Holiday

I don't know how many people can relate to this. I'm sure many. It gave me a really morose feeling when I read the last sentence.
Sometimes love is what keeps us alive, but it is also what makes us die.

Cannot be any happier this morning when I woke up and realised there is no need to study anymore. Life can't be any better now /tears/

I wanna maximise all the time I have in this holiday and do things I never would have done in the past and make my life so much worth living than it is now.

I know I always say and take no action but this time I really wanna put my words into action. It's my 18th year living on this planet and having zero contribution, not only to world, but not even to myself or my family and that's just how useless I feel sometimes....

IT'S TIME TO PARTY AND LIVE. FOR. REAL.

Have a great Tuesday y'all :)

Childhood

So while on the way home from my visit to the dentist, I had the most random thought about how kids of today no longer have a childhood. Things that our generation used to go crazy about never seem familiar to kids today anymore. And I think this is really sad, because all of my younger nieces and nephews, all their lives just revolve around iPhone and iPad games... Sometimes I think to myself, do they even really know how playing at the playground feels like anymore?

1. Maple, Audition, Habbo Hotel, Neopets, Runescape, Battleon etc

I remember that each of these games became really popular in a different period of time and almost everyone in school talks about it everyday. So if you didn't play it you just couldn't "fit in", you know? Those days when not everyone has their own computer, and probably has to wait for their sibling to finish using before they can use it. Those days when homework didn't take up so much time and all it takes to make us happy would be that short amount of time in front of the computer. Those days when computers still look like that:

2. Handphones

Most of us didn't own a handphone. Some even don't know the existence of one. All we could rely on was our house telephones. So close friends would definitely exchange house numbers. We all knew our best friend's house number, calling to ask about homework or to just chat. And chatting could often take up to 3 or 4 hours. I could still remember my mom nagging "phone bills very cheap isit? talk so long?" Those were really the days, days when the first sentence after someone picks up the phone is "请问XXX在家吗？" Which translates to "may I speak to XXX?"

Those who owned handphones were probably a level above everyone else. And could you imagine? Everyone else envying this particular person who carried this phone:

And the most popular games were Snake and Bounce:

3. MAMA Shops

Every school definitely had one of those shops nearby where we "hang out" everyday after school or in between remedial classes. And the most popular hit in store was:

4. Bookshops

Bookshops in school were like shopping malls. I remember everyone rushing to the bookshop during recess to check out what was the IN thing you know? And then flipping through our small cartoon purses to see if we have enough money for those stuff...

Do you still remember the game??????

The kind of wallets that make the most noise when opening...

Girls' favourites. Writing down stupid stuff and locking it up so nobody can read...

Pencils with replaceable lead tips!!! Omg fav of the past

The coolest pencil box ever in the past: it's a MUST-HAVE

There are SO many things worth reminiscing about in our childhood!!! The furthest place I ever went to by myself or with my friends was probably Causeway Point? The most badass place people ever visited was the arcade. It was the most IN thing if you have a collection of neoprints with your friends...especially the card ones!! I don't think it's available anywhere now?

Collecting stickers were like the coolest thing anyone could be doing. Owning at least 5 sticker books, bringing it to school to show it off to your friends and exchanging stickers with them. Rearing terrapins and water babies... Doing the stupidest and most random things that were "IN" for us and thinking we're cool like that...

The only times I bought new clothes would probably be the CNY season. And I could only buy clothes when my mom was around basically because 1) no money and 2) no fashion sense. Kids nowadays can even travel all the way to Bugis?? Squeezing with the crowd and buying crop tops and shorts and whatnots...

The vast difference between our childhood is really just... Kids, instead of spending each and every second with your iPad games, why not go out to the playground and really play and sweat and scream and shout and laugh? You wouldn't wanna be spending the most worry-free and happiest times of your life at home staring at an emotionless screen y'know...

I really would pay anything to revisit those days again :(

Daily Sites

Am really ought to be studying for my Econs paper now but I'm so lazy....... /sigh/

Anyway, I've realised that I'm slowly blogging lesser and lesser as I grow up. Which is pretty bad? Since blogging is considered one of my limited hobbies. I don't know why I got sick of it, probably because my life is so not happening.

I still remember having my previous Marchings blog and most of my friends actually liked reading it. I don't know if they still do now...since I really blog about stupid stuff. But to reward those who still read, I'm gonna blog about the different sites I need to visit daily and why!

1. Tumblr

Tumblr is like a heaven for me. I don't know what kind of magical power it possesses and I know most of you are gonna be like "what's so great about tumblr". But honestly, it makes me feel like a different person. Like I can express my thoughts and feelings freely without the fear of being judged constantly. I like how people on Tumblr have really unique and original posts. Even if it's reblogged from another person, it really just shows how much everything on Tumblr is being linked together by different people. You have everyone agreeing to your opinions, isn't that just really cool?

2. 新浪微博

Second runner-up is my weibo. It actually has 2 main points: for me to stalk my favourite celebrities and for me to rant about things that I really don't want other people to know. Basically because I don't know anyone from my social circle having an account on this website, I have 101% freedom of speech and privacy. Besides being able to run away from all intolerable nonsense on Twitter and Facebook, I actually have a really carefree time browsing through this platform, envying the busy and fruitful lives of the celebrities. I often feel like they are living their lives to the fullest, making the most out of every minute while I'm just sitting here and being all whiny and sulky. Life is life huh? But this website is really like a painkiller for me through all the problems I have to face every single day.

