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Hehe I want to take this Christmas/New Year season as a chance to thank God for all the lovely people and things He's gifted me with this year! ^^ 2012 has been an absolutely lovely year, and this realization came as quite a surprise for me cos I remember being super terrified on the first day of school this year since it was the beginning of what I expected to be the one of the most stress-ridden and mentally draining years in my life!And I guess to a certain extent it was, but the thing is that when I think back on this year, what pops to me isn't the endless stream of chionging homework, late-night mugging and stress, but all the things in between, like all the laughing fits with my friends, seeing some teachers' ridiculously amusing Other Sides, my parents randomly giving me pep talks whenever they think I'm getting too stressed, and I don't know just so so many things that truly made this year an amazing one! :D I used to think that Sec 2 was the best year in my secondary school life, but come to think of it I think this year was even better :P Haha I don't know la maybe it's just that I've forgotten all the mugging pains from this year xD

Hehe anyway this was supposed to be a thank you post so here goes!

To God
You've blessed me with so many things I am deeply grateful for in my life, and I really don't see myself as very deserving of what You have granted me with but I am thankful all the same! ^^ Thank you for being the One who is always, always, always there for me at every stage of my life, and for Your unconditional and boundless love for all of us, which is a source from which I draw strength whenever I get into one of those moods where I just feel so alone :') I really could not do without Your presence in my life ^^ Hehe so thank you and also happy early birthday Jesus!!! :D

To my family
To my immediate family, the only people in the world I feel comfortable being my 100% primal (??lol) self with, who's seen me at my worst moods and at my most unglam appearances, thank you for accepting and loving me despite my occasional instances of being an absolutely annoying prick (lol seriously I can be a real ass sometimes, I don't even know how people put up with me I'm sorry ;n;) and always just being so caring! :') To my parents, you are my role models, and better people than I can ever aspire to be in my life ^^ And to my other relatives, I think I'm really really lucky to have such a nice bunch of people to be related to me!I love you all and thank you for caring (cos that's what kaypoh-ing is, after all ;)) about me and my family! ^^

To my friends
My awesome pals!!!!!!Hehe I really really love all of you with every single fibre of my being and so happy and grateful to have you as my friends! <3 Thank you for being the people who make me have silent laughing fits in the middle of lectures, the ones who poke me endlessly to keep me awake in class, make me smile to myself in the middle of walking when I randomly remember random snippets of conversation and hug me or make lame jokes to cheer me up when I get into my crybaby mode xD I honestly can't imagine how boring my life would be without all of you! :P And to my Red Cross friends, you're a really special bunch of people and a large part of the reason why I love RC so much is because of all the laughter, sweat and tears I've shared with you throughout these 3.5 years :') Sigh I miss you guys a lot D: Haha anyway I love you all friends!!!I know it's impossible for all of us to end up in the same institution next year but I really really hope we'll still keep in touch and remain good friends! ^^
















(credits to Tumblr for the picture :D)

Phewfff okay that actually took a pretty long time o.o Haha since I won't get a chance to blog from tomorrow until 3 Jan, merry Christmas and happy new year everyone!!! ^^ Whether or not 2012 was a good year for you, let's all take the new year as a chance to leave the past behind and make new, even better memories in 2013!! :) Hehe wish all of you health and happiness in the coming year!

Take care and bye! ^^




Busy but uneventful few days! Sighhh seriously bored of getting dragged along with my mum to go shopping every single day D: But I guess there isn't much else to do here so .____. Haha oh yeah my dad brought me and my brother to a massage parlour yesterday and I experienced my first full body massage!It hurt quite a lot actually, or maybe my pain tolerance just isn't high? o.o But it was really quite uncomfortable for me especially when the masseuse started massaging my ticklish bits like my back and sides!!And this morning when I woke up I found out that I had several new bruises on my shoulder blades and arms >< I bruise a lot easier than I thought man :P Haha I'm definitely not going back for another massage for a long long time, at least not to that parlour! D:

Besides going out with my family I've been using my time to watch movies online, do a bit of reading and revive my random-crap Tumblr! :D Haha trying to start distancing myself from Facebook and Twitter but still can't resist the urge to check a few times a day :P

Oh yeah I should start drafting my very-belated-Thanksgiving-cum-early-Christmas post in case I don't get Internet in Europe!!Hehe okay bye ^^

Day 18 - Origin of your blog URL

Gonna take the easy way out and just

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Back in Jakarta!! ^^ Haha aiyo fourth plane ride this month and I'm already getting really sick of planes >< Newfound respect for people who travel often by air man!


