✿ February ✿

Hello! extremely long post and lots of pictures ahead hehehe

haven't been here for a long, long time because of the lack of time and motivation to sync all my pictures. So after finishing the latest episodes of my drama, I decided to continue with this post that has been left neglected in my drafts ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

the first few days of February were well spent with my family because of cny, and I cannot express how lucky I am to have them in my life. We've always been close since young because everyone used to gather at my popo's house every weekend without fail until she moved to bedok 2 years ago. Since then we only go there during special occasions, and family gatherings are usually held in town or at my one of my aunts' homes and well i guess you could say there's a different kind of feeling when everyone's just comfortable at home :)

anyway, here are some of the pics from day 1!

my popo, my mum and 2 of my aunts who were there!!! the one in the middle is none other than my healthy great grandma :)

(i was tiptoeing) (I am not that tall!!!)

 day 1 was spent at my great grandma's home @ bukit batok & i guess I was kinda looking forward to it because we only see her twice a year during cny and on her birthday. She lives in a reaaaalllly tiny flat so all of us had to squeeze in there and most of the time I didn't even know who I was greeting. Nonetheless there was so much food (good food in fact) and ever since I realized I had 2 super tall and super good looking cousins(????) or relatives I've been looking out for them every year hehe. And apparently there's a guy who's 17 too but I never knew bc he always looked older. (btw I think I have really good looking relatives but sad face because relatives) And then there was another guy who was called Marcus and because my bro and I was talking about @thatbestrelguy (the Marcus we know), this version of Marcus kept looking at us and it was only when we got home did i come to know of his name OTL

then Alicia and Ruiting arrived and we retreated into one of the rooms along with all the usual/ familiar company. Headed to visit my grandpa at CGH in the evening with my aunt and uncle, and the best part of the day was prolly when he started talking about matchmaking my bro and i to his friend's children HAHAHAHA. Don't even get me started..........



Day 2

the second day was spent at my popo's house and damien brought his girlfriend over again. I think what made this year so special was that everyone came, including my dad and my first aunt and uncle and keith/ carrie/ aston :) I guess you could say it was a real family event - one we haven't had in a long time hehe

2 of my favourite girls hehe we've been stuck together since young and they are a huge part of my childhood :-) 

with nicole!!! 

1// TANGYUAN!!!!!! made with love by my popo and hence wins the canteen auntie's hands down :-)

2// this was natural ok I swear I didn't pose HAHAHHA do i qualify for vogue yet

(moment of silence for all the '1 2 3 4' ruiting poses HAHAH)

we took a lot of pictures HAHAHA and most were taken with a timer so it explains the amount of unready/ ridiculous faces ┏(・o･)┛♪┗ ( ･o･) ┓ 

and then we decided to grab the guys to take them with us which resulted in..... chaos

1st victim: Aston

and after all the torturing and struggling........... we present to you:

don't we all look so happy??!??! HAHA apart from Aston's forced smile I think this picture looks really......peaceful HAHA

next victim: keith!!!!!!! another person who's grown up with me altho we had this completely awkward stage which lasted for 2 years. I don't think we are as close as before, and it kinda sucks because he's in a lot of my childhood memories and he was the older brother I never had. 

3rd victim: my bro who eventually got bored after the first 3 pictures :(

with zi sen aka Ervin!!!!! he was running away from us the whole time but after that he felt like a star for 10 minutes hehe

with carrie! she's like the eldest sister among us and she's always super bubbly and cheerful and positive. it's something I really admire in her because she spreads joy everywhere she goes :)

2 weeks later/ 1 week ago

went to visit my dad's cousins @ bedok and I had a lot of food I kid you not. It's like I was made for eating or something I don't know but I had a lot of chocolates/ bakkwa and junk food :(

and those were some pictures taken over the past 2 weeks! I remember only bits and pieces of it but apart from school I had loads of fun because there was the tuanyuanfan with Moh/ Yifeng/ Jiahui and Hinwing after cny celebrations which I realized I didn't really mention!! That was prolly one of the best days so far because after celebrations, Yifeng, Jamie and I walked over to macs so YF could have his lunch and since Jamie needed to take the train to paya lebar,  we decided to accompany her on her walk :) then the 2 of them lapsed into a conversation about bridge and 1 hour later the 3 of us found ourselves in the library's discussion room playing with cards HAHA. Called moh to join us later and we were happily in the midst of playing when the librarian came over to scold us because we overbooked the room :( And that was kinda ironic because she should've said something (SAYYY SOMETHING I'M GIVING UP ON YOU) about the cards but she didn't and her accent made everything SO funny that I was trying my best not to laugh and look at her. So we changed location to YF's homeroom and continued with our game. Also if may I add, I make a very good bridge partner HAHA okay maybe it was just beginner's luck or something but I was on a roll ( *∀*)

then in the evening Jamie met up with her boiboi and all of us walked to mountbatten (not used to typing mountbatten bc I'm always like "circle line?? can we take circle line?" haha). Yifeng, moh and I met up with Jiahui and Hinwing at Hot Tomato and we had a great dinner although we missed the student special by 30 minutes :( And although Yixian was saying how Hot Tomato was reaaaally good and that we should all try it, I honestly didn't find anything special about it :(

