You're a paradox and so am I.

Okay wow, where do I start? Let's see......Xuan showed up at my house around 10am with breakfast for me (after he went to eat breakfast with his mum, haha). He bought nasi lemak for me and coincidentally, around an hour later, my dad came home with nasi lemak for me as well so my dad made Xuan eat the nasi lemak that he (my dad) bought, HAHAHA. So yeah, we ended up eating the same thing :) #likefateonly

Oh yeah, Jie Hui finally passed me my belated birthday gift on Monday after the release of O'level results. She passed it to me while she was in tears (that cutie). Hey JH, if you see this, you did your best for O's and no matter what score you got, I'm proud of you all the same :) And thank you so much for the amazing birthday gift (an underwater camera w/ a roll of film)!!!! You're the best babe :* 

Xuan also bought me this apart from the packet of nasi lemak :P I forgot what it's called but it's a kind of traditional malay kueh which I like!! Hehe, thanks dear :*

Shared this w/ Xuan while we watched tbbt & h5o episodes n_______n

Headed to cgh to meet my mum before accompanying her to some malay concert but since I was quite early, Xuan and I went to sit at Starbucks while drinking iced caramel frappucino & iced white chocolate mocha frappucino (yum!!!)

Starbucks w/ my favourite boy ytd ♡ ♡ ♡ We had a looooooong chat about which jc or poly he should go to. He was evidently stressed about his choices, I kinda pitied him cause idk how it feels to be stressing out over poly or jc choices since I've already DPA-ed into NP's Mass Comm. 

Took the train from Simei all the way till City Hall in order to get to Esplanade for the concert. Xuan dropped off at Aljunied. During the train ride before he left, Xuan, my mum & I furthered the discussion about which school he should go to. It kinda made sense to get another adult's opinion besides his parents ofc. Anyways, my mum & I decided to have a quick appetizer @ LJS at Marina Square around 45mins before the concert started.

The concert lasted for 2 and a half hours which is totally worth the $153 per ticket that my mum paid!

I'm not a fan of neither am I familiar with songs by Malaysia artiste, Sheila Maijd, and Indonesian artiste, Harvey Malaiholo, but I gotta say, they really knew how to entertain the audience and they are so, SOOOOO good at singing live!!!!!! I was super impressed though I knew only like 2 out of the many songs they sang onstage last night. And Sheila Majid is super pretty although she's like 50 years old (?)

My mum and I managed to see them up close during the autograph session afterwards but we didn't take a picture w/ them nor get their autographs cause we were too lazy to join the frickin' long queue.

I took some pictures for keepsake (including some selfies w/ my mum, hahaha).

You can view them here!!!

In other news, here are some shameless selfies I took while my mum was depositing some money into the bank at Eunos MRT station ytd night :P Apologies for looking super haggard, I didn't exactly wake up on the right side of my bed yesterday..........aha

I enjoy editing pictures, so...

Bought supper otw home cause I was kinda hungry and I really wanted something that can be prepared quick so yeah. I bought the bowl noodles from this super cute convenience store at Eunos MRT station. I 

was given a free packet/piece of seaweed just because I purchased the noodles (hahaha how cute). But c'mon, who doesn't like free stuff? 8) #typicalSingaporean

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Well, in today's news:

I woke up to this sleepyhead on my bed. I couldn't resist taking a few shots of her.

Anddddd, my dad bought takeaway food for me; nasi dgn sambal goreng, paru goreng & ayam goreng

Kinda unhealthy but super yummy ;_______;

Apart from that, my new maid arrived today! I've just been helping her get accustomed to the rules in this household and stuff. Nothing much happened today, how sad, haha.

Well, I hope your day was more eventful than mine!

Here's an early goodnight from me! x

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

this made my morning, it really did :'-)

Anyways, got out of the house and reached CGH by 10:30am because my mum needed to get some work done before following me to school to collect my O'level results. Meanwhile, my dad and I had breakfast at the hospital's canteen. Had a hearty bowl of mee soto and that was more than enough to fill me up.

My genius dad decided to get cold desserts for me and him as means to quench our thirst just because the queue for the drinks stall was really long and he was too lazy to queue up for proper drinks instead, hahaha. So yeah, I ended up freezing on the inside since I had to consume the chilly contents of that bowl in the picture. (thanks alot ya daddy)

So yeah, I got L1R5 19 everyone (-: I gotta admit, I was expecting slightly better results but after thinking it over, I feel grateful to have made such vast improvements in my academics. I was a former L1R5 39-pointer but now I've worked butt off to get to a score that's below 20 and  I couldn't be more proud of my achievement. Alhamdulillah, my parents are also really pleased and satisfied with my results!

