konichiwa April

Blogging in the midst of the week- been crazy hectic as per the past month.
I miss Lanjays and the rest of my friends so so so badly, feeling like such a bad friend because I barely have time for them, plus my family :'( Swear I'll make it up to them in a bit.

Many people have been telling me things like 'why are you so skinny' 'you look like you lost weight' 'you are so thin now'!! I really don't feel lighter, but I weighed myself this morning and guess what, I lost 4 kgs since the start of the holidays. Must be a result of tiring myself out with school matters and work everyday. I barely have time to eat sometimes and I'm always on the move. If I lose more weight, I'm gonna be sub forty, sounds scary? Funny how I lose so much weight when I never planned to, and when I scheme to do so it never happens.

Some photos from the past two weeks (in reverse chronological order):

                                        
                                    
Last friday, huisi came over to crash and we finally carried out our sleepover plans! Had a nice pig out session at Royals' and we came back to put masks and have a girly night! And lobsters for breakfast the next morning, crazy much?

               

All thanks to this man who is my awesome dad! Haha, he ordered fresh lobsters from GMARKET omg I had no idea that they sold seafood... They were cute but unfortunately we grilled them with garlic and butter and it was so delish. Definitely an experience!

Reizen chalet, where we had lots of good food (thanks to our masterchef Isaac)! Didn't stay long but had a great time with them as always :> Can't believe it's FO next week. Time is flying by way too quickly..

Dnd! Had a good time helping out with my pts @rinnerrrr hehe

Synergy leaders' camp! Took a while for Santium to hype up but I'm glad we made it through. Definitely a camp I would remember; had a blast (nightwalk was the best!!) and went home with more than what I expected :') 

It's April already. 2012 is really flying by me, no idea where the past few months went. Work is really exhausting but fun, and my colleagues are an incredible bunch of people. This week is the store opening- kind of excited but I'm gonna be so shagged working for four full days. Come visit Uniqlo Parkway Parade, 5th April @ 10AM!

And immediately after that on Monday next week is finally Freshman Orientation. All these months of shouting, sweat, bonding and tears with Reizen is coming to an end. No, I wouldn't say it's an end actually, it's what we have been working so hard for since last december. I'm really excited to spend 6 crazy days with the best empire I could ever ask for. Praying that we, as well the freshies will have an awesome time!

Following week will be week 0 which I'm hyped up for as well, wanna see the new batch CMM freshies! I'm hoping our IG's CMM day will work out great too. Did I mention how Ms. H is such an angel? Always so encouraging, really glad she's our teacher i/c. 

And lastly, I'll be looking forward to the start of the new academic year. My junior year, and I'm all pumped up and ready for whatever's in store for me!

I need to keep going, and a little bit of optimism always helps, plus it's always nice to feel recognised for your efforts. Words can't express how grateful I am for everyone and everything in my life now. It can only get better, right? 

!!!!

hustle

15 MarSheryl Yeo ‏ @brokenchivalry 

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All I need now... Is a hug. And a rest day.

That pretty much sums up my week (and the coming week). How contradictory, it feels really nice to be occupied but somehow I still feel like I'm idling. Am I actually putting my heart into all this?

Monday and tuesday, went to school to help out for the MediaBiz awards! Seeing all the year 3s graduating... Can't help remembering how fast time is going by. I'll be like them in no time. Haha, the theme was superheroes and I went as a #fail batgirl! Stop Press meeting on wed and somehow I'm a news editor now.... ok. And after work on thursday, because my parents and bro were out of town (without me :'() my ba0beizxz came over for a swim and chill session! 

tryneo ♥

hehe life's always good with them

Clachang haha met her after her work on Monday! Supposed to help her with her uni applications but the internet at Starbucks was so sucky that we ended up spamming photobooth with our twitfaces

Oh and on tuesday after MBA, had second interview with Reizen and we played running man after that! Never watched an episode of it in my life but it was fun! I kept hearing the jingling of the bells in my head even after the game ended! So traumatising. But I survived hehe and I walked through the engine level 6 corridor alone! #fearless

Haven't had a single rest day in two weeks!!! Am packing for SL camp now, but I'm still buzzing from refresh 2 yesterday. Never thought I'd feel so much love in an empire, but sometimes the unexpected just happens. ^ I can't wait for FO, definitely gonna be the highlight of the busy holiday. 

My coming week: SL camp, DnD, work work work work

I thought I'd at least get a warm welcome when I come back. It feels like ages since I spent time at home and I don't like this hostility. You have no idea how drained I am and how much I miss that fuzzy homely feeling and you're not making it better at all 

Lazy bones

Spent my monday mostly in bed. Haha, wanted to wake up early in the morning to clean my room but failed as expected. Snoozed till noon and rolled around till 3pm when I got up for lunch. Mom cooked too much food (as usual) and I ended up having to down three servings! What do you do when you're feeling so full? Go back to bed of course. I intended to just lie down and stone but obviously I fell asleep and woke up when it was nearly 8pm. MADNESS I TELL YOU. And I was supposed to meet Reizen for dinner but I didn't in the end because of this :( Pfft. I must have really overworked my body. :'( Been sleeping really little the past week. It's been hectic because I started work over the weekend, and had a day of training before that, along with my dates/outings :c Haha, but it felt really good to just idle and do nothing for a day, haven't done that in a while!

