Back at home

Hello peeps! I'm back at my hometown now. Very very cold here. Was welcomed by my three dogs and they are super cute! One climbed onto me and he's the heaviest one. Goshh.

Anyway the flight and everything was alright. Got to take some nice pictures as I got the window seat. Pictures uploading soon.

Met my sis and we had dinner with my bro and one of my maid. Very very delicious dinner yeah...

Anyway just a short post to update. I wanna rest now. See ya!

I pray and I hope and I wish for a great holiday :)

Reunion

Need a great long break. And I can sense its presence.

Photography by Yours Truly

Japan? Nope, Chinese Garden haha!

Woohoo, I love today haha. It's a great day cause I went out with some of my secondary school friends! It's like a reunion so I love it. Plus, the weather was awesome too. What else can we get. Great weather, great company. What a bliss.

Anyway met Tacy and Sharon (or also known as my studying group, cause we used to go out and study together before Os) at IMM. We went there and TALKED a lot. Like seriously a lot haha. Sharing our experiences, our lives (now that we're in poly and JC) and we had lots of fun. Took tons of pictures with my lomo too.

It's been such a long time since we meet up again. I remembered those days where we would meet at Jurong Library to study together. Doing TYS, doing worksheets and exam papers. And now we meet again at Jurong, in IMM. What a co-incidence huh.

After having lunch with them, headed to West Coast Park to meet Adeline, Jeslyn, Wei Qi, Chew Huan and Meng Fung. Met Neal halfway to look for film first haha. Thank god I bought another film cause...

The weather was awesome~

Played kites there, first time flying kites. It's quite a lovely experience and it's been a long time since I fly kites haha. There was a man who taught me how to fly it properly too. and judging from the way he taught me, he's a pro. Thanks stranger man! Haha

Played at the playground a while. It was so funny haha, listening to MF screaming so loudly! And after that we went to Sumo for dinner. Yum yum. And then home sweet home.

Well I'll be flying off tomorrow for my holiday and be back next next Sunday. Yup that's before school reopens. Hopefully my holiday this time will even be a more fruitful one! And somehow somewhat I have the feeling that it will be. Cause my girlfriend is going home with me mwahaha. Time to take more pictures.

Alright gotta pack tonight and I'm feeling really tired so wanna sleep early. See ya all and have a great holiday! :D

Passing by my secondary school today. And a flood of memory rushed in.

Sweden, oh Sweden

Shot taken at Norway

Photography by my sister

I wish I could feel freedom everyday.

Exactly 365 days ago, I was in Sweden enjoying its summer. Its cold wind blowing over my face. It's rain showering my body with its droplets as cold as ice. I was in Sweden with my sister. In Professorslingan. The place where I stayed.

And I miss it sooooo much.

I really really miss it.

Last year felt like yesterday. I could still remember those days, where I was so stressed when settling with my Schengen Visa. Those days where I would come back to United Square just to complete my visa application.

Then come that day, where I received my Visa on my passport. It was one of the happiest day of my life. I went straight to book my flight and just get so excited to go to Sweden!

And finally that day, 11th June, was the day where I went to Sweden, on my own. I could still remember how lost I was in Thailand for a transit. And how happy I was in my flight, even though I was deprived from sleep and it was a night flight.

And as I arrived... I was the happiest man on Earth. Finaly I arrived in a country out of Southeast Asia. I met my sister and she took me to a train ride to her place. I could still remember the route and everything. The look of the train, the majestic T-Centrallen.

Norway was next. I couldn't wait for it either. I remember how early we left house for Norway. With only my Crumpler and my sis' backpack we headed for the airport. Norway is a beautiful country. Its fjords are breathtaking. Its view are amazing. Everything was nice.

I remember the mid-summer festival where we went to Vaxholm, The small islan on the Swedish archipelaego. How sunny it was, and how crowded it was. Where it suddenly rained a hailstorm and we were there laughing and mystified by our first hailstorm.

And that's when I lost my sweater.

And the day I hated finally came. The day I have to return back to Singapore. It was really a sad thing to do. I remember having no appetite at all during lunch. I could not finish my lunch and it was really sad. The feeling. The one week I had was never enough. And I know.

I am always hungry for more.

It's been a year since I went to Sweden and Norway. It's been 365 days since I missed its splendour and grandeur. It's been a year since I've been to (so far) the most beautiful country I have ever visited. And I know, and I promise that I would return again some day.

My trip taught me something which I learnt just last night. Last night before I slept, I remembered that yesterday was the day I reached Sweden a year ago. I felt this sudden gush of sadness running inside me. I don't know why but I just felt sad. Perhaps it's the memory, perhaps it's something else.
And that something else is what I called:

Taste of freedom.

In that one week where I was in Norway, I have never felt so much freedom in my life. Imagine this. Two people travelling in a country they didn't know. No one bothering, only the map could help. I felt so much freedom and so much thrill. It is really an amazing feeling. No knowing where to go and taking the risk just to go to places we want to see.

From the trip I learnt. I learnt that one should not waste the taste of freedom. Freedom to me is one of the most valuable things in life that one could posess. Of course, health is above all else. But freedom is powerful. It's more powerful than money, it's more powerful that happiness. For without freedom, you may not get all this things.

Sigh I'm really emo right now. Because I am really sad and despaired to know what lies ahead of me. A 10 day holiday with reports and projects accompanying me. I hope and I wish that soon. Another of that dream holiday would come to me.

And as I said in my Sweden trip post last year.

I promise I would return to this country once more.

