*448 - greetings from balch hall!

I'm here! :D Sitting in my dorm room now, getting used to my new laptop that I just set up last night. The windows are half open and the crisp morning air is wafting in and I'm pretty happy, even though I did wake up at 6 am, and 4 am the previous night, and probably something like 5 before that. It'll probably be a few more days till I work my way to 7 or 8 or something less unearthly.

Maggie Thank you, and hello! (:
Jon Thanks! Gosh, didn't get to catch up with you before I left, apart from the 5 minutes in a cab ):
WJ Hehe I can just imagine you dying here because I can walk across the biggest mall here in about 30 seconds ;)
SMADDY LIZARD I miss you!!
Sarah I miss you tooo. ): Take care alright? If you need anything from the US just holler (:
Weicheng I CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T SEE YOU BEFORE I LEFT!! ): Very upset boohoo. Miss you and Sam and everyone else!
Sandhya Thank you, I'm sure you're having loads of fun settling in too!!
StalkerSharan How could I forget you? :D Thanks!
xY ): I brought your lovely card along with me!
Charity Thanks, I sure will ;) Let me know when you are leaving ok?
Desmond Thanks for sending me off, and for the present/card! (:
Triple grand junior That makes me sound really old! Haha but I still feel young so that's okay ;) Study hard!

Now that that's out of the way ...

I'm settling down great - there certainly are moments where I find myself completely alone and totally lost and that's a very terrible hollow feeling, but those moments are few and far between. There's Nat and Yogi, thank God for them, and a bunch of new friends I've been getting to know.

The campus is really pretty even and my dorm is gorgeous from the outside - the inside is a maze and I get lost about 5 times every day. My room scared me to death at first glance because it looked even more ancient than I expected, but right now I'm loving it because it's becoming more cosy as I decorate it and it's super huge for a dorm. It's even less cluttered than my bedroom at home and I can easily do a little dance in the middle of the room - I once tried to do an attitude pirouette in my bedroom at home and nearly broke my leg.

Right now I'm transferring the 300 photos that I took over the past 4 days into my computer, but I haven't got Photoshop yet or any other image editing software on my computer, heck, I haven't even bought the microsoft office package yet! So here are some photos taken before I left, just for the time being, and because they were waiting in photobucket to be posted anyway. (:

Guess who came over to play DDR (with both mats at the same time) before I left? :D Joel bought the DDR mats, it's kind of fun actually hehehe.



And guess what we baked? Look at the next 3 pictures ...







Have you guessed yet? They are ...



COOKIE MONSTER CUPCAKES!! :D



We brought them to dance as a goodbye present! My last class boohoo ): And Weicheng, I hope you see this, because I baked these SPECIALLY for YOU!! And I couldn't find a way to pass them to you after that ): Take care ok!

A series of monster faces to match the cupcakes.















And to commemorate the last dance class at Jitterbugs and all the happysexypassionatecool times I had there ...






With Marcus. We r so kewl.


The sweet aunties who go for class every week!


Random people at lyrical class striking on-the-spur-of-the-moment poses.


SAM (:



Now I've an hour left to get ready to go out, and that's just about right. Drop me an email okay? (: Missing everyone back in Singapore!!

*447 - tomorrow.

Tonight's the last night. It's so hard to say goodbye. Leaving's painful.

My bags are packed, but I don't know if I'm set to go.

Puffy eyes tomorrow, disaster! Together with my spectacles, crummy aeroplane clothes, backpack, and 2 exploding suitcases. What a sight hahaha.

There are so many things that I could be worrying about. But I guess when it all boils down to this, I've just gotta remember that God's grace is more than sufficient and He will be fighting all my battles for me. "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow." (:

Off I go to sleep! My eyes are so tired from all the bawling haha. If I can sleep, that is, knowing that tomorrow officially marks a new phase of my life. Sounds so dramatic, but it's true, isn't it?


(It's probably far too late for this, but I'll be at Terminal 2 at about 9 tomorrow morning. Flight's at 10.50 am, SQ22. I didn't specifically ask anyone to send me off so if you end up being the only one I AM SO SORRY. Hehe.)

*446 - love

Today is a very special day.

(:

That's not to say that every day with you is not a special day. In fact, every day is so special that Special Days aren't very much more special than Every Day.

Well, cheers to the next 4 years! God's on our side, so we've got nothing to worry about (:

*445 - the last sunday

Hi, I seriously have a crush on ___. HAHA. Maybe she has a crush on me too. Hahaha.


