it's been a week... so my mom had an accident 4 days before my flight home... and she didn't let me know a thing about it... imagine my shock when the first thing i saw was the head bandage... she should have told me man... then i might have had a legitimate excuse not to concentrate for my final papers...

and so... i don't feel like going out... actually there isn't exactly anyone to go out with this time... hmm... the few friends of mine in Vietnam are probably busy with their finals... oh yeah there's a surprise... a long lost friend managed to get in touch with me after 5 years =) Hoai Nam's so sweet in the blog post...

ah and I got a B+ for my Creative Thinking module... wonder if I'd missed any grade component, cuz I was expecting an A grade... oh well if the grade's proportional to the amount of knowledge I gained from the module, it's a fair score then... I didn't think it was a good course...

after a week, a part of me is in love... hell yeah, my tummy's sweetheart is my mom's cooked food... simply yummilicious... it spices up my appetite... ah i'm gonna miss the dishes so much on the 24th... ah i'm gonna miss my sister too... she made the the biggest of spring rolls the other day :)

so i've been home eating and sleeping and playing Age of Empires for almost a week (Stanley must think i'm such a loser)... wonder how hunky i would become after having huge meals every day... well wanted to actually read a good textbook (that i was supposed to read for the last semester) but in the rush to the airport that day, i left it back in S'pore.

Moral of the Story: do not stay up until 4am to pack your luggage, especially when your flight is at 12 noon, as this would cause serious pre-flight scare that might well result in you running like a complete idiot. and when you have a tax refund item that's worth above a hundred bucks, do check your insurance as heart attacks are not uncommon (damn).

oh besides all those pretty little things, i've been reading newspapers as well. old vietnam newpapers, months ago... there's this "To be or not to be" (Vietnamese: Ton tai hay khong ton tai) project by a law graduate who wishes to "fight" for legal names to street children. there's this American guy, Kenneth something, who decided to devote his time to charity work for Vietnamese children at the expense of his own business after his first visit to the country. and there's this poor gentleman who's been taking care of an old woman who was taking care of his poor mother who died of cancer (pardon my tortuous language here).

i feel like i've been underappreciating my birth certificate (and i hate underappreciation).

anyway, i wanna say that i love my BGS group real loads... Jasmine, Grace, Shawn and Ray, i decide not to email you personally (cuz it's a bit gay) to tell you that i think the final report you worked on is simply fantastic =) i'm proud of us =) and i'm sorry i couldn't stay up with you till 3am the other night. neither could i log in to skype to discuss Disruptive Technology with Grace...

a friend recently emailed me about how "nowhere on earth is better than home". i replied, saying that yes, "home is where we truly belong"... we both agree that no boyfriend or girlfriend could ever guarantee the unconditional love and care the way home makes us feel :)

me and another friend were talking... about relationships... when she said, i'm lucky to have someone, the image that ran in my mind was the girlfriend. i was kind of surprised, and a little bit shocked, as she went on saying, home, or rather family... a friend of hers doesn't even have a thing called home...

i'm glad... i'm home :)

though many things have happened... and i only got to know now...

i'm still glad though... that i'm home :) i wasn't feeling as excited as the past few times when i'm going back... now i realize, that's because the subconscious me knows that there's peace at home... i'd be free from the chaos of life...

and i'm glad i got onto the plane... though i overslept and woke up only 2 hours before the flight took off... though i lost my ticket... though i was the last to board the plane... thanks, Eddie and Jing Ting :)

i'm gonna miss every one in S'pore... See you on Christmas Eve :)

12:00pm 30 Nov ~ done with AS, the last paper. i'm quite pleased with my response to "Euthanasia should be legalised" :) no celebration lunch though; BGS research paper awaits...

8:00pm 30 Nov ~ dinner @ Wheelock's Cedele. had red seafood penne pasta. probably not again, cuz the serving was small :( anyway, me and Eddie complained and consoled each other, hahaha.

10:30pm 30 Nov ~ reached Hall 1, NTU. it was a random meeting. kind of convenient cuz i was going to NTU that night anyhow :) Happy birthday to you! =)

12:30am 1 Dec ~ was at Hall 13, NTU. Angeline was kind enough to take a less convenient bus route back so that i wouldn't have to find my own way to the place. the night was quiet. and the moon was beautiful. i whispered something lovely to the moon :)

11:45am 1 Dec ~ back to SMU for drama production audition. hahaha it was fun. i did a monologue, and had a dialogue (with the air), and performed an in promptu act in which i wasn't supposed to be myself. i acted as a homosexual.

1:45pm 1 Dec ~ was on time for tuition at Punggol. not gonna see the boy for the next 3 weeks :) the new syllabus is a slight bit different from mine.

4:00pm 1 Dec ~ met up with my BGS group at SMU. seems like we still have a lot of work to do. and the paper's due at 10am on Monday. i feel bad going home...

7:45pm 1 Dec ~ had dinner @ Wheelock's NYDC with the gang :) "meatballs that ate Manhattan" penne pasta (penne again) was much better than the Cedele's dish man. then we moved to McCafe and chilled until 10pm. Brian's leaving for Japan tomorrow. and Richard's flying there on the 6th.

11:33pm 1 Dec ~ just reached home and had a good bath. gonna look for my air ticket now (yeah it's missing) and pack my stuffs soon.