Some months back, my wunnerful friends had a brilliant idea of (going up the shire) climbing Broga Hill.

From pictures, it looked like a lovely, grassy, calm and peaceful looking hike so I thought, Awesome!

This is me halfway, nearly blacking out and seeing stars and therefore I had to sit down and catch my breath. I have no connection to the person in red shirt -_-

But we made it to the top yo!

one night, out of the blue, hock called me. (hopefully his internet will die and never ever work cause' i did not ask permission from him to put this up).

so he calls me in the middle of the night, and i pick it up, wary and suspicious.

"HI YOU ARE A GIRL AND YOU COOK RIGHT?"

=.=

I SUPPOSE i am. a girl. i mean. and i cook. sometimes. i mean i try to not burn my cooking, if that's what cooking is supposed to *be*.

"ya..." I replied, still suspicious. You have to understand. Hock makes me suspicious most of the time , like he's perpetually up to no good.

It's a compliment.

And hock calls me randomly, for random stuff. This one time it was HELLO, DO YOU KNOW THE DIRECTION TO THIS PLACE. And this other time it was HELLO DO YOU KNOW IF THEY HAVE TAXIS HERE. By now, I fully anticipate any question from him and I do not flinch and wonder why. Because it's hock. Just accept it. And I also tell myself that it's because I am so brilliant and so smart that he likes to come to me for answers because he knows that I will give him all the best answers there are.

Ohoho.

No I am not being smug.

"What's tartare sauce!" He asked me over the phone.

"It's black right??? With honey in it right?"

Uhh...

I racked my brain, thinking of all the tartare sauce I have had in the past, and whether any single one of them was black and tasted anything like honey. To be honest, when he asked me whether I knew what tartare sauce was, I thought he was going to tell me a dirty joke or ask me a riddle.

"Nope. I think it's white. With Stuff in it. You eat it with fish and chips."

What the heck is black with honey then???

:p

No idea, hock. Never tasted anything like it.

And I have not heard from him since, so I hope he's still alive after my suggestion to substitute tartare sauce with mayo and don't worry, your senior will not notice.

are you alive, really?

oh, if you are, can i ask your permission to put this up?

these were cards from my loves overseas.

I hope the writing cannot be made out because i did not ask permission from my friends to put it up! I loved the messy scrawl of my friend, eunice, and the hastily written post it notes. I found that to be quite endearing.

the sunflower and the back card was from my cousin in the uk. i could hear her voice out loud when i read the card, and it made me smile, because both cards were very unexpected. so to find them in my mail was a bit exciting.

i think receiving cards is one of my most favourite things in the world.

that, and posting cards too.

my only gripe is that i seem to have been slacking in the friend department lately, and sometimes i think i don't deserve such great people in my life.

This sucks as I know that these people treat me immensely well and I am very very very grateful to have them to be friends with me. So this CNY, I'm going to try my best to be a good friend, at the very least, ANSWER people's messages and calls on time and take more iniative to plan stuff and ask them out, or just to say hi.

^^''

so in the past few weeks, i had so much fun i forgot to breathe.

lazy lunches, fire crackers, gim-rummy tiles, wine, long lost friends, missing cousins reunited, lots of red packets (i know i know i'm too old for this but YAY), momentary joy at home, and running about all over the city with gloriously empty streets.

it's all going to end soon, and i'm really sad about it.

i also know it's time to shape up and get back to business but i really dont want to

also having increasingly self doubts about a lot of things that i feel that isn't really worth mentioning to anyone because it sounds so trivial and miniscule. things about careers, and family and differing personalities. all very very frustrating.  i don't update that often anymore because i don't want to cause anymore scenes or fights with emotionally blackmailing posts and frankly, when i'm too busy having fun then there is no time to update.

but you know what, at the very least i still have time to upload our photos though.