More photos! :D

I thought Sunday was going to be just lunch, church, and then off to his place for a last meal with his family. Well, it was something like that, except lunch was a Very Shocking Surprise :D


The point of this photo:
1. Justin's shirt matches his (purple) shoes!
2. who knows where my "tube dress" is from!!! :D Haha!


So he brought me here and I was still nonchalantly taking my time, ooh-ing and ah-ing over the architecture and the (real) twittering birds.

And then when we got to the place we were eating, he started stammering at the waitress and I was wondering who on earth made the reservation for him because it wasn't his name or mine or his mum's or etc but ...

VENETIA'S!! Omg I was so so surprised :D And very touched too!


It was super fun and we managed to trick David that Justin was his Pri 1 classmate who sat diagonally to the right of him in class and let him copy his ting xie :D

("Justin? Err I don't remember that name at all ... did I know you by your Chinese name?"
"Wun Kiat."
"Oh ... yeah ... that's a little better I guess ...")


My goodbye card! With their photos and notes behind, and my horrible fish face in front.




So everyone had to do the fish face too, but David wins hands down as Most Spectacular Fish Face.




This was dessert round #10972142. We ate for 4 hours!! Hahaha.

And then it was phototaking time where a bemused/amused Evelyn stood in the midst of the chairs and one by one everybody came to take a photo with her. Haha! I felt like a tourist attraction.


Evelyn: "What's happening??"


I think Wenyang will never grow out of his "naughty boy face" :D


The dear girl who planned this surprise! <3


And the dear boy who conspired with her! <3

I really think it's very very sweet of them! Totally caught me by surprise (: THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH even though most of them won't see this hehe.

Parted ways after the 4 hour lunch and dozed our way back to his place because his parents invited me over for dinner. We were so sleepy! Don't know why! Drank fresh blended juice, plopped onto his bed and fell asleep while he took a shower, got dragged out and made (sleepy) conversation with the parents, was fully jolted awake when they produced an embarrassingly expensive goodbye gift for me (omg omg omg), had sushi for dinner (yes sushi again), played with sparklers (me) and fire (him), sent Justin off to camp, got sent all the way back home again (alone in the car with the parents haha).



So, that was the Last Sunday ):

At least I'll still get to see him one last time on National Day, the day before I leave. Like Just said, hooray for Singapore! :D Justin won't be able to send me off though, which is a good thing actually, because I would just grab my bags and refuse to board the plane if I see him there.

Not counting the rest of today, and Friday, I officially have 2 days left in Singapore. Gulp.

*444 - family and class outing

smaddy YAY cookiemonstercupcakes!
justin we need to get skype accounts!!
venetia omg you sneakysneaky person!! Thank you so much for the surprise <3
sandhya this "goodbye" period must seem awfully familiar to you hehe! Sushi is always good, I had it again yesterday actually hahaha.
sherlene thank you, and I'm sure you'll have fun here (:
jingwen ack I think I have no time to bake for you haha do you want the recipe, you can try it yourself! Streusel is a crispy topping by the way hehehe.

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Family lunch at the Regent! Pretty good Chinese food, and good family time too.



Coffee flavoured pork ribs. Good stuff.





And this is the ancient family photo - proper and stern and observe how the photo is yellowed with age!! (I think my dad has the perfect I Am The Father look hahaha. Bro and I look like robots though.)

After which we left to get me my crumpler laptop backpack (yes, backpack) which is big and BRIGHT red and very useful for school. I still can't imagine carrying a backpack to school, though that's what everyone carries apparently. Weird!

Met up with the boyfriend who arrived just as we were about to pay for the crumpler (Daddy: "Oh good, Evelyn wants that bag, you're just in time!") and we pottered around town before heading off to Tubby's place. And once we got there, people started leaving haha but anyway there were enough of us left to play mahjong (the most impressive thing I did was to get pinghu hahaha). The ruggers arrived later and when the class left we watched a rugby match where I ate far too much (jasmine rice flossy pork) and concussed on Justin's shoulder 10 minutes into the game and woke up at 23 minutes. On another note, Wenloong can fit an entire orange into his mouth, which is about equivalent to 13 grapes (I have a feeling he actually had space for more). Cabbed back (and $30 cab fares are not funny) and that was pretty much it.

Thank you to 3Q for the sweet card (:





I shall get out the eggs and the butter now in preparation for the Last Dance Class later today.

The Last Weekend is officially over, and I'm scared out of my wits, really. I guess I should start packing, haha.

*443 - the lasts

I discovered something really really cool: if I take a photograph with my camera upside down, it will flip the picture the correct way by itself!! SO CLEVER!

