Bye September

Can you believe it's the last day of September already! 9 months of the year, gone just like that. I swear 2015 is the fastest year that I've ever experienced in life so far. It feels like time didn't have any substance in this year. Everything just moves in its own pace but without us realising it. We are left with 3 more months of the year and I just have this feeling that these 3 months will zoom by even quicker than the previous 9. Well I've always felt the last months of the year fly faster.

I think it's too early to start my reflection for the year. I'll save the best for last haha.

Alright time to share with you the great music I discovered in September! :)

Great Music of September:
- The Morning Hills by Layur
- Brush by Oscar Key Sung
- Her Ghost by Woman's Hour
- Conversations by Woman's Hour
- Les Voiles by Poom
- Like It Here by Stars and Rabbit
- Man Upon The Hill by Stars and Rabbit
- Whole of Chvrches 2nd album
- Whole of Oh Wonder debut album

Song of the month: Clearest Blue by Chvrches

I discovered The Morning Hills by Layur, who's an Indonesian musician, from Jalan Jalan Men's video on YouTube! I love how the song literally sounds like a beautiful morning on rolling hills somewhere in Indonesia heh. I think he's a talented musician! And I am looking forward to seeing more of his work. Stars and Rabbit is a new favourite Indonesian band that I discovered earlier this month. I feel that Elda is the Bjork of Indonesia haha. I love how unique her voice is. And I think they're gonna make it big! :)

Brush by Oscar Key Sung is a nice song with a catchy beat. Just like the video, I feel like dancing freely whenever I listen to the song too haha. I discovered the song through Majestic Casual. My favourite "Indie Music" channel on Youtube, Morindie, has been organising live streams where he puts up a playlist of songs from Soundcloud as we chat the night away together with people from around the globe! Les Voiles by Poom was played on his 2nd live stream and I am just hooked! Thanks Morindie!

Discovered a new favourite band, Woman's Hour, via YouTube again! Just randomly clicked their video for "Her Ghost" on Youtube and well you have a new fan right away! I love how minimalistic and simple their songs are. Yet they feel sublime and just beautiful. They really make me fall in love with this kind of music. Simple melodies, simple instrumentation, but filled with beauty.

As mentioned previously, this month is a great month for music cause Chvrches just released their 2nd album like last Friday, and Oh Wonder debuted their album earlier this month! But I only received it last Friday too. I've been listening to Oh Wonder's songs for the past year, it feels good to have a physical format of their songs finally! I remember asking them when they will release their album and here I am owning a copy of their album haha. Time does fly indeed. One year, 12 songs, now they hav an album

I still can't describe and put into words about how much I love Chvrches' 2nd album. I love everything about it. Lauren's empowering voice, beautifully layered synths and also their impact! Not forgetting Martin's voice on 2 songs in the album. I feel their 2nd album is a better album than their debut. But well I love Bones a lot too. And I don't know, I just love them, and their 2 albums haha. You know I was listening to Bones again this evening and there's this sense of happiness, joy and pride for this favoourite electronic band of mine. I just feel so happy for them to release such a great album! :')

Alright that's all for today. 3 more months to the year. May it be a beautiful epilogue to 2015! :)

Mid-Autumn (again)

Okay although I'm 2 days late... But well wishing you a happy mid-autumn! Although obviously we are not experiencing a single bit of autumn. Actually the weather has been very cloudy for almost a week now but we are not experiencing any rain. It was a very windy night just now and it seems like a promising sign of rain. I really hope so. We need rain so much. The grass have turned yellow.

I wanted to blog on Sunday but the internet died so I couldn't blog. And I also had to wake up early on Monday so I went to bed earlier. And last night, because I only had 4 hours of sleep for the whole day, I got knocked out right away! I fell asleep although I had prepared everything: my tea, my headphones etc. I guess I was just feeling really sleepy. So here I am now! 

So it was Mid-Autumn on Sunday and my family gathered at night. Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn festival are two nights I always look forward to every year. They are the days when my family gather and it's always fun to see all of them again. Although of course, when we were young, my cousins and I would play catching and stuff on this night but on Sunday night we were discussing everything from health to businesses and relationships. Although I had a pretty enjoyable conversation about music with my cousin and sister. Time has changed indeed! But it's alright, everything is always changing.

Anyway so my cousin (Febi), sister and I were talking about 90s music heh. It was so fun reminiscing the songs we used to love like crazy when we were still in primary/secondary school.

