As you can tell from the title, I'm going to HongKong this year woohoo!! This trip was planned like way before hand. We booked our flight and hotel accommodation before i even sat for my Os hahaha! I'll be going with Melvin and four other friends from his side, and honestly, i'm feeling so hyped about the trip though there's still about 2 months plus hahaha.
It was pretty cheap when we booked it, all in all about $420 per person for 6D5N. Of course we had to cut down on some spending like booking 2 hotel rooms instead of 3 as there's only a queen bed in each room and flying budget instead but i guess all that matters is we enjoy ourselves.
It'll be the 3rd time i have been in HongKong but it doesn't matter i love that place. Have yet to save for the trip (whoopsie i better start soon!) because right now its my holidays and i took on a few jobs (not currently) and i'm not taking any allowance from my parents.
On this topic, i hope i can be self-sustainable for as long as possible because i really like the feeling of being independent. I am more motivated to save because i worked for the money, it's different from getting money from my parents.
Recently i've been enjoying life a lot, post-exams i have the freedom to do everything i want, and i am the most relax i've been prior to my Os hahaha. I still have yet to plan a trip with my bestie due to financial reasons (both of us!) but i'll see to it soon hahaha. We dont have to go anywhere expensive but just taking a short vacation, just us, and enjoying the last trip we'll probably have together.
As i'm typing this post i'm talking to my secondary school absolute best friend, Maria, like finally!!!! I've missed her soooo so much. At least we've met up a couple of times last year for lunch and movie dates! Hehehe i hope to see more of my clique this year (this can be a new year's resolution right?) and spend more time with them.
Aites, i'm off for dinner. I'll find time to catch up on my days alrights!
Signing off,
JY Hee
Saturday, 4 January 2014
2013
Hi guys!!!
Here's a recap of my best year, 2013.In the beginning of the year i went on my 2nd trip with bestie to KL, the 1st being Legoland. We went for 2D1N and it was simply a great experience just being the two of us and doing what we do best, having fun hehehe.
This year was great despite the fact that bestie had moved on to poly and i had to survive secondary 5 on my own. But i made it thats all that matters. I made it through a rough year, i made it through my O levels and I made it through independently. (: It wasn't easy, to be honest, but i had to get use to the fact that the people i'm comfortable with would not be with me 24/7 and i had to learn to be on my own. The year was a great experience for me to open up and i must say i really made quite a few friends, some of which i have already considered my second-to-be good friends. (Of course nobody would beat Johanna in that position!)
In February i learnt a new sport from one of my good friend, POOL!!! Hahaha i really enjoy playing it and i feel like its actually a hobby i can really stick to. I still suck at it totally but it helped me through 2013 as it relieved the stress i had from school. Every time i stepped through the doors of punggol billiard i feel as if i was burden free, and i drop everything, and just focus on having fun. I know it sounds crazy but everyone has their own ways to deal with the stress right? I'm slowly getting better though, but i do feel that pool is an expensive sport and given my status as a student i shouldn't be spending so much on it, but i just can't, I JUST CAN'T, turn down an invitation to pool hahaha.
In 2013 on the 30th of April i also got together with my current boyfee (which marks the 8th month we have been together already,) and we're still going pretty strong. There are arguments and things we disagree about especially now when our lifestyles are completely different but we've worked things out. It took me some time to have built the trust in him to allow him to freely go about his job, it seems to many that i dont care, or vice versa, he doesn't care, about what the other half is doing, like going to clubs and all but i know that we're serious and neither of us would want to ruin this relationship by doing something we're not suppose to. He knows that i do really love him, and sometimes i really wonder how on earth did i get so attached to someone. I believe in us and i know we will make this relationship work.
In June i went to Gentings with my boyfee and it was an experience (not really good) but it wasn't too bad. The place was stuffy and there were barely much things to do there except the theme park (which sucks) and shopping.
In June i went to Gentings with my boyfee and it was an experience (not really good) but it wasn't too bad. The place was stuffy and there were barely much things to do there except the theme park (which sucks) and shopping.
(Our couple sneakers for our trip! And many moreeee!)
Few days before the trip i went on another KL trip with my bestie and we had so much fun, exploring new places like the Central Market and Time Square hahaha. It was so much fun.
The trips this year had REALLY burnt a hole in my pocket given that i was studying and didn't have a job (mainly due to the fact it was my O levels year) but it was an experience, not just any experience, it was a growing experience, for me to be able to travel independently, in a sense i didnt have my parents or any adults, it taught me to manage my finances, our well-being (safety, health etc.) and it was looking at the world with a different view, therefore i won't hesitate to agree it was money well-spent!
Last year was a mixture of the good and bad, the good being meeting my significant other, surviving through the tough time of preparation for my Os (the intensive, the extra hours after school, the amount of work) it really impacted me in a good way. I feel stronger than i was back then sitting for my Ns. My tolerance level for work and the ability to prioritize my stuff this year has helped me through it. It was really stressful and tough, some days i feel like just zone-ing out and sleep through the day but i knew i had to focus. I admit i wasn't all hardworking, I played hard too. I established a lot of new friends and i feel like i'm finally moving on from my past. I could have been a little more studious but i mean like i gotta have some time out as well right?
