Karma.

Sunday 31 July - Day before T3

Naturally, I am procrastinating. I have two internals due in the early weeks of next term which I have NOT started, and also Stats and Economics to catch up on.

But screw them, I want to blog about my holiday.

To me, holidays were always about the late nights, the sleep-ins, the hang-out-with-friends, and the do-nothing days.
These holidays were different. I would say that these holidays were more filled with stress, anger, frustration, sleeplessness - rather than the usual fun, laughs and carefree feeling.

If you asked me what I have done these holidays, I would reply instantly with “Nothing.” And that’s not because I did nothing, in fact, I did quite a lot.
I had dance practice pretty much everyday of the week, I got to see my friends, I went shopping, I went to work, I planned the end of year trip. It’s because I feel like I have accomplished nothing, I have achieved nothing.

I guess I’m the only one to blame. It’s not like I tried to make these holidays any better. I let the down side get the best of me.
I don’t know, what did I actually expect from these holidays? I guess I just wanted a break from everything, Everything seems to happen so fast, I needed a break.

I think the reason I’m feeling sorry for myself is because I know that I am far from being able to sleep tonight. Sigh, internals.

I wanted to post a photo of these holidays, but then I realised I didn’t really have any …. Awkward.
Instead, here is a picture of the world’s happiest turtle eating a strawberry :)

I want my turtles to grow bigger so they can just roam freely around the house and I can feed them strawberries :)

Which reminds me of a random story.
Yesterday when we came home from my Grandpa’s birthday dinner, I walked over to our fish tank. I was bored so I jokingly yelled out “ONE OF THE TURTLES DIED!”
My brother ran over immediately. But my mum didn’t even look over, stayed in the kitchen and said,

"Impossible. I was just talking to them before we left for dinner."

My dad and I started cracking up.

Yeah, random. I just thought it was funny and nice to share.

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Oh, and I GOT MY IPOD BACK !

THANK YOU TO THE GUY WHO PICKED IT UP, AND PUT UP WITH ME BOTHERING HIM FOR TWO WEEKS.

Turns out it was the guy who worked at Starbucks!

I’m so glad such a good-hearted person picked it up.

I believe in Karma.

What goes around, comes back around.

I must have done some good in my life to have gotten such good luck.
I’m sure that guy will get some good luck too in the near future.

Thank you again 

♥

Blogspot.

I can't get the hang of blogspot. It's kind of confusing. 
There's a million themes you can get, and a million things you can do to make your blog different from others.


I think I'm just gonna keep mine clean and simple.
I'm not aiming for anything fancy, I just need a place to write down my thoughts so I can look back and reflect.


Yeah.

ROLLER COASTER RIDE.

I remember my first experience with roller coasters.
It was at Rainbow’s End, around when I was 7 or 8 years old.
Of course I was too short to ride one then, but my mum, my sister and I managed to convince my dad to go on it.
When he got off, he looked soooo sick, and vowed never to go on a roller coaster again.

I don’t know why I remember this, but this memory just popped into my head randomly. Maybe because this week felt like a roller coaster.

It had its ups and its downs, but overall, it was a good week.

What happened this week:

On Monday, I LOST MY IPOD TOUCH.
I was extremely upset in those two hours, you can’t even imagine HOW sad I was.
But then I got over it.

Life goes on

BUT THEN a guy emailed me saying he found it !!! I’m waiting for his reply now :)

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I witnessed a theft today, the types I thought you only see on television.
I wasn’t up close, but I was close enough to see the whole thing.
A man stole this Chinese woman’s handbag (later heard it was LV). The ladies were chasing him, and then he jumped into a white car and they drove off.

I don’t know why, but I was quite shocked. I guess I never thought I’d actually see this happen. I didn’t exactly know what was happening at that time, but I stood there for quite a while before I went around asking. It was just … weird.