I suppose my tiredness now is a testament to how much more unfit I've become since the start of the holidays! T.T Heh ok no actually scratch that I think the last time I actually did routine exercise was the period before NAPFA so...since 8/9 months ago? >< Oh dear...Haha but anyway I had fun with Theo today! ^^ Been a while since I walked aimlessly so it was really nice, especially since it was with a friend! :)

Sigh sleepy but don't want to sleep!!And I think my sore throat's getting worse...I miss eating my snacks :c Haha oh well time to test my self-control!

Cheer up and dry your damp eyes and tell me when it rains
Then I'll blend up that rainbow above you and shoot it through your veins
'Cause your heart has a lack of colour and we should have known
That we'd grow up sooner or later 'cause we wasted all our free time alone 
-Rainbow Veins, Owl City

Have a soft spot for this song cos it was one of the first OC songs I heard and fell in love with hehe ^^

(just realized that my blog posts actually kind of look like tweets that have been joined together.......lol shit must really go cold turkey on (or at least greatly reduce usage of) Twitter before school starts next year ><)

Had a really lovely time walking in the rain/drizzle today! ^^ Hehe it was like the perfect mixture of rain and wind that made me feel cold but not too cold :P Sigh such a waste to spend a nice night like this indoors, I think I'll ask my mum to accompany me for a walk around the neighbourhood later hehe ^^

Ended up going out with Isabel for a movie/dinner today!Haha I missed this choding!!!!Miss all my friends actually and SC too :( Aiyo suddenly feeling emo about leaving SC :( Sometimes it really sucks being so sentimental :( :( Sigh time will numb the pain I guess :( Haha what the heck I'm being so dramatic ok pain isn't the right word but never mind just ignore me!!! :P

Meh blog posts getting shorter and boring-er!!!Cons of blogging so often I guess but since I've nothing else to do... :P Hehe okay bye!

Awwww the lyrics of One Direction's Little Things are so sweet!!!! ^u^ Haha was internally flailing while listening to the song for the first time because cuteness!!!Not really a big fan of the tune of the song but still ^u^ ^u^ Hehehe my inner hopeless romantic cannot be tamed!!

Don't really know why I'm still awake when I'm feeling really sleepy now o.O No mood to sleep!!Sigh don't know if I should go out tomorrow (...or today, actually) I think I'm starting to fall sick ><
Haha okay this has been a very pointless post but I should really go sleep now goot naitzzz~

Haha I've got a feeling this might turn out to be one of the weirdest blog posts I've ever written, probably cos I've recently been in another one of those thinking moods I'm so susceptible to when I have nothing to do and I'm about to lump some of my thoughts (mostly disjointed btw) into words xD

Oh man I don't know how to make this sound less awkward...I've been thinking about love! :P Hehe wait disclaimer: I'm writing this post in the capacity of the thoughts of a 16-year-old (teehee I can finally say that now) who has never been in love before and has no experience of being in a romantic relationship, so yeah my view is really limited >< Haha and I'm pretty sure it's a little too early for me to be thinking of such things but sigh can't control where my thoughts drift to :P

Ok anyway, in the middle of my song-listening session yesterday night I just started wondering if, much like the classic Disney princess stories, lyrics of certain love songs are increasing our expectations of love! So many love songs, both old and new, depict love or the feeling of being in love as like this insanely sweet and romantic thing (hahaha I am really really ineloquent in describing emotions just refer to Bruno Mars' or David Choi's lyrics and you'll know what I mean la) so what if, due to prolonged exposure of listening to some of these songs, our expectations of love slowly increase to epic proportions and we end up waiting forever for that perfect person who does all the right things and gives us all the right feelings that these songs (and sometimes music videos) claim that true love brings? I suppose since artists can come up with such poetic lyrics it serves to prove that perhaps they've felt all the things they sing about and thus love really does feel that way, but I don't know...Haha maybe I'm being a bit cynical but it seems a little impossible that everyone will get to experience such an amazing relationship as depicted by many love songs! And what if in the middle of waiting for our own version  of Mr Right, our high expectations of He-Who-Has-Not-Surfaced-Yet renders us blind to someone else whom we've never considered as more than a friend but who can make us as happy as a girl can ever be as long as we give them the chance? Isn't that a far more appealing alternative to waiting for this perfect guy under the perfect conditions (y'know, bumping into an umbrella-wielding guy as you're running to seek shelter from the rain, making eye contact with some dude across the room in a party and feeling all squiggly wiggly, etc) who might never come?

Hehe if you've time to spare read this article: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-soulmate-you-deserve/ I think it'd be really really nice to experience something like what the article entails, but at the same time, again, how many people will actually be lucky enough to have a perfect relationship like that?

