Winter

hi guys!!! i'm alive

LOL

ok this has been one of my longest hiatuses yet. but i have valid reasons! (somewhat)

it's been so long that typing this now feels kinda weird... 

A LOT has happened in the past five months, and it's truly been a rollercoaster journey. 

in summary, i:

1. finished school!!! 

2. went into panic mode cos i was now jobless and not doing anything with my life

3. lived a lifestyle i would never want to live again (spamming applications, interviews, staying home to scrimp, felt like a burden)

4. finally secured an internship while waiting for full-time offers, which was quite the relief because i got so anxious staying home doing nothing

5. went on a grad trip to greece + bulgaria!

6. came back home and started my internship

7. am now finishing my internship cos...

8. I GOT A JOB OFFER!!! and it was the job i wanted the most :') 

so the only offer i got was the one i really wanted. life really... works in mysterious ways. i guess it's sort of a blessing in disguise? cos if i had gotten other offers i didn't really want so much, i might have long signed a contract already, and wouldn't have been able to get this job. 

still, the past five months were an emotional ride. so many moments of self-doubt and feeling helpless. being unemployed is really the worst, and i'm so glad those days are over.

now it's time to face the working world... a little scared but also excited? was reading up on investment tips the other day and the last line of the article was "your life is only just beginning." :')

also, i changed my phone right before i left for europe, and there was smth wrong with the file transfer so all my pre-europe photos are still in my other phone. (and i'm an Android user now!! i love it, i'm never going back.)

i wanted to blog only about post-europe stuff since the whole europe trip would take too long and i gtg soon, but LOL i have so few photos -bmf-

oh well, pls enjoy.

graduated on 18 July. feels super surreal how 4 years just went by like that.
my parents didn't come cos they had work the next day and they were lazy LOL.
they really do not care much for ceremonies (there is a better word for this but i forgot what it is. festivities? no)
i'm really grateful to my friends- old or new, thank you for all the love and support, and for just being my friends.
but most of all to my parents of course, for all the sacrifices.
am truly privileged to have myself such a powerful social support system,
even though i don't think i've ever been particularly needy or emotionally dependent.
congrats, batch of 2018!!! we did it :')

compulsory demure grad shot

LOL idk what she doing.
but special thanks to ET, who rushed all the way to NUS with me cos
we were drinking kopi at orchard (yes) and lost track of time.

the most un-paiseh person i know when it comes to taking the perfect photo for the gram

stay weird always

lianne - for hanging out with me these four years :')
i still remember our first day of class together so vividly:
we went for the first 1101 lecture tgt and had a longass break
before our 4pm soci lecture, so we went to D'Good cafe
at Holland V and chilled

and of course, wumssssssssssss!!

so much :')

my favourite flower

oh shit okay i gtg now. continue later LOL

(i'm back!)

got jio-ed along to a saturday JB trip with the cac main comm
was quite fun, plus one of them had a msian car so it was v convenient
did the usual stuff (banana cake, cafe, massage) plus played paintball.
it was an interesting experience, but i think once is enough for me LOL

had boat noodle for lunch at this place (forgot the name) which was surprisingly good 

v short ikea dinner with lianne + tania
i think we ate dinner, got ice-cream and left

highlight of the meal

mexican with lynchuaa
very very meh food...
why is mexican in sg so meh
miss the tacos from california bar in konstanz

soon after, they dried up and made my room smell funny so i threw them away :/

traded basses with a bass god friend of mine for two weeks
surprisingly nice to play. i don't rmb glossy maple feeling this good
and his 5-string was easier to play than i remembered
good tradee

the description says "all joeys need for their
breakfast, lunch and dinner is some tasty green grass."
i relate to this so much

and this was taken on a random work day when there
just so happened to be only 5 of us around in office,
so we walked around the mall after lunch

i started this internship very busy, but now
i literally go there just to do nothing.
i guess it's just as well since i'm leaving soon? LOL
the colleagues are very nice and funny tho.

forgot about this pic. taken from pre-europe, when the amplified ppl
came to visit my dad's kelong cos they were curious.
iz was evidently bored (guessed he would be) but the rest liked it
was rly nice to just chill there haha

okay gonna surf youtube

BYE

might or might not blog about europe soon