時間経つが速い！

Time really flies.

It's almost time to go..

But the funny thing is that everything still seems so surreal. Reality hasn't checked on me yet. I'm still living in Lalaland, thinking I can still wake up in the same bed, in the same house, see my family every day, laze and watch tv every day.

But all this is going to change soon.

Everyone says when reality finally hits, I'll start crying. I'm just afraid it'll be too overwhelming.

The past week has been awesome. Got to meet up with so many people that I've missed! But I hope this is not where it all ends, but where it all starts.

Well well, after the Visa Scare, all's settled, thank God (: and I've finally managed to squeeze my 19 years worth of clothes and belongings into 2half suitcases (so exaggerating hor?) haha! I think my maximum weight of 30kg will be exceeded by a far mile. And although I brought like almost half of my closet, I think I won't wear half of it, so I don't even know why I even bother.

Oh! I need to make a honourary mention to Limin! That girl told me she had a farewell gift for me and will get her friend to pass it to me because she was still in London. But her friend wanted to stay anonymous because she wanted to be part of the surprise. So fine, I went to meet mystery friend. It was so funny because she was late and we agreed to meet at the entrance of J8 but I stood inside cos there was aircon what. And she messaged me, "Stand at a prominent place!" HAHA. guess what? SHE herself was mystery friend! But anyway, what I want to say is that, that dear girl gave me an expensive UCL sweatshirt in GREEN. OMGOSH! It's absolutely gorgeous. but what makes it so important is that she doesn't have much money to spend in the first place and she was willing to buy that for me! so touched (': THANKS A BUNCH, FRIEND! :D:D And it's so funny that cos I was meeting my bf after her and she didn't wanna meet him because she has an issue with her hair (too long and untidy) and he also didn't want to meet her cos of his hair (didn't gel and make tidy). LOL. Someone's going to kill me for saying that.


LOOK AT THE GORGEOUS GREEN <3!

Tokyo is 8deg/15deg today. Brr. It sounds nice and cold when you're in Singapore because Singapore is Freaking Hot nowadays. But I think I'll be missing Sunny Singapore when I'm over there in Freezing Tokyo. And I think I won't get to see much of the much-anticipated sakuras this year because they bloomed earlier cos of the weather. Bummer ):

Just wanted to blog before I leave. And let ya'll know that ya'll will be much missed and much loved. Please add me on Skype if you have one. It's the same email I'm using. My friends should know.

Soo, yes, see you in Tokyo in 17 hours time.

God bless and keep us. (:



♥, char

Androgeny.

Oh my. This will be one harrowing week.

Ruth said that having to deal with Visa issues seem to be such grown-up problems - and i agree! If you asked me a few years ago if I would be dealing with Visa, my reply would be "Huh, what's a Visa for?"

And now here I am, panicking over it.

Let me tell you what Visa screwups can entail:

1. It can deny you access to the designated country.
2. It can screw up all your plans and schedules.
3. It can cause in flight delays.
4. It can cause me to miss Orientation Week.
5. It can cause incovenience to everyone, and i mean everyone.
6. It can cause me to get heart attacks and sleepless mornings when I'm supposed to sleep in and enjoy the weather.

And now, let me tell you what caused the Visa screwup.

I need a thing called the Certificate of Eligibility (COE, in short) which is a cert from the Ministry of Justice in Japan to prove that I'm eligible and qualified to go into Japan. Sounds formal and serious enough right? But guess what?

They got my gender wrong.

Okay I know you want to laugh now. Go ahead and laugh.

But. I'm not kidding.

Like, how, HOW can they get my gender wrong? Which part of my face or my name screams "I'm a GUY!"?

When I was scrutinising my COE, and happened to notice the mistake, my heart literally doubled over and I was just staring at it, mouth agape.

HOW?

Sigh.

But in times like this, I just gotta have faith that everything will be fine. If God brings you to it, He'll bring you through it. He has never given me a reason to doubt this before.