       

my valentine's / friendship day this year was really wonderful too hehe, I spent both days with the best company and I guess it's these days that make life seem so insanely perfect that you want to sink in it forever. So on friendship day we had cca, and everything was kinda normal and all that but of course, cca was really fun although I couldn't catch up with the warm ups and all that LOL but that aside, it was really productive and the best part came after it ended. Bieberzxc and I ended early so we headed to the canteen to wait for Jamie and YF as usual, and ended up talking to Junxiang. Then we went to get flowers (which were leftover ones at the student lounge HAHAHAHA secret's out) which I managed to trick Jamie and Yifeng into believing that people gave em to me, WHICH is kinda true because kailin passed them to me hahahaha lmao

but well Yifeng believed it and the look on his face was priceless bc he was somewhat in a state of shock HAHA the best thing was that we were just saying to each other how we'd get each other flowers and trade them so we wouldn't seem so sad on valentine's day. Left school pretty late and I think I was going crazy because that was honestly one of the craziest journeys home because I was spouting nonsense and laughing so much gosh I don't know what came over me too HAHAHA

(but apparently it left yifeng speechless because he said I was really too funny that his funny genes ran away) ( CY: 1, YF: 0 )

Yup I guess that was another really really really really good day because the 4 of us were laughing all the way home and I felt genuinely happy and contented with everything although i had tons of homework that day :) the best thing was that I didn't notice but we were really kinda loud on the train and they kept laughing at my droopy flowers so it naturally attracted a lot of attention but obviously I was unaware bc I WAS THE SOURCE OF THE NOISE POLLUTION ( I really didn't realize omg) and that was also the case when we got out at paya lebar to take the green line train. Jamie got off first so I was left with YF and Bieberzxc who suddenly pointed out that people were looking and surprise surprise they were alighting at bedok so I was going to be left alone haha and THAT was when the embarrassment and self consciousness sank in. I eventually got off with them and I got onto a different carriage bc too much embarrassment HAHA. Yifeng and Jamie showed me the videos they took of me that day in my super high state and I watched a little bit of both and didn't want to continue LOL I realize that I really am an embarrassing person to be with

vday!!!!!

I have.....really really amazing friends in my life and sometimes I wonder how I even managed to bag such people because that's the kind of wonderful people they are. Looking back I feel that things have changed so much since last year, because back then around this period things were so different. Nonetheless, I felt really really really blessed this entire week because of the notes/ chocolates/ cookies/ sweets that made me feel so loved and yknow what WHO NEEDS A MAN

After school i met yifeng at the canteen but he had to go meet the juniors and so I ended up walking around with Marcus and eventually went to the bus stop to wait for the bus with him ( most caring award pls HAHAHA jk) but I was thankful for the little time we spent together that day because we haven't spoken in quite some time or had any legit conversation....... which makes me kinda sad thinking of it. Then I walked back to school and I can't remember what I did apart from meeting Hinwing to pass him my note and then he disappeared so I sat at the table and started to munch on my chocolates.......... (◞ิᴗ◟ิ*)

ohyes and I really liked the atmosphere in school the whole week because batchmates were giving out free hugs and everyone was so lovey and friendly hahaha btw I really don't like the kind of "okay let's hug but stand away from each other and pat each other on the back" kind of hugs LOL HAHAHA but okay I still like hugs 

(did i even make sense up there )

but wellllll yep :-) then I walked around with Xuanzhu and Yongzi before helping yixian out with his banner :) and halfway through I ended up walking around the canteen and sitting on benches with either Xuanzhu or Yongzi again so my time was well spent indeed. I can't really remember what I did apart from the fact that I ate a lot of chocolates, walked around the canteen with yz/ xz, talked to people and took pictures but I was really happy v^^

Then at about 4:30, Yifeng, lchoo and I decided to make our way to NEX so we could have our fantastic4/ SAD dinner HAHA. Yvonnemoh ended at 445 so she could only join us later, so the 3 of us managed to get the student meal thingy at Hot Tomato! Spent quite some time there before all 4 of us went up so I could get money from my mum because she was with Alicia and my aunt. #problemsofbeingbroke 

We headed to get Sogurt, which was another happiness booster and I discovered the joy of chocolate toppings because they didn't have fruity pebbles that day ☆*✲ﾟ*｡(((´♡‿♡`+)))｡*ﾟ✲*☆
sat at the open area upstairs and talked and took polaroids before we left the place, and I began my "green line journey" with yifeng. Decided to alight at Bedok so I could take my direct bus from bedok mall BUT iris cheated my feelings and 17 minutes turned into a 30 MINUTES WAIT, of which I only had Yifeng's company for the first 7 minutes. And when my bus came it was so crowded that I had almost no hope of getting on it so I ended up taking the train....again.

the rest of it was such a blur because I only remember getting on and off the train and brisk walking to the interchange and squeezing onto my bus and getting off and running home bc my dad called and was super angry with me for forgetting something important and I felt really bad. Highlight of the evening: I ran home 

(random picture of the sky I found in my phone)

:-)

i guess life's been really good to me, except for pockets of negativity which I can't seem to avoid. Never expected this to happen to me but since it has already happened, the only thing I can do is deal with it. (although it really is very hard to suck it up argh)

here's to good and even better days ╭ (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.) ╭