oh my

oh my, realised that i havent posted anything here for quite a while.

ok, i have my last paper this weds, and im just aiming to get past it as soon as possible, cos its just plain boring. micro is like the most boring course im taking this semester, and its just a pain in the ass to study it. a lot of people in college have gone off and im still stuck here studying this piece of shit.

so after the exams, im gonna go shopping, buy krispy kreme and then pack my stuff and fly off to brisbane!

cant believe it, it has been almost 4 months since i've been here. time passes so fast, i almost finished one semester. 5 more to go!!

floriade

ok i finally went to floriade this weekend. took a lot of pictures. ive become such a camera whore, shoot me. so im just uploading some, maybe just 3 pictures for people to see the beautiful tulips, and me.

spring

spring is beautiful here, all the flowers are in bloom. its nice to be able to experience the 4 seasons! im going to floriade today, the flower exhibition which displays a million blooming flowers.

wish you were here

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl,
year after year,
running over the same old ground. What have we found?
The same old fears,
wish you were here.


okay
i went back to singapore for two weeks. just came back to canberra, and its pretty sad to leave everyone again.

my dad had a car accident. some freaking asshole was speeding and knocked him over.

so i went back to see him, take care of him and just to have a piece of mind. he's okay right now, but everything doesnt really hit me, that i could have lost him. some one up there is always helping him and pulling through. its lucky that he didnt die or get something worse than a whole lot of cuts and bruises and a double fracture.

sometimes i think im pretty lucky that i wasn't in singapore when it happened, cause i dont think im strong enough to handle the whole situation. i always had the mentality that my parents were bloody immortal. and suddenly it hits u in the face that he is injured. even so, you wouldnt think that it was that bad. got a shock when i went back and saw the pictures of him on the fifth day and it was pretty bad, being on morphine, not being able to eat and drink properly, i think my dad has come a long way to being in the recovering stage he is in now, and still have a long way to go before he is able to function properly.

i didnt even have the strength to read my mum's diary of what happened. so im quite clueless about what happened. only know the outline of everything. my mum's pretty strong to have gone through everything by herself and not tell my sis and i about it, to share this burden with her when she was most lost and alone.

i am thankful, and appreciate everything i have. i've learnt to never underestimate the vulnerability of life.

i miss my family.

other side of the world

Then the fire fades away
But most of everyday
Is full of tired excuses
But it's too hard to say
I wish it were simple
But we give up easily
You're close enough to see that
You're the other side of the world
to me

melbourne

hmm i have slightly more than one week till my mid semester exams. realised that i've been slacking a wee bit too much. and its like 2 weeks till my september holidays. and already, we've started planning what to do with it. its between going to sydney or melbourne. at this moment, its swinging very much to melbourne which is like a 7.5 hr drive. my parents will kill me. well thats the thing i like about australia. its huge. we can just pick up and leave canberra as and when we want to, and go to some other state. plus, mummy and daddy dearest are not here. haha.. my dad almost killed me when i just went to sydney for the weekend. see, ngiam, this is another reason you should come here, then you wont have to go to bangkok just to get away. no need to bring passport, just get into the car and drive off. but then again, you dont have your friggin license. tsk tsk. aiyo me too. but i like to think of it as other people chauffering me around. so the september hols sound interesting right? something to look forward to!

reina where have you died to?

so by the time i finish my course here, i would like to say that i've been around australia! how cool is that? geri you're welcome to come here for a nice holiday, just dont come to canberra, its bloody boring!

so my dear friends, come visit me when you can, otherwise i'll see all of you after dec 15, after spending a month in brisbane, summertime at the surfers' paradise, and good old gold coast!

one month

how fast time passes.

its been one month since i came canberra. 2 days ago, i finally felt sad. it was the first time since i came here that i really missed my friends. i miss everything about everybody, but mainly the fact that i can talk about anything with them without being afraid of any judgement coming from them. the comfortablility with them, that we accept each other for what we are, and know each other well enough. and it only comes after being friends with someone for a long period of time.

oh well, i hope to see everyone back in mid december!