Wednesday, April 22, 2009

More pictures that I should share, lest they grow mould inside Heather

Okay so I checked through my old posts and realized I DID post up pictures, but they were all only from Enqing's camera!
So these shots are all from The Little Creature's instead! yayyyy
And they're all pretty much in random order cos I'm rushing off for dinner.

Well, it's my party and I'll put up random photos if I want to!







Meet Elizabeth, our ladies' man:



Told you so, hahaha




Our other trigger happy person other than TLC!

She always did have more fun with herself
and vicky's boob.










WHAT I HAD FOR DINNER. DAAAAAAMN NICE.
sorry, quite crazy about salmon. teehe
i (heart) macaroons forever and ever and everrrrrrrryayyyyy!
Well don't complain now, I usually don't even bother with pictures!
harhar

Sunny Island

Here's what I like about Singapore:
On days where I'm in a particularly bad mood, and I don't feel like being nice,
when I feel like sitting on the outer seat on a crowded bus and giving the window seat to my bag, or when I can't be bothered to get out of my seat to let the person inside get out,
or when I feel like shoving past people because I MUST be in front of the doors when they open,
on those kind of days,
people will just think I'm completely and utterly normally.

Strange enough, I was in quite a good mood today. It's not always a good thing though, because you get funny looks when you're smiling to yourself for no particular reason.

I've been trying to throw around a couple of ideas for the TWO speeches that I've got to get round to writing. Since I should move on from my horrifyingly poorly done assignments.
I'm probably going to talk about animals. You know, stuff like being a responsible pet owner and not chucking your cats when you move or when they get preggers.
OR it could be the wildlife angle. You know, endangered species and the works.
I wish I was more creative):

ANYWAY.
I NEVER DID DO A PROPER BIRTHDAY POST COMPLETE WITH PICTURE FLOODING DID I?
Wait for it:D

halfway home


Halfway Home - Jason Mraz

Well, I finished my last assignment. Tomorrow's my exam and I've got one last project before I'm home-free! Well, not really. I've to start on my other subs, clearly.

So what constitutes as rest?
Bathing my little girl, feeding her super nice foodies and slapping on a face mask before I head out to work.
Oh, and listening to Jason Mraz, having two cups of coffee and searching for flights to Christmas Island. Which, ironically, are not available around the Christmas time.
C'est la vie

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

baaab

ahmahgad! Trend alert!

1) everyone's wedding ring is gold! whyy!

2) everyone's coming up with super super pretty names for their babies!
Like regan, raphael, chloevelle, lovelle, shannon, caden, damien.

The simplest baby names I've seen are
Alfie, Chloe and Dawn.
And beside Valentino and Ashton that's superrr simple. hahaha

Oh noooo, I'm so doing the whole difficult-to-spell-and-pronounce-name thing for my babies!

Clearly I'm running out of things to talk about.
Well, not really. I wanted to point out what I just pointed out.

Other than that. I've finished (am finishing) my second assignment in two days. But I cannot get over how bloody unmotivated I get when I do badly.
I got a B on this assignment, and 85% and I'm so incredibly upset. I starting sniffing and tearing up. And then I got pissed off at all the seemingly redundant thing that I'm studying in my last two chapters. It's driving me insane.

I jumped back to my A grade for my second last assignment, and I'm pretty sure I wasn't too cocky while doing this one. I checked and rechecked before submitting it.
When I got the grade back just now, I was awfully tempted on shooting an email to the school and claiming I'd submitted the wrong answer sheet. But then i went back to my questions to attempt to identify any careless mistakes that I might change, and although I've got two or three questions I'm not sure of, I can't say for certain that I know the right answer to the rest of them.

My point is, I don't know where I've gone wrong. So I have to sit back and freaking accept my bloody lousy grade and learn from it.
It's so infuriating. It took me two whole assignments to jump back to my A and now I've dropped and it's a B! not even a B+

I know right, since when did Charis Vera give two hoots about grades.
But i don't knowwww.
One tiny part is actually the OCD.
A
B+
A-
A
B
They don't match very much do they? Don't look very nice or pattern-y.
Of course I'm just being stupid.
A major part is that, I've had a B- for all my other subs, and I just would really like to do better than that. You can get into a university as long as you pass all your modules, which means getting a C and above. But of course, what kind of university is a different matter.

