The stars died so that you could be here today

But if you close your eyes, does it feel like nothing changed at all? 2013 is coming to a close. This has been a year of many firsts, many experiences whether I want them or not. But I've grown a hell lot, more than ever. It hasn't been an easy year from the start but I'm grateful for everything that has happened.  I intend to sit down to reflect upon my year, the wrongs I've done and the little things I should do more, but not today. Today is for the new year though it may not have come yet. This should be written tomorrow at the strike of 12 but I have plans! Can't wait to see that bunch of girls and guys I've known since childhood. My favourite people :D Come 2014, I hope I can keep some promises to myself. Mostly it's spending more time on things I love doing.  1. 365 Yes, I'm jumping on the 365 Project bandwagon. A photo a day of anything around my life. Doing this to force myself to put more thought about what's happening a...

2:40 am. My sleeping habits have gone back to normal. By normal I mean normal by my standards which actually mean really bad. It improved during the period when I had to be on call to be my dad's chauffeur, but now the night owl in me is out to play again, and it refuses to disappear. I've never realized up to now how huge DSLR images are. Post-processed images are at least 10MB. WHERE DO I FIND THE SPACE FOR THEM?! Hence, I decided to resize Day 1 of Korea Trip images to a more reasonable size: 4288 x 2600 pixels (or thereabouts), maintaining at 300dpi. But the resolution is really poor when I uploaded it to Facebook and I'm really upset about it now. In a lazy funk though I want to blog about the trip. So here are three photos that I tried photoshopping to emulate a film look. So. Fail. Anyhows I really love my new camera (: And I think I've fallen in love with polaroids as well. That and I want new lenses. Unfortunately I'm broke beyond words, espe...

Quickie update while I sieve through photos: I'M FINALLY HOME :D Sem 1 results out! Definitely could have done better if I wasn't so careless in the finals. It's the first finals where I actually understood all the questions and more or less could do everything. Careless mistakes be damned. Pulled my cap up by 0.04 as well (: This isn't a recent issue, but something that's been bugging me for a long time: If there's one thing I really really hate it's this. If we're suppossed to be meeting up i.e. me and you. Meet up. Catch up. DO NOT BRING YOUR FUCKING BOYFRIEND ALONG . For godsake if you can't leave him for like an hour then don't agree to me kthxbye. I can't understand people who do this. Are you guys glued to each other ?! Come on have a life outside of it.

Brought the camera out to get a screen protector and meet Pei Shi aka Fav Hang Out Girl.  Can't pass the chance to camwhore HAHA. Walked to Choa Chu Kang Blk 302 to have the Bak Chor Mee that our parents have been raving about. Also this is our second time having BCM in 3 days, and my third time. Will eating too much pig liver kill me? To die at the hands of good food will be my dream.  Sorry for calling you retarded. Cute la ok! How do you get rid of a bloated face? Lose weight. Going to start on my exercise regime again. As PS puts it, the Bak Chor is flavoured. And I think flavoured with pig liver. Loves. Not my favourite stall though since I prefer harder slightly undercooked noodles and the noodles here are softer. But. Anything with pig's liver will always win me over.  Slurps We hilariously tried to telephathically tell each other which flavours we wanted to try, which was kind of fail.. At least we ended up with a bowl o...

Let's make love, coffee and magic. All this planning, worrying, calculating and settling administrative things is exhausting me. I shall sleep early for a change tonight. // Early by my standards. I'm feeling very inspired to start a 365 project next year and also to keep a travel journal for Korea. We'll see how that goes given my high failure rate at keeping up at such things. The list of things to remember to do is just too long.

After years and years and years of saving up, I finally decided it's time to break my piggy bank to buy a DSLR for myself :D My dad being my dad decided he'll get one for me instead. #lovemydad Meet my new best friend / toy boy / boyfriend / baby. All in one :D Nikon D3200 I settled on the Nikon D3200 because well I only really need an entry level DSLR for my usage purposes, and I have brand loyalty to Nikon. Also, the higher end DSLRs are still rather costly D:  Testing testing at Courts All my babies *lovey-eyed*   Disclaimer: Everything is post-processed.. I really need to work on not over-doing my post processing. Once I start, I can't stop. I can't wait to read The Alchemist too. It's been a book I really want to read, and it's something I need to read right now to gain some peace. The Chinese book is for me to get back in touch with my Chinese roots, and also because Chinese is really one of the most beautiful languages; More...

Finally found the heart to go through my Hong Kong photos and do some post-processing.  Mango Mochi. Omg, this was so good. Chewy soft mango mochi with grated coconut. HUI LAO SHAN. SPASMS. The only reason I want to go to JB now. For the uninitiated, it's a shop selling delicious mango desserts, and I cannot emphasize delicious enough. ALL THE MANGO IS SO SWEET AND CHEAP. Mango mochi, mango ice cream, mango slices, mango juice. The mango juice is DAYUM GOOD. It's like Hong Kong's answer to bubble tea. I drank a cup everyday no matter how full I was. It's made of real mango, and I can't get enough of it. While I really really want them to branch out to Singapore, they're probably going to be charging exorbitant prices if they do come... ): Camwhoring in Hong Kong's subway. I really enjoy being able to read Chinese when I'm overseas. Feels like I'm right at home.  Victoria's Peak  The only photo of me at Oce...

So done with Photoshop. I literally am holding my breath when I crop things. Then when the lasso goes out of line and I can't undo the craziness that is the magnetic lasso tool, I want to bang my head on the wall. #morestressthanfinals Dear dad, I'm not a design student. Sincerely, Your Engineer-with-zero-artistic-talent-daughter. Well, nothing better to do, hence whiling all my time away on social media. And I mean it. NOTHING-TO-DO.

Some backdated things that've been happening in my life: 10/11/2013, Ran Great Eastern 10KM with TF ^^. Daddy woke up early to send me to The Promontory in the rain. I wonder if it takes pain for people to see the love others have, but recently I've been very very touched by his love for the family. We're always a priority. Anyhows, the rain was so heavy around the Choa Chu Kang area, I was quite upset that I may not be able to run, partly because I had given myself a two day break from running for the 10K already. Super glad that the skies cleared up by the time it was the 10KM flag off. Paced with this crazy girl who was going at 5min/KM. This is way faster than m y normal pace and I nearly died at the halfway mark. Forced myself to slow down because I know my heart would have just stopped if I continued at that pace. Chanced upon this really warm Caucasian dude who was pacing his wife. He actually stopped to give a pep talk to this woman who gave up around the 9.5K...