Started my first official day of work at ion yesterday, and it's been really great so far! I have @bimshon working with me, and the rest of the staff are really nice people too! Can't wait to go over to PP though, waking up at 630am for my morning shift is no joke.

Pictures with my new hair haha I'm still not really used to it. Plus they're so difficult to maintain because they keep splitting in the middle! Just shaking my head or a slight gust of wind blows them out of place. Rin looks so gorgeous though! Like an egyptian princess.

After work on Saturday, met up with my darling Lanjays!!! ♥ LIKE FINALLY!! I missed them so much especially bitchlip who I haven't seen since he booked into army almost a month ago! Nothing much, rotted at fep and went down to A&F after. Tryneo and I went to get our $3 manicure done at the Nail Status Cottage and Rui went to get her hair tinsel hair extensions! The lady did such a poor job with her hair that the crazy bitch actually borrowed my pair of scissors and layered her hair herself at the dustbin in the mall -_-

Didn't get a picture with Philip's bald head though. Haha, we were all attacking his (lack of) hair. Poor boy, but it was really funny. He looks like an egg now!

Alright, better go catch some winks now. 8am shift again tomorrow, followed by Kbox with Mun and gang! Can't wait to have our own concert again.

tata~

new look

So today I finally went ahead and did something I've been wanting to do for ages (since I left secondary school)! Which is...

TO CUT BANGS.

Hahaha I know it may seem like a stupid and small matter but I've been thinking it over for really long time, and I'm actually quite afraid that it'll look bad. I don't really have a nice high forehead and the last time I had bangs was... in primary school?! Back then my dad used to trim my hair for me (haha) and there was only one default hairstyle (bowlcut). I think the bangs make me look even younger than I already do?!

Before

After 

I've never actually had bangs... (apart from the bowl my dad cut for me when I was younger) and people always tell me that I don't suit the bangs look because my hair is too thin/I don't have a high forehead/my face is too small (?!)/I'll have a hole in my bangs blablabla. But I just went ahead with it and I told the lady to cut long bangs so I can just push them to the side if it's ugly. Plus my hair should grow out before the end of the holidays! Haha but they turned out pretty well I guess??? Oh, I managed to convince Rin to cut her fringe together with me too, so we both have bangs now ^^

Haha ok pardon my narcissism tonight, shall upload a couple more pictures of myself!

Hahaha my sunburnt face after chalet + Sentosa

SO SO SO HAPPY FOR MY FAV #ARSENAL LAST NIGHT, SHOWING SPURS WHO'S BOSS AT HOME!!! This is Emirates ♥♥ So proud to be a gooner!! AR52NAL HEHE although my favourite @aaronjramsey wasn't on the pitch :'( #COYG #GTID

Hmm, I swear I have the fascination with the weirdest things/people?! And it's getting more serious now. Rishon says I'm just overthinking... I think so too. Can't believe I'm so daring normally but when it comes to little things like this I'm such a damn wuss. Please let this be over soon haha I'm quite disturbed by it. 

Get up

Since I've two months (okay technically two weeks before all the camps, work and whatnot pour in again) of holidays, here's a to-do-list this vacation.

I WILL:  

1. READ. At least 1 book every week. I never ever finish reading the books I borrow. Honestly, I haven't read a complete book since I left secondary school. Time to cultivate some sophisicated habits.
2. Learn how to play the dizi- at least a few simple tunes. Don't let it rot on my table!
3. Get back down to writing. It's been really long since I worked my left brain, and I'm overflowing with story ideas at the moment.
4. Do some volunteer work. Poly has kept me so busy that I rarely have time to do any social work! I wanna help out at an old folks' home or children's home again.
5. Start exercising more. I can't even remember when's the last time I ran or actually swam (waddling in the pool is not counted)! If I'm going to continue eating like now I'd better hit the gym.
6. Earn enough $$$ to fill my pathetic bank.
7. Spend more time with my family.
8. Be happy, be optimistic, be contented.

xx

choices

Just read Rui's post about JC and Poly, we used to discuss this quite often when I first came to TP. About all this elitist thinking and whatnot. Hmm I should have gotten over this issue long ago, but I'm starting to feel it again since my friends who took A's are getting back their results next week, and I can't help thinking, "I could be one of them...". It also doesn't help that my mother likes to harp on this?! She's always like "If you studied in JC" "If you weren't so slack then" "You would be in uni in half a year" blah blah. The thing is, I can't refute her because I know she's right. And I know that deep down inside I'm more of a JC person too. I know by choosing to leave for TP, I was just choosing the easy way out. What if I had stayed? I definitely don't have the determination and discipline to study for A's. 

