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Thursday, December 16, 2004

due to popular demand (of juz 1 person.. haha), i shall be writing something now before i leave.

hmm.. what did i do? i shopped (oh my goodness.. again??), did a bit of kettling, practice for the xmas eve thingy (which i have to go for after this), teach, spend time wif my friends, bought tickets for disney on ice on the 16th of march, work at the clinic, and also spent a lot of time daydreaming about my year ahead. quite silly isn't it? but i was telling lyuina that i have to come up with a list of new year resolutions that i absolutely must aspire to keep.. and she had one of those, "ya right" looks on her face..

well, i really want to do that!!!

let's see.. what i can remember about my week..

sat..
longest work day of my life. from 9am-8pm, there was just no stop. it was packed to the brim at the clinic, but thankfully, things mellowed down during the afternoon time as the aesthetic patients had come in. so all i had to do was just make sure that the patients come in promptly.

which was quite hard because of the downpour outside.

that downpour also deprived me of the chance to buy food. but then again, i had no time to do that too.

so it was stewart to the rescue!! *grinz* although i think the sandwich was quite cold (oops!), but hey, it's the thought that counts and i really appreciate it, though the hair did look a bit weird (double oops!). was still quite surprised that he brought it though.

stewart: thank you very muchie.. it was very sweet of you.

ok, so my workday ended at 8pm, and i was supposed to join serene & marcus for dinner. but i was toooooo tired already, so i just went home. i felt really bad though.

sun..
met up with marcus, serene & stewart at J8 to catch a glimpse of trigger dancing like a fantastic hip-hop mama!! check her out man.. i was so in awe of her.. so proud of her too! she did a really good job with the dance moves and wow, could she flirt too when she's dancing..

oh, and i decided that hip-hop is not my cup of tea. i think i shall stick to latin.

before we left, went to shibuya to look for joanne and saw some really nice dresses.. but i was in a hurry to leave then.. so it was like, too bad..

mon..
went to teach in the morning, and had lunch with serene in school. den it was the thing that i've been dreading.. the practice. it still does gives me the creeps and well, scares me a little everytime i have to step foot over at 149 lentor street. it's like, "why am i here?" it was real awkward. i was there before terence & jonathan came back, and so i juz hang around the place and looked around.. saw a few things around and well, the feeling was bittersweet. bitter being that i wished that had happened to me when i was with him, yet sweet because i know probably because of what happened between the both of us that made him like that. i hope..
anyway, practice was good. i'm glad things are working out. i thank god for it really. we're thinking of putting in some special touches to the performances so as to make it even more.. angelic. shall not say too much about it.. but if you want to know, please join me on xmas eve at the salvation army at 1930. it's a chinese service, but don't get too turned off by it ok? see how god uses his love to use people of all ages (children, senior citizens, ladies, youths) to speak.. or should i say, sing to you about the wonderful child that he sent down.

later, found out that victoria's dad passed away. so sad. we didn't even know he was sick. i was just soo shocked. and it made me cherish my parents even more.

tues..
went to teach in the morning. in the afternoon i started kettling with may at junction 8. think she can't really stand still for too long.. but it was fun. time passes by very quickly if we don't keep complaining.. haha.. but i've always enjoyed kettling. especially when i see the children coming up to me and putting the coins inside the red tin, and some of the working adults who unselfishly put in $10 or more.. it's for a wonderful cause anyway.

after which i went to teach again.. and bought kway chap for may as dinner for the both of us. i don't know why she said it's really nice because i tot it was pretty bland. oops!

wed..
hmm.. woke up and straightaway left to meet lyuina for some shopping at ikea.. i've always loved going ikea. so many things and i was telling lyuina about the ideas that was going through my head about the place that i'd be staying in next time. the living room, the kitchen.. everything! after which we went to town, and i bought more things there.. i think i can happily classify myself as a shopaholic. i bought a dress that i think i'd wear for a wedding that i'm going for at shibuya (since joanne was there), a skirt that is so....... me, 2 pants for may & myself.. (yes identical ones too!) and hmm.. nothing else. oh yes, a white shawl! hahaha..

went for kettling after that, and my er gan ma came to pack things up. i was soooooooo happy to see her! haven't seen her for such a long time and she said i look soooooooooo good. (i wonder if it was the "pretty" good, or the "wellness" good.. *shrugs*) anyway, i've never felt so much better in my whole life before and she told me she's never seen me so happy before too. she was commenting on the fact that i even dared to bare my back!

*grinz* think she should come looking at my wardrobe one day. she'd be so shocked.

after which, i came home. opened my wardrobe, looked at the clothes that i have, and offically declare that my CNY clothes shopping is done. i even have my shoes purchased not too long ago.. anyway not going to go to like somewhere special for visitation too..

had this phone conversation with a friend and we talked a lot about our lives and all... she was commenting on my everblasting schedule and complaining that she never have much chance to see me anyway and she said something really funny..

"melissa, i don't know why.. but how could you be a shopaholic, workaholic & a perfectionist at the same time?"

beats me too.

but i know i should really enjoy my holidays to the upmost best i could. before school and every other commitments return to overtake my luxuries of my life. i don't even know i could finish the cross-stitch on time. probably not. but i have a lot of things to be thankful of this year..

what are you thankful of this christmas?

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