well, for those who are interested/worried, i've been busy with lousy scholarship applications. yesterday was spent going down to school to get all my documents "certified correct" with darling amanda. along the way, we ran into irritating look-at-me-i'm-damn-zai/goodlooking/whatever TCHS-ACJC guys at the kodak photocopying shop and got caught in the sudden heavy downpour. thank God amanda had an umbrella. thank God also for the rain, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise cos we managed to catch our teacher just in the nick of time. the timing was immaculate, nothing short of God's hand at work! only problem now is that i forgot to bring copies of my o level cert to be certified. and i'm not about to make another trip all the way down to school. sigh.

anyway, we then went to town for amanda to get tix and for me to fill up my app forms..reached home at 7+ only to suddenly remember at 7.30pm, to my horror, that i was supposed to give tuition at aljunied at 7.45pm!!! rushed down, and ended up staying up till 3.30am to write an app essay that was due, no prizes for guessing, today.

so i woke up at 12+ today. one of the things i was looking forward to most about ending work was the freedom to wake up as late as i want. hell, i've lost out on THOUSANDS of hours of sleep (according to my last calculation in j2). if i don't get those hours back now, i never will. so today was a very happy-fying day.

waking up late + beautiful weather (i.e. not too sunny but bright with a light breeze) + 2 hours of solid newspaper reading + CNN = a happy rae. =]

i still have 3-4 scholarship apps to complete though. those are bummers. i just CAN'T WAIT for the end of this week when i'll be DONE with all this scholarship rubbish. but listen, i must tell all of you about the 12th of march. the 12th of march is amanda's birthday, and was also my last day of work. a very delightful day.

i think i looked forward to my last day of work more than the last day of the As. it was a day of mixed feelings. yes, i was superduper happy that i wouldn't have to teach music to a bunch of brats ever again, but i have to admit that the work environment was really nice - huge office space, breaks spaced out through the day, nice colleagues, and some of the kids were really very sweet! i had a WHOLE PLASTIC BAG full of cards and "i love you ms goh"s and stuff. awwww. :(

after saying my last goodbyes to the pple and to nanyang itself, i rushed down to town to meet andy for lunch at ding tai fung! yumyummmm. after which we went to coffee club for drinks. i don't really know how to describe it, but it was a really good, happy time, just fellowshipping, talking about stuff, etc. something i've never done with andy before.. and i look forward to more such times now. :)

then, i zipped down to coffee club (again, haha) at siglap for birthday dinner with amanda!! coincidentally, kerk had a coffee-club-craving and she joined us for dinner! smiles, laughter, a free feeling, being myself. that's what a night spent with true friends is like. :) amanda left at 8pm to go to a salsa club (haha), and kerk and i walked to kerk's house to hang out. spent the rest of the night watching american idol and planning our GETAWAY!! haha. we've talked about it for -forever-, now we're really gonna make it happen. unfortunately, the date we chose coincides with scholarship interviews and stuff, but i don't care, we must have our GETAWAY after that!!

hmm this week will be busy with seeker service rehearsals. incidentally seeker service is on my birthday! haha. i have no birthday plans though, not gonna make a big deal outta it. seems like i get less and less excited abt "special occasions" (e.g. birthdays, new year, christmas, etc) as i grow older.

so there's still alot more stuff that i want to say, things that i've been wanting to say for quite awhile, but i guess now's not the time. i need to get back to my scholarship apps. sigh.

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