study which many will never get to experience, did another production, made new friends whom i now treasure and guard defensively, had a taste of independent living and started on a roller coaster ride of emotions.

yet sadly i feel that i havent accomplished nor achieved much at all.

did i make a difference with my kids and helped them embrace the good things in life?
did i manage to help that that low-income family get the subsidy for tax?
how is that 78 year old cleaner who still needs to pay tax now?
which country is that filthy rich director touring now with his mistress?
did those who came to watch my production truely understand what we are trying to express in the play?
did they realise our heartfelt performance is part of our true lives and still is?
do my friends know how much i dearly cherish them?
does any of them feel like wringing my neck?
is any of them disappointed in me for something i did or did not do?
how has my mom been sleeping beside an empty space all this time?
and did i make your life better or worse now?
are You tired of forgiving all the sins ive committed?

there were so many promises i made and broke, but there were promises that i kept. there were times i felt so happy and excited, but there were times i felt uselessly down.

every good thing just cancelled out with every bad ones, and vice versa.

and now, i end up with nothing. no piece of mind, loose ends untied, disappointment to hide.

all except one year's transport at student rate.

back from bintan!!

bintan's not very different from malaysia actually. and it was the fact that i got to spend some time with my huiguan friends in some place away from all the buzz that made the trip quite a nice experience...

we met at around 7.45 at bedok mrt and took cabs down to tanah merah ferry terminal. as expected, our 3 infamous drinkers couldnt let slip the chance of getting SOMETHING from DFS...

they got held up by the bintan officials who detained them and their 36cans of heineken eventually. they got off the hook (there wasnt any hook to begin with) by er, $114987, rupiah.

we took the ferry "wavemaster8" for a 2hours ride to bintan...

i got the middle seat... could have mistaken this view to be one from the plane... but the sea is a dead giveaway.

we cramped into a van that took us from the ferry terminal in bintan to our kelong destination...

a back seat view

reached the shore

this was the bridge we had to walk along. 800m boardwalk! see the kelong at the, er, VERY far off background? yep thats the kelong.

reached the kelong!

here's the view FROM the kelong back to shore... the stretch of trees is it! thats how far it is!

canoed! second time ive ever canoed since sec1... the rest went on the banana boat. check out the waves we met during this monsoon season while canoeing

this was taken from the kelong, the waves were like minature tsunamis in the sea. came right at us... fantastically frightening. SHIOK!!!

played air rifles:


and foosball:


and mahjong:

while miss world was being crowned, i was, too, a newly crowned mahjong princess :D

the "swimming pool" at the kelong is:

a partition. swimming in there definitely makes one feel like an inbred fish about to appear on the dinner table.

speaking of the dinner table...

again...


and again...



and that's just three of six meals we had!! *looks at tummy*

on our way back to the ferry terminal, i took some photos of the buildings there... shall not bore you all with the stuff intellectually, so i'll just feature one interesting house i went past:

this is what i call, a treehouse. they made use of the trunks of 2 trees as the main columns, ingenious!

then back again to singapore... a nice goodbye from bintan:

tomorrow i'm off to bintan with huiguan for kelong trip! will be back sunday afternoon!

past few days was doing touch ups for sheares rag in preparation for chingay... its fun but monotonous and troublesome...

consecutively i have shaca practice for carolling! in for some acapella this christmas season? come down and just enjoy as we bring you all some all time favourite xmas songs... acapella style :)

Millenia 14th Dec 7pm(30mins)
Millenia 20th Dec 7pm(30mins)
Camden (Tanglin Mall) 16th Dec noon(40mins)
Camden (Tanglin Mall) 20th Dec noon(40mins)
Paragon 21st Dec 3.30pm(15mins)

released from chingay in the afternoon and spent some moments out with lloyd in town. havent been so totally myself and happy for a long time... i think ive finally fully adjusted myself to the right pace! you think so too right :)

bumped into yanchu and josh in heeren... yanchu said "caught you 2 red handed".

sounded exactly like jeannie.

why red handed? whats wrong with it that made you all label it in such a way that its "red handed"? dont understand leh. *scratch head*

plus yanchu said when she told eugene, he thought she was joking. ????? is it THAT unbelievable? i really dont understand leh. he can have so many girlfriends why cant i have ONE boyfriend?

then i found out josh reads my blog!! *waves* heyyy josh!! hahaha...

yah i deleted my wishlist... because... ive already got all i wanted. i wish for nothing more.

:)

sheares hall chingay begins today!

6th-15th dec: mount and upgrade ferris wheel
10th-11th dec: bintan trip with huiguan
24th dec: shacapella performance

besides these days im free! people lets go out before the next sem comes :)