dec week 4
for once .. i was EARLY !! .. haha .. got up arnd 9plus .. then prepared to leave house .. suppose to meet them at 11.30 la .. in the end at 11.30 .. vt was still preparing .. mh was at kovan .. and huiis last min ps .. took train to orchard and met cher there ..
vt went ahead to meet the jerk … then we were behind roaming arnd borders .. cand came to join us (: .. anyway that jerk took ages to appear .. and vt was on the phone with cher who was so excited and didn’t realise that the jerk was in front of vt .. and when she found out she was like freaking out in borders .. haha ..
we headed to the place where vt was .. then watched show .. justice bao walked out of the place within 1 min .. LOL .. we all had a good laugh .. after that went to cine to watch “the last kiss” with cand .. she treated me (: .. thank u candice !! .. after that met up with vt & mh who wanted to watch a movie .. in the end we 4 went to coffeebean @ paragon .. sat and crapped alot ..
after that headed down to tangs .. we walked arnd looking for dresses for cand's bro's wedding .. it was fun i must say .. i had a good laugh =X .. took quite some pictures too .. she's got good figure laa .. but i'm not gonna post it up .. she'll KILL me .. =X .. haha .. after that walked arnd with vt cuz mh & cand had to go .. bought my materials for christmas pressies at art friend .. then close to 7 .. i took train down to city hall to meet dora while vt met up with her frens @ wheelock ..
dora's train was stuck in a tunnel .. so i was waiting for her for awhile .. then we walked arnd raffles city to get my sis's christmas pressie - 2 pencilcase (makeup case) from accessories .. wrapping paper & ribbons from trint .. went to citylink to get heels but no stock .. then bought a hairband from six .. went to marina square's yoshi for dinner .. then crapped for awhile before heading back ..
19th dec .. tuesday
met vy at 10 to go sch for bamp id preparation .. we reached like quite late la .. haha .. anyway was allocating the OH stuff at the same time too .. i chose to do video !! .. heehees .. after meeting up with my grp .. we brainstormed and vote for 2 ids .. shirt + bands .. split into 2 grps to get the stuff .. i was with vy, dionne and junwei .. we headed to giordano to get shirts .. the other grp weeleong, janice, serene and sakinah(i think) went to popular to get materials for band ..
took 184 down to bukit panjang plaza .. then went to giordano .. settled the shirts .. got 8 from there .. then had a quick bite before taking bus to jurong point to get the rest of our shirts .. zoom .. i had a "tour" of the west without my tourguide emy .. haha .. cabbed back to school from there .. then started working on our ids .. manage to do them quite fast .. by 5 we were 80% done .. packed up and left sch ..
accompanied vy to amk to get her sports towel .. on the way the bus route detoured and we were on the bridge .. from there we witness the flooding of macritchie .. scary =X .. oh wells .. i took 159 back with vy .. then alight to take 72 home ..
20th dec .. wednesday
the day my world crumbled.
got a call in the morning from mum waking me up to tell me my grandma was dying and ask us all to go down to the hospital .. minutes later .. the phone rang again saying my grandma died already .. by then i was screaming at my cousins to quickly wash up .. cuz they also just got up .. then all 5 of us were like rushing to use the toilet ..
by the time i reached there were alot of relatives there .. saw my grandma's lifeless cropse .. she looked peaceful .. we had "memorial service" for her before the undertaker took over .. my cousins came over to my place to wash up and have lunch .. we headed down to my grandma's place where the wake was gonna be held ..
the first night was quiet .. not really alot of people at all .. just sat there stoning away .. msging some friends .. helped my aunt by 4d .. the monks came and chanted .. was in the house with my cousin watching tv cuz we dindt know that we weren't suppose to .. =X .. did alot of things we weren't suppose to do and we no one told us until we did it ..
went back at arnd 11+ together with my cousin cuz my uncle drove his co. van and gave us all a lift back .. we were like mad people la .. rushed to change out of our funeral clothes in the van .. my parents and alethea came back later ..