On Saturday night, my dad was asking me to list down songs from the 70s-90s. He wants to make a new "mixtape" to listen to while doing work. So I was just listing down some of the songs (thanks to Playlists on YouTube haha) and I chanced upon some of my favourite songs from the 90s. Artists/bands like Madonna, Spice Girls, A1, Kylie Minogue and more. I was feeling so sentimental!

I was scrolling through Madonna's discography and songs when I came across her song "The Power of Goodbye" again. I kinda forget how the song sounds like. So when I clicked on the video I went "OMG" like literally. This was one of my favourite songs from her and I used to listen to it a lot when I was young. My father had her casette tape and we would listen to this song in the car. I can still vividly remember one Saturday afternoon when I listened to the song in the car, and looking up on the sky. It was magical. It felt like the 90s happened 3 years ago. When all of these happened 16 years ago.

I feel that the 90s is a golden era for music. I think a lot of great artists and bands emerge in this era and somehow shape the music of today. So many technological advancement and access to many great things in life (like travel, internet and all things nice) happened in this era. So in some ways, music advanced a lot with all of these too. And thus magic happened.

90s is the time when I am growing up and I obviously haven't grasped the concept of music. I have not formed a liking towards a particular genre or band and so on. I suppose I started forming my "concept" of music when I was in secondary school-ish? So that's the 2000s era. Although I feel that there are a lot of great bands that emerged in those years, there's this special feel and sense in the music of the 90s. Perhaps it's the fact that I was young and "open-minded" towards anything and everything in the 90s. So music that entered my ears, and digested with my young mind felt very liberally beautiful. And it stays like that, till now, and probably till the day I die.

Now that I (kind of) understand music more, and that I understand English and the meaning of the lyrics, I have developed a better appreciation towards these music. And now I wish I can turn back time and collect these great albums again. I'm starting to look for 2nd hand ones now haha. Cause in the 90s here, we listen to the casette tapes of these albums! And they are gone forever now hah.

My current playlist on my iPod is now filled with these 90s music that I downloaded through iTunes. And it's probably going to stay like this for a while. I haven't reminisced enough.

Great Music Friday!

 My version of Every Open Eye's album cover

The background image is a bougainvillea flower I shot last Sunday

Today is such an awesome day because of two things. Two awesome music-related things.

First of all I wanna congratulate one of my favourite bands ever, Chvrches, for releasing their second album today! Although I have been streaming the album on NPR for the past 2 nights or so, I am still feeling so happy that the album is finally released! I have pre-ordered the album and I'm just waiting for it to arrive here on the other end of the planet heh. And talking about pre-orders...

My pre-ordered Oh Wonder debut album arrived today too! Double happiness! I am so worried because I didn't receive the email notification if my order has been shipped or not. But after clarifying with the staff over there, I was told that my order has been shipped so I was just waiting for it and it finally arrived! :)

Okay to celebrate the release of Chvrches' Every Open Eye, I shall share with you how I discovered this awesome band! Which through the years, have become one of my favourite.

I discovered Chvrches back in 2013. The first song I heard from them was "Gun". I was on YouTube when the music video for Gun was on my recommended tab. So I clicked on it and hmm I was hooked on the song. Especially the synths and the catchy beat. So I went on to search more of their songs and "The Mother We Share" was the next song I listen to and... That's it. I fell in love!

I discovered them back in end of September-ish I think, so it was also when their debut album, The Bones of What You Believe, was released. I went to Jakarta to look for the album but to no avail, so I decided to buy the album on iTunes. I only got their physical CD in January, when I went back to Singapore. This is the reason why I went to pre-order Every Open Eye right away cause... I lost faith in the music store here. I don't think it will be available in Indonesia (hopefully not!).

I missed their Laneway performance in 2014 and I was pretty sad cause I really want to see them live. But they decided to come back to Singapore back in November and I was like I don't care, I have to see them live! And I went to see them with Brenda. And we even had the chance to MEET them during a meet-and-greet session! I suppose we were very lucky. I'll never forget that night.

When I saw their Instagram that they were recording their second album, I was feeling so excited! Photos after photos and tweets after tweets, they released their first single from the second album titled "Leave A Trace" (during my birthday!) and I just really couldn't wait for the new album to be released. I knew that it's going to be a great album. And when they allow us to stream it on NPR, I streamed it for 2 nights and whew, I fell in love with it. I think they have improved so much from their first album. Maybe it's because of their tour experience, or maybe they just grow incredibly as a band in the past 2 years. I just love the whole energy of the band in their 2nd album!