I can say for sure that having experienced both routes, it's definitely easier to do well in poly. The hard part is being consistent. And to move on to uni, you can't just do well. You have to do VERY well (which I haven't gotten to yet). If I maintain this current GPA I can barely scrape through the local university admissions. I'm not that worried about that actually because I still have three more semesters to pull myself up to a safer grade. I just can't help wondering if I made a wrong choice by leaving JC for poly. :-( 

I really dislike this feeling of uncertainty!! I always think about the future and more often than not, I never hit my goals because I'm always so lazy and unmotivated. I'm seriously hoping that I can make it to the local universities, either NUS FASS, NTU'S Comms or SMU's social sciences. If I do well enough to get the SPH scholarship (I'm hoping that I'll get to intern with them in semester 3.1) I hope I can go overseas to major in chinese journalism/broadcast. Well considering I'm pretty much bilingual it shouldn't be too tough right? If not... I'm not sure, I might wanna take marketing, since I've always wanted to do a PR/Corporate Communications kind of job.

Either way, I NEED A DEGREE. I'm actually excited to go to University. And if I wanna make it, a gpa of 3.5 isn't going to be enough. Gonna put in double the effort for my junior year and pull it up to a 3.6 at least.

That's why secondary school life is the best seriously, you never have to worry about all this shit. And when I think back now, O's was such a small case (not that I scored well) compared to all the challenges and decisions we face now. If I could turn back time I would relive my AHS days for sure. No stress, no worries, just epic moments, laughter and more laughter with my best friends :')

Okay enough with all the serious shit. I'm sure I'll make it somehow! I have the potential for greater things seriously. Can't wait to see what the future has in store for me.

Back to reality- aching all over and sunburnt (again) after 03's chalet. It was worth it though, had a blast with them, gonna miss all of them so much sigh. :'( Can't imagine entering a class everyday with no one to connect with. Especially TDT, I'm so thankful for awesome friends/groupmates/classmates like them. I will be so screwed for projects and schoolwork without them! But I'm hoping the four of us won't be split up since we all chose film as our electives.*crosses fingers*

#toodles 

escapade

Sooo, it's officially the holidays for me, and I finally have time to blog!! Two weeks before I get busy with school activities again. Hmm, to be honest, I kind of wished we had exams too, like the other courses. I feel so aimless!!!! Probably because all my other poly friends are studying and I'm not. Meh, it's only the first day of holidays and I feel like going back to school already?!

But yup, CMM year 1s have no main exams (^_^) so I'm a free birdie for two months with the exception of my CDS test which I was supposed to take last Saturday but I didn't. BECAUSE I FRIGGIN' STAYED UP THE WHOLE NIGHT TO STUDY FOR IT, BUT I OVERSLEPT AND MISSED IT. F M L x100 lol //laughs at my own stupidity. I had to go get an MC for it. And that caused me to be late for Refresh :(

Anyway, went for OTC Refresh 1 on Saturday and it was AWESOME!!!!!! I love my empire so muchies #REIZEN hehe. Seriously, I'm so glad that I'm in Reizen and not any other empire. We're definitely much more bonded now. Had an awesome time playing station games esp. with my fav progger Sammie and whatnots and all the epic moments haha. Although we got quite a scolding and some emotional moments afterwards I can safely say that we're not one of the 'clique-ish' or problematic empires and I think we did really well for Refresh compared to OTC! YAY WE TOTALLY HAVE THE MOJO. Dinnered with them opposite school afterwards and had some crazy retarded talk at the badminton court haha I think I was really high at night. Went home and totally crashed on my bed when I got back oh god I swear it felt so goooooood. Have been sleeping at wee hours for the past few nights studying and rushing projects and assignments and shit.

@REIZENMOJOJO ^^

Sunday was spent with my oldfriend clique, our annual gathering at Sentosa! Haha it feels nice to just lie on the sand, talk nonsense and idle around (although I got sunburnt after). We are damn hipster I swear who the heck gambles on Siloso Beach with bets of 10 CENTS hahaha!!! Pigged out, caught up with them and played truth or truth hehe. Found out stuffs about them and also let out some stuff (for the first time) myself! Felt quite good to be honest haha. They were encouraging me (esp farmer) haha but I guess I shouldn't get my hopes up?! I doubt anything is actually gonna happen anyway. Time passes quickly when you're enjoying yourself. Yen is flying back tomorrow sigh can't believe she's been back for three months! Where did the days fly to? :'( Gonna be another ten months before we meet again.

            

♥ 

No kidding, time is really flying by now. It seriously feels like I just entered TP and before I know it, I'm bidding goodbye to my freshman life and becoming a junior in two months. I won't say I'm not excited for Year 2 but I'll definitely miss being a freshie. And I'll miss 03 so much. One of the best classes I've had. Our chalet's tomorrow, gonna have a wild day (and night) with them!

till then!