I know I might not do that fantastically for my other subjects and i just feel like it's one subject that I might be able to do well in. And right now, a B looks disgusting. It really really does.
It looks so freaking horrible and I'm so unmotivated to finish off my assignment.
And after stuffing my face with ice-cream i haven't felt any better in the least.

Oh Jeebus,
I might as well right?
It's all of ten questions or something loserly like that.
I really hope I get an A or at least an A- for this one.
I feel like jumping out my window.
Grooooooaaaaaaaaaaan.

Monday, April 20, 2009

but pearls don't curl


curl like pearls!

I was feverish today again (oh wait, I've mentioned that)
But I have managed to complete my fifth assignment and I will definitely finish my sixth before Thurs. yayyyyy

Anyhoos, I really hope that I'll be able to hang out with my friends before DD leaves for Aussie again. )):
I can't wait for the weekend though!
My woooord! With all the work I'm doing, it is definitely going to be fantastically well deserved!

I had quite a lovely dinner tonight, it's the first time that I've gone to a stall and ordered a proper meal (I swear). I've ordered wings and drinks before but I always pick off people's plates or they order for me (Like Richa) hahahahah.
So yay me!
It was great meeting up with Richa again and I hate that it's always only like, when they're a couple of days away from leaving the country.
diddums.

Weeeeell, if you ever read this Richa, Have fun in Canada! And make out with lots of cute people, and take pictures of it to show us!

Heather's coming to school with me tomorrow.
Groan. So much to do, So much to doooooo.
Dammit, seems the flu-bug's bit me twice.
This is completely impossible! I can't possibly sit out for three weeks! That's mad!
And it would've been the time of my freakin' life, had I been back in school.
Bloody hell.

So as if that's not bad enough,
turns out I'm working four out of five days this week.
Yeahp, on top of my major assignment-rush and the exam I need to get over and done with AND the two major speeches that I've got to finish.
Might just see if I can extend the last speech project, although I have my doubts about that.

On a much happier note, I've gotten my results back from my last assignment!
(The one I took FOREVER to complete and has resulted in my mad rush. It's amazing what the delay of just one thing can do to you)
I got a 96%! Which is an A :D
YAY! OMG OMG DAMN HAPPY!
Now, if I manage to keep THIS assignment which I'm doing right now at an A, then I've a good chance of doing preeeetty well for my Public Speaking. Overall that is.
But the exam worries me though.
Dayum.

The neighbours next door are finally moving in, and they're keeping my baby girl up from her nap. >: I

Sunday, April 19, 2009

"no," she says, "because I'm not really here"

"will you remember to love me?"
"I suppose I could fit that in somewhere after squeezing my blackheads and being a dickhead."

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Well, it's the start of a new week.
Some are heading back to school and others are going on about their lives and feeling utterly miserable about it.

There's just so much to do this week.
I ought to go on weekend trips more often, because it prompts me to have my shit wrapped up before i go bumming off to enjoy myself.
teehee.

Anyhoos, the last couple of weeks were a bit of a bummer because it took me like half a million bloody years to finish an assignment because I was sick out of my skull. I walked around like a half dazed moron and kept throwing my head back during my Tuesday class to keep my snot from dribbling out and only succeeded in giving myself a major headache.
Good grief!

My little girl has been an absolute angel of recent!
Save for the early six,seven am wake up calls she gives me by pushing my weird bottles of stuff onto my face and nipping at my toes. Gosh, i can't wait to bring her over with me next year and have her be all fat and fluffy because it's coooold.
And because she's SUCH a darling, you absolutely CANNOT help feeding her treats every twenty seconds! I kid you not! But she's awfully skinny because she jumps about like mad. Umi says she'll get fat after her snip-snip.
But she will still be my adorable little baby!

So this week involves a serious amount of Stay-At-Home time in order to complete all my dratted assignments AND study for my exam on Thursday. GAH.
Plus, if I can, write TWO speeches so that I can record them when I'm back from being in the sun and send them in to my prof. He actually gave us a complete breakdown of how he's grading us though! Fantabulous stuff.

Well, I'm off to stuff myself with ice-cream and get to work.
But my bed does look an awfully lot inviting so I might just, you know. hmmmmmm
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you've got me slightly disappointed.
just a bit and just enough, to keep me up another night-
waiting for another day


and I will be okay, i will.
I will be okay, I will.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

i just finished watching the close-up version of Happy.
My, it was good.
Picturing it when you're reading the script and then seeing it live.
Gosh.
The actors were fantastic, I must say. Just Brilliant.

