Angel city - Sunrise

haha this song is running through my head, but i shall only type out the chorus coz (1)nobody ever reads posts about song lyrics, and (2)coz bern sed its an ah lian song. -grumbles-

When I look at the sunrise sunlight,
nothing feels awake.
When your living this feeling
don’t ever let me go;
When I look at the starlight
It feels right - your bodies on my mind,
I'll set you free,
I'll set you free.

..talked to phoebe just now and, she's going UQ to do law!! =( ok lah i know i shld be happy for tt girl, but tt's another classmate less! boo..oh well. Everyone's back in Melbourne already..oohs oohs, time for me to go too. quite exciting. =)

-lu

.21.

amazing. =)

that's what this 21st birthday has been like so far..it's been like a 3-day procession..all in honour of (and i say this with all egocentricism) ME! haha..first, there was the party on Saturday evening with the close friends at Corduroy..you know your loved when you have 23 guests when the party was meant for only 15.

~

p.s. everyone who has photos of sat evening please send it to me!! spanks.

..moving on: sunday evening was spent with the family + sarah (the cousin)'s family at Szechuan Court @ Swissotel. Lovely food, i must say. Even the drunken prawns were good. =)

And i got cool presents as well. =)

And then came last night, where lu (grumpily due to work) went down to Holland to meet Zara + Dev for supper. And everything went normal until the clock struck 12. Ann started the ball rolling by calling me from Melb (Groggily coz it was like 3 am there), and den felicia called, and Sherlyn, And Fatty, And Faith smsed, AndSam, and Amelia, Yaqi....you get the idea. And just as i was trying to say thank you and picking up the next call, both of them whipped out a box from TCC - cheesecake. =) it was the sweetest thing ever, and i swear i totally didn't expect it. So we spent the next 10 mins trying to light the candle and keep it lit (because the *&^%$#@!! fan kept blowing it away before i could snap a picture on Dev's Phone), and in the process looking like we were trying to derive warmth from the candle coz we had all our hands huddled around that one Candle. heh. Thank you, girls! you 2 are lovely. =)

So today is the day itself. 060207. I'm gonna spend it with all the people i love. B'fast with pam (i know the swimmers are gonna kill me coz we didn't arrange b'fast. I'll make it up!!), lunch with lise + attack session, tea with bern, and then dinner with the family.

..And birthday msges are still coming in. Maybe turning 21 isn't tt bad afterall when you have all the love in the world. =) yay.

-lu

."Passed to Shadow".

i passed. =)

wow, the past 36 hours have been hellish, to say the least. NEver have i gone through a physical course that is so demanding physically, mentally and everything-ly. Last night i went to bed at like 2.30am and then got up at 4.45am to practice my piece for assessment today. And i wanted to badly to give up and call in sick, but the thought of the A$300/- tt i paid for the course, and miss shu juan's encouragement really did help in my returning to Millenia Walk this morning. For all those people out there who want to be BA instructors, my advice is: you better love it, and love it with a fire. And you better be fit, and ready to hurt EVERYWHERE.

But u know wad, i wanted to give up so badly, and i was a bundle of nerves throughout the assesment; but i pulled through. Yes, it was tough (so tough tt i got home and went BANG! right onto the bed and fell asleep for like 2 hours), yes it was painful, yes it was crazy and mentally straining; but i learned so much more than i gave and i made friends. And best of all, i made it. =)

-lu

.t.

Blessed.

that's what i am.

In like 4 days' time i'm gonna leave the realm of youth. Like, seriously. Its the age at which one realizes that, above being able to vote/watch restricted movies/buy my own flat/open a *&^%$#!! bank account without having to have a bankbook, one really becomes what people term as 'an adult'.

Which in my opinion, is bloody scary.

But hey, its 2007. And i'm turning 21. Bern says tt means i've spent 7665 days on earth, and that is scarily true. But last night, when i got home, i sat down which dad to talk about..life (Well, actually he did most of the talking and i listened coz i was really tired). And then i realized that, i have never counted my blessings. And so i did a quick mental one, and this is what i came up with:

1. I've never had to worry about $$. That is the truth. I'm blessed because my famil is well-to-do. BUT that doesn't mean i have to flaunt it. And i'm thankful that i was brought up to appreciate the value of the dollar.
2. I've got friends who mean the world to me, and vice versa. In some sense, i'm blessed because these friends have stuck by me through thick and thin. Yea, on the way some fell of the wagon but then they climbed back on. I mean, come on, u know that you've got good friends in those who will come halfway across the island to help you paint your window sill, or just sit down and talk about nothing, and ESPECIALLY when you try to have a small dinner party for close friends; and its hard to keep the number SMALL. And i don't mean that in a haolian way. I know i don't have to mention any of their names, because they know i love them.
3. I'm one of the few people who have been able to say,"hey, i've done so-and-so...and this and that...", and know that i may well be one of the blessed few in the country to do that. From the gold in '05 to getting into law, i know i'm fortunate. =)
4. I guess the most important of all is my family - Bern, bu and dad. Yes, we are imperfect in so many ways (think non-matching furniture that had to be majorly revamped by bern and i), but it is our shortcomings that results in laughter, reminiscing, bitching, and finally the love. The one i term love the lee way. From the simple walks in the morning at the bicycle track, to TCM suppers (family code for toechew mui) at Havelock, to shopping trips with Bern that end up in cafes after cafes eating mudpies and drinking teas, to lunches with the dad. Wow, i could go on forever.
5. Need i mention the breastie? =) She knows she's loved by me (Not in the Aunty Alison/Aunty Jane construed way!), and the fact that both our moms are homies who probably can't do without each other as much as us means that this friendship is gonna least for a really, really, really, really long time.
6. Materialistically speaking, i know i've got almost everything a boy could want. Yes, there is that b&o 10-cd speaker system, and yes there is the Apple 30-inch HD screen, and yes there is the Maserati Quattroporte and Aston Martin DB9 all out there waiting for me, but hey, i'm in no hurry to get all those. I'll earn the money to get the dream items - that's what life is about sometimes, isn't it? For now, i'm happy with my Vaio, my 2nd-hand projector+dvd system, and my RX 300. =) I'm blessed, i am.

Wow, if your still reading, i guess your really bored/your curiosity has been piqued. Either way, i just thought that before i formally become an 'adult' (even though many sources agree that its gonna take another 5 or 6 years before my mind catches up), i thought i'd write about my past 20 years.

I'm blessed, I am.

-lu