On a side note, thank you to all those who planned those lovely farewell surprises. I was honestly surprised/touched/embarassed all at the same time. For someone who isn't used to getting the limelight, that was one heck of an experience. But I loved them all :D Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou! You have no idea how much the farewells mean to me. I promise they'll stay with me in memory for life. (:







And here's the Picture Of The Week (:




♥, char


PS: Would someone tell me how to do layering of clothes (especially if you need to wear >4 layers) without looking bulky + if your clothes are all in one size. How does the uppermost layer manage to fit the layers beneath? Ah, I don't make sense, do I? I'm sure noone will understand my question.

Ethereal.

You know how sometimes you go to sleep, exhausted, and wake up even more exhausted than the night before? Yea it's happening to me now! Has been for the past few days and it's soo annoying. The cause: weird dreams. Honestly, I don't understand any significance of the dreams. They are just ridiculous. Somehow they almost always happen in a school setting.

But, today's dream was classic. I can't remember what the dream was fully but at one point of time I dreamt that I was playing Wii. Rayman and the Psycho Rabbits (haha okay I named that myself, please don't sue me!). If you ever played it before, you'd know how psycho the rabbits look and how sadistic the games are cos it mostly involves bashing up bunnies, kicking them or blowing them up. But besides the violence (it's actually not that bad, I'm just exaggerating), it's pretty addictive. So anyway, I dreamt that I was playing one of the mini games, where you have to shake your nunchuk and controller vigorously for the rabbit to run as fast as it can to deliver a parcel. Guess what, I not only dreamt it out, I also played it out. At some point of time, I actually woke up and caught myself hitting my hand against my mattress, thinking that I'm shaking an invisible controller/nunchuk. So I was like, *wakes up groggily and wonders to myself "what am I doing?" and I go back to sleep* Haha is it scientifically proven that your dreams get weirder with more stress??

I hope the Dream Syndrome gets better or my panda eyes are going to get waaaay worser than it already is. Okay okay, I know I don't have much to do anyway, since I'm just bumming around at home so I can just take afternoon naps. But did you know if you lose one night's sleep, no matter how many afternoon naps you take it won't make up for that one night's loss of sleep?? I think mummy told me that. When I got back from a sleepover and lamented how I didnt sleep the last night and wanted to take a nap at the expense of lunch with the extended family. It could just be a ploy to get me rethinking about not sleeping through a night OR it could really be true. AND did you know lack of sleep causes death to occur earlier plus increases your risk of obesity? So girls (or guys wanting to lose weight), I'd really recommend you to sleep early. It beats starving yourself to no ends. Seriously.

Right, what was my point again? Hmm I deviated too much haha. Oh okay I just wanted to say that there's officially 12 more days left to youknowwhat! Wheeeee. I'm not like 100% excited, though I can't deny that I'm gettin a teensy weeny bit anticipative (is there such a word?) and a whole load of anxiety. But wow, I really think it's life changing! I do hope I come back a better cook (yumyum), a lot more independent, a lot more willing to try out new things and adventures, and a whole whole whole whole whole lot more fluent in Japanese! Haha if I don't get at least the last one fulfilled, I'd have wasted my 5 years there wouldn't I =\ And Finally, I'm going to get meself a life! You don't know how torturous it is for me to be sitting around at home, watching tv (it doesnt sound torturous I know but wait till you try it) while my friends go about with school. The poor girl does feel left out sometime you know? Like I'm not experiencing life the way it should be at my age. And of course some people have already summarised it for me: "Then aren't you wasting one year?" Oh yes, that's just superb, isn't it? -beams.

So excuse me while I wait my 12 days to the start of my life and all the best to you all slogging over exams and assignments and projects! You guys'll be in my prayers :D

♥, char

Friday the Thirteenth.

13/03:

Celebrated YiFang's birthday (belated, though) at Giraffe's, a restaurant located opposite PS. I can't believe I've never noticed it before! It's a nice little restaurant with awesome ambience (I recommend the nightview). Makes you feel as if you've been momentarily detached from the world because it's just one building by itself. It's a pretty nice feeling, really. Makes me want to run away to a nice, slow-paced place.

