I'm finally back in Singapore, for good! ^^
I'll post some photos below! But I'm not so much of a nature photographer, so I'm not good with landscape photography. Don't expect too much from the photos below! :/

The week in Hunan was really really amazing. I love the weather and air especially. The first day when we were at Changsha was 2-4 degrees Celsius, then when we went to Zhang Jia Jie, Phoenix, Changde and back to Changsha in the next couple of days, temperature dropped till -2 or so. And at Zhangjiajie, it dropped till -5. Haha every day we were wearing 4-5 pieces of clothing, including an outer coat.

I simply love winter fashion!! ^^


The plane ride there was fine. Saw this rainbow! :) Pretty right!

But the plane ride back sucked :/ It was uncomfortable and difficult to breathe. Don't know why also. I manage to change with Jorene's aunt and cousin to get the window seat on the plane ride to Changsha and on the ride back to Singapore. I'm still like a kid eh. Demanding to sit by the window.

But really, there was only once or twice out of the many times I took a plane where I did not sit by the window. Yup, I'm still like a kid. I only enjoy those rides where I get to sit by the window. I can look out and look at the skies and cities below! Lol Jorene gave me that annoyed look and said "Why can't you just sit at where they give you?" when I said I wanted to sit by the window (I checked my ticket and realised that my seat was not the window seat.) Haha.

I am still like a kid afterall.

For this holiday, my aunt sponsored me as a Christmas present. 2 years ago, she suddenly said that she realises I don't travel much, always stay at home, so she offered to let me go on a trip, provided that there's an adult, or it's with a tour group. And this time, Jorene's mum invited me to join their family and tour group! :)

In total, there were 22 of us. Haha 20 of them were Jorene's family and relatives. Initially it was kinda awkward for me because I only knew Jorene's family (Her dad, mum and her 2 sisters). But throughout the trip, we all opened up to each other and they talked more to me too. Haha except for her grandmother. I think she's still a bit shy to let me hold her when she had difficulties walking.

I liked how they changed calling me "Jorene's friend" to "Vivi" :) Like inititally, if they want to say something to me, they will turn to Jorene and say, "Jorene, your friend want to......." etc.

For the whole week, I roomed with Jorene! But every night we got so tired we slept almost immediately after our bath. Except for the night of Christmas Eve when we went to her aunt's room to talk about random stuff and had face mask party. Hahahaha :D And another night when we sat down in the couch to eat cup noodles and she told me more about her relatives :) It was fun! ^^

For every meal, we had like 10-12 course meal. It was scary ._. On the first day, I was like wow! So much food! But after eating the same kind of food consecutively, it became scary. Lolol. For the Hunanese, their food taste were more oil, more salt, more chilli. I was actually okay with oil, salt, and chilli. But I didn't like how it was meaty, with lots of fats. Hahah but at least we had some vegetables every meal! :D


Anyway, overall, we were lucky during the trip! The Dragon Cave had been closed for a long time cuz of the mist but on the day we went, it was the first day that it was opened again and the weather was really good. For Tianzi Mountains, the weather was good also for the first time in a long while and we could see something, as compared to the past few days where all the visitors could see were mists. The Tianmen Mountains was also the same I think and we saw snow! The whole area was covered with snow! Really really beautiful! And when we went back to Changsha on the 2nd last day, we saw the first round of snow. ^^ Then everyone got really excited and was exclaiming "xia xue le! xia xue le!" Hahahaha :D

&the pages keep turning.

The week passed really quickly. And tomorrow I'm going overseas again.
I have so many things that I want to blog about every day, but I've been too busy to.. I should have penned down my thoughts somewhere because I think I am forgetting many thoughts that I wanna rant about.

I regretted a bit for over-packing my schedule this week.. Because I didn't have much time to rest. Every day I've been running from one place to another, sometimes even going to 4 different places from North-East, to North, to Central and to the West  in a single day. I feel quite tired. I think the travelling made me tired. But I really wanted to meet up with friends to catch up and just have fun. I enjoyed myself thoroughly this week though, but just feel tired at the end of it. The only "rest" time I had was on Sunday, when I just returned to Singapore. I rested in bed. Because of my fever and headache. Sigh. But I'm okay already at least :)

Let's start from Monday, 17th December.
I shopped with Jorene for my winter clothes at Orchard. Yep, I'm glad that she's around because she knows what clothes I should get since she goes to cold countries quite often! Bought most stuff from Uniqlo at ION and I'm satisfied. Haha saw this really nice coat there but.. $40++, hahahahaha no money la. But I keep thinking about it! >.<

When I'm with Jorene, these two things will always come into my mind.
1. Revenge
2. I like how people club/drink/do bad stuff.

