We are all moving too fast forward, stop and take a good look around you. You would realise that things are not the way you've remembered, or thought they were to be.

I was staring out of the window on bus 36 today, on my way to meet my parents for dinner. Strangely, nothing seemed familiar to me. I can might as well be in Hong Kong. Though it was nothing to the extreme of being alien, but it just did not seem like home. It is not just the new physical surroundings. How long has it been since you have taken a good look at your parents. A good long while isn't it? Daddy looked like he has put on 20 years worth of wrinkles and half a head full of white hair. He also no longer has that huge appetite for food that I inherited. Mummy has also put on her fair share of wrinkles, minus the white hair. She has the weary look worn on her face. My parents are growing old, aging. Are yours? (The expensive products, facials that my parents go for are so not working.)
What have you done, I done to cause the crease on their foreheads, what have I done to lessen their worries?


Here are the Steps taken by the Choo Family in times of Inflation.

Mr Choo- 1. Dine in places without GST, service tax.
2. Apply for memberships at stores.
3. Indulge in expensive watches.

Mrs Choo- 1.Buy in-house brands at supermarkets.
2. Ensure that daughter does not tag along during grocery shopping.
3. Keep coupons.
4. Buy expensive treads for knitting.

Miss Choo- 1. Keep ATM card at safely at home.
2. Take lesser taxis. Or at least try to.
3. Shop more during GSS.


MANY MANY THANKS TO ALL THOES WHOM HAVE REMEMBERED MY BIRTHDAY!

1. My pretty aunties and my cousins. Thank you for that expensive lunch and all the angpows. Thank you, Chel for the gift and the trip to you know where and we got lost. Thank you!

2. The TPJCanoeing team. Thank you for all the food that you have made me carry around and the 18 donuts. Thank you, Eunice for the card. Thank you Kahmun for the handcrafted book/card. Thank you WenJie for the stones and cookies.

3. My beloved classmates. Thank you Sab, Sheik, Kamilah for the presents! I loved it. Thank you XinYing for the Chocolates. They were lovely.

4. Cassandra and Qian. Thank you for the presents. It would be funny if we all had the same one!

5. BullionParkers. Thank you for all the well wishes! Even though, May Tan was late. Haha. Daryl was not this year!

In NUTSHELL, thank you thank you thank you. I really appreciated everything! And there is no word/phrase/sentence to express my gratitude.

Father's Day was fun. Okay, I have to admit, wind surfing is actually kinda enjoyable. And, watching my parents fall into the water all the time, ha, PRICELESS! Can you just imagine, my fat father struggling to get back up to the board? The scene is just hilarious. And my mother, stilling on top of the board, too afraid to move. Its so entertaining. If only I had not felt like puking all the while, I would have more fun.

Oh wells, back to case study 7!

Lunch at Carlton, was simply heavenly. The dim sum, oh my. You will never want to leave at all.

Followed by Beef Bonitos at Franky's. Scrumptious.

Bushmen Shrooms at Outback. Sinful. [Thank God, I fled before it was served.]

Dinner at Ding Tai Fung. Totally felt like puking already.

June's cake. OMG. I felt like my stomach was about to burst. The cake was like stucked, at my throat.


I saw the other side of Daryl today. The gentle, considerate, charming side. He finally brought his girlfriend along! I swear, I have never ever seen Daryl behave the way he did today, in our like almost 15 years of friendship.

I bought the dress that I was eyeing for at Miss Selfridge! HAH. I feel satisfied. My next material indulgence would be the Liz bag.

I have no idea how much I spent. But, I sure have enjoyed myself. Now, who says money can't buy happiness?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNE DARL.
You know how much I love you. Thank you for being there 24/7. Nothing can replace you my, darling!



RANDOM RUMBLES.

As the day draws closer, tension piles up around us higher than before. It is just a matter of time before anyone snaps. Needless to say, it is not a pretty scene that anyone would want to see. Neither do I. And, neither would I want to see, myself as the lead character of all that drama.


Marcus thinks that I am the one with the shortest fuse around. I beg to differ. I think its you, Marc. You always know how to piss me off or break me down.


I do keep a huge part of my life to myself. That is because, I would not know how to face anyone, whom knows me entirely. But, I can let you in on a little secret. I enjoy running away from my problems. There, thats it. That is me. LOSER RIGHT.

The bryan boy, nearly irritated the shit out of me. I was this close to smacking his ass. This close.


As, I did SL today, i wondered to myself. Hey, itsn't it good to be 8 again? Although, most of you might not agree, this is how I feel. I envied those children for being who they are. Behaving in manners that I would never dream of doing so. They have nothing to worry about. Tomorrow, would always be there. Mummy and Daddy would never stop loving me. It is the kinda thing that as you grow older you can't do. Because, you realised that nothing is going to be there forever. You cannot take things for granted anymore. And, you are afraid of losing grip of the things closest to you.

It is the uncertainty in life, something that you realise as you mature that causes the fear within me. Because, now I can never be certain of what is going to happen the next year, tomorrow or the next moment. I cannot tell you that, this is what that is going to happen tomorrow. There are bound to be surprises that are going to spring up from nowhere, catching me off guard and defenceless.

This is why, I want to be 8 again. I want to depend on someone that I have full trust in. To count on that person whenever I'm in trouble.

Something that I would never achieve, now that I'm almost 18.

Yes, I have stopped sneezing. The running nose is almost gone too, even the watery blotchy eyes. But I feel so much worse! I feel like puking out whatever that goes into my mouth, and I totally lost my appetite for food. Food completely turns me off. Apart from that, every muscle group on my body is aching. Drowsiness from the medicine is taking effect 24/7. I haven't even finish my math work for tomorrow's lesson.

In a nutshell, I feel horrible.

Between the past year and today, I have survived through many illness. Starting from eye infection to chicken pox. And now, ear infection? hello, the only sense that I have not damaged is my sense of touch. Even my taste buds have failed me.

The buzzing sound in my year is really irritating me. &*@#)(*

I like to believe in the best of people and I forgive. I hope you do too.

We cannot decide on our fates, but we can choose how we want to handle our circumstances.

As much as I love TPJC, enjoy TPJC, am going to miss TPJC, I CANT WAIT TO GET THE HELL OUT OF IT!

A Levels will be both my release, and my doom days.


Play nice. I might be mean, but i have no malicious intents. I don't bite.