They are especially impressed by the fact that I managed to get a B3 for Emath despite having F9-ed math ever since I was in Secondary 1 (true story, no joke; that's how bad I am at math). My mum was also pleased that having F9-ed both my sciences before, I managed to get a C6 for Chemistry and a D7 for Biology. Tbh, I was disappointed with my Chem grade because Chem was one of the subjects I put extra effort into. I was really hoping for a B3 at the very least but now, I'm just thankful that I passed the subject. Sadly, I wasn't able to do the same for Bio. I knew that my Bio isn't strong, from the start and I was expecting my worst grade to be for Bio (which came true in the end). I was hoping to not fail it though but oh well. It kinda sucks seeing that 'blemish' on my results slip but I guess that's what fate has in store for me so I've accepted it. I'm also happy that I got a B3 for Combined Humanities after C6-ing & F9-ing it before. Lastly, I'm pleased that I got 3 A2s (1 for English, 1 for HML and 1 for ML). I gotta admit, I was upset as hell that I didn't even get a single A1 but hey, an A2 is still a distinction and I should be thankful for that (-:

What's most important is that I got 13 raw for my L1R2B2, 11 after minusing 2 bonus points from CCA. With that score, I'm eligible to take up the DPA offer into NP's Mass Comm and I'll be starting poly on the 22nd of Jan, 2014. Thank god I decided to DPA into the course of my choice, otherwise, I probably wouldn't know what to do or which direction to head towards with the results that I've gotten!

Sadly, the picture can't be rotated but here's a bowl of yummy, baked, spaghetti bolognaise! My mu m treated me to lunch at Swensens as a so-called reward/mini celebration/recognition of my satisfying results. It was really yummy but I couldn't finish my food for once, meh. 

We also ordered the calamari rings as a side order! Both of us love that dish :)

Today was the last day I got to don the CGS uniform. In a way, I'll miss being able to do so but I'm also glad to be moving on to another phase/chapter in my life. Praises be to Allah for opening up a clear path for me towards my future, alhamdulillah.

This is just one of the couple of sweet congratulatory messages I received upon the release of O'level results!

Thank you Tobi, your kind words helped to spur me on abit (-:

Well, that's how my Monday went! I sure hope the rest of you Sec 4's got the scores you wanted!! As cliche as it sounds, what's done is done and what we can do is move forward from here. The route that we want may not be the best for us so just trust what God has planned out for you. I believe all of us have done our very best and that's what really matters.

Goodnight friends! x

Straight up, do you really wanna love me forever?

Another one of those bad days which result in me resigning to my lonesome state whilst scrolling through life quotes which (hopefully) will knock some sense into me and make me feel better about my life / prompt me to do something to improve my life. Here are a couple of em' which really stood out to me, maybe you can relate to them too?

If you're having a bad day, don't worry for you're not alone.

Let's get over this together, shall we? 

Be strong, I'm also trying to be. 

We may struggle, crumble and fall but that's all part of the process.

We'll make it through, eventually.

Head in the clouds but my gravity's centered

Had lunch w/ my cheeky monkey earlier today. P.S. this is Eva, everyone :) Oh and it's her birthday today!

And this is Evan :) He was born 2 days ago and he weighs around 3.16kg (if I remember correctly)

If you haven't already guessed it, yep, I went to visit baby Evan at the hospital (KK Women & Children's Hospital, to be exact)!

Evan and Eva are both my eldest bro's children, jsyk. Congrats kor, on the birth of baby Evan! Take good care of him and raise him well. I'm sure he'll grow up to be a sensible and responsible boy who will make you proud. Insyallah.

There's just something about babies that really gets to me. I guess that's the purest state of form that you'll ever see any human in. Babies are born, free of all faults or wrongs because they're so pure and precious. And witnessing the start of an amazing journey of the life/growth of this baby boy in the time to come, it just feels very magical??? (idk that's all I can come up with rn but yeah, magical, simply, m a g i c a l)

I can't wait to see Evan grow up. I can't believe I have yet another nephew, hahaha. I feel old though I'm only turning 17 this year. But damnnnn, where have the times gone? Everything's passing by too fast that some things end up a blur.

In other news, I officially joined the DPA'14 whatsapp group yesterday night! Everyone was so welcoming towards me, it felt really nice. Sadly, I couldn't join their first gathering which they had at NP's Open House'14 today :( Everyone seemed to get along pretty well and as though they had so much fun (judging from the pictures they took together). Honestly, I'm kinda jealous, hahaha but on the bright side, I wasn't the only one who missed out on the fun. Hopefully, I'll be able to attend the next gathering which is tentatively supposed to be held before our orientation camp on the 22nd! I also hope I'll get to meet amazing people whom I can call friends :)

Well, goodnight. xx

That's just my luck these days

Okay, so I started off the day by having breakfast @ the KFC branch at Novena w/ Nabilah (:
Decided to have the American Twister meal since I had a coupon for it! It was really yummy, I'd definitely eat it again next time~









