From the bottom of my heart

Once again it is the end of another year. On this last day of 2013, I spend some time looking back through out this year, all the good and bad and everything.

 

I've learn how to let go of things that I have no control of, accept things and people for the way they are, and most importantly slowly letting go of my past mistakes and putting them all in God's hands for he is the only one who will guild me and show me the way.

 

First of all, thankful for my family who have always been there, things have happen and is still being work on for the better. And the cousins whom we have just begin contacting each other without our parents. May we continue on the good relationship even when we have our own family. Also not forgetting an addition to the family next year, may God bless the smooth arrival of John.

 

 

 

Secondly of course thankful for the bunch of people whom I grew up with. Another year of memories added to our memory bank. We have all grown up, venturing into each of our expertise. May God continue blessing each and everyone of us, used us for the growth of His kingdom.

 

 Also not forgetting my spiritual growth this year. Disciple 2. Really pulled me out of my own misery at the right time. Even though I have not fully let go of my past mistake but still I'm slowly learning that God's grace is so great and there's nothing out of His control. It's all about trust and obey, that's the way.

 

 

Thirdly, thank you this bunch of happy pills. Even though it have just been a year of uni together but we grew close, encouraging each other and having fun. With out you guys, my uni life would be so boring.

 

 Lastly not forgetting, I'm thankful for being able to see you boys this year again. Being fangirl and crazy all over again. Adding that little bit more excitement to my daily life. 2014, another year more of fan-girling and I'm definitely looking forward to see you all once more.

 

Bottom line, I am thankful for having a great year, to have grown in knowledge, mentally and spiritually. With much love, thank you 2013 for being a good year :) 2014, I welcome you with open arms.

A Sunny Island Christmas

Cause we are cool like that, celebrating Christmas on a make believe sunny island.

 

Growing up with this bunch of people plus new addition along the way since the 90s is just God's blessing. With them around, everything is just so cosy and warmth. Though there are times of cold war and unhappiness, but we grow to love, accept and forgive each other just the way God created us. That's what make us brothers and sisters in Christ. S2. 

 

The Canapes duo // tingz & mopez

 

The food was efforts of everyone and it was all consumed with thankfulness.

FOODDDDDD

The exotic couple with their exotic fruits

 And then 2 insurance agent decided stop by our sunny island for food and party

Logcake by YJ

Ended with gift exchange and a short sharing. The whole event was good :)

Uni Christmas Celebration

In short, a night of fun laughter bonding and gift exchange. Without them, my uni life would be so boring. They, are my happy pills.

 

Mini sausage fruit cock-tail by Janice

"Paper wrap chicken" by KC

Our waiter for the night

Gift exchange time

YAY we got our presents ^^

happy bunch of people

 

Dessert time! Jelly by eliz, expensive ice cream which I forgot the name by WH, and homemade logcake done by me.

DESSERTS!

sandwich by Xavier and serene

CHEERS~

Its time for goodbyes :(

Fire sparkles time

Graduation

32 weeks have passed and now we all are proud to say we have graduated from Disciples 2! ^^ So last lesson was today and mini ceremony was today too. Eventful meaningful. :) Sadly, forgot to take group photo :(

 

Crazy adventure

Today was a crazy day where I finally cycled again since years ago and was reminded why I choose blading over cycling. Cause it makes my butt so so so painful!

 

So anyway we decided to cycle for the 4 hours package and then we were crazy to have decided to cycle to change village. It was like never ending road to cycle and it was all straight road along change airport runway. Crazy I say. Was at the state of 自曝自己 cause was not seeing the end point AT ALL!

 

Shall not let my complains flood this post so, at the end of the day it was all good. started raining crazily heavy when we were on the was back as in already returned bicycle and going to toilet to wash up. It was a good adventure also cause I pushed myself to the limit and it was crazy, thank God for the strength of being able to get back within the rental time limit plus a bit.

 

Okay, that's about it.

Picture time

 

喜欢一个人不一定可以在一起
喜欢一个人也不一定可以告诉对方
但在自己都搞不清楚的状况下
我又该如何。。。。

right at the beginning, I should not have.....
without the beginning, there would never had......

Erjie's Advance Birthday Dinner

Once again it's the second princess' birthday. Since on the actual birthday of her's me and mum woun't be available, we have settle with 2 days in advance. Dinner was at the Korean BBQ Buffet located at United Square. It's the famous Korean BBQ that was originally at the stretch of old Novena shop houses opposite the Novena church, and was relocated at the current place about a year ago.

 

 

Since it has moved to the new location, I have not tried it yet and I thought the 2nd sis and BIL have not either so I suggested there. But then when reached then I got to know that I was the only one that have not been there. But anyway, we still enjoyed dinner thought.