I feel that Lauren's voice is so empowering and energetic in this album. I was talking to Brenda the other day and I was telling her that in this album, it feels like Lauren is a phoenix soaring bravely over Glasgow HAHAAH. But seriously, I love how empowering her voice is! Not forgetting Martin on "High Enough To Carry You Over". Damn, I have a crush on his voice now haha.

Every Open Eye is definitely one of the best albums that is released in this year. And I just feel so happy for Chvrches for the release of their second album. I don't know why... We don't personally know each other but I just feel so happy for this Glaswegian trio. They are definitely my favourite band in the electronic genre. And I will keep on supporting them forever. Congratulations Chvrches once again! :)

Mysterious Ways

Today something worth celebrating about happened. Well I'm just glad it happened. I know it will, so it wasn't really kind of a surprise for me. But nevertheless, I'm feeling rather happy about it :)

Today's post gonna be a short one. But I just want to say how beautiful life is. Somehow it just works beautifully in the most mysterious way you can imagine. Everything happens for a reason. Life doesn't necessarily tell us the reason right after it happened. Sometimes a few hours after, a day after, months after and even years after. And it's alright, because everything has its time.

Someday we will all understand perfectly why. Some day we will.

:)

Music Metamorphosis

Ever since I discovered a few 2nd hand CD shops on Instagram (located in Jakarta), I've been patronising them to get some of my favourite albums which I haven't owned. Sometimes they have rare albums. Albums which were released in the 90s and no longer released now. And as an avid CD collector, I love collecting them! I've lost track to the number of CDs I bought heh.

Looking at the albums I bought, I feel confused at myself sometimes. Because the CDs I bought range from classical music, to electronic, to indie and even new age. One of the most difficult questions people ask me is "What is your favourite music genre?" and... I really don't know haha. Well I would say I am really into indie music. Currently I'm obsessed with electronic and synth-pop. Or minimalist-synth. Or as some people call it, synth-die (synth indie?).

But I think the main problem with me is that I listen to any music so long they are nice to my ears. So if you look through my iTunes library, you will be really surprised by the different genres of music I have.

So today I'm gonna talk about how my liking to different genres of music progresses in my life.

When I was young believe it or not, I'm a fan of rock music. I like listening to Bon Jovi and some Indonesia rock band. But I guess I like them not because of musical reasons, but more of because it was "cool" back then to be fans of these bands heh. At the same time, I am very interested in learning the piano. And I've always loved listening to instrumental music, cause my parents always listen to them in the car when we go out and also at home, when my mum was doing work.

I remember asking my sister, who was studying in Singapore then, to get my CDs of Richard Clayderman and anything flute-related (I don't know why I love flute) as gifts from Singapore. I remember she got me a CD of those compilation of music played on pan-flutes. I didn't know what is a pan flute back then. All I thought, anything that sounds like a flute, is a flute. 

I discovered Enya in primary school, through my Angklung and Kulintang ensemble CCA. It was definitely a moment of epiphany in my life. I really love her music, I think it was unique, uplifting and well just really nice I suppose. And then I remember in P6 my sister got a free mini radio/USB music player because she bought herself an iPod. In P6 I listened to Gold 90 FM and Symphony 92.4 FM a lot, especially when I was studying. And this was when I discovered a lot of new music. New "old" music to be accurate. I listen to them so often, that I didn't know the current releases back then.

Secondary school was the period of my life for me where I discovered a lot of music. Mainly because of my friends, many whom are always updated with the music scene. I feel like secondary school is a time when lots of music just got smacked on my face, and I pick up slowly the music I like and I don't like. I mean I used to listen to Katy Perry, Owl City, Five for Fighting, Daughtry, The Script (still a fan!) and more. I still listen to some bands now, but most of them are kinda forgotten.

Up till this stage, I'm still a huge fan of classical music. But in sec 3, I discovered Ryan Farish, who is a composer who writes chilout music. And I fell in love deeply with his music! Thanks to Youtube, I searched for more music and discovered a few that I love. 

I suppose it was in sec 4 that I started to broaded my horizon in music. I just kept on listening to songs on Youtube, and yes it still feels like I got smacked by a lot of music on my face, and I was picking up my favourite ones. I started listening to Indie music, or songs that no one has heard before haha. At the end of secondary 4, I discovered Kings of Convenience and they instantly become my favourite band. And my love for indie just grew deeper and deeper! 

