Can't believe half a semester has just passed. This is probably the most uneventful semester -.- Have been trapped in the lab for the past 2 weeks every single weekday, and I actually look forward to lessons to take a break from lab. Is this how the whole of y4 will feel like?

Sigh. Hopefully I'll get used to the lab climate soon, am always so lost in the lab.

Looking forward to meet ups next week though! Can't wait to know what's going on in everyone's life.

===

Anyway, summer was pretty good! Spent the first 6 weeks doing attachment, and really learnt ALOT. It was so tiring, but everyone who taught us were just so nice!! AND I got lucky with my partners hahahah, it was pretty fun overall actually! Miss those times when we would just complain and sing and laugh all day. And my preceptor was like this serious-looking person who was actually SO SO SO funny and cute! AHAHHA i actually miss those times can you believe it.

This job is actually challenging and pretty exciting, I do hope I get in!

-----

Then spent the 2nd half of the summer in China. There were definitely some aspects that were frustrating at times, but it was definitely a good experience to mingle with people from other nationalities. Makes me realise how big the world actually is!

I miss them so so much! Esp the host family, they were SO nice and one of the kindest people EVER.  They really treated everyone like family, and went out of their way to accommodate me etc. Was so sad the first 2 days when I came back to Singapore cos I couldn't get used to the way of life here! This trip really allowed me to set aside my biases and look at China in a new perspective. Sure, the culture may be a little different sometimes, but many Chinese out there are really kind and not all that different from us. We received so much love from many of them, and so many people treated us to welcome us upon knowing that we were there for voluntary work.

It also allowed me to appreciate Singapore a lot more. We may bemoan our transport system here, but  honestly it's really efficient. We had to talk about issues youths faced in our countries, and our problems are so inconsequential when we compare it to what others face. Many Chinese oohed and aahed when I mentioned I was from Singapore, which came as a surprise for me cos we are just a little red dot after all. My host family even knew much more about Singapore history and structural policies than many Singaporeans I know, which really puts us to shame.

It was an amazing summer... really miss all these times and I guess these memories will sustain me during this year -.-

It's the time of the year again when we take in what we've done for the past year and give thanks to everyone who's help us. 

YAY it's the holidays finally!

This sem was so crazy - had 11 CAs and 3 projects and there was a hell lot to learn for each mod!! BUT THIS SHIT IS OVER NYAHAHHAAH.

Thank goodness for friends omg if not I would have gone crazy. Special mention goes to mich who even came all the way to hall to drop me a welfare pack when I was down with fever, even though she stays more than an hour away. So thankful for that woman for helping me time and again, much love for her!!! ^^

So many things have happened this year, and I'm really really thankful to those who cared and lent a listening ear during tough times. It's often difficult to look beyond our own problems and help others in need, and I'm really glad to have such people around me. Just so, so glad for some people in my life, and all these have taught me to be kinder to people I meet, for everyone is fighting a hard battle. I had seen this quote a few years back, but I guess we just have to go through tough times to appreciate some things.

Term's finally over!

Have been feeling slightly down lately, but today I realised that things wouldn't be any different no matter what I did.

2014 has been one tough year, but I'm sure I can get through this!!!
Cue cheesy quotes *tough times don't last but tough people do* HAHAHAHAH.

Haven't posted properly in a long, long time.

It's been 4 months since I've last posted, holidays flew by and this sem passed really quickly. I can't believe the AY is coming to an end soon, CAN'T WAIT!! This sem has been a tough one juggling everything on top of so many tests and projs and the content-heavy syllabus. I miss lazing around for a few days without any worries and spending quality time w the fam sighpie.

JUST 1.5 MONTHS TO FREEDOM ~~~~~ Summer pls come quickly!!

Meanwhile I'll treasure what could be my last few weeks as a hallite.

Last paper next tues and this sem will finally end!!!

This semester was both good and bad. It was seemingly overwhelming (prolly cos of poor time management) and some people left sch/hall. Sometimes I felt so frustrated and ):

BUTTTT I've been so blessed to meet awesome, supportive and forgiving people. Thank you hallmates who bear with my inadequacies, who just let me do my own thanggg or just remind me when things just slip my mind. I really have to thank my project mates for putting up with me when deadlines just kept coming and I could barely cope with them, and just helping me in so many ways, plus always being so positive and funny!!! I'm also really grateful to all other pharm people who let me copy their notes when I just kept missing / sleeping in lectures! This sem has really opened my eyes and let me see how some pharm people are one of the nicest in the world. Plus mich who edited my entire 15 pg group report immediately when I sent it to her at 12plus AM even though she was so damn busy with 4 group projects herself. And a big thankyou to all those who wrote little notes and left tidbits at the door / showed concern and encouragement when I felt like shit / listened to me rant / exam encouragement stuff / helping me buy lunch etcetc. SO DAMN LUCKY :')

Now it's back to marketing and after that it will be BKK with awesome pharm people + qiao CAN'T WAIT. I hope the protests don't affect anything!!!

Less than 2 weeks to bkk, CAN'T WAIT!
It will be over sooooooon.
December please come soon ):

It's been a busy month in school.

I was really hesitant to step up and join the comm but I'm glad that I did. Yes, the workload's overwhelming and everyday is mad busy even with schoolwork snowballing like crazy. But it's been great working with a super happy team ;) It's tiring though, to step out of my comfort zone and sometimes I get disheartened by all the politics outside the team.

