first: i woke up at 515am for the first time in like, i dunno. 2 years or sth. haha. my first day of work. it was a real eye-opener. i took down notes of all the things that i wanted to write about, but it'll make this even longer so, i'll leave out the details for now. two things, though, left lasting impressions. one is that in school, you can tell your friends you're in a bad mood or feeling cranky (and sometimes even your teachers), and they'll excuse you for it. but out in the working world, no one gives a shit if you didn't sleep well, or if you feel like crap. you're still expected to carry out your duties. no excuses. the other thing.. here's what i penned down while being very bored and sleepy and trying to make it look like i was doing something productive. haha. "now i understand what nathan meant and how he felt when he was on his work attachment. it's like, there's nothing to do and you feel useless and bored. you're damn tired and you want to sleep. but you can't. cos you're at work. gah, i REALLY wanna sleep..." after which i dozed off for a few milliseconds (my table's along the main corridor so pple walk past all the time. bah.). oh one more thing. i felt so...old. being around all the primary school kids, then later on at the st. margaret's bus stop waiting for a bus and watching the secondary school girls behave and the stuff they talk about. really feel..old. heh.

second: met shianni in town for coffee. had a very nice time chatting and stuff. though i was really tired and bedraggled after my traumatising day of teaching primary school kids. i think i've received so much from shianni.. it's time i start looking down and mentoring/discipling one of the younger ones..

third: went for sleepover at addie's house!!! i've been super excited and looking forward to it since we started talking about it.. and i'm glad it came through in the end! addie, ying, joycelin, kerk, me. :) there's so much i wanna say, yet i don't know how to put the feelings into words. well first, me and addie bummed and waited for joycelin to come. then we started san que yi mahjong. should've seen us play "handicapped" mahjong (we were all 1-handed cos we were pigging out with the other hand..hahaha). prosperity pizza, breadsticks, drumlets, garlic bread, lychee cocktail, korean seaweed. kerk came and ruined the fengshui, and addie's parents went all the way to geylang (from yio chu kang) to get us the famous soya bean milk and you tiao!!! see what i mean by PIG OUT. haha. yuying came after her bball match ard past midnight. bridge. taking turns to bathe. back to mahjong. more pigging out. then we moved up to the room addie's mom had specially prepared for us... haha. talked alot..got to know each other better..stuff like that. there was one point where i was asked "what is the best thing that has happened to you?".. of course my answer was "knowing god".. but religion aside, i realised after some thinking, that the answer is, you guys. you guys are the best thing that has happened to me. :) at 5am, we bundled up and went to sleep. i kept thinking.. this was the perfect way to start the year. chris asked me sometime in the middle of the night if i was given any wine.. i told him "nope no wine. just high on friendship and laughter." :)

fourth: kerk's brother drove us from addie's house to the east side cos we were all due at bedok at 1pm for another..413 class gathering!! i really take my hat off to sihui. her job as class chairman ended 2 years ago.. but she still takes it upon herself to organise gatherings and stuff..and believe me, organising a gathering of 30odd pple is damn bloody hard. more pigging out - chips and sweets and root beer and tiramisu. my sassy girl (i was so tired i fell asleep halfway but i woke up just in time for the sweet bit at the end..shed some tears and was glad that i'm still able to feel. perhaps i'm not as numb as i thought i'd become).

fifth: cell group. great! dunno what got into me. mebbe it was the adrenaline from lack of sleep. mebbe it was extreme fatigue. crazy me ran from church to dunman for dinner with barney. then after dinner we ran back. and if that's not enough, i got ezra to cycle around the estate while i ran alongside. all this before going in for the combined word session, where the air con was sooo cold and i was soaked in sweat. hope i didn't catch a chill. i'm already suffering from a really bad throat and a terrible cough, i don't need a flu on top of that.

so now, i'm tired to the point of tears. literally. the situation now reminds me of this episode of just shoot me! that i watched. this guy and girl have a tradition which they carry out every year on the anniversary of the first day they met. sounds sweet right? except that both the guy and girl absolutely hate the tradition and wish they didn't have to go through it. but cos they don't tell each other that, they both think that the other person would be devastated if they didn't agree to do it. so they end up torturing themselves year after year. haha. the word that comes to mind is: stupid!! on another note, second-hand information always leads to misunderstanding! but heck. it's your choice not mine.

tmr's gonna be a day spent with amanda and vivien. then monday i'll be meeting up with desmond in the afternoon and samantha and edward at night. tuesday, joy perhaps? wednesday - karen. gosh, is there such a thing as friend-overload? hahaha. really thank god for all my friends. what would i do without them. seriously.

and you know how pictures speak a thousand words? haha yup i've put up the pictures of everything.. so you guys can go check them out! heh.

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