Recount

yesyes, i know, i didn't update everyday. its been like, about 12 days since i last wrote, but heck.
been working, reading (yes! something i haven't done in a loong time), and going to school (though this doesn't count as much since i've only gone twice :P). so as much as i can. i'll recount as much as i can for the past 12 days.

went out with goood friends :) with mus and shine, and with the guides as a group, and just hy and pl. too bad that lf couldn't make it tho..sigh. we had lots of fun, for all the outings. wish i could go for more, but i can't. i really treasure my friends, because i know how hard (firsthand) to come by people like them. so i think i'm 'keeping' them as long as i can :) we took neo-prints!! haha! brief neo-print craze, because of the memory-wanting. neo-prints are so fun! wanted to take one with our group, but plaza sing doesn't have the machines, as well as not all of us were there :( hope i can take one with my class soon, to commemorate my survival in poly year 2. ha. the last one i took with hy and pl was so damn funny! we tonked in the coins, and i accidentally hit the smooth white skin extreme side button, which meant that we would be eeextremly, erm, paler skinned than we really are. then the picking of the frames came, then everything was so rushed! we rushed for places and were totally frantic about the poses! we were like, ' ei! do what pose?! what sort of face?!' haahahaha! xD the skin came out really nice, we were all 'wow our skin looks damn good sia.' embarrassingly, cause we were rushing to do poses and i did a kneeling one, which made me turn out damn girly. =_= haha. pl and my eyes were like super big, we were having a 'wow! ei! our eyes so big eh! we look so different la!' haha! wish i really looked the way i looked in the neo-prints. i was glad when i knew that pl and hy had fun, and laughed more than they had. hope to be able to bring that sort of energy for my friends. with mus and shine, also very funny, but in a different way.i observed our prints (pronounced 'preents' xD ahhaha!), and found that i was the only one with a different expression. mus and shine had the almost exact same expression everytime! ahaha! so funny!
during neo-print taking, i always make sure to add the date in at least one of the photos, to commemorate and remember when i took it. hee.
due to *ahem* restrictions, i am unable to put up here, so you'll just have to ask me when you see me. HA!

work, as usual, was tiring, but was bearable because of the company i had with me. would have worked more, but really had no time. had to earn more money for the trip, so that i could buy some stuff back for people, as well as myself. hee! :D

the day after the quake, my mom and brother and me went to blk 13 to clean up and repaint the flat for my grandparents to move in. while my bro and i were working in the storeroom outback, the floor started making popping noises. at first we thought it was the neighbours below protesting against us being noisy by retaliating and throwing stuff onto the ceiling to annoy us. so we ignored it and continued to paint the walls and it stopped. when we started painting the ceiling (ours, not theirs), the popping started again, and it came back with a vengence. the floor cracked. really, it cracked. the tiles pushed up against each other, creating a rise in the floor in one part and a sunk-in part in another section. we think its because of the quake, that shook the building and eventually cracked up the floor. oh well, hopefully the hdb can solve this. alot of the nieghbours think that the flats around our area will be en bloc-ed, hdb won't care. the neighbour downstairs suggested some other group (at this point of time, i can't remember which organization she said, but its definetly governmental), but my mom insisted she would call the hdb first and see what they would do. if they didn't do anything (likely), we would need to get in a contracter to repair the floor. and this means my grandma will stay with us longer. i really don't know wherether to cheer or cry.

today i went to help my grandma transfer her old ez-link to the new cepas card. i thought about alot of things, and it made me almost cry in the mrt. i regret not learning hokkien and tochew. if i did, i would be able to talk to my grandparents more. today, it was the first time i touched my grandma so much and out of my own doing. (really want to thank the people who gave up their seats for my grandma. bless you! :D) partially because of the train and i was scared she'd fall or something. i felt really damn guilty when i walked to fast, and i did it twice. all because i was too caught up in my thoughts. after that, it seemed like she started to walk alot faster, and i wonder if it's just my imagination or she really did it. still, i feel guilty. for not being a better grandkid to her. i hope i can do more, but i don't know how.
on the train, i found it amusing. when i was calling for my grandma to go sit, once in the NS line and the other in the EW line, alot of people's head swiveled to look at the commotion. like it was a new drama. perhaps if they brought something to do, they wouldn't be so bored, to the extent to having to watch this. gosh..so irritating.

ok, that's it for now. i'll talk more later. hopefully. HAHAHAHA