The Last Day

Warning: This is going to be a long entry.

I'm so sorry for the extremely late update. I don't normally abandon my blog for a week. But lately, I've been struggling to find the right time to update. Today was the final day of college for me, and that marks the end of my third semester here as an AUP student. I don't know what college life will be like next year in 2009... I have a feeling that things are going to be very different.

Anyway, did I mention that my new Public Speaking lecturer is like the best lecturer ever?! Lol. She's really funny and bubbly and she even took the time to buy us a big chocolate cake yesterday! Aww, I'm sure we'll definitely miss you, Miss VG!! :) And thanks for everything.
There were lots of camwhoring and photo sessions, but Blogger's been such an ass so I'm not going to upload all the pictures here. It'll take me days I tell you.

May Chong, me and Qian Ning.

Ah, how fast time flies. It's like one day you're a new student in college and the next day, you're already a senior. Lol. I still miss my freshie days early in the year. I was so new to everything and everyone. College life came as a big excitement. I thought it was the best thing ever. Haha. Well, that excitement slowly faded away as the assignments piled up and the exams drew near. Soon, I began to see another side of myself; the stressful part of me. I guess the best part of college would be the people... because they're the ones who influence your college life. I've found some great friends in college and I'm really glad that we met. =)

Haha. Basically - everyone that I met this year has added some color into my life =p So, yeah. I really thank you awesome peeps for that!!

Anusha and I.
Camwhored like mad today. :P

SILENCE! I KILL YOU! 0.0
Anuuuu! This was supposed to be the "freaky" pic.
She went and smile pulak. LOL. Wasted my effort for looking freaky.

I've been through lots of ups and downs this year. Lol. Even I think I'm quite unpredictable sometimes. I'll never know when I'll feel really happy, or really down. There were just days when I'd feel on top of the world and contented with everything around me, but yet there were days when I felt like crawling under the blanket and staying away from the world. But like every other year, I've discovered new things and every mistake is a lesson learned. I won't forget that!

Starbucks. My guilty pleasure.
What a quick way to burn your cash =D

College life this year has been an adventure.
Actually, it's probably one of the best adventures I've ever experienced.
The holidays have started but my finals are coming up soon. Daymnn. Looks like I'll be plunged into another busy week.

The fun times... the dumb times... the bitter times... the random times... I'll miss them all!

Aww. Camera shy again! :D

Oh, before I forget, I'm thinking of starting a little photo-blog soon. I tried www.aminus3.com, but they said my pictures are TOO BIG so it looks like I'll have to use either blogspot or some other blog with generously ample space. I don't get what's so BIG about the pictures. Most of them are only like 600 KB. =.=" (Well to be honest, I've been into photography for quite some time but just never got the chance to study the subject or test my skills a lot. So I just take random pictures of objects or places once in a while when the mood strikes. It's just a hobby :D )

The Cross.

Through The Tunnel.

Along The Lines.

What do you think of the 3 last pics? Honestly, I'd LOVE to hear your opinions. Feel free to leave comments. (Even if they suck, TELL ME!)

By the way, I feel like getting a pet. Obviously I can't get a dog or a cat since I live in an apartment, and I can't get a hamster either because my mom hates rats. The last pet I had was little blue Miku the fighting fish.

He died last year. Lasted for 3 weeks only. Lousy. I'm not getting another fighting fish. Such weaklings. =p

Since I have ample time on my hands now, let me tell you a story of the previous pets that I had.
This has nothing to do with today's entry title. Once I start to blog, it's quite hard to stop typing. I don't know why. Maybe I'm just lazy to get off the chair.
So anyway. I rared tortoises, fishes and even chickens before.

When I was 9 years old, I bought a small green tortoise and named her Mayonnaise. Please don't ask me why my pets have funny names. They just do.
She was a little darling. I played with her all the time... I even took out my old doll house and placed her there, thinking she'd like it but she pooped all over the plastic furniture so in the end, I placed her back into the glass tank. One day when I came home from church, I noticed that the glass tank was empty. Alarmed, I searched the whole house until I found her. She was in the toilet =/ God knows how she got there.
I had her for 2 years... I watched her grow into this really big tortoise, until she was too big to be placed in the tank. My mom joked that she would cut it up into pieces and serve tortoise meat for dinner. =.=" When I was 11, my family and I brought her to the big lake and released her there. And... she swam happily into the water. Never to be seen again.

And the chickens.. yeah. People find it hard to believe that I kept two chickens in my balcony. I'm serious! Many years ago, before I had the tortoise, I'd been pestering my parents for a pet. Eventually, one of my aunts asked if I was interested in raring chicks. She said she had two baby chickens with her, and I thought she was referring to chicks. Chicks are so cute... so I said yes.
How was I to know that her "baby chickens" were actually TEENAGE chickens?! They weren't cute little yellow chicks. These were like full-grown chickens, except they were smaller in size. There was a male and a female. I called the guy Cock and the girl Pock because she had spots all over her body, like chicken pocks. The female was fine but the male was a bloody cock. Every time I reached into the cage to carry the female, the male would start clawing at my hand. Soon, I got scared of my own chickens. Besides, they were getting smelly because obviously, you can't bathe chickens.
My mother said that if I didn't give them away, she would cook them. =.= Rather than allowing them to fall into the greedy hands of my mother, I decided to give them to my grandmother. So that was the end of the chicken story.

Way back into time, my uncle gave me two tiny goldfish in a ceramic bowl. They were fat and puffy and my brother always joked that he felt like squeezing their cheeks. Every time he said that, I'd retort, "You dare?!"
One day, I came back and saw that the ceramic bowl was empty.
"Eh, where's the fish?" I asked.
My brother emerged and quietly said, "Jie... I have something to tell you..."
From his expression, I knew that I'd never see those two babies again.
So he explained that as he was cleaning out the fishbowl, he tried to get the fish out but accidentally killed them in the process.
Me: You mean they fell on the floor and died?
Bro: No. I tried to take them out from the fishbowl using my fingers.

That was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard.
Part of me wanted to yell at him for being so dumb (what to do, he was only four) and part of me wanted to laugh at him for being so dumb.

Upon hearing that, my mother said, "Aiyah. If I knew this would happen, I would've cooked them first."
=.= She always says that about my pets. Even last year when I had Miku, she joked that she wanted to fry him.

Thank you for reading this really long entry. Hahaha. I'm sorry for wasting your time like that. Don't say I didn't warn you! =D It's just... I haven't blogged in so long and words and images just keep popping up into my head.
It's actually to make up for the days that I won't be blogging. I'm having my finals soon, you see, so I think I won't be blogging for a week or so.

On a different note, I've got the 6 hour driving lecture tomorrow... save me! =(

PS: I haven't been able to read the msgs in my chatbox. There seems to be an error with my connection over here. Sorry. Will try to get it fixed as soon as possible.