Sometimes I think I'm too much of a sadist. I snigger at the thought of being able to get my revenge. I shan't elaborate anymore. And I like how people club/drink/do bad stuff because suddenly the world feels real. I've been surrounded by angels. 24/10 peeps are a bunch of angels who are just... guai. That's why I love hearing stories about the naughty things people do, to make them feel better inside, gain confidence, or whatever la.

Tuesday, 18th December.
After violin lesson, I tried to go to Toa Payoh to visit the doctor for my face. I finished lesson at 12noon and headed for Toa Payoh. I reached there at 1plus and just nice Wenxiu called to ask if I wanna hang out with her in the afternoon because she has some time before she meets her mum for dinner. So yup! Met her and Toa Payoh and asked her to accompany me to go to the clinic. However, the brilliant thing is that, only then I realised that the clinic was closed from 12.30 to 2 as it was lunch time for the staffs. So Wenxiu and I walked around Toa Payoh while waiting for time to pass.

The next brilliant thing we found out was, there was no doctor that afternoon. The doctor will only come in at night at 6.30pm. LOL. So Wenxiu had to leave to meet her mum while I went to shop around at Bugis alone for awhile before I headed back to the clinic.

Brilliant things never end. Lol. After the consultation and after the nurse explained to me on the steps to take when applying the medicine given, it was payment time and I didn't have enough money -_- I was too lazy to search for more money in my wallet or any ATM nearby and hence I went home and told the nurse that I'll be back tomorrow to make payment and collect the medicine. So I headed for home from the North. Guess what. I reached home and realised that I actually had enough money to pay for the medicines -_- But too bad, I had already reached home and I had no choice but to return to the clinic the next day, AT TOA PAYOH, to make payment and collect my medicine. Brilliant. All the travelling again. Zzzz -_-

Wednesday, 19th December.
I met Jorene again after going to the clinic to shop. This time at Bugis and Far East Plaza. Jorene needed to find working clothes, bag and shoes. We just walked around and bought various stuff. When we go shopping, we really walk a lot, until our feet get really suan man :x

At night, met my secondary school friends to have Pepper Lunch dinner at Raffles City. Haha I love the oxymoron here :P Updated each other about our lives. As usual, the question that Joyce will never fail to ask is "Are you attached now?" But this time, even better, she just looked at me with that eyes, and I already know what she wants to ask. Hahahaha. After dinner, we decided to drink a little. So we headed for a German restaurant/bar to drink some beer. I had this beer which was mixed with coke. Thankfully it wasn't bitter. I don't like bitter stuff. Haha. Anyway, somehow, that night, I really did feel like drinking. I don't usually feel this way, but that night, I had that feeling. Idk why either. It was a great night anyway :)

Thursday, 20th December

I went to Wen Yi's house to bake! ^^ It's so fun to bake together! Haha. We were supposed to cycle in the morning and then bake in the afternoon. But I had cramps that day and I was a little lazy too and so we called it off. And luckily we did, if not we'll never be able to finish baking what we wanted to. We took some time to decide on what to bake because she has many recipe books - swiss rolls, cakes, cookies, ice cream etc. And we couldn't really do anything too complicated because the ingredients will be too difficult to obtain. But anyway, her house has almost everything so we only needed to buy chocolate chips from ntuc in the end ._.

I really enjoyed baking! :) It's fun baking with friends. I wish I had an oven at home. I think I will bake! I can't really cook but I think I'm not too bad with baking. Haha. We baked Snowball Cookies, Rock Drops and Cut-Out Cookies. All were more or less successful and they really tasted not-bad. Proud of ourselves :D Wen Yi's family also tried and her dad didn't like it because he finds that it's not sweet enough and does not have enough taste. Haha! While her ahma, sis and mum seem to think it's okay! :D Then she let me bring home some and I had ahyi and my sis to try too!

At night, I met Han Ren to talk nonsense and exchange Christmas gift. Hahahaha, funny how it was quite random. Hmm, I don't really celebrate Christmas. Unless I know that I'll be receiving a gift from someone, if not I usually don't get anything for anyone :/ Anyway, we were talking talking and he said this thing which I liked, "You are just a dumbass." HAHAHAHAHA. Because he said that I succumb to sweet talk easily - which Joshua says "It is the obvious." LOL OKAY. But yea, I like how he calls me "just-a-dumbass."

