23rd Dec 2006

f.r.i.e.n.d.s =) minus Elayne =..(
Pepper is back from York!
Realizing our 'zi cha' dream...

Hello! Methinks that blogging is such a chore... over the past few days, I've typed posts after posts after posts, make that unfinished posts after unfinished posts after unfinished posts. But happy days should be remembered, so here goes!

Met up with my lovely Nanyang f.r.i.e.n.d.s at Coffee Bean on 23rd Dec for the 6th time running! Our yearly outings have ranged from (mostly) tanning at Jingyi's pool to (expensive) stayovers at hotel rooms to trips to harbour front... this year was relatively simpler... chilled at coffee bean in the morning, before Jingyi drove us in her new snazzy Honda Jazz (To quote Pepper, ' I'm so proud of Jingyi because she can drive ...and because she has her own car.') to United Square... basically bummed about Food Junction, indulged in photo whoring... played a very random, but very fun game! Being the very poor students that we are, no one bought christmas presents for anyone... so we played everyone-go-buy-a-christmas-present-for-someone-else-that-costs-less-than-two-bucks-in-less-than-20-minutes! I was supposed to get Jingyi a present and after throwing out the idea of facial blotters, plastic flowers, pencils and winnie-the-pooh tissue papers, I finally settled for an iron-on patch! Well, methinks I also deserve credit for sacrificing my image by asking the Salesgirl at Clarks Shoes if she would give me a balloon... yep, so Jingyi got two presents! =) Anyway, Manda got me a blue Santa-ish-hat from watson (cf the very ridiculous looking me with wide fluffly things on my head.)

Everyone left eventually, save Christine, Amanda and I... so dinner was a lonely threesome, but cosy affair. After talking about eating zi2 cha4 for eons, we finally did! The three of us, by the road side at Novena... with rolling buses in the background and all... it was on the verge of raining, but I felt so warm and fuzzy! It's been awhile since I've had a chance to sit down with a small intimate group, and simply banter and talk, and laugh. I think it's so special.

And as someone commented yesterday, we should be very proud to be Nanyangals, in all its pride at its simplicity. Call it cheena, communist or what-nots, time after time, people have given me incredulous 'you're from NY?!!!!!!' wide-eyed stares when I tell them that I'm from a Chinese school, I cried a bucket when I had to snip off my long hair to go to NY... but I've always felt so proud to be an NY Girl - those were truly the simplest, happiest days of my life... and when I left the NY days behind me, I took along f.r.i.e.n.ds who made the following days of my life so much happier. =)

I got my exam results yesterday. I was happy for a grand total of 2 seconds, and that was it, the most temporal of all the temporary highs I've ever experienced. I'm amazed by my own apathy.

I find it so ironic that I usually spend the entire November and first 3 weeks of December looking forward to Christmas, listening to Christmas tunes... but when 25th December finally rolls around, I choose not to do anything. Well, I don't expect myself to act any differently tomorrow... but at least I'll be meeting Ray/Xiaokai at Shangri la before partying the night away at Zhuang's. And I feel like secret santa! I've nice presents for lucky people. =)

Merry Christmas to you, you and you!