Today was more meaningful than all my holidays put together.
I suppose the SL proj was pretty worthwhile in the end, just as the counsellor said it would be.. I mean did we significantly make a change in the lives of the kids?
Maybe not. But just taking them out, treating them to macs, giving them our attention, our time, our efforts.. I think we at least, at the very least, made their day and they made mine. The boy I looked after, was unable to form coherent words, unable to follow instructions, seemed almost oblivious to almost anything.
And yet would you trade places with him given a choice? Because he seemed happy regardless, not knowing the complexity of people, their thoughts, their actions, their words.. People might look at him with pity, but are we the ones that ought to be pitied?

T.O.P. (:

I love his hair here <3

CF baskin robin's advertisement - blueberry chiki chiki chiki cheesecake!

I love top's red band thingy.<3

T.O.P I'm the man yo.

his hair! <3 top's so dashing here.

:( His fringe is gone.

Bad boy image.

Look at his eyebrows!!

IRIS

IRIS

<3>

Personality test

INFJ

This is by far.. the most accurate description of me.

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Although the INFJ is likely to put friends behind their God and their families in terms of importance, they do value their friendships. As idealists who have strong value systems, INFJs seek authenticity and depth in their close relationships, and especially value people who can see and appreciate the INFJ for who they are and what they stand for.

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INFJs have uncanny insight into people and situations. They get "feelings" about things and intuitively understand them. Most INFJs are protective of their inner selves, sharing only what they choose to share when they choose to share it. They are deep, complex individuals, who are quite private and typically difficult to understand. INFJs hold back part of themselves, and can be secretive.

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Apparantly,

mother theresa is like me.

(hahahahahaha)

omg. I cant believe I wrote 'optionable' instead of 'optional' in the prev recipe post.

how am I going to be a journalist if I continue this way?! *changes career option*

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on a slightly heavier note,

I really wonder if I'm just very sensitive or people I know are just really ignorant.

I dont get how friends think those kind of immature, unhelpful words can be advice to another person. Really felt like I should have put my foot down.

But of course, my voice always fails me in those situations.

Ugh.

Regret it painfully.

Also even more disappointing is that you said something I did not expect,

even though you thought it would be a comfort.

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Beaches are overrated.

Iphones are overrated.

Facebook is overrated.

But the power of words.

They really are powerful.

Watch them, and consider their weight.

(as requested by deanna)

4E CLASS REUNION RECAP <3

Finally a class reunion in ages :)

Thank you yanka for organising!!!!!!!!!!

It was .. unbelievably great just sitting around the table laughing with each other over the weirdest things and over very old jokes.

Felt nostalgic :'(

It was almost very like school days.

Just that now our conversations are peppered with names of guys, stupid things guys can do and what guys think of the girls.

I'm going to try to write down rivali-style the conversations we had.

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Cheryl S: " Oh ya sometimes I hear guys telling me they think evan is cute!'
[Evan's mouth frozen in a big smile waiting to hear more.]

*pause*

Cheryl S: " Then I'd be like EW!"

*everyone bursts out laughing very loudly*

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Sotong:[persuading amanda and denise animatedly to donate to a library building fund]

*nicole heng walks over*

nicole heng:" LET'S TAKE A PICTURE!"

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Sotong:" You know one day I said smth like I can taste china in my pau..do u get it?'

Me:" I get it."

Sotong:[getting excited] " Ya! I told this guy and he didn't get it and started laughing at me!"

Me:" What a stupid guy! omg!"

Sotong:[very excited, literally bouncing]" THANK YOU YAY!!! You agree with me!!!Ya guys can be so ....!!"

*continues conversation over stupid guys*

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Cheryl S:" omg.. you know guys in my sch are like celebrated if they can fart."

Deanna:[claps hands together and scoffs]"CELEBRATED!!!!"

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*everyone talking after cleaning up the place*

*security guard switches off the lights, plunging the entire place into darkness, in a futile attempt to kill the mood*

*silence*

*conversation resumes normally among the noisy people*

(sorry thats all the quotes I can put to words!)

Moist Orange Cake

155g softened butter
2 tps finely grated orange rind
2/3 cup (150g) caster sugar
3 eggs
1 and 1/4 cups (185g) self-raising flour
1/4 cup (60ml) milk

1) Combine butter, orange rind, sugar, eggs, sifted flour and milk in a large bowl; beat on low speed with electric mixer until combined. Increase speed to medium, beat about 3 min or so until mixture is lighter in colour and smooth.

2) Spread mixture into pan, bake 45min, 180 degrees celsius.

3) Stand cake in pan ( 20cm round cake pan, line bottom with baking paper and grease!) about 5 min before turning onto wire rack to cool.

Okay I edited out some useless stuff, like the orange icing they said to make. Otherwise, everything else is there.. of course, remember to preheat oven 10 min before putting cake mixture in, don't overbeat the cake mixture, eggs should preferably be beaten before combining with the rest of the ingredients, all ingredients at room temperature before starting, use bracketed measurements for dry ingredients ( better? but if you're lazy.. using the cup is okay..)
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ENJOY! :)
It's a pretty simple recipe, easy to make, great with tea/ birthday cakes!
Making your own icing for the cake is optionable also.
Play around with food dyes, icing sugar and warm water. And pipe with plastic bag/ ziplocks.

Miracles

Yesterday I was struck by how precarious life can be.

We're all going to die one day.

But has anyone really accepted that, really understood the enormity of the truth?

When we go, what would we have left on this earth?

Would we have changed any hearts, saved any souls?

Or were we just. just nobody?

I decided to try to become a better person, turn up my lukewarm passion into RED HOT,

try to basically, live like there's no tomorrow.

And the strange yet amazing thing that happened to me today

was that

I saw a guy outside taka, along the sidewalks,

holding up a sign

'Jesus loves you.'

Though it was a pretty random occurance,

it made me feel a lot happier, a lot more hopeful, a lot more thankful.

If I see him again,

I'd say that Jesus loves him too. :)