So I went out for dinner with Chris today, plus his wife and korean friend.
It was lovely, and i got to hear about the play and what he thought of it and how else he felt he could've done it. We got to chatting about what I should be looking into to study and I seriously feel like curling up into a ball and having Buttons push me round the floor because I'm like !*&@#$*&^#$)#% about the whole major-in-whatever-thing.
It's driving me insane.

Anyhoos, considering I'm only just getting better from my week-long flu-bug (yeah i know right. wtf), I ought to be off.
This is the latest I've slept since wow.
Okay, not really. But I don't actively sleep at this time. By "actively sleep at this time" I mean look at the clock and decide to do something else which will inevitably delay my bedtime.
That phrase doesn't even make sense so clearly, I am still ill.

Fantastic

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Hey there, birthday girl





So i know this is a week or so late, and I didn't even take these pics, and I know I couldn't hang out with you for your birthday yesterday, and I know I'm only telling you this a day after
but.........
HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY SWEETHEART.

I love you super duper uber much(:
Hope you had tonnes of fun last night
Sweet lord, I hate that I was such an incredible brat last night.

Anyhoos, I'm still feeling awfully feverish and it's not the bestest feeling in the world, lemme tell you. I'll never understand why I was never ill when I was in school. If I was ill as many times as I've been (within this year alone), it'd have given me less chance to miss school (because I'd be really ill most of the time).
Dammit.

):

I look like absolute crap right now and I've got swollen eyes and this gross taste on my tongue.
grooooaaaan.

And, as if that's not bad enough, I'm missing LA like crazyyyyy.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

I think I've just come back from the worst day of my life.
Except I don't even know exactly at which point it became the worst day of my life.
But it's so bad I feel like stabbing myself and crawling into a hole, but definitely not before trashing my room and throwing everything breakable on the floor.
God. I need help.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

the little things gang up to irk me

blahhh,
I had a tiff with TLC over something super lame. I'm too grumpy for my own good.

Groan, there's so much that I have to do. It's insane.
Actually there's not a lot but my ass is sore from sitting on my stool and my body is rather achey.

Buttons is due for a bath but then she won't be a very happy baby by the time Enqing comes over to see her. hahahahahah.
I'm worried she's growing up too quick and I'll have to take her in to get snipped a bit earlier.

Ah, the woes of a mother! (I'll be our parents would've gotten us snipped if they could!)

On the plus side!
Victor gave Heather back to me and said I could have his extra wireless stick (which looks awfully cool!) to solve my dead-wireless problem!
Thanks love! If anything, for taking her apart and trying to figure out what went wrong:D

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

omg, my sister's calender is right beside me and every single box (day of the month) is filled with STUDY BIO, STUDY GEOG, STUDY A MATH, STUDY A MATH, STUDY SS, STUDY BIO, STUDY GEOG alternatively.

And what did I do? I did something like HALF A CHAPTER today and got sleepy. grooooan. But at least I'm pretty sure I'll finish my assignment by tomorrow.
Kudos to ME!
Plus, I've booked my Public Speaking exam already. diddums.
booooring.
If it was a live presentation, it wouldn't be half as bad. It's just theoretical stuff.

Anyhoooos,
I am super uber, completely tired today because half of today (not really but i swear it felt like it) I felt like stabbing people in the FACE.
I SWEAR TO GOD, IT WAS THAT AWFUL.
Especially that horrid smelly little girl in her godawful uniform who couldn't move her bleeding bag for me to sit down. stupid fool. (it's not as trivial as it sounds, being typed out)
And yes well, lots of other stuff. Like people staring at empty seats for FIVE MINUTES while the front door is open and everyone's staring at the man staring at the empty seat and there is desperate need for SPACE BECAUSE FIVE PEOPLE ARE WAITING TO GET ON THE BUS.

Seriously, how stupid can you get!

Sweet Loooooooord! Go lick your asshole clean and live there for the rest of your miserable life, PLEASE.

Aren't I just a sodding bitch today!
yayyyy!
Well I deserve to be. It was hot and warm and like, Jeebus, you could feel heat radiating from the pavement. And I would know because I had to shake out stones that slipped into my fucking shoes.
And you have smelly girls who refuse to move their fugly bags and fuglier faces and decide to stare intently at their stupid BUBBLE TEA CUP FOR THE REST OF THE BUS RIDE.
KNS.