I discovered Sigur Ros on my first year in Poly (thanks Joel!) and they have helped to redefine my definition of music, and my taste for music. They were the gateway to post-rock, which is a genre I still enjoy listening to now. Having my own laptop, iTunes and CD player in poly, my conquest for music searching just became easier. I must say that it is during my polytechnic years that my "base" for music is beginning to take shape. I narrowed down my searches, and actually, I discovered most of my favourite bands during my polytechnic years! Credits to Youtube, Soundcloud and my friends haha.

So yeah, all these 17 years of my life of discovering music, and getting smacked on the face by different genres and bands have made me enjoy a lot different genres of music! But in the past 2-3 years I've been really enjoying a lot of electronic and synth music. Currently obsessed with Chvrches, Shura, Oh Wonder, Years and Years. And I am also enjoying a lot of minimalist music. Music with little instruments but nice beat and rhythm and lyrics. Lyrics are super powerful. 

I have a weird taste in music. Or like Mdm Mah once told me, an eclectic one.

Another Side

I've always felt that studying in Singapore for 11 years have changed me as a person. Gradually, progressively, I feel like I'm changing a lot as an individual. And upon returning back home for good, I realised how much all of these is contributed with me spending a lot of time alone, or away from my parents and family all these years. Which is kind of a good and bad thing?

I feel that when you spend a lot of years away living abroad, away from your parents, you will discover another side of you that you have never seen before. Not even your parents, friends and teachers see this side of you before. And one day if they do, they will either be shocked positively or negatively. And because you spent all these years away from them, you sort of made yourself believe that this is who I am, this is who I want to be, who I am supposed to be. 

But well, parents being parents, they already have some sort of expectations about you. They have a vision of what kind of person they want you to be, or the kind of person they think you should be. And because they haven't discovered this another side of yours yet, they'll feel startled to realise that the person they expect you to become... Is not there at all. Another person is there.

Maybe Shakespeare is right all along, that expectations is the root of all heartache. I guess it's normal and okay for parents to have an expectation about their children. But I think it's more important to let them become the person they want to be? But well I'm an Asian. So *shrugs*

But I think this matter doesn't only revolve around parents-children relationship. So all in all:

I think being alone can be dangerous sometimes. When you're alone a lot of time, you will discover another side of yourself that you have never discovered before. Not even your parents, your friends or your family. When you show this side of yours to them, they will be surprised, either positively or negatively, because they already have an expectation of the kind of person they want you to become. But because you made yourself believe that this is who I am, this is who I want and who I am supposed to be, you feel weird about the way they react. And you start to begin questioning your personality and identity. And you will create a shell where your soul calls abode. As you discover more undiscovered sides of you, you decide to hide in your shell because you feel it's pointless to show it to other people. You might feel special, but it feels sad too, that no one will know who you truly are.

Insubstantial

I always hate it when things don't go according to my plan. Especially when I planned everything so well, and somehow everything was going well, and then poof, things just didn't go according to your plan. Once again, I'll feel annoyed. I can't seem to let go of this annoyance still. Somehow somewhat. I'm still trying to let go whenever this happens. And well I suppose today I kinda cope with it well.

So what happened was this. Today is the 1st of the 8th Lunar Month. And cause I was down with dengue two weeks ago, I didn't got for the 15th of 7th month prayers. So which means I didn't to the temple for a month already! :O So today I was really determined to go. I prepared everything already, and I was planning to go straight from the farm, as we usually end the packing late.

Usually we'll end by about 5.30 - 6 PM ish. But today when I arrived, I was told that 2 of my workers couldn't work today cause they fell sick. So I was like okay no worries, I went to help one of my workers to pack the flowers. I don't usually help, cause usually there's more than enough people doing the work heh. But today was special, I really need to help him cause we were super short-handed.

We were done with only packing the flowers at 6 PM! We haven't sorted the flowers so after we're done, we went to sort the flowers. And I was happy cause we're done by like 6.30-ish? And loading them into the truck wouldn't take long. Probably about 10-15 minutes. And then... We realised we were short of a few flowers. So a few of my workers had to go pluck the missing ones and so more waiting!

