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a taste of law lecturers' jokes...

1.
What's the similarity between money and toilet paper?
Ans: When you need it, you really need it.

2.
"When I was a lawyer in Hong Kong, my boss called me to go to his room after lunch"
whole lecture theatre goes...AWWWW OOOHHHH
(lecturer was embarrassed)

welcome my niece, Valerie to this wonky waltzy world!

Excited that my other niece, jolene is coming back to singapore permanently with my cousin hufen n husband after 2 years in ireland!

various statements that cracked me up yesterday...

elise: u have too many friends, can't be devoted to me as a dog.

buddy: u have mugger tattooed over ur forehead

It's time to blog. Firstly, Happy Deepavali to everyone.

I dreamt about hong kong last night. I think the story went like this...I went back to Hong Kong for another exchange. This time the people who were there were all PRCs and it felt kind of weird. The toilet ran out of toilet paper and somehow, they used beef kebabs as toilet paper. Yes, absolutely non-sensical and ridiculous. My dreams can be rather random.

Bea told me she had dreamt of CUHK and it was snowing. Almost impossible for HK to snow. We have really random dreams.

I was re-looking at some of my HK and Redang photos. I realized that time is passing by too quickly. It's as if a month is a year. Every month is filled with lots of buzz and sometimes I can't even remember what happened a month ago. Or it just seems really far away like it happened a year or two ago. That is so weird. This might explain my STM (short term memory).

I almost forgot that I had been to Redang. Yday during worship, I was reminded of how beautiful Redang and Vietnam had been. To me, these places represent God's creation that no man can deny. As those images filled my mind, I just couldnt stop myself from dropping a tear (just one).
I guess getting too caught up with school and all has made me forget a lot of other things i've experienced and that was one of my moments of realization.

3 more weeks till end of school and CLT exam!

Matt 10:16
I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Cousin JJ commented that i've becoming very "happening". (yes Bea, that's singlish for "exciting and adventurous")

And so I decided to make a post of all the "happening" things I've done thus far in 2008. I think being 21 means you now have more freedom to do things you want to, perhaps a bit more resources to do that.

1. Vietnam Trip to Hanoi and Hue in Jan
2. Anntic Retreat to Cameron Highlands in May
3. CUHK Summer School!!
4. Avril Lavigne the Best Damn Tour concert
5. Redang trip in Sept mid-sem break
6. Internship at TS Oon & Bazul (does that count as exciting? hmmm)
7. Anntic Camp to Cameron Highlands in Dec
8. Learning how to drive
9. Does getting brown hair and red highlights count?

I can't think of a number 10. Help!
[edit] 10. extracting my wisdom tooth!

reminder: post bday pictures from last weekend soon.

sleepy. headache.

Thought i would post these pictures. How my cousin and i have a similar photo. :)

What am i doing here?!??! i need to write my closing statement. ok but whatever.

This is not meant to be an emo entry but it's just going to be a bit more emo than my usual witty posts (at least i think they are. too bad if u dun :P )

I was just thinking about how as you grow older, you have lesser friends. This is what en and i have talked about before and its going to be something which is going to prove to be true as we get older. I've been told by some friends that it seems harder to make friends in university because either people already have their own clique of friends from before or people are too busy with school to make time for befriending. That is understandable and unfortunately, the sad reality of things.

I'm glad that I've met people whom i have lots of fun with in school and pple whom i can share deeply with them on many issues. Maybe my problem is not about making new friends who will stick, but keeping old friends. There are some friends whom i would love to stay in constant contact with but they don't seem to be interested at all. Its very exhausting and frustrating to keep reaching out to someone who can't reciprocate. (For those wondering, its not about a guy!)

I think i have a few friends who fit into this category. Sometimes, it makes me wonder if they still remember the shared memories we've had. Are they too busy with their current lives that this friend is not important or worth a few minutes of their time? Is it that hard to just pop by an sms or msn message to say hi, how are u? Or just to make a short phone call or send an email or facebook message?

As listed, there are so many modes of communication today. Does having more ways of communication make it easier for us to take it for granted. Is it that much of an effort? It appears that friends who are overseas would take more effort to stay in contact with friends in Singapore. I have to admit, i put in more effort to keep in contact with them too. But when i was in HK, i could feel who cared for me and come to know who wanted to stay in touch.

I may appear to be very callous about it, but deep down i'm quite sad that i've lost these friends and i don't know how to express this sadness to them. How can sadness impact someone who no longer feels?

Labels: friendship

this is a sad day for spore, for the great JBJ has passed on. it is also a sad day because bea n i's favourite crackers, House of Steamed Potatoes crackers have been found to contain excessive melamine. This was the crackers so delicious that we got hooked on it in HK and wanted to bring it home. its found cheaply at the supermarket in rather rural Yuen Long.

No wonder they say the best things in the world always have to go. :(

More news on our beloved crackers @ http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/379404/1/.html

Labels: crackers, hong kong