3. Blogger Reading List

For the privacy of my friends I have decided to blur out the reading content! However you can still see the list of people I follow and will read and catch up on every entry they have! I really wish to maximise on the list because right now, as you can see, I have only 8 blogs readable and not everyone has the time to blog everyday, so it kind of gets stuck for a few days before someone writes up a new entry. So, any blogs to recommend? :)

4. Twitter and Facebook

I don't use the Twitter webpage so what you see above is actually Echofon. I love Echofon for its ability to retweet tweets from locked users. I get really frustrated if I can't retweet what I really agree on so yep. Facebook is another alternative for me to read up on stuff my friends post, especially pictures/videos which people don't usually share on other platforms. Facebook hasn't really been a "daily must" for me anymore recently, probably once every three days because most of my friends' facebook(s) are no longer active... What I really want to rant about Twitter is there are so many superficial and hypocritical tweets going around, and even if people don't wanna admit it, I know some of them really just tweet for attention. I mean, my tweets aren't perfectly fine as well, people probably hate all my whiny and random chinese love quotes but we all just gotta live with it. That is why I have loads of other alternatives :)

The rest of the daily small little stuff do include bloggers and checking my mail and watching youtube videos.

This entry may turn out to be refreshing for you or on the other hand really boring. But I still hope you had a fine time reading about my preferences? I know I'm quite narcissistic at times :S

Leaving all my lovely readers with a song recommendation for the week! Have a great Tuesday y'all!! X

Recently

Tried on a new hairstyle and parted my fringe to the center...was a surprise it turned out not bad :)

14/02/2013: Glad to have a companion on Vday, dinner at A.venue Bistro with my love vkonnonwe! ♥

Daddy's lunar bday celebration at Wah Lok Cantonese Restaurant!

全家福 :-)

The quality of my pictures kind of suck right? iPhone 5 isn't even really THAT good... /sulks/ I really want a new camera!! But I really don't know which kind suits me most...mehhhhhhhhhhhhh

That's all for the week, please help me pray for my 2 papers respectively on the 18th and 25th Feb. I cannot fathom how excited I am for my holidays. Hurry up please! ☺

Have a good Sunday all! X

Chinese New Year 2013

Sorry for the long hiatus. Between this period, I was really trying my best to finish up all the projects and dealing with presentations! But right now I'm really so glad to say that I've finished all my projects and am only left with 2 written papers to endure through before I welcome my 6 weeks worth of holiday!

Many people are still returning to school today or meeting up with project mates to complete their projects but I'm pleased to say I completed everything before CNY! I guess it was a right choice for my teachers to want to finish rushing everything. And even though I'm really supposed to be studying for PACC right now, I really can't be bothered :S

My CNY was a boring and short one. Basically because, ever since my grandmother passed away, the CNY mood no longer lingers anymore. And then came the 2 consecutive deaths of my uncles and now my other uncle is also sick...which really dampens the mood a lot. So I only went house visiting on the first day and I practically just stayed home after that.

Not much to talk about for my cny...hopefully all my readers have got a greater cny than me, received lotsa angbaos and please cherish your family, even your relatives and more importantly your grandparents while you still can!!

Bought this plant/flower-like thingy which is supposed to bring good luck to the family and I truly hope so!!!

Lou hei!!!

My family with 5th uncle and his wife having reunion dinner!!

Tohsisters!!

Cuzzie and I!

My last minute done up pinky nails by myself!!!!! Heheheh 

Another cuzzie and I!

Hope y'all have a great day ahead and start preparing gifts for your loved ones ya coz it's VDAY tomorrow! X

Honesty

I really really wonder why sometimes people just cannot be honest with me.

I'm not a fool, I'm not a 3 year old kid. If you dislike me, I can totally sense it.

So quit lying already. If you're unhappy then just tell me in the face, it's not like I wouldn't face up to the mistakes I've made.

And the point is, if you don't tell me why you're unhappy with me, then you'll forever be unhappy with me. Geddit?

Envy

In a summary of my week, I was busy finishing projects, up to a point where I skipped 1 POA tutorial, 1 Econs tutorial and 1 Econs lecture. I would not further elaborate on that because it's filling me with guilt slowly, meh.

Anyway, the happy thing is I finished my GenEd Presentation and handed up my FOM Report already!!! So now it's really a huge load off my shoulders even though I'd be having 3 presentations next week....but anyway this week has been pretty productive :)

My GenEd group in ALL BLACK LOL

Half of my class having fun after GenEd lesson weeeep~

And my group's FOM report!!! Can't be anymore proud of this!

Anyway,

Yesterday on the way to school while I was waiting for the train at the MRT Station I saw this young couple, young as in teenage young, not those 20s kind of young. So they were walking all the way to the first cabin like what I always do. And then when they stopped, the guy just sort of pulled the girl into his arms.

And I cringed. Cringed not because I was disgusted but I was seriously dying of envy inside me. I bet the guy missed the girl so much, if not he wouldn't have done that in public. And I couldn't resist the temptation of looking at them I bet they thought I was in disgust of that sight but no, I was almost vaporising into air bubbles.

Sometimes, all I ever wish for, is to really, truly meet someone unexpectedly and have him think of me in a way nobody else has ever thought of. It may sound like a simple wish but really, just how many people can have this wish fulfilled? Especially in their teenage years, blergh.


"If you're depressed, it means you're living in the past. If you're anxious, it means you're living in the future. If you're at peace, you are living in the present." ~ Lao Tzu

Can I please get the hell out of my past already?