21st dec .. thursday
second day of wake.
first day of bamp but i didnt go ..
was up at 10 .. my parents & alethea were out by then ..
me, amanda & wanhui left my place at arnd 12plus .. then went to wanhui's house to wait for her washup before going over to the wake .. my mum's colleagues were there .. went up to change and when i came down .. church people were there .. ended up eating peanuts and clearing the place ..
quite a number of people came .. had alot of "white gold money" cuz they came as a bulk -- many people in the company .. had vegetarain meal .. it was kinda gross la .. only the mini curry puff was nice .. other than that .. we had to force ourselves to eat it .. the monks came and chanted again for 2 hrs .. my cousin and nephew were being such an ass that night la .. they freaked me and audrey while we were at the house using the com ..
my sis stayed over that night .. so cabbed back with my parents .. the briks arrived and i checked it .. it was close to 2 when i slept ..
22nd dec .. friday
third day of wake.
my mum went down early in the morning .. dad woke up same time as me but he left house earlier than me .. i was up doing dora's christmas pressie cuz i was gonna meet her ltr for her musical .. left house arnd 1.30 to meet jacob .. was suppose to meet him at 1.30 la .. but i dragged till quite long .. then he said 1.50 .. in the end he was late and we met at 2plus .. passed him the sat musical tix and took train down to outram with him ..
i transfered to the train going to raffles place while he took the one going to dover .. and who knows shawn was in the same train as me laa .. i met him at the control station .. we went to bk to eat before heading to victoria theatre .. it was pouringg and we had to share an umbrella la .. was partially wet .. he can't carry an umbrella !! .. =.=" .. anyway he was carrying the 3 briks belonging to dora & her cousin when the paper bag broke .. so he had to hug it la ..
when we reached i had to look for a pastor to get my tix from him .. had to ask the ushers for help but they didnt know too and directed me to another pastor .. finally found the pastor with my tix and the other pastor asked shawn if we just went shopping .. it was so paiseh la .. went in and settled down .. there were 4 kids in front of us who were very figidity thus blocking our view .. spotted lance, evan & dora ..
after the whole thing went to meet lance to pass him a box of chocolate and dora to pass her the briks & her pressie .. then met aunty cindy who brought the tung ling childcare kids to watch the musical too .. we walked towards suntec and it was at citylink when i rmb i forgot to pass dora the money for my briks !! .. so walked back to victoria theatre and met lance to pass the money to dora cuz she was icing her sprained ankle ..
shawn accompanied me to take 107 cuz he was heading to kovan .. just crapped all the way .. when i got to the wake .. my parents were having dinner at the market .. so i brought amanda to join them .. had another round of chanting that night .. i helped collect the "white gold money" .. left the place close to 1 .. slept at 2 again ..
*p.s there's nothing going on btw me & shawn .. he just happen to be very nice to accompany me cuz i had an extra tix and i didnt wanna go alone (:
23rd dec .. saturday
fourth day of wake.
mum went over early again .. my dad brought my sis for her class .. i went over at arnd 1plus .. didnt really do anything much there .. helped my aunts and cousins buy 4d again .. we were playing hangman and i read my book .. collected the "white gold money" .. then went for dinner at the market again .. had chanting that night again .. we played mahjong for awhile..
went to join my cousins who were beside the coffin .. they were suppose to sleep there la .. but they played with poker cards instead .. we had a great laugh there and i got closer to them .. after that at 3 i went to read my book outside .. my dad kept asking me to sleep and my aunt came too .. she also slept on the metal bench .. however in the end went up to sleep .. my mum also slept on the bench .. my dad gave me a stack of towels to use as pillow .. then i arranged 6 chairs facing each other .. i slept there from 4 till 5.30 .. it was raining and the wind was blowing in thus it felt very cold ..
that was when i caught a cold =X ..
24th dec .. sunday
fifth day of wake.
went to wash up and went for breakfast at the market with relatives .. had lor mee my mum was craving the past few days .. then went back to clear up and wait for the monk to arrive .. chanted once more before the undertaker came .. then at 11 we left .. sent her off .. we walked for quite long .. went to mandai crematorium .. my aunt went histerical and everyone broke down .. that was it .. we all cried for quite sometime ..
headed to the temple where they put her picture there .. then was at grandma's place .. they cleared the place and settled the money and we had kfc, pizza hut & macs for lunch .. it caused me to have a bad throat too .. went back and hit the bed very soon ..
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