 

However, felt kind of not as appreciated for going through the trouble of getting another box of 白色恋人 just for her cause she said that it was my fault for not reminding her that Japan was famous for that and it was her favourite. So, whatever about the not reminding part, I was nice enough to go through all those trouble yet I just got a "orh thanks" from her that's all. Seems like she's being very strict on her praises and thankful words to me now as compared to last time when I bought her anything. May be I should stop buying stuffs for her for a long time then start again so she would appreciate it. Well, it really does matter to me even though I am her sister where I'm suppose to be nice to her but still giving a sense of appreciation would really mean a lot to me. Or maybe I'm just too sensitive about her thankful cause she really meant it from the bottom oh her heart. I don't know but it's all just saying and expressing my bottled up feelings for today.

 

PLUS I thought she would really like the macaroons that I got for her but turned out that she have tried macaroons before and it's at the bottom of her list of likes. Kind of got rejected from her which well, really did quite some unbalanced feeling in me.

 

Oh well, have already poured out my bottled up feelings for the whole day and now for photos! :)

 

MAMA 2013

I'm so proud of you all, even though you boys didn't publish anything as OT5 this year. But still the solo performance really brought each of your style out, and still able to come together so well performing as OT5.

JiYong oppa congrats on the 4 awards! ^^
Best Artist of the Year (Coup d'etat)
Best Dance Performance (Crooked)
Best Male Artist
Best Music Video (Crooked)

A trip to Tokyo

Finally got my laptop repaired/formatted and now blogger and everything else is working fine which means updating of post with pictures! YAY! ^^

First of all I need to say, something wrong with my laptop or blogger that I'm unable to upload photos AGAIN! So i'm sorry to my dear readers this post with be boring if you're a picture person. You can go to see the pictures from my FB if you have it and can find it. HAHAHA!

So anywaysssss...this trip has been a good experience for me, quite a few first time experiences throughout this trip.

First time taking a plane on my own

First time paying for my own trip

First time experiencing an earthquake (no harm, no worries)

First time finding our own way around and getting lost in between destinations

Hahahaha~

 

So beginning with day 1, Shiyu and I used up all of the day travelling from SG then transited at HK to Tokyo then another 1hour bus ride to where our guesthouse was, located in Shinjuku. A long journey indeed! Slept early to prepare to enjoy a good day next day.

Day 2 went to Harajuku area staring with Yoyogi Park where we were supposed to see many cosplay around but end up saw only very few. Not as expected from what the website had stated. Next walked over to the Meiji Shrine which was right beside. Saw many cute little kid dressed in Japanese traditional costume and they really look so dolled up! And when asked to take a photo of the kid by many tourists, the parent would smile so happily. It’s as if they doll their kid up to show them off. Haha~ but some kid are too shy to take photo.



Yoyogi Park

 

Enjoying the cool breeze~

Cute little girl

 

Then the sky slowly darken and we though oh its time to head home, but no, we checked our time and it's only 5pm! So mislead! So headed to the must go traditional tourist shop and Kiddy lane. Goodness, the figurines and toys and all those Japan anime character things are so so so much cheaper than those selling in SG or online. So of course I bought those I like which includes bearbrick. It is the light bearbrick that was selling online at SGD50 per bear but I only bought it for approximately SGD15! Of course I took the good deal and bought 2! So happy I am. haha!

Day 3 was the day another friend join us. So the two of us first walked around our area, shopping centre and all. Saw so much good food but we just do not have enough stomach space to try everything! Around early afternoon LiJuan arrived and we went back to put down her stuffs and head out to Shibuya area, and yes we went to witness the Guinness World record of most people crossing the road at the same time! Goodness, it's really kind of scary seeing it from the famous Starbucks where every tourist will be there for once at least.



Piere Herme

 

 

The Shibuya Crossing

Day 4 went to Disneysea and it was so fun even though it was so so cold that day but I still had so much fun. The kid in me was totally unleashed. Haha! The rides there were all so fun and we didn't had to queue so long up to 2 hours like what others have told us. So much find that day. :) And of course I bought my favourite character merchandise. Winnie the pooh! But sadly there would have been more if we had went to Disney Land instead.

 

 

 

 

The beautiful sunset

 

 

DisneySEA 30th anniversary

 

Day 5 went to Harajuku area again and yes I bought another bearbrick again too! AND AND AND I finally bought the Bigbang hand band from LAWSON there. Saw Lawson everywhere when BB hand band not out yet, and cant find a single Lawson when BB hand band was out. What logic. Haha.

 

 

 

Day 6 was the day we went to most places. Started off with Ueno park, Ueno traditional market, Sky Tree, Roppongi, and ended with the night street at Shinjuku. Too much to type so I'll just let the photos do the talking. Hahaha!

 

Live Naturo street performance

Ueno Park

Ueno Traditional Street Market

 So it was time for me to say good bye to Tokyo. Own trip back to Singapore was smooth except the part where my baggage was not transited in time along with me on the way back to Singapore from HK airport. So it was being delayed. Was not really panic cause I wasn't the only one, there were others who did the same transit as me whos baggage was left at HK airport too. So we were rather sure it's not the case of lost or someone else took it.

 

The part I love most about taking airplane is that I get to see the beautiful views from above. Such serenity, such calmness, everything is so small.

 

 

And these are the things that I've bought from Tokyo. Things for myself, family and friends. :)

 

 

For more pictures, please go to my FB page to view.