Not that I want to be a dumbass, but... I kinda think that it has a meaning that I am a simple person. And I like being that simple person. Well, I think complicated people are really cool, but I think I'd like to stay the way I am. Simple and carefree. Hmm, but time to heed God's advices to me, to stop being so trusting towards others..

Today, 21st December.
Busy busy day. After violin lesson, I came home to try on the winter clothes I bought so far and packed my luggage properly. Flight's tomorrow and I'm not exactly prepared. Lol.. Then I headed for SAdeaf at Mountbatten to sign up and make payment for sign language class. I think this class will teach me empathy. I encountered a hearing-impaired receptionist and I tried to ask question but probably I spoke too fast and unclear and disorganised that he asked me to pen them down. But he was helpful :)

Then I left for Angsana, to meet Wen Yi to chill in the lounge. And yay! Chings and CK were there too. Haha I brought the cookies that we baked, so I felt happy that I could share those cookies with them! Then CK drove Wen Yi and I to the MRT when we all left Angsana. Really thankful because it was raining cats and dogs at 4 plus :/

Wen Yi went off for her CIP while I met up with Lim Pin and Han Ren to go for JH and Shameer's sergeant graduation parade at Pasir Laba Camp. Haha this time we stayed throughout the parade. It was actually quite a long ceremony. You know, I kinda like all these boring marchings and stuff. Hahah. Zuhair came later and we met up with Ming Xuan much later too. Then we took photos together as usual la.

We then went to JCube food court for our dinner and headed home soon after. Just finished with the posting of pictures on FB, just need to help my dad with some stuff and I'm done for tonight! :)

A tiring week I had :|
Shall sleep soon. Ciao~

&the pages keep turning.

God always gives me more reminders in the form of hurting realisations.

I need to kick myself out of it. 293 days to go.

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Just when I'm about to return to Singapore, I have to fall sick. I didn't sleep well last night and I woke up feeling nauseated.. I thought it was just like those Thursdays where I feel uncomfortable, or it could be the time of the month? I had breakfast at my mum's friend's place and when I reached home, I vomitted them all out.

I had lunch at my uncle's place because today is the day to pray for our late grandparents and great grandparents. Not sure if it's an anniversary. So all my other relatives were there for offerings. Then again, I vomitted when I reached home.

Argh, feel like shit now. I took afternoon nap with my sis to make up for the lack of sleep last night. And woke up to eat some bao to fill my stomach a bit.

Sigh, the headache is still there, probably down with fever and I haven't pack my luggage for tomorrow..

Anyway, yesterday, I probably either ate too much that I can't digest my food properly, or I ate something dirty which my stomach couldn't take and hence all the vomitting.

Please let me get well soon T.T

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Today, my mum brought me to the temple.

God said to me: You are too trusting. You trust people too easily. You should learn to discern what you should listen to and what you should not. There are people out there who will want to harm you and you cannot listen to these people. Good things, can listen and learn, but bad things, don't follow. You're still 20, at the age where you're not totally mature but you have to start learning to be discerning.

And then he repeatedly said, "Good things, can listen and learn, but bad things, don't listen and don't follow."

He must have known about all the things I have been doing, watching over me. I couldn't help it but tears welled up in my eyes as I knelt before him and listened to his advices to me.

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I ate so much today. Plus I don't go out much or exercise much. FATS ARE GOING TO ACCUMULATE. Dang.

Breakfast, many chocolates and biscuits, lunch, nata de coco drink, watermelon, chips, chocolate ice cream with avocado topping, dinner with fried crab and stingray and another fruit. Omgzxasdfzx. The crab here has so much meat. To crab lovers, you'll seriously love it here.

Okay, I'm really eating too much. Lol.

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Day 1 here went pretty well.
Nothing really interesting happened. Oh we didn't have water for awhile because of low water pressure somewhere until somebody came to fix it in the late afternoon. Life.. Just doesn't want to give us too much water. Haha.

The day kind of passed quite quickly. Maybe because I napped a lot. Still tired from the trip back home last night, tired from waking up in the middle of the night, tired of waking up early because I was worrying about something and could not get back to sleep. Life.. Just can't let me rest. Haha.