And we're really done at 7 PM and so I thought okay no worries, I'll be a bit late, shouldn't be a problem. And then.... We had a guest who came over! Yay, so I couldn't leave the farm and so I decided not to go to the temple cause well, it's 7:40 by the time we're finished. That's almost halfway through the chanting so I guess it would be very pointless to go to temple haha.

So I was kind of annoyed this evening. I'm annoyed because I had this "perfect" evening planned out in my head since afternoon but everything just faltered cause of all of these. But I always remind myself of Buddhism's principles of existence - that everything is insubstantial. All of these events happened out of my control so there is nothing I can do really. And I always remind myself too, that feeling annoyed and stressed over this won't turn back the clock to undo all of these.

On the drive back home I calmed myself down. Well I felt kind of guilty for not going to the temple for one month now. But once again, there's nothing I can do. Besides my mum and sister always tell me that what's more important is that I have the intention of going to the temple. If I can't make it due to circumstances that are out of my control, then what's there to do right.

I read somewhere once how we are always unhappy because we painted a beautiful picture in our head about life but reality paints another picture for us. Once again, like I always mention here, we're clinging to this picture and yes, it's the clinging that causes suffering. I'm still learning not to cling to anything. To my emotions, my thoughts and even my dreams. I guess I haven't practised this enough. I just need more practice and I should be okay. Enlightenment is not reached by reciting millions of mantras but practising Dharma till we all die, and ultimately till we all reach nirvana.

Clearest Blue by Chvrches

Just wanna say I am currently obsessed with this great song. Pitchfork released a video of Chvrches performing this at the Pitchfork festival in Chicago back a month ago. And I instantly fell in love with that song! I just love it. I played that Pitchfork video a lot of times. Like really really a lot of times. That's how much I love this song. And when Martin tweeted about them releasing the official audio, I just kept on replaying this video for the whole of last night. I was so excited I couldn't sleep HAHA.

2 more weeks till Every Open Eye is released. And I really can't wait to receive the album! :)

Vegan Mac and Cheese

 Not the most photogenic food. But here's a bowl of vegan mac and cheese!

No dairy, no meat, nothing! (Except for pasta and veggies)

Not sure if I have told you this but I am actually going meatless every Monday! Yup I'm a vegetarian (but also avoiding eggs and milk) every Monday. I hope it helps me to get closer to my goal of becoming a vegetarian. I'm seriously aiming to become one starting of next year. I've been starting this habit 5 weeks ago (this is my 6th) but I failed on the 2nd and 3rd week cause on the 2nd week I was out of town and I was brought to eat in a restaurant and the 3rd week I was having dengue and my mum cooked non-vegetarian food for me so... Yes. But anyway, I'm gonna share with you the food I cooked!

So last week I cooked this deconstructed guacamole on toast, drizzled with truffle oil for breakfast. Tasted really good, and is probably the fanciest breakfast I've ever cooked. I also made guacamole for dinner, and it's funny how everyone in my house freaked out when they saw me eating a bowl of mashed avocado with rice. Because here avocado is eaten in the sweet way. And no one eats avocado with rice HAHAHA. But sadly no one wanted to try my guacamole :(

Okay guacamole is normal. But this week I finally tried cooking something I've been wanted to try cooking! It's vegan mac and cheese! Okay not really interested in the "mac" part but the cheese part! Okay I've read up on the net how vegans make/eat cheese. They use raw cashew nuts that are soaked, and then blended. Mixed with lemon juice, salt, nutritional yeast, and additional ingredients of their choice (like truffle oil, olives and more). But anyway, I got this recipe from Buzzfeed video haha.

So for the cheese part, the recipe goes like this. Boil potatoes, carrot and onion wedge. Blitz them with cashew nuts (I soaked them for 1.5 hours first though). Then I added salt and nutritional yeast, mix them again and we're done! Well it looks like cheese. But definitely doesn't taste like one. But trust me, it tasted so good! Seriously. It just tasted really creamy and just so good.

Okay I did make a few mistakes like firstly, I used too much potatoes and cashew nuts. Also I used one whole onion when you're just supposed to use like half or even a quarter. And I couldn't blend the ingredients because I didn't add enough water. Although eventually my sister told me to. So lesson learned: Follow the measurements in the recipe. Agaration is bad for health.

