my thoughts @ 10:58 PM

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BIG BIG THANK YOU TO:

Jel, Rani, Kel, Jo, Am, Joon, Shar, Vinh, Ni +bf, Mikey, Margie, Bud, Mel, Sara, Cam, Robbie, Ann

To these people for giving me a surprise birthday celebration and making me cry because of it! :P You guys don't know how much it meant to me! It feels really good when people you don't see often still make the effort to show you how much they still care by organising a surprise. And believe me, I know how much effort goes on behind the scenes to make any event happen, let alone a surprise one! So I am extremely grateful to all those who helped out to make it happen - which includes those who put their two cents in but weren't physically there to celebrate with us :) I was thinking of you!

I seriously can't express into words how genuinely happy I am right now. I feel so loved. And that's something I haven't felt in a while. So big thank you to those people! *hugglez*

More details about the surprise and photos to come later, but for now... one photo that I really love coz its with my little sis :) and I thought was really cool... and its BLUE! :D



my thoughts @ 10:42 PM

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i'm sooo proud of myself!

i drove to two places this week (with help of course) that were quite foreign to me.

First I had to drive to Armadale to buy my wallet... that wasn't available anymore :( you know the one from spencer and rutherford? the purdy bluebell one? well, i rang yesterday morning hoping to go retrieve it but unfortunately they had already sold it. and because its old stock, they couldn't get anymore in :( it wasn't meant to be. i kep putting it off because I didnt have anyone to come with me... i wasn't confident enough to drive by myself. so well mel told me she would be free to come with me, i still wanted to go and have a look anyway. the shop was gorgeous! so many pretty/cute things. but expensive.

i've realised that i hardly spoil myself. i never buy expensive things just because i love it. but lately i've been feeling not quite right and wanted to get something to give me a warm fuzzy feeling.

i had convinced myself 98% on another wallet that I saw in the store. was so close to buying it but in the end realised that i was only buying it because I couldn't buy the blue one and that i just wanted to buy it for the sake of buying one. i didn't LOVE it like the blue one... plus this other one had pink inside it! *gasp* hehe... and knowing me, i just couldn't get it. so didn't end up buying anything.

then today i drove to doncaster east. not that exciting... but i still got lost. i met up with a friend who's visiting from malaysia and he was staying in doncaster east. i had to drive him home and boy! did we have fun trying to get there! lolz it was pretty much a tourist navigating a local around melbourne. lolz. but we got there in the end... and in one piece.

chih-en leaves for queensland soon. we had farwell drinks last nite. its sad. we're all slowly moving our own separate ways. we're growing up too fast. it didn't hit me until we took the photo of all the girls at the end of the nite. we realised that this would be the last time for a while where we're all together. im gonna miss chi. even though we dont see each other often, i'll still miss her.

my thoughts @ 5:01 PM

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people change.

don't take it personally.

my thoughts @ 11:23 PM

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its been one busy week after another...

with long days starting from 7:30 to 5:30...

but somehow not long enough to fit everything in...

excursions, meetings, seminars, interviews, teaching... the list goes on...

but at the end of each day... i know its all worth it.

there are a lot of things i need to improve on... but its one big learning curve and each week i improve on at least one thing.

im so lucky to have this job... i just hope i have the same job next year!

my thoughts @ 7:48 PM

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