gathering light

School is starting on 13 aug! Argh I can't believe it!. I hardly feel like I've had a break. Where did those 8 months go? 6 months lab job + 1 week local missions + 1/2 week cameron highlands + 1 week orientation camps + class/og/church outings + rag stuff... Haha ok now I know (:

Ah ragragragragrag. As rag i/c I feel somewhat guilty for my og's blatant lack of effort in coming down to work on the float, our schedule being something like this: come down on alternate days, 45 min actual work, 15 min complaining about how boring this is, 1 hr lunch. But I honestly can't blame them, considering that every time we come down we end up sticking little bits of white paper onto clouds (which so far have been identified by passersby as rocks, brain tumours, spaceships...anything but clouds) which is not exactly the most scintillating job. Or waiting for ppl to come with potato starch so we can make glue. Personally I think the whole thing is a massive waste of resources (why don't we just recycle the stuff directly?), energy and the limited amt of holiday remaining to us...but who am I to judge this noble NUS tradition?

As my M4 cousin wisely pointed out, "you aren't really a NUS student till you've wasted valuable hours of your life on little bits of paper and starch glue."

haha unlike most people who seem to be pretty bored now, i'm actually really enjoying this in between period! in which i mainly just sleep, read, fiddle around with guitar or piano, help my mum with baking/cooking/ironing etc, catch up with friends, go cycling and ACTUALLY GO ONLINE, to the great surprise of many ppl as i normally use msn, in a friend's words, 'once in a blue moon'.

 after the a level mugging period, 6 month job, local missions etc, these 2 weeks worth of free time to do my own thing are really precious. i'm kind of dreading having to get back into the busyness of starting school again. esp knowing that 5 years +++ of solid mugging lie ahead. the horror...

i'm really thankful to have had time to spend with friends, whether through sleepovers, msn, phone or just meeting up to talk about bo liao stuff together. today, i met up for dinner (and aimless wandering around shopping centres in Orchard while marvelling at the things some people pay good money to wear) with a good friend whom i've known since pri 5, went to church and had some quality 'catching up' time with a  friend, then came home and talked over msn with my best friend in pri 1. for my pri 1 friend in particular, i'm amazed by how our friendship has lasted despite us being in different classes from pri 3 onwards then different schools. though we rarely get the chance to meet up, when we do we're still able to enjoy talking about the same things. ya this sounds terribly sappy i know, but it's days like this that just really make me thankful to God for friends, and good conversations, and people (:

finally got multiply (after long persuasion by my sister) cos i wanted to post up pics! just went with my JC friends to cameron highlands for a short trip and had a great time... beautiful scenery, cool weather, interesting plants and insects, and many many many strawberries (: