Have been sleeping at around 3-4 am daily thanks to tim tam slamming which takes place almost every day (...night) and a crapload of bullshit talk with some of the best company ever. So thankful for the new feb kids that help me get through crazy hot days and boring study nights. :-)
And thanks to these poops, my diet has officially been screwed over. My exercise plans as well. I think I've gained back that 2 kg I lost the last month. And easter break is coming for me. Which means SYDNEY. Noooooooooooo.
3am fun in house 5 tim tam slamming and talking rubbish. In this case, a hair band on Philip's head made all of us laugh.
The above photo was taken when it was a scorching hot 38 degrees in melbourne where I felt that my backpack was going to get burnt and I could barely open my eyes.
And now, it's a happy chilled out 14 degree weather. This happened in a span of 1 week.
So last friday there was a Singapore Society rubbish hang out get to know each other event thing that we decided to attend- only for the after party, which was clubbing. Headed over to Yin's friend's place for a predrinking session and made a bunch of funny friends. And headed over to Maze with Jasmine, Tim and Yin to meet the rest.
(please excuse my fat and disgustingly white face I just wanted to take a photo of Jasmine drunk hahahaha)
Friday was a fun night. Crashed at Jasmine's place with Yin and then the next day I headed over to the suburbs to celebrate my second (?) niece's first month!
So precious. :')
Met a few of their church mates which happened to be university kids as well and talked quite a bit. Was supposed to head back over to the suburbs again the next day for a birthday lunch again but in the end I didn't make it because........ I overslept.
Coincidentally had the same #ootd as Lavelle despite being 2094393593 miles away from each other. Hahaahah, telepathy.
Right after the lunch, went home to change into a pair of comfortable shorts and then headed out with the palmerston kids to Moomba festival!
Moomba festival is basically a hugeass carnival with rides, food and game stations.
Managed to catch the fireworks right after riding a super insane ride! Haven't watched a firework show this close ever since the year we headed to that starbucks near the Singapore river to countdown to 2010.
Took that crazy spinning 360 degree ride with Joy on impulse. It's part of my YOYO plan. Daring to try something new. You're Only Young Once, right?
All in all, that weekend was one of the most physically tiring weekends and by that saturday night, I knocked out.
This week:
I am hereby introducing you guys to two of the craziest, lamest and sweetest people I've come to meet here in Palmerston- Shona and Philip. So glad that despite being so far from home, I've got someone retarded and crazy enough to crack lameass jokes, busting out inside jokes like no one's business.
"YOUR MOTHER LA"
"apps you"
"CAN YOU JUST SHUT UP?"
And of course, annoying the shit out of everyone as well. Thanks to these two, pulling an all nighter never felt so.... not tiring. My own little source of energy and happiness to get me through the day. Especially the shitty ones. :')
Those that know me well enough would know how OBSESSED I am with gongcha's peach green tea with white pearls. And how depressed I was when I found out that Singapore's gongcha terminated this amazing godsent drink.
With that, you can only imagine how excited I was when I saw "Peach Green Tea" on the menu here in Gongcha. Literally squealing into Yin's ear when I found out that she could help us get a free upsize as well. Thank god for such friends hehehe >:)
Another thing I've learnt the past week: how do people actually POSE for #ootd shots. Tips, anyone? Because I tried. Man, I really tried. I just ended up laughing and being super awkward, or just jamming shamelessly in hope that the photos snapped would come out nice.
Evidently not. Observe: Behind the scenes of Rachel's fail ootd shoot ha ha ha.
I cannot strike a pose for nuts.
And the next day we decided to take it to a whole new level, where we went outside to attempt to be "artsy". And failed. Terribly.
I'm pretty bummed out because it's autumn and its getting colder and I'm beginning to be more motivated to dress better. And it's a good time to start taking photos of the good days where I bother to dress appropriately for school.... before I start busting out the sweats and hoodies.
Anyway, realised that many of my friends have never seen the street of my place and how it (kind of) looks like. Yup. That's me with a really idek-what-face-to-pull-when-taking-a-photo in front of Palmerston House!!!!!!!!! Palmerston pride. (ok not really)
And below I attempted to help shona take a really nice photo but..... I can't work in front of a camera and neither can I work behind the camera. I shall just not work with a fricking camera anymore, right.
Trying on Braden's Massimo shoes. *___* Am I swag enough now???
After snapping these ootd photos, headed out to grab some dinner with nette and isabelle + the above in the photo. It was fun catching up with the girls and hanging out with the feb kids as well. Makes me feel all sad about leaving Palmerston in a few months' time. :"(
A king sized nutella pizza for 6 hungry people.
Pulled an all nighter on friday for the love of econs. Started work at 2am and slept at 7am. So grateful for Shona and Philip for keeping me company the whole time while I try to understand the market characteristics of perfect competition, oligopolies and monopolistic competition bla bla bla.
So it's been a really eventful 2 weeks, with a shitload of things happening around me. Managing to balance everything is actually pretty amazing. And I'm glad I'm still sane. Lesser and lesser deadlines as the weeks pass by and by the end of the coming week, it'll be just my econs paper left. and I CAN THEN PROUDLY SAY THAT I HAVE KICKED TERM 3 IN IT'S STINKY BUTT.
It's the shittiest term, where every friday I think that I've survived one of the worst weeks of the term, but then it hits me that i have xxxx xxx xxx xxx xx to complete by the next week and we just go back to the beginning, where I just feel like shit.
Knocked out in Mel and Joy's room for a good 30 minutes and here's what the boys did with their stuff toys. Piling it all next to me. And yes, this truly is the meaning of "Rachel's many sleeping endeavours"
Credits to Jamie for thinking of this brilliant idea back when we were in sec 3.
Headed over for some Korean BBQ with Shona, Giselle, Sophia and Trudy tonight. Small world indeed. Tk girls are everywhere, even in melbourne. And a little familiarity is always welcomed. Glad to have these girls, laughing like crazy sharing stories about secondary school days and what not. Yay to good dinners and friends! :-)
On another note, thanks to the insane workload and the crazy schedule, it makes it harder to keep up with my friends back in Singapore. Really miss my girls though.
Sometimes things get tough over here and it's so heartwarming to just receive a "how's aussie" or "you'll pull through" or "don't give up!!" or some motivational text from the girls because to me, regardless of the fact that we might be crazily far apart (with jodie in china nicole in shanghai and the rest in singapore), we still bother to ask each other about our day and keep each other updated with our lives. At times I honestly think that we might have drifted and maybe we might never be as close as before. But Pam once told me, saying that we've been through more than I think we have and 5 years of friendship won't so easily be lost. I know this is true and I will believe that.
Here's to more memories to come.
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