It's over :D

Lights off! I'm really tired

Photography by Yours Truly

Taken by my 50mm hehe

Alrighty! MST is over so time ro unwind, relax and chill. Chill out, de-stress and everything haha. And thanks to my awesome class DBS 1A02 I got everything I need today! Cause we (well most) went to Sentosa to have tons of fun. Love it hehe.

So after our Maths paper we went to Harbour Front. Had a nice lunch together at the sky park and then we headed to the beach! Played some games there and took lots of pictures. Retarded ones, funny ones, great ones and more haha. But I had fun! Was their paparazzi for the day haha.

Vivan, Michelle, Bei Xi and Nivedha went home while the rest went to Vivo Sky Park to eat again. It's by the view of the sea! So it was great. And we talked a lot. I realised how much we (our generation) have all grown up now :)

Anyway we headed home after that. My bus took such a long time to arrive.. Reached home at 1030. Whew.

The MSTs for this week was alright I think. I would like to thank Candy and wei ping for spending our time studying together! totally loved it. Our hard work pays yeah. Hope we can see it in our results :D

Righto, time to go and have a great rest. See ya!

Oh dear, I just realised World Cup has started an hour ago

MST!

I need a break. A good long one!
Lomography by Yours Truly
Lovely sunrise at ECP

Right, this is my 8th week of poly life and it's the week known as the week before the term holiday starts, also know as the... MST week! Well MST is obviously the mid-semester test haha. So well, don't think I'll be blogging for the rest of the week till MST is over. I think.

I felt so disappointed with myself. I could have used the whole day to study and somehow somewhat... I started studying like 3 hours ago. Studied for about an hour, watched TV, studied again and then I decided to stop. Well I hope I'll score well in tomorrow's Immunology test.

Anyway, I promise that I'm going to study tonight. MUST.

And I don't think I have to repeat the phrase "It's been such a long time since I blogged" cause you know the answer. So well yesterday I went to study with Weiping and Candy's house! And it was so nice of Candy's parents to cook dinner for us :D Thank you again! And it's kind of rare to find fathers who cook, and cook well!

After studying, we went to Lot 1 to do shopping. Basically it's supposed to be a de-stressing trip but I ended up being tired haha. Oh well, it's still fun anyway. And I finally bought a belt... Cause my pants keep on dropping.

Well but I felt really tired at the end of the day... But I felt accomplished too cause I did quite a lot of things for my immunology. Superb or what hehe. After I reached home, I just bathed, facebook-ed and watched TV and sleep!

Alrighty I think that's all for today and yesterday, now I wanna study again and tidy up my room. My sis is coming back from Indo and she asked me to tidy the room cause supposedly, her friend is coming so yeah. Alrighty see you!

MST! I shall love you! (OMG I sounded really nuts)

Stressed

Take me to paradise please

Photography by Yours Truly

I really love this shot of sunrise!

Well, right about a few hours ago. Right at that particular moment, I was feeling EXTREMELY stressed. I mean really, stressed. It feels like my head is going to explode at any time. Perhaps Wei Ping is right, I'm having information overload so yeah. Oh well, MST is MST. Exams, yeah, stress.

Been staying back for the past three days to study together with Wei Ping, Candy, Syazwani, Lizzie and Darren. Today I stayed back with Wei Ping and Lizzie only though. And I had dinner then and yup home sweet home.

I realised studying together is really fun. Not only that you won't feel lonely, but you will also feel more "well-rounded" cause you have friends to accompany you and they can just bombard you with questions. So fun sometimes haha.

MST is next week and I can really really feel the stress and heat approaching me. I don't understand how and why people say that poly life is slack. Seriously? Hello. Try it before you say. Okay it might be less stressful as JC life but it is NOT SLACK. Don't think we only have presentations and nothing. We have reports and stuff.

Oh well... We live in a stereotyped world, what else can we do?

But well I have to try to get relax and try my hair down sometimes. Studying 24/7 won't do anything good. So I decided to chill out before I start studying again tonight.. At least I have some time to catch my breath.

Alrighty, feel much better after blogging, accompanied with music by Corrine May! Who is now my favourite singer. She rocks. Her lyrics are simple yet impactful so I love it. Okay, see ya and don't get too stressed people! (For poly and those JC students who have MYE after June hols)

Stress, must be like your best friend.

Mug at Moberly

Shot taken at Chinese Garden
Photography by Yours Truly
Love the texture of the sculpture

Oh well I just finished studying with some peeps from 1A02 at Mug@Moberly haha. First time studying here, I think it's not a bad place to study... When it's not crowded. Well currently quite a lot of people are here studying (or some not studying), so somehow it's a bit noisy. I think an mp3 player perfects the studying formula.

Anyway it's been a long time since I blogged, been busy with studying and such. MST next week! How can we not panic right. So everyone has been studying hard now. And I wanna catch up with them hoho. So far I'm afraid of Biochem and Immunology... Hope can ace them.

And I realised many classes are cancelled this week, I guess due to the fact that MST is next week so yeah, more time for studying. And I don't even have a class on Thursday cause the Biochem lesson is shifted to tomorrow. Yay.

Well... Life has been busy. Did not expect poly life to be thiiiiis busy. During my O Level days I still managed to spend sometime of my day to blog but these days, I just can't seem to find the time. Oh well I hope I can really continue blogging. Is till have my dream of keeping this blog till the end of time heh heh.

Okay that's all for today. Going for maths soon, with only 3 people! Haha. See you people then!

I need to manage my time as well as possible :)