thursday

was at home waiting for aircon man to come and change my aircon. my house has been super hot the past few nights w/o aircon.
must say the aircon uncles were quite efficient. think they spent a lot of efforts whacking the old aircons out. they showed me the rusty nails. the other uncle had to climb out of the window to remove teh compressor. he had those harness u wear when u go rock climbing on. they were nice too.

realised last time when my house was under renovation, my mum used to buy packet drinks for the workers. so i kinda picked up this habit and also went to buy packet drinks for teh aircon uncles.

then the boss talked to me while we waited for mama to come home and settle the bill. we were talking abt global warming, plasma tv, grandmothers, daikin v panasonic etc. guess it is in their line to do lots of talking. but he was really nice too.

then i went to meet ryan melon, ernest, zhen lin, mich, sel, dee at city hall. our original plans to eat carl's junior took a turn for thr better - we went to nydc! haha the food wasn't fantastic, but i believe all of us enjoyed teh desserts! we had THAT BONEY CAKE, whch is one of selina's favourites, and JEDI MUDSTER. both were equally good, tho i believe meln loved the boney cake so much he entered nirvana for a moment. haha

we took loads of nonsense photos as well, which are mostly on ernest's cam. melon was really paiseh cos manay ppl were looking at us haha. well well. upali and sariputta have signed a treaty le!

after which, we went to eat more auntie annie's. think my cinnamon sugar was better than melon's sour cream. :P then we went to koi pond to take pictures. we were all blinded for a moment. ernest only saw orange blinding lights for a while, due to the flash haha. guess it was overall a fun night for all of us. and for melon, his last night on earth before checkinginto hotel tekong.

friday

went to choa chu kang to meet wing lam and huiyi for sushi buffet. why do we pay to suffer? teh sushi was not bad la. but we really stuffed ourselves silly. went to shop for a while. bought kites!

went to sch to gym. had to call so many ppl - selina, michelle, sj, uncle audrick. time to get busy! gym was crowded. only ran. din do much.

after which we trodded down to PS to buy green tea from carrefour. then walked all teh way back to rochor for tau huay. somehow i have this craving for tau huay recently. probably due to the newspaper report on sunday. this is my second time eating tau huay this week :)

sorry sariputta gals, i can't make it for sharing tmr as i will be attending my jc reunion. this is the summer hols and my frens have flown back from all over teh world. understand tmr is our house's presentation on sariputa. i have complete trust in our leaders to deliver a gd presentation on sariputta. also, i hope all of u will learn more abt Sariputta, one of the two chief disciples of the Buddha.

gotta visit Da Bei with siu and mich one day next week. mb we can hook up with their elderly home and perform comm service there.

even before sch has started, i m starting to feel more pressure on myself and on my frens too. mb it is the inertia, not wanting to go back to sch. sometimes we don't understand why are we feelign like this. or why we are goign thru this. sometimes, we just don't have the answers to everything. if we can find out teh source of our problems, good. finish it off. what is more impt, when we can't find the root of the problem, is to simply let it go.

letting go is not as easy. even as we think we have let go, we may be clinging on more tightly than ever. personal feelings. as most of u know, i can't get into medical sch. initially i told myself, i have to let go. mb i will have more fun at smu, study less in accountancy than in medicine, climb the corporate ladder. yet when uni started, i realised i still secretly harboured the regret of not appealing.

but now, i can tell u i m having fun in smu. i have many frens, frens who have shown me the world, frens who have cared for each other, frens who have stood by each other, frens who jus crap with each other. i also remember saying that the number of trips i have gone this summer has more than made up teh bulk of teh reasons why i m in smu. i have more time for other activities aka SBM. i have oppotunities at organising talks, organising functions, working with many other organisations. i believe i m leading a more fruitful life than if i were to study my life off in medicine school. have i truly let go of wanting to go to medical school? probably. after all, 100 years later, no one will remember whether laura foo went to study medicine or accountancy.

speaking of which, i don't like to call ppl up. why? i also dunno why. i don't like to call cos i dunno what to say over the phone. i don't like to call up strangers as well too. always gives me butterflies in my stomach. however, i realise i have had to call up more organisations these past week than in my whole life. i also called up some sariputtians. jus had a nice talk with mich. think talking over teh phone can be fun too. and i think i m overcoming my 'fear' of calling strangers too. it is just like how u used to be araid of sth, like making mistakes. but once u make enough mistakes, u will no longer feel hurt or embarrassed when making the mistake. jus take it in our stride, be more confident before and keep up the good work! =)

P.S. hope melon is doing wel first night at tekong

P.P.S hope puee is doing well w/o mr wisdom tooth