woke up with a splitting headache, sore throat and fever ): definitely from the intensity of sleep deprivation and shuttling from one post-exam thing to the next. eeks. but what transpired before today makes it all worth it. so here's how, to the simple life:

brunch at halia in botanic gardens just now - so that meant walking down the hill walk walk walk hot sun parasol umbrellas! hot hot hot. and lots of things along the way! saw a bright green snake outside no. 15; it wasn't alive i think cos mom poked at it w 3 branches but it didn't budge. bright red eyes (!) and poison green skin/scales. it just looked so... serene

and walked along some more - saw a dead squirrel by the roadside outside no. 5. and spotted its partner or something sitting in a tree near it; it made lots of noise when i approached so i walked off again... walking back two hours later, well it was still there, so was its partner. watching us with suspicious black bright eyes gosh it was really endearing. though yeah sad ): poor thing - and i think the dead one had cardiac arrest or sthg, cos it wasn't run over

that much was clear.

young spanish spinach salad and open-faced omelette, cinnamon french toast w honeycomb butter and glazed strawberries for brunch! :) yummy. except i'm not eating anything for the rest of today i swear.. engaging in retail therapy in a moment! and besides, walking up the hill and down, well it helped me sweat out the fever. throat feels somewhat ohkay. 

and thats the simple life - i love being so in touch with nature :) like walking along the park's paths and stopping to breathe in the fragrance of frangipanis, examine the huge clumps of lush green moss along the slopes :) ahaha okay shut it jc

AHHHH. i feel better now, going to town soon to pick up  a new mobile, finally :) one conked, one is a cancer-causing machine (extra, more so than other phones), one is a china phone given to me last year (it has radio and internet!), one's got a bad back cos my maid dropped it on the floor from a nasty height. lol

so anyhows, wednesday - girls sleepover. awesome, haven't spoken to those girls for ages - and we wound up just sitting in the water for 4 hours talking and talking... :) its great for us 5 to get close and bond so well all over again. and just spend all that time talking, EATING!, lazing around, watching step up 1 ahhh

blueprint next day, uncle arthur brought rich down w him from australia and to dinner... went to downtown east later on for class chalet. wine wine wine vodka bailey's bacardi. major vodka! hahah i kept to my promise, touched nothing :) i'm fine w it really, abstinence exercises amazing self discipline. besides i'd have to answer to some people if i did touch. and how can you go to a christian camp the next day hungover anyhows? i'm off that ... shunky (LOL random word)

christian fellowship + FireAC jumbo mambo combo retreat! was teh awesome :D i feel muchly on fire again after agesssss gosh it feels so good to want to do something for the school ministry again :) worship was amazing - everyone just crescendoed throughout and well, really felt God and also in like how i found all these amazing verses which really spoke to the situation at hand, and personally as well :) ezekiel 2-3, and later on 1 peter 3:8-12, 4:7-19

praying and walking around the astroturf on vigil, in the middle of the night - awesome awesome :D and the prayer walk before that as well, with teh other girls zhuoey pet nicole carren tina - just wandering around from class to class :) and praying for people in each class... discovered so many things about so many people :/ and :) oh well just like the theme said - making a difference! hope i'll stay on fire to stay with that lol!

shall spend the next few days recovering from all that's been going on so far. in other things, life's pretty good :) found myself randomly wondering how ophelia is doing in duke university. how we could have moved on from the little kids shouting "i dont friend you..." in kindergarten, to the angsty 13-year-olds worrying about weight, to the sobered-up 16/17 year-olds still worrying about weight, but also about IB now and everything. how people have moved away :/

-kim:  IEE STILL LURBZXXZ EUU TOo! :) do you miss v-squirt!? i don't! and ben made a bad joke abt me at retreat yst ):

-carren: december twin! HAHAHA retreating with you was teh awesome! :) like how singing with you *cough* at start of year on a certain *coughcough* monday. *COUGH*

-sharon: let manda and i know when your exams are over!! ahahaha yeah girl LOVE YOU TOO and stay funkyyy! lol :)