A chance
Sitting in the bus, on the way home from dinner, my mind starts to swell with a mixture of emotions.
How lucky can we get. Being able to sit on the bus together, as a family once more. With my brother leaning his head onto your shoulder and my parents opposite you chatting away. It wasn’t something I appreciated before. A bus trip…
To others: A daily affair.
To me: A life renewed.
Just 3 days ago, last Thursday, due to my act of forgetfulness, my daddy decided to give me a lift home to grab my stuff. The weather was not very forgiving. Pouring away… But yet, we didn’t make it back home that day.
A tree fell atop our car.
What a perfect concoction of situations.
Sitting next to my dad then, I had to go to the back passenger’s seat to get out. My father had to force open his door. The scene was horrible. When we got out, we realized that our car was entirely buried by the tree.
The tree was awfully huge. But luckily, my dad was driving in the 2nd lane and not the 1st. Other than that, if we did go slightly faster, we could have lost our lives, for the fact that the car bonnet was totally dented, but the other parts of the car were quite alright.
I can’t really define what I was actually thinking at that point in time. All I remember was me feeling awfully sorry towards my dad for if I didn’t forget my bag, this wouldn’t have happened. Yet, I was really so thankful that he and I could walk out through this whole accident without a scratch or bruise.
The word ‘thankful’ is a total understatement.
My dad portrayed his love in so many ways that day.
When I forgot something, he volunteered to drive me back.
When this happened, he reassured me saying that this was all fate.
When I called the police, and help was on its way, he whisked me back home in cab.
When I came home, he called me and said ‘go to school worry-free and relax’.
When school ended and I returned home, he said ‘luckily, I was there with you’.
What can I say? I just gave him a hug.
Today, sitting on this bus ride makes me realize my priorities in life. My family.
I guess I do understand the statement ‘until you lose it, then you appreciate it’, much better now. But in my case, I learn that no way am I ever going to wait till I lose it. Life is so awfully vulnerable. The very fact that my dad and I could have lost our lives that very moment just gives me a new vision towards life.
What would I do without my dad?
I love you dad.
I love my family.
I love all of you out there:)
Thank you for giving me this chance.
To live. Once more.
Twenteen
It's officially 9 days since i've turned 20 and now then i decided to post an entry on it.
On my birthday itself, i decided to go on a diet when i didn't feel hungry sitting in subway. So i ordered myself a diet snapple. However, my mouth couldn't resist the knowledge of this huge nice brownie which only costs $1.50 from a bakery nearby, so i got myself one. Later i rushed back for my CAT meeting.
In the middle of the library, there my dear Shupin brought me the happiest and warmest brownie, tucked together with Ben & Jerry's vanilla ice cream. Regards to darling cake too:) There, even after almost finishing the earlier brownie, i walloped up 3 quarters of it! haha. In the midst where everyone around was burried in books and laptop, there i was enjoying the heavenly bites of my birthday brownie.
*love you girls*
Later, went for photoshoot with the guys. And there, a blackforest cake evolved amongst the cheers and secrecy. Hahaha, the cake was for Adrian (upcoming birthday boy) and I. They were so sweet! They actually knew.
*really looking forward to working with them*
After finishing everything at almost 6 plus, i left for dinner at home. *awfully tired* but what greeted me when i opened the door was this...
OH MY GOODNESS!!! *jaws drop*
Kevin! you are the sweetest:) Though you were in aussie partying away, you still sent me these!!! It's no wonder you are a girl magnet.
Anyway, thanks to everyone, i had a simple yet very happy birthday.
Love you people:)
happy sweet twenty.
Halloween even better.
Halloween last mon was seriously
AWESOME.
We went out to far east the day before to find whatever scraps of clothes we could get our hands on, for our outfits. The last minute shopping was quite good, in getting ownership of a beautiful top and a pair of funky stockings.
On the day itself, Gracia got her aunt to be our make up artists. So we were ensured of looking good throughout the night. Even Darrell looked seriously good *thought he looked really scary* .Agreed hands down that aunt angie sure did a great job in making we all happy girls solemn and scary. My darlings; Gracia, Yue Min and Jess sure did portray a different side of them. Haha. Even I was trying very hard to be as scary as they were.
Anyway, after getting all of us dolled out. We walked out of school seriously scaring everyone along the way. Haha it was so damn fun. Cos I never really could scare people before. Zouk was our destination but because we were not dressed up as a character, we weren’t allowed in for free. However, queueing up for entry was a huge eye-opener. There were many hilarious and crazy characters. People entered zouk as tables, mad doctors, boar, dragon, French maids, fairies and uncountable more.
Energiser battery (Biao), Me and Energiser bunny (Kev). hehe.
Feeling slightly depressed for having quite some time wasted at Zouk, we decided to head off to Chinablack. There, I saw Mark at the main entrance! Hehe. And his friend was such a dear, selling us really cheap tickets at $10 each.
There was a reasonable crowd in Chinablack. Not too packed, just nice. There, I had my first bottle of beer, though poor Darrell had to help me finish it… and my second bottle too Anyway, having him and the girls was really super fun. From the dance floor, we went up to the podium!! And I swear it’s our makeup being the reason for our boldness. Never have I been that mad.
After leaving that place at around 5am, all of us went to Breko at Holland V for supper cum breakfast. We stayed until nearly 7am, whereby our exhaustiveness finally came over us. Gracia went back to wash up and head off to school again. Yuemin and Darrell left for home. I went to nap in preparation for my committee photoshoot later at 11.
An awesome fun black day of which a busy new day follows after...
Finally I see a
dark me. Of which I never knew its existence.
What do you think?
I love my dearies.