Dinner was peppered with talks of animal cruelty, of the most ransid food you could ever dream of - think fried cockroaches, tarantulas, duck egg with embryo -, of God-made breath-taking landscapes. What a variety, I know. That's why I love them; we can talk about anything under the sun (ceiling, whatever). :D

After Giraffe, we went Ben&Jerry's, my new favourite icecream place! their ice cream is to die for! Look!

Let me show you something amusing. I was soooo tickled!

Isn't this cute! Hahahahahaha the chimpanzee is soooooooo cute right right right!! But. That's not the funny part. Wait till you see this.

LOOK AT THE SICKO BUTT-TOUCHERS!!!

Ohmy you know how many people walked by and saw this!! They must have been thinking what are this bunch of sickos doing?!?!?!

So after that we went to the toilet and Yi Fang was super high for I-dunno-what-reason. So I said:

Me: Eh, you touch people's butt until so high izzit?

YF: ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE THERE WAS A WOMAN THERE WHO I DIDN'T SEE WHO OVERHEARD WHAT I SAID.

..

I felt so sorry after that because I gave the wrong impression to that poor woman who was staring at YF. )): SORRY!!

Moral of the story: LOOK and think before you say anything M18 in public.

And to end off this post, I'll leave you with this.

Oh the crazy things we do. :D

♥, char

ANNOYANCE!

I AM SOOOOO IRRITATED!

I think there's some stupid person standing outside my house, trying to make stupid, not-funny-at-all prank calls!

This is what happens:

I'm doing my own stuff when...

ring...ring...ring...

and I rush to answer it, because I just can't stand it when the phone rings continuously. The sound is jarring and irritating. (This is why I'm ALWAYS pissed when people call me when I'm trying to take a nap AND when my brother refuses to pick up the phone although he's just next to it!)

When I finally reach the phone (okay, my house isn't that big la), the phone WILL STOP RIGHT THE MOMENT I PICK UP.

WHAT, tell me, WHAT ELSE CAN IT BE!

Unless the person has telepathy. But what the heck, it's annoying the heck out of me!

I better not have some freak outside my house doing that.

OR ELSE.

♥, char

I'm not you, you're not me.

"If you want to be him, you want to be her, and you want to be someone else, then who's going to be you?"

Pastor's message on Saturday's inauguration ceremony spoke to my heart.

God knows how much I needed that.

No more envy, jealousy issues.

From now on, I'm me. Because God made me, me.

Thank you, Lord (:

♥, char

Slumdog.

This is a must-watch! It didn't win 8 Oscars for no reason, you know. It gives you insights into India, the people, the way society works. Of course some of the scenes might have been over-exaggerated but the gist is there.

It broke my heart when the men whom the children called "saints" exploited the children and even blinded them to earn more money, because "blind singers earn double, y'know." What a whole load of rubbish. Then why don't you go blind yourself and earn yourself the doubles you deserve? I just hate it so much when people exploit others (especially innocent, vulnerable people) to get what they want. Earn your own keeps, I say!

If the world has given you the impression that it's just part of how the world works, through the television, media, whatnot, the world has lied to you. This was not the world God intended it to be. Man just took liberties. I can't understand how people can brainwash themselves into thinking what they're doing is right when their conscience clearly tells them otherwise. Please, just get a heart. You people make me sick.

Things like this make me mad, please pardon me.

Anyways, the week is coming to an end soon! Time really does fly, doesn't it? I have a million things to do but all I feel like doing is laze around and watch tv! Haha. What's left now on my list is a gazillion things like:

Applying for visa

Buying necessities for Japan

PACKING AND LOTS OF PACKING (I haven't even started, oh gosh)

Learn how to cook (or I'll have to live on cupnoodles or be broke for the rest of my life in Japan)

Spend lots and lots of time with Family & Eric & Friends! (God knows how much I'm going to miss all of you)

But meanwhile, let me return to being a couch potato because I'm not going to have the chance to do this for the next 5 years!

Have a lovely and blessed weekend, ya'll! (:

♥, char