I realised this when trying to take a photo of myself using my right hand. (I always take photos with my left hand, and fellow photowhores will understand why.)

Ramble ramble.

Today I ate: French toast for breakfast, salmon teriyaki at sun with moon for lunch, more Jap food for dinner, and now my tummy's rumbling. What's up with the growing appetite nowadays?! At this rate, I will begin the dreaded Freshman Fifteen even before I get there, hahaha.

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Ok, so I went to bed after typing that out last night at 3 am, and now I'm up and about at 8.30 because I can't go back to sleep. Anyway, some pictures from the past few days (:


Met up with Shib and Jerm at Marmalade Pantry, pretty cool because I hadn't seen either in ages and ages! (: We're all going separate ways, Shib to Trafalgar Square, Jerm to Privet Drive (haha!), and me to the godforsaken countryside. And Jerm's manager (whom they call "Mummy", how cute is that!) paid for our 2 desserts! (: So generous!




This was after cycling with Evie. At Miss Clarity Cafe! (: Such chirpy and girly decor, the only problem was that the bread pudding was teensy haha! WILL MISS LIRU. HOW?




Sun with Moon with Sarah Banana and Wanjun (: The waft of smoke in the photo is the steam from Sarah's hotpot hehe. My sister and brother and I collectively squealed together over Wanjun's lovely leaving present for me - a silicon scraper for baking! Good bendy stuff :D Pottered around Arab Street and Haji Lane with Sarah after that. Much thanks to all the them for spending the time with me before I leave (: Keep dancing, dancers!!

And guess what I had for dinner?

More Japanese food. Heehee. Drool.






(Just kidding - it's my shoulder blade making me look like The Hunchback, which Justin noticed when I was scratching my back.)


Who doesn't love unagi??





See how my life is scheduled around meals? And even when it's not a mealtime, we'll meet for "tea" or "brunch" because that's what Singapore's all about - food.

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Elisa & Evelyn is moving to blogspot for the moment because our dearest site designer will be busy and there's no telling when he will NOT be busy, so we figured we better put up temporary residence elsewhere, until elisa-and-evelyn.com is ready.

All my html knowledge is self-taught, and there is not much of it to begin with, so tinkering around with layouts was what occupied me the whole of last night. It's very white and minimalistic, and you are supposed to think "ahh, zen" and not "I can tell Evelyn doesn't know html". Haha.

(PS: the site's not ready yet and probably won't be in a while.)

*442 - long hair

(edited)

Oops, I had the vaguest impression last night that I was blogging rubbish and talking rubbish to everybody around me and would be embarrassed when I woke up the next morning. Quite true. So that bimbotic post is safely deleted (I don't think many people would have looked between 2 am and 9 am anyway) and I am off to have french toast for breakfast. Which reminds me, I should really make french toast for breakfast when we call get too sick of milk and cereal :D French toast party in my room, anyone?

*441 - evelyn & evelyn

On the way back from Jitterbugs (Sam wasn't there!!! I WAS VERY SAD), Evie and I decided on the spur of the moment to walk towards each other's houses the next morning, meet in the middle (we're about 3 busstops apart?), and walk to the roti prata shop for brunch to replace the calories we burnt off.

It kind of didn't work because I was waiting for her to reply my SMS (something like "Are you dressed in rags? Shall we set foot now?") but she had already left her house, so when I finally got suspicious and called her all I did was to sprint around the bend of my estate and there she was. OOPS.

It was probably my last prata before leaving, and we ordered a horrible amount of it :D It was kind of funny because the couple beside us ordered 1 prata each, and there we were with 4 pratas and a thosai. I was so pleased with the paper thosai (I've only eaten the regular kind before) which came as a giant cone. And my milodino! I love milodinos (:

Here we are, bespectacled, and dressed in our rags:



And my milodino which somehow looks very very inviting in the photo DROOL.



AND! Since we're on the topic of Evelyns, skipping everything that happened in between, we went to Bishan Park to cycle this morning! :D I taught her how to cycle the way I remember my mummy teaching me how to cycle: hanging on to the bicycle seat for dear life, sprinting alongside as she pedalled, and sneakily letting go it seemed safe to let go! Evelyn was marvellous and learnt in just an hour and a half, and we spent the last half an hour fulfilling our aim of the day: hollering "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU" while whizzing through Bishan Park on our bikes :D





13 years of dancing together!! :D :D :D


Happy happy birthday! (: Come to think about it, this is probably the longest-lasting friendship that I have. Big Evelyn and Small Evelyn. We've come all the way from pink leotards and Grade 1 ballet to this (: Will miss you horribly!!