Year 2 hasn't been great with some people leaving and I really miss the old times sometimes ): But I think it's a matter of perspective. I've been visiting the elderly living in one-room flats and their appreciation for the littlest things in life amazes me every single time.

I just hope to clear some work by this week and maybe finally get past week 1 reading materials in terms of school stuff!

School's out!

Yay to the end of a horrible semester! Never ever gonna take 6 mods again, ugh idk what I was thinking at the start of sem ):

SUMMER HERE I COME!!!

For all those against gay marriage:

If Gay Marriage Were Legal, I May Not Exist

…And that’s OK.

My dad is gay and my mom is straight. They’ve been unhappily married for over 30 years. My dad says my mom doesn’t know, and I’m not sure if she does or not. You might be thinking, ‘of course she knows!’ But you haven’t met my family. We are excellent at the art of avoidance. So excellent, in fact, that if my mom did know, she’d deny it so much that she’d forget she ever knew. Which is pretty much what I assume happens.

With all of the talk about marriage equality going on these days, I wanted to share a perspective that some may not have heard. Yes, you’ve heard from gay people who want to get married, straight people who don’t want them to, and children who want their two mommies or two daddies to be able to walk down the aisle. But what about the perspective of someone who maybe wouldn’t exist if gay marriage were legal? For some of you, that’s a new one.

A dear friend of mine who is adamantly against gay marriage brought the point to my attention one day that if gay marriage were legal and if my dad had chosen that option, I wouldn’t be here. My mom and dad would have never gotten married and created the amalgamation of cells that is me. I had never thought of it that way before and it took me a moment to answer the question. Now that I have had more time to ponder his words, I think I have come up with a much better answer.

True, the amazing person that is me would not exist. But I like to think of it another way. If gay marriage were legal, and my dad chose that option instead, there would be two children out in the world who would have two loving families. One would have a daddy and a mommy and the other would have two daddies. One would be tall and artistic but have two left feet like my dad, and the other would be short and slightly rotund with an affinity for playing piano and HGTV like my mom. One might have my blue eyes that run on my mom’s side and the long fingers that run on my dad’s. And hey, I’m awesome so why would having two parts of me out in the world rather than one whole me be a bad thing? These two children wouldn’t house the knowledge that their father cheats on their mother on a weekly basis. They wouldn’t have to worry where he is on Friday nights when he says he’s at a bar “playing pool,” which is his code word for meeting up with a guy. The kids wouldn’t have to worry if their father is being safe or if he properly checks out his friends’ background before he meets with them. And they wouldn’t have to later find out that when their dad said he was visiting family in New York this past summer, he was actually on a cross country road trip, staying with people he’d never met and would likely never see again.

Is this the life of every child in my situation? Absolutely not. Will legalizing gay marriage stop this from happening? No. I know this. But I can’t help but think that if gay marriage is legalized, the negative stigma associated with it for some would decrease. I want my dad to be able to openly love whom he loves and marry them in front of his friends and family. I want my mother to have a marriage that is fulfilling and full of love and faithfulness. I feel like it’s too late for my parents. They’ve made their choices and to them, appearing to participate in the institution of heterosexual marriage is apparently more important than following their hearts. But it’s not too late for others. It is my sincere hope that gay marriage is legalized and that people all over the country can take vows and exchange rings with those they love.

Going back to the original point my friend posed to me, yes, I may not exist in a world where gay marriage was legalized. But two people would exist in a world full of love and acceptance. And to me, love and acceptance is way more important than one person.

-CHARLIE JONES


http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/if-gay-marriage-were-legal-i-may-not-exist/

HELLOOOOOO!

I realised I've not been posting photos in a year or so!

Soooooo what I've been up to:

Meeting up with old friends:



With qiaooo! Busy law hapz kid tskkk!


Meeting up with JC gang heh. Always having good food with them! ^^





Touring SMU open day hahahahah! Pretty balloons are the love


NHC peeps! Haven't met them in so long!


HAHAHAH sleepover at mich's humongous room! AWSUM




Marie's piano concert. likka zai


Dim Sum after waking up @ 2pm at Mich's house! GOOD LIFE HEH.

Plus meeting up with GG and other HFY peopleeeeeeeeeee! No photos but I still remember all of you ^^

Studying:

In hall, you squat in people's rooms cos your own neighbour's room is too smelly and drive them to the corridor to study mwahahahha.

Pharm/KE!


Pharm uniform day


KEPharm steamboat hehehehhehe


Timbre with OG. DUCK PIZZA.


Going crazy to watch SMtown movie hahahahah. With 3D specs and a bunch of Daiso-bought lightsticks!


E3, awesum posum neighbours! Selfless yet fun and crazy people, what more can one ask for? 

Have to be really grateful about how uni turned out! Still being able to meet up with old friends, eating more good food than ever, and meeting a bunch of supportive people in hall.

I feel really loved <3 nbsp="" p="">I'm a lucky kid!

Saw this on tumblr:

Just because I laugh a lot, doesn’t mean my life is easy. Just because I have a smile on my face every day, doesn’t mean that somethings not bothering me. Its just that I choose to move on with the negative in my life, and keep my head up, instead of dwelling on the past. 

(Source: yanilavigne, via yanilavigne)

So true :)

& just cos I seem fine, doesn't mean I'm really okay.