MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! and happy new year in advance haha
so 2014 freaking finally drawing to a close and wow it's been a hell of a year!!! it's been fun, it's been enjoyable, but it's also been exhausting and terrifying and gritty and intense and emotional and well it's definitely had its ups and downs and now i'm just glad that this ride's over (but wait isn't next year worse oh well then - sit back, hold on tight)
looking back at previous posts, it's hard to imagine how much has changed - in a sense, how much i've grown? - in the mere span of a year. in rg (esp year 4 oh daaaamn miss those times so freaking much :-( ) jc seemed so far, so distant; just a realm of possibilities we'd devote countless time imagining... and now that it's happened, now that it's real and half over wow it's so overwhelming thinking back. well things haven't actually panned out as expected (eg i did not find myself a boyfriend in jc nor did i get on my 3 dean's lists) but somehow i'm glad they turned out as they did. and wow now i just need a moment to take a breather and reflect and let everything sink in because this year honestly just FLEW BY and i haven't actually had the time or opportunity or energy to reflect about/appreciate what has happened so far. but alright i'm definitely gonna try bec better late than never! and what better way to end the year is there :-)
2014 IN REVIEW!!!:
1. isle riverkids! really eventful, albeit slightly underwhelming and unexpected - but definitely something i will remember nonetheless (eating crickets, contaminated fish amok, unclogging diarrhea-filled toilets, tuktuk partying, poker/bridge/daidi games, pms-y teachers, 4D movie!!!, bathing with 3 cockroaches and a dead lizard, brown cafe shenanigans......). impactful trip that really highlighted how real the poverty situation of the less fortunate is - you hear about stories of people not having enough to eat, not having enough to wear, of children having to walk miles every morning finding scraps of rubbish for a living, of families forced to live in rooms smaller than your toilet; but it's not until you go down and experience it then you realise how grave and palpable it actually is. that it's real and it's happening and you can't do much to help but you do feel a bit guilty the next time you leave the rest of your spaghetti unfinished. but at the same time it's kind of disheartening when you realise that what you do, what you can actually do, doesn't actually help in the big picture. okok digressing a bit here but the whole debate surrounding voluntourism has really stuck (partly because of merry marathon also haha) [kiv good article!!! http://aswwu.com/collegian/voluntourism-more-harm-than-good/]. so why do we help? how should we even help? oh well at the end of the day you just want to make a difference in someone's life, and i wish we could just go back to the roots of altruism, when it wasn't tainted by the materialism of man. alright anyway, really glad that i have had the opportunity to meet this motley crew of passionate, like-minded individuals. honestly never expected to be this close to any of them at the start - but i'm glad i am. and i'm gonna miss the times we spent together :-) the trip might have ended, but i'm glad that we have these 2 weeks in cambodia (and a whoooooole year's worth in sg) to keep us together :-) alsoooo cambodians are so friendly and the kids are amazingly cute and enthu and adorable and genuine and pure urgh i really want to go back
2. had my fair share of personal disappointments this year (esp after promos wa that was a triple whammy fffffff) but i've got some valuable lessons from these - now just to put it into practice ha ha ha they say you learn best from experience anyway. well, if there's nothing else i've learnt, at least i do now know that i have a greaaaat bunch of people with me :-)
3. there are so many things that have made this year so big and eventful, but it's mainly thanks to the company i've had. the transition at the start of the year wasn't too easy (but def made a lot easier by the fact that almost the entire batch came to rj also hahaha) but it was made a loooot better having everyone by my side :-) ok dedication time kekeke
6G: tbh i was v scared of (almost) everyone at the start bec everyone so big??? and scary???? but after getting to know y'all better (esp after mt ophir intense htht) it has been a blast!!! thank you for being so nice and helpful and smart and accepting :-) wish i could be closer to more people in class but anyway, still really thankful that i have found people i can count on for hardcore hthts/life advice/friend advice/relationship advice/school advice. here's to a better 2015 - the road ahead might be even tougher, but we have each other to count on ok :-)
we took the wedding oath at ms vic's wedding alr, for better or for worse, we're all in this together!!!! u stuck with me guys haha
sunDATE: thank you for livening up my days. why are we called sundate when we meet on saturday??? but anw really glad that we still meet up and are still so close, and realllly glad to have met my baelicia this year!!! :-)
bw10: thank you for being such a welcoming bunch!!!!! honestly couldn't have started the year with a better bunch of people :-) glad we are still going strong (are we??/ is that considered going strong???? even though never meet up it's the thought that counts right), pls dont die ok. at least not before 6 jan.
(and now saving the best for the last!!!) 415 homies!!!! esp FAMILY/NOOBS/IS IT SAFE TO CB???: thank you thank you thank you!!! for being my rocks and my constants school might have changed so much now (no more 415 no more fixed classroom no more rushing down to beat the queues before recess no more ahchia no more danny.....) but i'm glad our friendship hasn't!!!!!!!! thank you for making rj that much more welcoming and friendly :-) here's to a better year, and many many many more years of friendship!!!!!!!! <3
4. okay shit am getting a bit lazy this whole blogging thing very tiring yeah??? i think i will continue later but in the event that i don't (before 1 jan), HAPPY NEW YEAR! :-)
SING WITH ME, SING FOR THE YEAR, SING FOR THE LAUGHTER AND SING FOR THE TEAR!!
did you really read through everything wow friendship A+
