Wow its been forever. but now tt i'm here, i don't really know what to say.
chirstmas break is almost over (NONONONNONONOFUCKNO). so maybe itd make sense to have a quick overview of what iv busied myself with. just so i cna feel like ive not been wasting my time.
STUFF DONE:
- completed our BCI class (ok, this was before the break but it gets to be here as a personal goal met)
- Christmas shopping
- sent a deepavali + xmas card to rasna (waaay overdue, but better late than never i guess)
- watched some of my recorded documentaries
- planned group 1 and 2 lessons for the first couple of weeks
- tried mellban crab beehoon
- had a steamboat xmas eve dinner
- xmas dinner
- dinner with daddy
- edible experiments (apple cheese quinoa bites, plus the usual couscous)
- visited gardens by the bay
- had a picnic w candice
- watched lots of cooking and house makeover shows
- cycled (on the indoor bike)
- yoga (tried 3 diff instructors and the pod at tiong bahru)
- watched a movie (Ip Man 3!!!!! *paper turn to stone move*HOIK!*)
- met with the Empty Vessels
- tried PU3 nasi ambeng
- revisited GUI; made bricks / fed and killed some mozzies (got a record-breaking 25 mosquito kisses on right leg alone)
- finalised wedding menu with orange clove
- met up with a wedding deco co. and a henna+make-up co.
- ring shopping
- shopping for wedding favours (which we found out yesterday was completely unnecessary since OC is providing ours)
- cleaned vacuumed my room
- museum with regina (and corn and baby jo)
- met up with the b300s bunch (we had fancy, pocket-blasting high tea)
- dinner with kifuat's family
- partied with SBF
- dental check-up
- free insurance health screening. see: my first boobie and transvaginal ultrasound... y.a.y. {:/
- cleared my desk at work
- got tricked into listening to a friend's sales
- stayed at daddy's house
AND BEFORE THE END OF THE WEEK..
- start my sirah history course (something like the "Life & Times" of the prophets)
- gardening at ComCrop aquaponics farm
- jamming with the jamsters (gonna try backbeats this time)
NOT BAD AT ALL, Amelia. for three weeks, i think i did pretty well. i actaully feel pretty good about this list cos i managed to do lots of new things see new places, learn new skills, hone old ones, meet up with people i like and people im ambivalent about but whom i like to believe added some sort of value to my life.
here are two earworms ive had this holiday:
:: Take Me to Church - hozier
the best of sacrilegious poetry. ironic how hozier looks like the jesus we all "know". i only began to pay attention to this song last week. i'd heard it several times before in the background (on the radio in a shop or in the car). but that one day i was stepping out of the house and mummy asked what my plans for the day were and i rattled the two things out; she promptly asked (for the umpteenth time in the past few months) if i was gg to mass that day and why not. i did my best not to snap back and this meant me clamming my mouth shut and giving what i can only hope was a completely deadpan expression before i disappeared behind the lift doors. as i got into the cab i asked myself if i should go to mass. just to be sure, i assured myself. and hopefully God would give me a categorical sign, something to show me that its more than ok not to feel moved by my parents' religion. the cabbie had the radio on quite audibly and as we passed the bus stop just before the road bend, hozier came on. i didn't know who he was of course, but i suddenly felt drawn to his voice and immediately became curious to know who this singer with this wonderful voice was and what the lyrics were. so i googled it:
take me to church
i'll worship like a dog in theshrine of your lies
i'll tell you my sins so you can sharpen your knife
offer me that deathless death
oh good god let me give you my life
WOAH.
ok...... God, is tt you?
:: Whataya Want From Me - adam lambert