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Saturday, December 31, 2005

Well technically speaking, it's New Year's Eve. 31st December 2005 0010am. Last day which we are gonna spend in 2005. In about another 24hrs we would be in the year 2006, year of the dog. Sharon would like that. Right Stick insect? your doggy's year. Ok back to the topic at hand. Just 15mins ago, my brother was asking me about my New Year's Resolution. Hmm.. new year's resolution. I have clean forgotten about them. Must I have one? But anyway, i figured since i have one every year, might as well go on with the tradition right? So here it is! My new year resolution:

2006 New Year Resolution

Start to work hard for the UOL exam coming in May (at least until after 7th June)
Pass my Grade 7 Piano exam this time round (Feb/early March)
Get into NUS (By hook or by crook)
Do my french diploma (DELF B1 & B2)
Try not to torture my brother too much (he's having his O's this yr after all)
Try to be less sturbborn and be more amiable (including rein in my temper)
Socialize more (but i still prefer to curl up in bed with a nice romance book)
Spend less, save more money - most of my friends like me are 21 . This means more expensive presents
Look for a temp job after my exam (preferably admin - HR)
Try to do my Quiet time and attend church more often

Wow.. that's quite alot i have to do this coming year. Well, hopefully at the end of next year, i might be able to report that i have achieved all of my resolutions. Well... We shall see. Right!? Ok... Anyway, I'm off to have a good night's rest. Meanwhile, Have a very very happy new year!

Cheers!

Esther

time stops for nobody ||12:07 AM

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Hi! It's Christmas eve and I just wanna wish you guys a very merry merry christmas. Like we say in french class, "Joyeux Noel a tous" (Merry christmas to all).

It has certainly been an eventful month. Beginning with my trip to genting to the arrival of my distant relatives from china to my aunt wedding and some other family "affairs".

My trip to genting was a fruitful one. Went there with my cousins and aunt, and we certainly had great fun along with my brother and his friend jonathan who introduced us to practically every delicacy over there. Hmmm... Yummy~ it makes me drool just thinking about it! And of course the shopping! It was a pity i was terribly sick and weak on the first two days which made me miss out on alot of the KL shopping. But nevertheless, i did still get plenty of shopping done.

Not long after I'm back in Singapore, we attended to the wedding of my aunt. Of course, needless to say, the bride was gorgeous. And the food was delicious! Our table emptied out the large plate of delicacies presented to us and the variety was wide.

Not long after, things came to an arupt stop as all the social events died off. I set out to make appointments and shopping trips with my friends in whatever free slots i have. And a couple of weeks back,i canceled an appointment to accompany my brother and mum to go school-book shopping. I came back from school fully expecting to leave rightaway only to realise that my mum was babysitting my niece. That was at about 1 in the afternoon when the bookshop was due to close at 3. Turned out, no one told me we were expecting my dad.

My dad returned home at 2 to announce that he was too tired to go out. So ther you see, my mum shrieking because it's too late to take the public transport. But that was not the main reason why my mum was shrieking at the top of her voice. The main reason was that my dad toss me the car keys and ask me to drive them there. I guess my mum wasn't so confident in me. Well, that's an understatement. Anyway, between me and my brother we managed to convince her, reached potong pasir to get his schoolbooks before driving him to my piano teacher's house for a make-up piano lesson (since he missed his as he was away for his camping trip.) Meanwhile, my mother and i continued on to do some major shopping at Thomson Plaza's Ntuc. What? Sharon ... don't think i don't know what you're thinking. I know I'm auntified. But hey! when you have a car at your disposable and no men around, it's the best time for shopping! Be it grocerries or what not right? So we bought all the heavy objects like milk and can food etc so that we won't have to drag it home when we take a bus to ntuc-kovan to buy mah! So convenient! After which we fetch my bro and went home. Safely.

Inspired by my "victorious" safe return on monday , I borrowed the car from my dad on the same week for sunday morning. Where having fetch adelyn from her house, we attended her church service and after it ended, went to newton, the small cafe beside my french school for a lunch before dropping her home again. It was quite ok except for the tiny fact that everytime i look out of the window, some one would be staring at me in stupefied horror.WHAT? Probably coz i don't look old enough to watch an NC16 show much less drive a car. It was good for me and adelyn. But others suffered for it.My parents, not having the car, decided to hike to Kovan for lunch, not wanting to waste that extra money by taking a bus. After lunch, they decide to continue on to my cousin's place (near SRJC there) to visit my niece. (Note: My cousin sms me early in the morning while in church saying 'we go out'. And i thought it was a suggestion. Not a notification. So i replied her 'contact my parents. me not with them now. Ran off with the car'. Which i did not know until later that my cousin left her phone at home directly after sms-ing me). So, my poor parents reached their house all exhausted, looking forward to a glass of water only to find no one there. So they decide to walk back home.

Meanwhile, after dropping adelyn off, I reached home to see my poor brother at home eating maggie mee. And he was asking me 'where's the car?' so i looked at him innocently and said 'oh, i left it at newton'. My brother look at me in horror and asked me why. so i replied ' well, all was well until we reach newton. the parking slot beside the cafe was parallel carparks. and i can't do it. I've never tried it before. So i left the car there, took the bus then nel to kovan with adelyn then we had lunch there and came home!'. By then, he was looking at me incredulously. and he asked ' you mean, adelyn let you do such and incredibly stupid thing?' and i gave him a shrug going 'why not? what else can i do?'. he rolled his eyes in a 'god-help-me' kind of way and said ' have you ever thought maybe you could just drive to kovan, eat there and drive back home.' so i gave him a near-adoration look and said 'You're right. Why didn't i think of that?' and he shook his head in exasperation. Just then my parents arrived home. All wet (with perspiration) and tired , shaking legs. when my brother recounted my story to them, my mum looked at him and asked him ' you honestly expect me to believe it especially when i saw the car on my way up?' and i burst into laughter. that was when my brother realized he's been fooled. and i think he's still irritated at me.

Well, so that's about all that happened. Nothing very interesting. But not too boring i guess. So until next time, So meanwhile, i'll wish you guys all a very merry christmas!

time stops for nobody ||12:11 PM