Happy New Year! From Ho Chi Minh, with love!

Blogging from Ho Chi Minh City...it is 3 hours and 10 minutes before 1 Jan 2010.
Lots of stuff to blog about, mostly related to my travel...it was truly a super fun trip with two of my longest time friends, Mian and Peisuan. Meanwhile really missing bestie, wifey, my vitamins and my baby.

Just a few days to the start of first day in my (finally!!) adult working life. It ain't gonna be a walk in the park, I hear ye... but I will strive to love every single day of it (my work) even if I could grow (according to so many working folks out there) to dislike certain aspects (OR maybe I won't!!...?? possible?). In the coming year, I hope to walk closer to God and for my family to be carried through safe and sound to the next year, and for me to sustain and build up the friendships/relationships I have already built with the people around me. Sounds simple enough?

Goodbye School!

It was a long, long marathon, this academic life, but with God's grace, I managed to step past the finish line with more than I'd ever hoped for at the very beginning of the journey. Whoopee to the piece of paper we call the degree.

super damned fucking restless and it shouldn't be so. But it's so fucking hard to get down to studying for this last paper :(

5 years from when you asked 'Will you be Emil's girlfriend?"

happy 5th year nanniversary my bebe.

More crazy days ahead bombom? Don't lie. You're secretly just looking forward, cos there can only be two such munkeys in this world. You. And me.

sated

For 2 hours, we stuffed ourselves silly at Holland V's Crystal Jade. 2 sets of xiaolongbao, 1 set of Charsiewbao, 1 set of chives dumpling, 4 plates of MEAT, countless mushrooms, luncheon meat, hot-dogs, dumplings, liver, and jellies later, I thought to myself: "That's it, this is the day I will explode into a million pieces of meat, never to be put together again." I wouldn't have minded, since I'd tasted the best xiaolongbaos I've eaten in 2 years (the last time was at Din Tai Fung). And the mala soup...? Divine.

But I didn't.

So here I am, sated and extremely sluggish while it drizzles outside. Perfect recipe for an unexplained 2kg weight gain don't you think?

psyched up

Suddenly feel so damned excited (even if I haven't trained for more than 3 weeks)

STANCHART is in 18 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My first ever 21 km. I don't know how I am going to do it but somehow I will? :):):):)

纸上谈兵

Tres ironic that this girl didn't get to run until she submitted her research paper on running.

Talk about 纸上谈兵

resurface

I am currently staying on campus, in Temasek Hall till exams are over.

The room that I am staying in, for some reason, is situated above the residence of a family with a baby. I thought I heard incessant baby-crying a night ago but I brushed it off. This afternoon I heard it again, and realised not only were the sounds real, the baby was a real one too. Phew.

Went to service today and found it particularly comforting just to be in His presence. Nothing else mattered, not the looming exams nor deadlines as I offered my praises. Sermon spoke to my heart today but I will have to mull over it another day. Cannot wait for exams to be overrrrr!

Joce and Iko called couple days ago, am so looking forward to meeting them, and long awaited meeting with Meena, Shn|Roy|Maurice, FRANCIS & Kath, wifey and Razak for brunch, and Ollie for lunch. Listing them here so I pick them right up after exams are over. December is an exciting month for Xavier's getting married and the guyou (dog friends) team is emceeing, including myself. Am looking forward to passing my basic theory as well, and situating myself spiritually. SO many things to do, and finally time to do them :)