goodbye twenty-o-five,
hello twenty-o-six!


anyway, the few past few days have been so busy I hardly had the time for sleep.

wed.
went to school to return a book for sis.
stuck in the mrt jam cos of the kallang incident.

rushed to national library again.
met rq and diana for the private sale at isetan scotts.
the sale was damn good, it was a whooping 30% off.
but we had problems staying together cos' the crowd was so bad.
ended up buying only 2 tops only.



walked till my legs were aching and had a really late dinner at almost 10.
ate at ichiban boshi. had a very bad first experience there but relented this time cos I was really hungry and it was the nearest available place.

but this time the food + the service was so good.
I had a chicken bbq set that comes with sashimi and we shared plate of gyoza.
the gyoza was so nicely done up on a hot place, i was so impressed. I mean it really looks good compared to the sakae ones.



thurs + fri.
spent having tuition & visiting my grandparents + my baby sitter. :)

went for tianwei's ROM chalet on fri night. played overnight mj. and lost big big. :( these days I have no luck at mj. sighs. got home at 6++ am.

yawns. so i have just woke up not long ago from my sleep. feeling lethargic still. overnight mj is bad for health.

ok. today's new year's eve.

a few days back, I wrote an entry about the more significant events in 2005 but decided against posting it now cos I think it's a tad too personal. thus, this probably shall suffice.

2005 had been a not so good one for me, at least particularly so in the first half of my year and I'm glad it's finally over.

I never once had such a tough year before but i guess it also taught me lotsa. however, i believe that for every bad thing that happened, a good thing will happen also :)


2005 started on a very stress note, cos it was a wake up call for me and I knew how much a difference the last sem would make to me, to graduate or not. Eventually, I made the decision to do another year, which I immediately regretted at the beg of this sem. Honours year was really a tough one especially with less frens around in school. I learnt how important it was to be self motivated. Projects + HYP took up a lot of time and I was really a stressed soul. However, at this point in time, I'm glad that things have worked out slightly for the better and I hope that it will end on a good note.

Juss came back during CNY this year which was a pretty good thing. Managed to catch up with him again even for a mere 2 mths before he flew off again. Being apart and together has both its ups and downs. It was a tough year for him away from home and although things did not work out that well, I'm glad things are starting to look up too :)

one major incident in 2005 was my uncle's passing on. It happened right in the middle of studying break and left the whole family in complete shock and there were many times when I felt that due to this, I wouldn’t be able to survive the examinations. It also made me realize how fragile life is especially when such a incident close to home happened. We really ought to treasure our loved ones. I believe time heals all wounds but he will always be in my memory.

moved out of pgp in may too, which was kinda sad cos most of my memories in uni came from there. In addition, ln graduated too, which made me feel like I lost the other half of a twin at times, especially when we spent almost every min of our time in uni together.

in 2005, i lost a pretty good friend. maybe it was my fault, mabbe it was not. but in any case, the good thing that happened was i got closer to the group cos of mahjong sessions and I am really thankful for that. they had made my life more bearable when juss wasnt around, especially for a couple that took pretty gd care of me too, no matter how small the gestures are. But cos of this very gd thing that happened to me, i started to have freq disagreements with a gd friend, even to the extent of me wanting to give up this almost precious friendship. But I'm glad both of us never gave up on it.

Somehow, the troubles in my life never stopped coming in the first half of the year including grandpa’s frequent admissions to the hospital and undeniably, I had a pretty bad 22^nd birthday, except for the presence of my dearest family and juss and also of the handful of friends who went the extra mile to make my birthday much better than it actually was, you know who you are. The most memorable ought to be the huge bouquet of flowers + teddy + LV bag(my very first!) that juss sent from France and also my first bouquet of flowers from a girl, my other half of a wan. =)

This year was also the year when I started to have this ‘msn phobia’ which meant that I dreaded or feared coming to msn cos’ I always seem to communicate wrongly with friends. I was starting to feel that there was something wrong with me, cos each msn session will make me end up feeling confused and sometimes, upset. And the only way out was to stop coming online frequently, which I did.

Lastly, i had a splendid xmas eve + xmas + boxing day as well, one of the best one I ever had in a long time, so much so that when it all ended I have this ‘ why does time fly by so fast’ feeling. Sigh, I guess good things end fast, it’s the memories that will remind us of the happy times.

ok, it had been a very long entry. my last entry of 2005. hope that 2006 will be a really smashing one for me and my loved ones ;)