Haha maybe when I'm 20 or 30 I'll end up with a guy who makes me feel all the things the love songs speak of and maybe we'll meet under some cliche circumstance and I'll laugh at my foolish younger self when I read this blog post then, but I'm not keeping my fingers crossed for that! For now I'll just be perfectly happy entertaining the thought of maybe finding someone who loves me as much as I love them sometime in the future, and perhaps then we'll compose our own love song that makes perfect sense ^^

(I kind of hope my parents don't come across this blog post, because then I'll be subjected to yet another talk about how I'm too young to be thinking about love and I'll have to sit there red-faced, insisting that no, I'm not about to sneak out of the house in the middle of the night to have a rendezvous with my imaginary boyfriend anytime soon.)

Hehe had a really blessed 16th birthday today! ^^ Every single day I get reminded that I am immensely lucky to have such amazing family and friends, but I guess this feeling is always intensified during my birthdays teehee ^^ Woke up and immediately had my day made when I read the birthday cards my family made for me and the Whatsapp messages/tweets from my friends :') Haha seriously so flippin' sweet I almost got a toothache!!! <3 I really loved the Kris drawings from Joyce/Isabel and the sexy-Darren-Criss pictures from Rachel too ;) ;)


Woke up and saw something online that made me feel the lowest I've felt in a really long time. I suppose this is the consequence of letting people inside your heart - sure, the good times make you feel the happiest you've ever been, but then again these same people are also the ones who can make you feel like your entire world has crumbled in on you with a simple action, which is so incredibly unfair of me when I come to think of it, because I have so much more in the world to look forward to and be thankful for other than this.
Grah, maybe it's just the morning blues or me being excessively melodramatic. Hope I'll snap out of this mood really soon :(

There's a certain kind of serenity that comes only through simply looking at a palm tree with its leaves rippling in the light breeze and coloured by the shades of a sunset ^^

Sigh, so many things I've been taking for granted just because they've always been there! Truly, one will realize the importance of certain things or people in their lives only when they've gone :(

Haha aiyo see la too much time on my hands = overthinking = most likely emoing!!!! >< Hehe oh well at least there's Adam Young! *u*

Living close to the ground
It's seventh heaven 'cause there are angels all around
Among my frivolous thoughts
I believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronauts
So wake me if you're out there

- Angels, Owl City

























Hehe there's this person who's been posting really nice graphics with Owl City lyrics on Tumblr!!! ^^ I am a happy kid ^^ ^^ ^^

Bored out of my mind!!!! D: Sigh there's even less things to do in Pontianak than back in Jakarta >< Can't really talk/play a lot with my cousins since they're having their major exams and I feel really guilty interrupting their studying :x Hehe but those end this Friday so hopefully I won't be this bored then! And on the brighter side the food here is really really really good sobs I'm gonna have awesome food withdrawal symptoms once I leave ;_____; And I'll probably end up being at least 3 kg heavier at the end of this trip, but lol whatever it's worth it!!!! :P

Hehehehe shall attempt to revive my 1.5-year overdue 30 day challenge!Wow I really suck at this thing ><

Day 16 - Someone that's not in your state/country

Yuyeon and Yongtae!!!! ^^ Sigh I miss you the two of them to bits and pieces, can't believe it's been 6 years since their family moved back to Korea and 4 years since we last saw them! :( Hehe they were really the best neighbours anyone could ever ask for, I remember my 9-year-old self being mean and saying stupid things to Yuyeon but she always forgave me in the end and the next day we'll be frolicking happy as ever in the playground again! Haha she's truly one of the most open-hearted friends I've ever made :) Heh and Yongtae my fellow P4 monitor!!!I think he was one of the closest friends I had in P4 when I first came to Singapore, probably because we spent so much time together?I don't chat with him as much as I do with Yuyeon now though, which is really sad :( Anyway they're most probably coming to visit us next January, so I'm really excited!!! ^^

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Haha okay now I kind of remember why I almost abandoned the challenge......Heh never mind byeee! :)

Hehehe watched Skyfall with my family today! ^^ I've never been a really huge fan of action movies cos most of those I've watched make me teeter at the edge of my seat for practically the entire thing (lol which is the point I guess but) and my blood pressure just goes up like mad cos my heart's pumping so fast D: But Skyfall wasn't that action-packed so it was really good to me!!!! :) Haha I think my dad fell asleep for a bit though he said it was pretty boring T.T

Anyway it's December!!!! ^^ Hehe my favourite month of the year since it's usually the slackest one! :P Plus there's Christmas and New Year's Eve to look forward to :D :D This year both of these days will be spent in Europe though, I really hope we get to celebrate them even if just for a little while! :)

Sighhh nothing to do and I'm not feeling sleepy yet... T.T Meh :( Haha aish never mind hope everyone's enjoying their holidays! :D 안녕~