and so the day to leave draws nearer again.

you'd think that by now i would be used to the fact that i am sad about leaving behind all things awesome and wonderful but i'm not. quite the contrary, i feel more she bu de maybe cos the last trip opened by eyes and heart to the preciousness of my friends around me. being back allowed me to soak up the meaning of what true friendship meant, made me realise which friends will last and which won't.

still, i'm quite sad that i didn't get to do all that i envisioned myself doing, like cycling at east coast, eating my roast duck, pork and char siew, my xin min hokkien mee and my sushi buffet :( oh well. wait another year before i get to do so. hahaha.

went out with the brudders to shukodu where they "surprised" me with a late-as-usual birthday celebration. haha this year not bad already la. celebrate twice. cos they celebrated my 2007 birthday on 1 jan 2008. lol. places like shukodu and marche are not nice if u go with money restrictions. i hate/love the fact that they display the food so you know what to eat but yet at teh same time everything looks so good that u want to eat everything. grrrr. at least i've started to step out of my comfort zone to try the other food rather than sticking to my same safe order :) that's what i need to start doing in my life. i keep staying within the same zone. i didn't even explore savannah. haha. i stayed within my sch zone. dang. i must go and watch some school sports and feel the american school spirit with school football or smth. have some new experiences.

anyhows, back to the brudders. we were all sad that su hui wasn't around cos she's far away in UK but the weirdest part was it didn't feel as if any of us were ever separated yet. like i came back, we got together, everything went on like we did before. we talked, we laughed, we ate...alot, pushed the cake to one another and teased/bully novita. haha. man. i'll miss doing that. debby, denise, pls add on ur bullying/teasing for my sake when i am not around to do so. haha

celebrated new years with a sleepover and countdown with the pacies - cheryl, chrystal and my pacey bobo at cheryl's hse. we arranged to eat roast duck at amy's hse but sadly when we got there nothing was left :( so in the end we had to resort to going to our usual thai express. haha. sadly due to the limited festive menu i stuck to my pat thai talay (seafood pat thai) before heading over to cheryl's hse. we slet in her puny room and we amazingly managed to squeeze in there with chrystal and i sharing cheryl's bed. awkward cos chrystal is a blanket stealer and the whole night i was left with a mini corner of the blanket to cover my thighs for security. like those jungle girls. didn't really sleep well cos i felt exposed most of the time with chrystal rolled up in the blanket and every turn she made exposed my naked thighs and i felt very very naked :S

anyway, pardon my horrible un-chronological writing of events. the countdown show was bloody lame and we found ourselves laughing at the ridiculousness/horrors of singapore's countdown party rather than the jokes and "entertainment" provided by the actors and actresses. there was those sms messages on the tv and surprisingly there weren't many "i lub chew beri muchx muackz" kind of messages. but there was one that left all of us laughing - "Gabriel Q. Hope you enjoy yourself. don;t come back too late. see you next year. Dad" smth along those lines. haha. spent the usual time talking about the horrors of us ageing. it is very scary. like HELLO. i do not look/appear/behave/feel like i'm 20 :S so bloody old and by the time bobo graduates from med sch, i bet one of us would be married by then.

AND AND AND AND AND... i took one step closer to being more adultish by drinking some alcoholic drinks with cheryl and bobo today at liquid kitchen. we were intending to go to wala wala at holland v, but cos chrystal couldn't make it and only she knew where it was, we had to scrape it and resort to something more familiar. which in a sense was a good thing cos i didn;t have time to get ready into something "nice" for pubbing. so yay. i got to slip into my comfy cargos and tees. ho ho.

at liquid kitchen, cheryl had sex on the beach and bobo ordered a pina colada and they ordered a peach margarita for me. i dun even know the difference between all that so i just left it to them. the irony was that when it all came, the thing that they ordered for the alcohol virgin was the strongest alcohol thing. it was damn gross la. like medicine. EW. so bobo offered to swop with me. thanks bobo!! so this was the first time i was happy with an alcoholic drink cos it tasted more like some punch than alcohol. u can't taste the alcohol at all. wheeepeeeee :D

oh oh oh and and and. cheryl saw this coaster that is specifically designed for me.
it says: The HANDBAG of GLORY
Such was the POWER of the Handbag of Glory that ladies WEPT when they saw it and those who TOUCHED it went straight to HEAVEN

lol. and guess wad?!?! it was designed/made by the same guy who made the friendship keychains that bobo and i have. hahaha. i must find this edward monkton guy. perhaps he is my ONE TRUE LOVE and he is using his art to search for me. based on his creations....i think we are pretty made for one another. LOL.

oh gosh. i realised i have packed alot of things to bring to savannah. DIE MAN. SO MUCH STUFF :S yeeks. i think i'm gonna die trying to drag it off the conveyor belt when i get it from the baggage claim. summore got no one to help me. SOBZ. and pls pls pray that my connecting flight from houston to savannah opens us cos i'm on waiting list. i don't want to rot in the airport and lug the many things around!!! *PRAYS HARD*