(omg I am sooooo ah lian right now!)
yeah I know, I'm being really mean to this girl. But she was the mouldy squishy cherry with maggots wriggling out of it- atop my stale and oddly tasting cake.

I wanted to murder so many people today it sort of scared me.
HAHA NOT REALLY. I STILL WANT TO MURDER THEM and let Buttons eat the remnants of their sorry little bodies.

Aren't.I.Disturbing.

my tongue hurts)):

There's soooo much to dooo and just about sufficient time but weeeeeeeell...
grumblegrumblegrumble.

Monday, April 6, 2009

to keep me up another night, waiting for another day

It's always too soon after Christmas,
and the songs, they always make me feel a tonne of things.

I have a bad habit of holding on to things too much. Always wishing I could go back and relive stuff. And knowing what you're going to get, and being trapped in that safe, happy period for ages on, always seems better than the whole "making new memories" thing.
But of course, we move on and make a new memory that I want to go back to again.
Quite silly.

So songs, they've got this ability to bring back an entire feeling and atmosphere.
They get me awfully nostalgic, they do.
And for a while, I don't feel like carrying on with my day and prefer to sit and pretend that I can relive whatever it is I'm stuck remembering.

So anyhoos, my week was indeed quite quite lovely.
And I am quite a dizzily happy girl(:
I think I might be coming down with something though, and I've been keeping it at bay with a couple of panadols here and there. But I don't know if that's a good thing.

diddums.

Well, hello there New Week.
I hope you're just as lovely as the last. (although I might have to postphone my kickboxing because I'm not too well.
GROAN. I don't think I can go swimming at all this week.
Dammit)):

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

dial tones, bitten cats and lonely rabbits- they make me sad

Gawd, this must be a million years old. (I think your hair's nicer now btw)


I feel incredibly fuckshitty right now.
It must be all the sleeping. I've been sleeping like, tonnes. Which is nice and good once in a while. Except if you start taking three hour naps everyday and STILL sleep at eleven. Or maybe it's just the particular time I took my nap at.

Vicky, you see, has this theory. That if you nap at a certain time and wake up in the evening, or like early evening, you start feeling really dissatisfied with yourself which often makes you very upset. Often bordering on ahmahgad I wanna jump outta the window sort of feelings. Which, I must say, isn't that far off from what I'm feeling right now.
Bloody hell.

Back to point.
I'm feeling absolutely fuckshitty right now. It doesn't feel like I've been doing anything. Anything at all. Which is a little bit absurd if you think about it, because I sure as hell have been doing stuff!
I went for a swim today, taught at TKSS, hung out at East Coast with Victor and came back before seven.
I bathed buttons yesterday, not to mention taught for five hours and fifteen minutes, swam the day before and finished my second assignment.

This doesn't make sense.

And I'm feeling so incredibly irritated with myself, like I can't get round to doing anything. It's pissing me off like FUCK and you just wouldn't believe!
Sweet Jeebus, this is so incredibly bad. I don't even feel motivated to watch How I Met Your Mother! DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THAT IS?!

I'm so incredibly anoyed at myself. EURGH.

And of course, my second assignment results came in and I did worse than my first. I dropped from an A to a B+ thanks to two extra wrong questions.
Good God.

The day was lovely though, I must say.
Short and long at the same time and (insert a swear word less foul than what I nearly typed here) I feel like crying.
I want to go back to my tiny bed which I just crawled out from and cry.

I feel like if someone says Hello to me the wrong way, I'm going to burst into tears and start cutting myself.
This is so so so bad and I have no, absolutely no idea what's going on.

I've got blisters on my feet and am tempted to sit around feeling sorry for myself. Plus, I'm super headachey.

God I need a cuddle.
Quite desperately, actually.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

so courage, teach me to be shy


Cannonball - Damien Rice


there’s still a little bit of your taste in my mouth
there’s still a little bit of you laced with my doubt
it’s still a little hard to say what's going on

there’s still a little bit of your ghost your witness
there’s still a little bit of your face i haven't kissed
you step a little closer each day
that I can´t say what´s going on

stones taught me to fly
love, it taught me to lie
life, it taught me to die
so it's not hard to fall
when you float like a cannonball

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It's been a long week.