Hope tonight will be a good night :)

I suddenly realise, I don't have a private space online. Quite an oxymoron I know because there cannot be privacy online? Suddenly feel like I get conscious about the things I blog and tweet and reblog. I would like people to read my blog, know how I feel etc, but sometimes I feel overly conscious about getting judged and all that. The only place I have a private space is my diary where I write whatever I don't want to let others know or simply shy about. I'm such a confusing person. I want people to know how I feel, yet I don't want people to know, for the fear of getting judged perhaps. I don't know. Life.. Just loves putting me in a dilemma. Haha.

I had a hair cut just now. But it's kind of screwed up. I think I have more split ends now. Sigh. Life.. Just wants to mess up my hair. Haha.

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I must blog about this.
In total, I took 7 times of cockscrew. #mylifeiscomplete. Hahahah. Omg that's really my super most favourite ride at the outdoor theme park :P

I'm back in Indo already. I'm not gonna try to get Internet for my lappie because I'm too lazy. I've got my phone anyway. Shall make do with all the books, my phone and drama/anime episodes I have in my laptop.

I am taking a break here.

From everything else. That's what I intended to do. Sometimes it's upsetting, seeing myself like that, clinging to people so tightly. Sometimes it makes me want to blame my family circumstances, for not being able to grow in a warm environment or receive some kind of warmth and therefore I project my desires unto others. But I know it's just childish of me to even think of it in the first place.

Childish childish childish.

KMN.

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I'll be going back home in a couple of hours time. It kinda feels weird to call my Indonesia home, home and that I'm not going back to Singapore home, yet. Haha.

Aww so sad to leave this cooling place! But my experience here this time is great. I went to the outdoor theme park at night to play, went to watch a movie alone, went to watch a movie in 3D in fact. These are all my firsts :) Well, hanging out in Genting alone, playing and going shopping alone are not my firsts though.

Yesterday, I spent my whole afternoon with my mum and sis at the theme park. I feel very happy so see my mum taking her time off from the casino to spend time with her two kids :) And it's nice seeing her let loose and taking the rides. And then I was just taking some pictures of them but I thoroughly enjoyed and feel heartwarmed :)

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Hello! I'm blogging from Genting~ Haha
The weather is so cooling here. I love it!
It's like air con in someone's house, in my house, wherever la. Hahahah! But it's not as cold as last time anymore. It used to be a lot colder. Looking forward to the next few days, and even back to Indonesia.

I think I need to escape from the real world, the technological world, the study world, the emotions world and perhaps find that peace within me again, through books or just any other non-technological means.

Hmm, the school Semester has ended and it's sad that I had to check out from Angsana early because I have to be in Genting. Yesterday was the last time I was going to meet Sam and Pierre..

For Pierre, we had dinner at Ootoya at Orchard Central and then we took lots of photos with the Christmas decorations and other random things and walked around. So thankful that Jonathan drove us because I had a lot of things to bring home and I couldn't possibly be carrying 4 big bags in Orchard eh? And he sent me home. So so so thankful..!!

Then for Sam, all I could do was a tight tight tight hug. He still had a paper today, so he was at the common lounge studying and so before leaving for Orchard, I just went there to say goodbye. It's sad to see people leave..... But before that, I made him play guitar for me. Hahaahha then he was singing and playing songs. So awesome :P

Did you know? There's a quote which says, "Stay - the most beautiful word in the dictionary."

Haha. #random

I wanted to write letters and give them something before they leave, but I was really too busy the past few days :/

Sunday, I went to Joshua's church. It was awkward for me. At the same time, curious to know how it's like in a catholic church. I said awkward because everything was so unfamiliar for me. The kneeling was something I never do at my church. "Peace be with you" is  something I never do at my church. And some other stuff.

On Monday, Joshua helped me with check out by helping me bring home some stuff. Thankful ttmmmmm!! T.T and that's when I realised, I really have too many too many things at campus. Bao's suite is filled with my barang barang >.<

Then yesterday, before checkout, Chings was also helping me move stuff to Bao's suite. Ahh, I'm too fortunate to have uber awesome friends..!!

Have been sleeping quite little the past few nights.  I feel quite tired and zombiefied. I just slept in the bus today when it was on the way to Genting. Well, I feel much better now. I was really shagged. Lol. Hope I get a good rest this holiday.

And to you who's reading this, happy holidays! :)

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Today totally doesn't feel like it's a Saturday.
Probably because we have a paper later. JS. I've a feeling that I'm gonna waste the good project marks away. Okay, maybe not. I need to believe in myself more.

Looking forward to after exams and tonight ^^

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