Before i knew it, the days till graduation was nearing so quickly, (we graduate before sitting for our Os.) Even though it was heart breaking leaving and moving on from St Margaret's, but i couldn't have been any happier. It meant that i survived the dog days from secondary school, the hard core curriculum, and the strict regulations there. It was a big milestone for me. I felt a burst of happiness and a sense of pride as i left the school gates that very day. It was one of the days i felt genuinely happy in the entire year and i'll never be able to forget that feeling.
Last year was a mixture of the good and bad, the good being meeting my significant other, surviving through the tough time of preparation for my Os (the intensive, the extra hours after school, the amount of work) it really impacted me in a good way. I feel stronger than i was back then sitting for my Ns. My tolerance level for work and the ability to prioritize my stuff this year has helped me through it. It was really stressful and tough, some days i feel like just zone-ing out and sleep through the day but i knew i had to focus. I admit i wasn't all hardworking, I played hard too. I established a lot of new friends and i feel like i'm finally moving on from my past. I could have been a little more studious but i mean like i gotta have some time out as well right?
Before i knew it, the days till graduation was nearing so quickly, (we graduate before sitting for our Os.) Even though it was heart breaking leaving and moving on from St Margaret's, but i couldn't have been any happier. It meant that i survived the dog days from secondary school, the hard core curriculum, and the strict regulations there. It was a big milestone for me. I felt a burst of happiness and a sense of pride as i left the school gates that very day. It was one of the days i felt genuinely happy in the entire year and i'll never be able to forget that feeling.
I just float through the days of O levels. It passed me like a breeze and no, i'm not saying it was an easy feat, but i'm saying i kind of detached myself from it? Like i just want to be over and done, i know this sounds really bad but i just felt sooooo sick of O levels at that time.
Fast forward to the day i was done with my Os, (the last paper was science MCQ,) we, Mehaffey and i, headed to far east to do our gelish which was awesome and the next day i proceeded to dip dye my hair red. Hahahaha, RED. I loved it, but the color eventually faded to golden brown and it still is golden brown now and i suppose i'll be dying it back to red again one of these days.
We had our class chalet at Home Team NS in November, the place was so huge, its a bungalow styled place, with 4 bedrooms and 8 beds, and we were the only chalet occupied among the 10 over bungalows there. It was freaky, Melvin came to pick me (by car) and he told me it was really scary driving past 10 odd empty and dark houses even though it was only 11plus at night.
Following that chalet, about a week or two later i was invited to a chalet at Pasir Ris hosted by my St Andrew friends and it was really fun i must say. Around 2plus 3 in the morning we walked to the mangrove swamp located at the Pasir Ris park and went in. The place was pitch black except for the torchlights from our phones and it really scared me, if it wasn't for the group of 9 i wouldn't have entered that secluded and supposedly haunted place hahaha.
Not to forget my trip to batam with the naughty boy hahaha! It was a birthday pressie from me for him! It was a good experience, we took a ferry there, for about an hour, then cab to our hotel, Novotel, which superior room was super huge with a huge ass balcony hahahaa. The j.co there, was so cheap, about $3 for 6 yummy donuts hahaha. We went for a weekend trip, and I enjoyed it!
After my Os, (or actually the time between my last written paper and MCQ paper,) i worked as a backstage crew for props at RWS Sentosa and it was a great experience being able to be part of a play, Lightseeker, even though reviews were not that fantastic afterall.
(Tired faces at work!)
And then after my Os i worked for a period of time at Sentosa's PLAYcation event managing an art and craft booth. The job had it's ups and downs but i really enjoyed working with my existing friends and the new friends i made there!
In December i also celebrated my 17th birthday which was rather eventful, I'm thankful for everyone who made and effort to turn up especially my family, i had a great one! Not to mention the good time i had having steamboat buffet for brunch with my good friend Quek at Clementi!
On the 23rd/24th December i also went for an underage event with an awesome bunch of friends consisting of my colleagues from my PLAYcation event at Club Toxic. It was eventful as well as we met with some of the people that were left behind from my past (and they're still stuck there) but given the 30 odd people we knew at the club including my St Andrew friend, (it was a surprise seeing ya there and i'm sorry i couldn't recognize you hahaha, duh, with that golden close to white blonde hair!) the winner was evident.
(Another group shot!)
As usual we had our Christmas gift exchange, that being our annual routine, on the 24th and it was enjoyable too.
I chose jk's present again!!! A leather wallet thing. Look at my priceless facial expression credits to jm.
I "celebrated" my new years being surrounded by Carlsberg and Tiger beer hahaha because i was working at the float @ marina, oh well, the pay was good hahaha.
(Featuring Marina Bay Sands lol!)
Nope i do not have any New Year Resolutions because i'm simply that unmotivated right now lol, but i hope this year i'll be a better person i was today, and be the worst i'll ever be yesterday.
Thank you everybody who had made my year, whether it was good or bad. Let's leave the past and live the present, here's to brighter futures.
(Photos and Polaroids from 2013, thank you everybody who made a difference.)
That's all folks, enjoy your year ahead.
Cheers till then. XOXO
JY Hee
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