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I had the Auckland Secondary School Case Competition on Monday and Saturday. This was actually the highlight of my week. I AM SO FREAKING PROUD OF US OMG
(People around me are probably tired of hearing me talk about it)
We signed up for the competition not knowing anything about it, and we were the most random team ever! I have NO idea how they chose our team of four - we hardly knew each other, but we worked so well together !
So well, that we were one of the four out of twelve schools to get into finals -
and then actually ending up coming first place in the competition :)

This is the first time I’ve actually been part of something at school, maybe that’s why this experience was so important to me.

You know the feeling you have when you get off the roller coaster for the first time, and you immediately want to line up and go again?

Well, that’s how I feel right now.

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Its OFFICIALLY the first day of the holidays tomorrow, which means I get a sleep-in ♥

FINALLY.

Thursday 14 July: End of T2

It is already halfway through the year, how fast time passes. The summer holidays seemed like it was forever ago. The outings at the beach, camping out, our do-nothing days, the warmth of the sun - all feels like a distant memory (cliche IKR)
Maybe its because of the ridiculously long terms we are having.

But a lot seemed to have happened in this time. I can’t exactly list everything, but it feels like everything is going by way too fast. It all seems like a blur. Can time just stop for a little while so I can take it all in?

I’ve been thinking a lot lately. I find myself more concerned with my future - What am I going to do in university? What am I going to do after? What kind of person will I be in 10 years time? And most importantly, are my friends now going to my friends in the future? I would like to hope so, but things are never certain. So many questions I don’t know the answer to. So much uncertainty.

The things I enjoyed last year, I don’t look forward to anymore. Am I maturing, or is it because it is just different now? I can’t help comparing everything to last year - thinking back, it all seemed so carefree.

Nothing seems as fun anymore.

I want this year to end. I don’t like high school.
At least there is HK TRIP to look forward to: a month with no parents, only friends. Hope it all works out ♥

I went to Sylvia Park last week with Jisu and Rose, and printed out hundreds of photos. I think I’m gonna start doing that now, and keep a photo album instead of relying on online FB albums.

Going to Jisu’s house tomorrow to do uni stuff, and then going Westlake Chinese Night - which I’m sure would be amazing.

Also Secondary School Case Competition this Saturday, wish me and my team luck ♥

QUEENS BIRTHDAY

Monday 6th June : Queen’s birthday holiday.

I never usually post on tumblr, but I guess today was just worth blogging about (and because I am procrastinating study)

生命很脆弱，要懂得珍惜。

Today we got the day off school which meant i got a LONG OVERDUE SLEEP IN !
I don’t think I’ve had a good sleep-in since, what, the April holidays?? AND I LOOVEEE MY SLEEP.

Anyways, my mum woke me up at around 10:30am and told me we were going to visit my great grandparents. I’ve known for a couple of days that we were going to see them and I was actually looking forward to it. I think the last time I saw him was around LAST YEAR? And I didn’t even have the chance to visit him when he was admitted to the hospital a couple of months ago.

So it was quite important that my family had to see him today. I was told,

”他沒有很多時間了。“

He did not have long left.

But that did not seem the case when I saw him today.

He was smiling the WHOLE time we were there, and seemed so lively !
Although he did not remember exactly who I was, I was so glad I got to see him. He could not speak in complete sentences, but he always seemed to want to say something.

My mum said “When people get old, they start to act like a little kid again.”

He was wearing his jacket inside out, and just started laughing when he found out - SOOO CUTE LOL

My great grandmother was sitting beside/near him the whole time. She said she wanted to go and see the snow (when she found out my mum was going to snowplanet later), but was joking about not being able to go cus she had to look after him.

They’ve been married for 66years ♥

(I hope I even make it up to the age of 66.)

I’ve always considered myself to be quite lucky. Not once have I experienced the death of a close family member, never have I been to a funeral.

So I’ve often wondered, how would I react? What would I do?

I remember when the doctors told my grandma she only had half a year to live.
BUT NOW 6 YEARS LATER SHE IS STILL HEALTHY AND STRONG !!!

(On a happier note), My aunt recently gave birth to a beautiful baby boy ♥

I understand that ‘death’ is included in this life deal
But the miracle of birth is how this cycle all starts ♥