“Limited edition”s really work – 5 people ordered Valentines’ Day limited edition earrings in a hurry! Hehe (:
Life has been little more than an insane flurry of activity these few days. I’ve made 11 pairs of earrings in 3 days, with 9 more to go. Whew.
Thanks for all the support and compliments and links and referrals (even if you didn’t purchase anything), it’s all very encouraging (:
Chingay yesterday night, Chingay later tonight. Like Just was saying, we all felt like super stars! People clamouring to take photographs with us, people waving when we wave at them, people screaming for us, all the camera and video people ...
It was painfully strenuous, especially for my cheek muscles, from the continual grinning from ear to ear. And dancing 3 times, with all the walking in between, was tiring too.
But it’s really been quite an experience, from putting on makeup on the boys (heehee!), to wearing those horrible costumes and painful shoes, to dancing with Just, to dancing for a huge public audience.
Just & I
Sarah & Poh, Me & Just
Aren’t the costumes, um, magnificent? Ahaha XD
And thanks Justin for coming along to help out yesterday and today at such short notice (:
Oh my goodness it’s raining heavily outside. I guess that means it won’t rain tonight. I hope.
5th Feb
A quick (and late) post about CNY while I slowly sort out ~100 Chingay photos ...
Family photo:
My sister transformed me into a China doll, because it was Chinese New Year:
Ironically, we went to Little India for lunch:
And after that, Justin came to bai nian:
Ok, off to church now. I shall sort out Chingay photos another day and print some out for my friends if I’m not feeling too lazy :D I’ve got loads, thanks to dear Justin the Cameraman! <3
7th Feb
Was peppered with “Why so vengeful”s from Tubby today. I don’t know. It seems as though the girls understand so much better than the guys. Somehow.
It’s not merely what he has done to me, but also everything else he’s done to wrong other people. At this moment in time, I’m just not ready to forgive.
I know of at least 3 of us he’s done this to – Saying that he’s “in love” and then backing out of it quickly by proclaiming he “never did” or it was a “joke”. What’s to stop him from doing it again? Saying sorry for doing something doesn’t mean he won’t ever do it again. And till then, I don’t really want to have anything to do with someone like that.
It’s not too great to be so fickle, but it’s much worse to try to disguise it as wit and pretend that you meant to hurt the girl and that you were the winner of the game. When met with rejection, anyone morally upright would never respond with such cowardice – trying to turn things around and pretend it was you who led her on instead of you who got discarded? That’s just ... wrong.
And hey, don’t worry about my reputation. No need to try and convince me to stop talking about it because my reputation’s at stake. From what I see, and from what my friends believe, I have done nothing wrong.
Go worry about yours.
That aside, does anyone know where to get non-heat sparklers? Do let me know if you’ve heard of such a thing!
Secretly playing with sparklers in the RI astroturf with the dear gym girls, and watching the stars blink and clouds roll by late that night was just lovely. AMAZE Me has become AAZE (Amy Annabelle Zhu Evelyn) though. What happened to the other 2 ):
Pretty pretty.
Not quite in the mood for the more palatable, friendly bimbotic happy happy type of blog entries at the moment. School and other commitments have been wearing me out paper thin, emotionally and physically.
But somehow I’ve been managing to scrape by, and I’ve even managed to remain cheerful despite everything – even when I’m not sure where I’m heading.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3:5-6
Yup. Tomorrow – PE, dance prac, gym training (which ends at 9.30).
But tomorrow’s going to be a beautiful day. (:
8th Feb
This is specially for Gerry (ie. She Who Blogs At Least Once Or Twice Daily) who complains about my irregular updates:
There. I blogged today!! -beams-
[And I’ll pass you the stuff hopefully by this Friday :D]
Oh and of course, happy month-niversary (: Celebrated today simply (due to a packed schedule) with chicken rice (hehe), crispy apple strudel, floating candles. Consoling hug, taitee, chapteh, stall 1 salmon rice, walk to the gym. Much love, as always! <3 And much thanks to God for blessing me with you.
And thank you to Sarah as well, if you ever read this, you know for what. <3
23 Feb
Wednesday, 22nd Feb – One of the most tiring, physically and emotionally, days I’ve ever had.
1. Being the crybaby I am, I dissolved into tears minutes after getting a white slip for having the back of my blouse untucked from a particularly mean PE teacher, 30 seconds away from the toilet where I was going to change into PE attire.
2. Physics test, couldn’t do the entire electric field question. Whoops.
3. Colours ceremony – the only vaguely exciting part of it was shaking Mr Hodge’s hand and having to crane my neck upwards in order to smile at him.
4. Evelyn’s dance prac. Everyone was 2 sessions ahead of me, so I had to struggle to keep up. Was rather frustrated and upset due to certain reasons.
5. 15 minute ‘break’ where I tried my best to learn Evelyn’s steps under her watchful eyes.
6. Immediately plunged into Zaki’s dance – it was crazy fast, and crazy tiring as well. It was kinda funny and exciting at the beginning but I got more and more lost and towards the end I felt like plopping on the floor and crying.
7. Trudged off to the canteen for a quick drink, couldn’t find anything worth eating in the canteen for dinner, trudged off to the gym at 7.30.
8. Resolutely deciding to be cheerful and enthusiastic about training despite being covered in 3 or 4 layers of sweat and trembly all over, I started discussing concert issues with Linette but just a few minutes into training, was faced with appalling news and a sobbing BananaHead.
9. Mini-confrontation at night with someone reduced BananaHead and I to tears again, and we had to call for an emergency meeting to figure out how to handle this additional burden now placed upon us.
10. There isn’t really a number 10 on this list but I can’t just leave it hanging at 9.
We were all struggling to keep afloat. It doesn’t help in the least to have someone tearing away part of the plank we were all so desperately clinging on to, and swimming to safety while leaving the rest of us to drown.
Glug.
Not quite the most compassionate way to act towards your friends, we think.