Once again, I'm here again for a year end entry after leaving my blog to collect dust after so so so long! I've been really busy these days and the only time I get to stay home I find myself catching up on sleep or the dramas I've missed. I don't even have time to do other leisure activities anymore, let alone blog. Well, I tell myself that's probably how adult life feels like? And am still trying my best to adapt to this phase, but I'm doing pretty well now!
2015 has been pretty enriching for me! Though still a little bit stagnant...but I welcomed a few new things in my life as well!
School
So I graduated from Poly in May and took a while to decide my next path in life. The decision which I took forever to come to...and after asking many different opinions from people around me and thinking it thoroughly through...I finally submitted my uni applications to the various local universities as well as SIM-UOB and of course, I was accepted into the latter. And my horrendous uni life began in July.
The first week of induction in uni was a very unfamiliar and strange period for me because I entered into uni all alone without any friends and I had to make new friends from scratch! Totally forgot how to introduce myself and how to act all normal and less awkward in front of new people... In the past few years in poly, I've been attaching myself to the people I knew very well and getting to meet new people was exciting but frightening at the same time.
Thankfully, the people in UOB were all very very nice. I also found a few familiar faces who ended up in the same uni as me too! Finally, I didn't feel too alone and out of place. Joining the orientation camp got me more exposed to the school and its culture. Of course, meeting more people and even seniors too! From there, we all ventured into our own cliques and found our own circle of friends.
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| orientation camp and my group! |
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| my pillars of strength when times got tough |
The first few weeks of uni were really a test of my adaptation skills, trying my utmost best to get back to the schooling life after not studying for almost a year. It was frightening because people were very competitive and just produced really awesome work, leaving me to think if I was really cut out for this. However, I managed to pull through the first few submissions even though I could feel as though I was grasping for air in the midst of an ocean.
Despite the heavy workload and my part-time job, I went ahead for the Student Council interview, all enthusiastic and eager to get my ass into a CCA. I just wanted to feel like I belong somewhere in school, instead of just going to and fro school for academics like when I was in Poly. I was really committed to the choir in secondary school and I totally missed that. I was accepted into the Student Council and from there I got to know even more people! And of course..my life got busier.
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| xmas party by student council group 1 :-) |
Up till now, I'd say I've adjusted myself pretty well to the busy work-school life I've been juggling with. Even though I get a lot lesser leisure time with myself now, I realise that I don't spend my time in vain. I've been spending my time doing more meaningful things now and I just feel happier keeping myself busy. Of course there'd be times when I'd whine and complain a lot and also times when I felt like giving up when school work was getting tough, but without obstacles, there wouldn't be accomplishments. So there, my whole new uni life, I'm looking forward to more challenges posed to me and of course...graduation!
Work
In February I ended my internship with Giamso Tours and started my carefree holiday life once again. The internship left me with many many memorable memories and experiences that I'm sure would benefit me in the working industry in the future. I blogged about this in more detail
here. I also attended the wedding of my ex colleague! :)
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| blissful marriage Vivian! |
In order to fund my graduation trips and holiday life, I had to get a job. Being the lazy me, I just went back to Omakase Burger a.k.a my second home hahaha. So once again, I started working part time with a few new faces here and there. At the beginning, I had to move from wisma to grandstand on different days and it was pretty horrible because I really didn't like working at wisma. However, since I don't know when, I started receiving all my schedules at grandstand only and I couldn't be happier!
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| omakase xmas party!! |
In January we also had to bid farewell to our Taiwanese friend because she ended her internship with Omakase and was going home... It was a very upsetting affair because during the past one year, we hanged out together a lot and were just very very closely knitted friends despite coming from different countries. We never felt like she was any different from us and we could talk and play and have fun all the same. Even though at the time we were already planning our trip to Taiwan in May, we still felt sad when she left because we wouldn't be able to spend as much time together anymore.
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| eyes all red from all the crying, we still miss you jiaxin :( |
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| our friendship won't end (plus keeli) <3 |
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| silly girl also wrote us farewell cards... :') |
Even though it was such a sad farewell, we reunited with her again in May!! It was my first overseas trip with my friends and I literally had the best 10 days of my life at Taiwan with them. Up till now I still find myself looking back at the photos once in a while and just missing everything in Taiwan, the company, the food, the scenery, the warmth and hospitality...
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| our crazy supper nights! |
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| miss you so much :( |
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| beautiful kending! |
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| crazy modeling moments |
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| super fun water activities! |
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| omakase chefs who came to send us off! #family |
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| and it was goodbye :( |
I really think that friendships need a lot of investment and patience if you want it to last. I've never tried to maintain long distance friendships before and it's a first for us. And you'd think that long distance friendships wouldn't be able to maintain its familiarity and chemistry, but for us, it was a simple affair. We manage to catch up from where we left off all the time, we could not see each other or talk for a long while but nothing changes, and to me, it was something so special and precious that I'd like to keep in my entire life.
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| sg cuisine at east coast park :-) |
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| 因为友情是需要用心经营和维系的! |
Thank you Jiaxin for taking time out of your busy schedule to come visit us in Singapore. And even though we weren't there to spend time with you throughout the entire trip, know that our friendship would always be the same. Can't wait for the next time we see each other again!
Family
This year my sister got married and moved to stay with her in-laws. It still feels a little weird sometimes coming home and not seeing her. Being unable to share stupid moments with her and being unable to force her to watch the stupid videos nobody would entertain me with except her. I probably don't feel a lot of it yet because her room is still pretty much intact and would remain like this till her new house arrives...
It was a big thing for my family because we haven't had such happy occasions in a long long while.. During the last few years a lot of unhappy things happened and we were always in a gloomy mood. Slowly, things started to turn for the better and my sister getting married was something that everyone was eager about! Family is everything and it is just so nice to see everyone gathering together and just enjoying quality time together.
I also went to Korea with my maternal family in April and paternal family to Penang in August! It's just all these little little wonderful times spent together that gives me the motivation to work hard every day :-)
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| CNY + bday celebration for dad! |
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| bday celebration for mommy! |
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| met qtpie Abigail in Korea! |
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| @ Nami Island! |
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| cousins :-) |
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| toh family in Penang! |
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| my family <3 |
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| father's day dinner! |
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| cousins! |
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| and we married the DJ off! :) |
Friends
Of course, last but not the least, the awesomest bunch of people who's always there for me and loving me for who I truly am. I don't have much things to say to you guys because what's there to say anymore? The chemistry between us would never cease to exist and please always know how amazing you guys are to me. #16to60 is what I wanna tell you guys :-)
Thankful and grateful to have ended yet another year... I am blessed, with a loving family, with amazing friends, with an education, with a roof over my head, with the ability to earn my own income and a lot more. I should always count my blessings and never take anything in life for granted because a lot of people out there are hoping to have the things I have, some of them I have despite not putting any effort into.
Thank you amazing people who have came into my life and who have always loved and accepted me just the way I am. Although sometimes I still do hope to meet that special someone... thank you guys for never letting me feel alone and unwanted.
With a grateful heart, I will enter 2016 all happy, cheerful and hopeful because it's time for more changes, more beginnings and more challenges that will await me! :)
In the new year, I resolute to 1) get a driving license 2) travel 3) spend a lot of time with my parents 4) drink more water.
Goodbye 2015....!