Three different types of cereal sit on my microwave, my toilet was (until ten minutes ago and my mother's awesomeness) clogged up, and Heather has decided that she cannot connect to the internet. Buttons got her first bath in a week and a half, I learnt that unless I bring lots of tissue, I cannot watch the Bec & Ross show, Enqing bought me replacement-sunglasses (which I STILL feel he shouldn't have! but thanks a mil though:)), and six different classes got graded on their 10-minute plays.

When I first started out, I thought my grading was a bit too strict and rather unreasonable. So I eased up and then I realized that this time round, I've been quite lenient.
Anyway, found the time to pop by the Esplanade Waterfront for Bec & Ross. It was riveting, and utterly fantastic. Vicky, Bird and Ilona dropped by and were just fantastic company, so it was nice to know that they loved the show too(:

Today was a gorgeous end to the weekend and I loved every bit of it.
Buttons is thoroughly tired out from running around the worship team while they sang and I think Victor might've gotten a couple of bruises. (I feel really awful about that! )): )

So a new week's up, and hopefully it'll be a lot better than the last and hopefully, I'll be able to live through it to tell you if it is.


falafels!

Saturday, March 28, 2009

me too.
But I'm trying to remember which one came first.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Αύγουστος'

This is what I learnt today:
There are 36,360 inches in a mile
You don't have to keep filling up your time
August is the month with the highest number of births
August, in Finnish, is called elokuu, meaning "month of reaping" or literally, "month of life"

Here's what I already knew:
Elephants can smell fermented fruit from miles away, and most elephant stampedes are caused by drunk elephants
Minnows have teeth in their throats
Kermit the frog is left-handed
Toilets flush in the key of E-minor
August is beautiful
and Mothers aren't just the people who give birth to you, they're the people you want to grow up to be

I'm feeling incredibly frustrated with myself today.
I was happy, then I wasn't. I was indecisive. I gave in to being tired and grotesque.

I could tell you random things though.
Like how I've finished reading Jodi Picoult's Handle With Care and how she's the only one who can make me cry within the first two pags.
Or how my baby girl has gone half mad for some reason or the other and is determined to have us lose our sanity.
Or how my gums ache and hurt because they're bruised in the two places where my toothbrush slipped.
Or how, after everything, I just feel. drained.
Drained and tired.

The whole train-ride home, all I wanted to do was curl up on my tiny bed and cry.
It's been a while,
but I need a hole to crawl into now.

And holes are always nice

Monday, March 23, 2009

Meet Buttons <3 and another daily rant about how I shouldn't rant.


Showing off her adorable little bikini
My little poseur!

"Mommy, whatcha doingggg?"

She was a wee bit hyper in the middle of the day. It was alright until she started jumping at my pens and mauling everything while I sat down to get some work done.
So I told her off and gave her ten seconds to get her act together, after which she curled up and promptly fell asleep.

It's been a pretty uneventful day although I must say that I certainly am quite happy with the amount of work I've done.
For starters, I got my pudgy, untanned bottom off my bed where I've been watching endless episodes of How I Met Your Mother (and finished Season one, mind you!) and I settled to get started on my modules for that degree I never talk about until asked.

It's been less motivating since I've thought about the one module that I HAVE TO TAKE (Computer and System Administrations or something) and which all my cousins say you have to sit through. And although I said I might just pay Victor to help me do it all, I realized that I'd still have to go down to take my exams. Bloody Hell.
Also, I decided to stay an extra year in Singapore because I really am that in love with my company and my job.

So all in all, between looking after my baby and watching TV series on a burnt disc (Kudos to Enqing!) and buying more Jodi Picoult books (amongst others) to excuse myself from school work,
nothing's been done for about, lemme see, By Golly, two months!

Fortunately it's a Public Speaking Module.
Which, although very very VERY dry and factual, will actually help me in my work.
For instance, did you know that most people suffer from Public Speaking Apprehension? And on top of that, 15% in the US suffer from extreme cases.
Also, you can use nervousness to your advantage as long as you know how to handle it and yourself.

Also, quite an important point in public speaking, is listening.
So the last chapter that I just read up on, was all about listening.
We spend 41%-60% or more of our communication, listening.
However, only about 50% of that is understood and retained. And only 25% after 48 hours.
Sweet Jeebus, eh?

I've been at it from about two right up til five.
Of course, with decent breaks in between and Buttons sitting on my textbook to clean herself. (What the? yeah, I know)

Well, that's one assignment down and it's nice to know that I've got the time to sort out the rest.
Guess I'm going to pass on walking Homer today. Haven't really felt like it. But then, I didn't nap either.