After that, we promptly headed to NYP for Open House'14! We spent around 1 and a half hours there and I gotta say, it was pretty fun. The students there were generally, really friendly!! I enjoyed talking to those whom I got the chance to converse with :)
Nabs & I played this game that was created by the Infocomm & Technology students which basically tested us on our concentration skills. After we were done, we were told to go to level 5 to collect our free gift which is a 8GB thumbdrive (obviously we wanted that free gift, HAHA).
When we got to the lab on level 5, we went in but there were so many rooms that we didn't know which one to head towards so I ended up asking this (really super duper cute) guy (who's a student @ NYP) whether he knew where we could get the free thumbdrive after playing the game downstairs.
He then directed us into this room where a couple of other NYP students invited us in to play another game.
I was like, "HUH? But we played the game downstairs already!!"
Then the guys there were like, "Aiya, this one is another game. It's very simple!! You play the game and then you can get your free gift okay!!"
So I said, "Cheat my feelings ah >:"
Then they all laughed, psh. Nabs & I played the game but 3/4 of the time, we had no idea what's going on so there was a male student helping out each of us. The one who attended to me is this indian guy who had a 'mat look' going on but evidently, he was nice and friendly (though he kept teasing me here and there).
He helped me play pretty much the entire game HAHAHA and then at the end, I had to fill in this online form and this is what happened:

/I filled in my full name/

Him: WOAH mix blooded siol. We kena a mixbloodedddd.

/I turned around to glance at him and give that facepalm look/
/I then filled in the name of my school/

Him: CRESCENT GIRLS' SCHOOL SIOL.

/Sooooooo I turned around again/

Me: (jokingly) You got a problem with that?!?!

HAHAHHAHA.

After I was done with that, he gave me the thumbdrive and a notebook and said I could take all the sweets that was in the bowl which was on the table.

Me: You say one ah, I take everything ah.
Him: Yeah go ahead and take everything. Eat until you get diabetes la u.

/proceeds to take everything/

Him: EH NOT EVERYTHING LA, later other people also want to eat how :(

HAHAHAHHAHA l0ser.

Moving on, Nabs & I then headed to the school of Business Management and when we stepped into the room, the students of the Hospitality & Tourism course wasted no time in trying to nab our attention. Nabs & I just gave the standard "We're just looking around (:" reply. Then, two (super cute and smiley guys) offered us mocktails at a table nearby and we couldn't refuse because we were thirsty so yeah. The mocktail was pretty nice!! After we drank it, one of the two guys cheekily said, "Now, you have to listen to our friends talk about the course since you drank our mocktails :P" (HAHHAHAHA okay la, smart move la, gotta give them props for that).

I was impressed by the enthusiasm of the students in that course because they really wanted to tell us all that they know in an attempt to persuade us to take up this course. In fact, I was actually quite interested in the course afterwards, thanks to their efforts. However, I've already sold my soul to NP'S Mass Comm so no changes can be made now (:

We had to walk past the two guys again in order to get to the other booths and then they asked if we wanted another mocktail (while smiling all cheekily) and we were like, "HAHAHA NO NO it's okay ;)"

Damnnnnnn, like I said, they are all generally really friendly and cheerful people; people that I really wanna be friends with. I hope I'll get to meet people like them in NP. Nevertheless, whether you people see this or not, I'll like to thank you for being really friendly and approachable during the open house!! You are all pretty darn awesome aye :)

Left NYP around 12:30pm and headed back to Novena where we missed the 1PM shuttle bus to Mount Alvernia, sigh. Thus, we decided to finally redeem my free drink from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf!! 

I was allowed to choose any ice blended drink so I decided to order this berry-flavoured drink (whose name I forgot) but it tasted pretty decent (: Honestly, it was okay but not a favourite of mine. Nonetheless, it's a refreshing drink!!

Finally reached Mount Alvernia and Xuan's mum was there, helping him get discharged. She then drove all three of us to their house where Xuan, Nabs & I lepak-ed for about an hour++ before we went home.

We played a few rounds of Kinect!! I got tired out really easily because I was already exhausted from all the walking around :(

And thennnnnn, when I got hold of Xuan's new phone.......hehehe

Prepare yourself for decent and unglam shots.

A collage to sum up the day!!
Once again, I can't decide between the non-edited and edited one :(

Reached home at 4:30pm and my mum dragged me to tamp around a half hour later, meh. I was super tired but the thought of dinner kept me going, hahaha. We ate at this new restaurant (whose name I also forgot) which serves Penang-style dishes. I had a bowl of Assam Laksa which is one of their signature dishes and it cost me $6.95. It was so flavourful and delicious, I absolutely love it!!!!
I also ordered a glass of pink guava juice to quench my thirst. That too, was really nice!!

A slightly more close up shot of the delicious bowl of Assam Laksa which all of you should go and try.












Well, that sums up my Friday :)
I hope you had a superb Friday too!! x