I am seriously interested to try on more recipes. I've learned how to make vegan cheese and now I can make more stuff! Like vegan cheese burger mwahaha. Anyway going meatless every Monday have helped me to embrace the vegetarian lifestyle more and more. I hope I can achieve my goal next year. Also, did I tell you that my colon is feeling super awesome every Monday? :P

Technology

So earlier just now, I joined in Oh Wonder's live Q&A session. I've joined in several Q&A held by several artists and bands, and I thought it's a session where we post our questions on the comment section and they will reply us with the answers. And I was wrong! I didn't know that it's really a live session where they are actually live through a webcam, and we post our questions on the comment section, and they will read our questions and give the answers directly, LIVE! I'm so amazed really.

Oh Wonder is definitely one of the most inspiring singers and songwriters I've discovered. They have been releasing one song every month for a year now. And I've been following them since the beginning! I remembered discovering them in Soundcloud and after doing a bit of research, I found their Facebook and Instagram and the journey begins then. I am very happy for their debut album which was released 3 days ago. I'm still waiting for mine to arrive! Probably gonna take another 2 weeks.

I didn't want to miss this chance to ask them some questions I have for them. My first question was where do they get their inspiration from. Because seriously the lyrics of their songs are so awesome! And they actually read out my name and question and answered it! This is the first time in my life that a band has answered me during a Q&A session haha. Thank you so much! So I found out that they got their inspiration from traveling and meeting people. No wonder really, traveling is an awesome way to get inspiration from! And also from the things that they encountered with.

And of course I wanna see them live so bad so I asked if there's any plans to tour to Asia (in fact a few Asian fans asked them the same question) and so they said yes they have plans to tour Asia. But I asked them specifically if they are touring Southeast Asia and Josephine said "We're coming for you Southeast Asia!" oh my goodness yay!! Haha. Come to Indonesia pleassseeee.

I am pretty amazed by technology from today's Oh Wonder live Q&A session. How all of this is possible. It feels like they are in front of us, listening to our questions and answering them! And I love how the fans seem to interact with each other too. Like for example when someone asks a question, another fan will add on another comment to the answer/question. And how this fan dropped her phone in milk and another fan told her to put her phone in rice. Such awesome feels really! It feels like we are all sitting together during the session - when in fact we are all around the world.

I really love Oh Wonder more now. They are such a sweet sweet couple and well, I'm more inspired by them now. They're friendly and just simply awesome people! I really really can't wait to receive their album. I wish I live in Europe sometimes - delivery won't take this long hah.

Alright that's all for me now. Still feeling all warm and fuzzy inside realising Josephine and Anthony replied my question just now hah. Wishing you all an awesome week ahead! It's the second week of September, have a great week people! And dear Oh Wonder CD, please come quickly! :P

248

 Duolun you so fine

Can't believe that today is the 248th day of the year. I kind of lost track of time. Although I (supposedly) spent every day of the year so far writing/doodling/drawing on my journal. Which brings me to my next point - I haven't been updating it regularly! Okay so the story goes like this. I bought myself a new plastic drawer which I put near my table. And I put every stuff that usually lies around my table inside it, including my journal. So it is always out of my sight, and hence I always forgot to update it!

Like for example I just spent some time updating 4 days worth of entries earlier tonight. Okay I'm going to put it on my table now so that I can update it everyday. Which brings me to my next point - I have totally failed in trying to draw for every day of this year. Well at least I managed to improve my cursive writing, and I have re-discovered the joy of writing poems. Which I'll continue next year!

I think I'll just stick to writing to be honest. I can't draw for nuts.

Anyway the past week has been an okay week. Lots of flower deliveries cause well, we have a lot of flowers hah. I also spent last Thursday night helping my sister to edit a document written in traditional Chinese and Indonesian, which her shop is going to print copies of! It is seriously no joke trying to do this feat. As if simplified Chinese is not hard enough, now I'm given traditional Chinese. Which seriously is difficult because some words look the same. But when you look closer, they're differentiated by a single stroke, dot, or some weird character haha. Nevertheless I'm done now! :)

It's September once again, and today coincidentally, is the 4th anniversary of our Green Desert Project! Can't believe 4 years have passed. I still miss the awesome days we had in Duolun. I miss my GT people. I hope I can meet them again when I'm back in Singapore. And I hope we can fulfill the promise where we will return to Duolun again. Oh man, I miss that lovely small town really!

Alright I guess that's all for now. I will blog more in this month and the rest of this year, I promise! I haven't been blogging a lot thanks to dengue and stuff. Time to write more stuff in hehe.