So, I'm just going to stop here for my daily prattle about schedules that do not interest you in the least!

I was about to say "Hope everyone's March Hols have been fab!" Except there's just the handful of JC friends who probably spent half their hols studying and the other half partying WHILE worrying about how much more they've got to study.
It's funny how my holidays barely match up with anyone. But what's funnier is how I used to skip school like crazy because I couldn't be bothered to wake up, and here I am going to certain schools at 7.30am to teach.

"Our God is a very humourous God honey," Mommy always says.

So with the end of the term, there're a couple of schools left to wrap up.
The first one we've already wrapped up is CHIJ Kellock. My adorable bunch of seven year olds who always made me forget that I was prancing around at 7.45 in the morning.
I'll post vids and pictures up soon(: Promise.

Next up on the "To Wrap Up" list is Swiss Cottage. They aren't a bad bunch and they're really good, although their location is incredibly far from home.
It's quite sad, really. This week's our last lesson and it's the grading and review.

RVH wraps up next week. And I'll have to say byebye to a bunch of incredibly smart students. (omg, you seriously wouldn't believe).
ps: thanks for my early birthday present, Gina and Joanne!

Anyhoos, it's the start of a new week and it's back to work and school for most of us.
We're already into the second Sem, the end of the year doesn't feel all that far away.
On the definite up-side,
there's still half a million countries to go see this year! (okay, no, not really. But like at least two or three more for sure!)


all my love, hugs and strawberry kisses!

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Buttons

So my baby girl is asleep in her new basket.
I'm such a proud mommy!
Grandma wanted to give baby a treat for peeing straight into the drainhole, unaware that she's been doing that for a while now.
She learnt it from watching the water travel straight out of the pipe and into the drain and proceeded to copy.
Now say Awwwwwwwwwwww


Buttons is an adorable little Mommy's girl. She wakes herself up from her nap just to sit outside and doze off outside the toilet while I'm taking a shower.
Then she follows me back to bed.
And, she waits til the middle of the night to snuggle up!

My baby girl's well on her way to growing up though, mind you!
She just dropped her first tooth!

(Clearly, I am very in love with her)
It's one of those days. again.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Birthday-Day

claaaaasic.
Thanks you, Enqing, who was the photog for this series of shots and who was adamant on not ever having a picture of him in glasses((:
eme: Sniff. Stop it Aunty Anne, you can never beat me at being unglamorous.
eme: omg, amateurs!
Yes this is in very random order. Cake cutting while they doze off. hahahah



Fantastic cake
and then victor morphed into a greyhound.

pictures of the picture-taker.
Well, one of them anyways!


see-taw-belleh
Vees.


It was a brilliant birthday for me, even though I didn't want it to be too much of a hoopla.
But mommy never lets it go by with anything less.
I loooooved my presents this year!
This entire little party at Luxury Living (a lovely place to drink but which you shouldn't get drunk at) was mommy's present.
The Little Creature pooled with V and Eme for my FUCKING GORGEOUS PINK CAT CARRIER. I need a pic of that asap.
IT IS FUCKING PRETTY, I SWEAR TO GOD!
Enqing MADE (yes, you read right, MADE) me a bracelet and matching earring set in my favourite colour, and a super duper cute card.
And Victor's present just got delivered today! It's a scratch post for Buttons! It's a perfectly adorable little thing in black and orange and just, incredibly pretty.
Buttons loves it. But I'm preeeetty sure I love it more. hahaha
And I'm quite sure i love the pink kitty-carrier more than she does!
Also, way before my birthday, my RVH students made me a card and got me a pair of earrings((:

All in all, I had the most brilliant birthday presents and our little affair was absolutely awesome.

Thank you to everyone who came, to those who helped out, to those who planned and pretended and called and said "OH SHIT" before hanging up. To everyone who sent well wishes and birthday greetings and prayers and called in to say hi, to anyone who thought of doing that but didn't and to Buttons for being a good girl in the morning(:

It was an utterly brilliant day and I loved every single bit of it.
Mommy was right though, the only way for me to keep her birthday present this year, is in an imaginary box in my brain(:

I'm happy with the couple of birthday presents I got myself (I know, right)
One of which includes my website (ahmahgad, thanks again Vic) and Buttons aaaaaaand...
Ma, meet Grace. Her name's pronounced Charis too.





PS: You're right Ann. haha
xoxo