Crystal turns 19

So...... I'm 19 now! Hahaha one last year before my age starts with a "2" instead of  "1". I kind of feel old and more stressed now. The stress to actually complete and accomplish something before I get even older. Hahaha.

Anyway, I'm really just chilling and doing nothing much right now since I have some time to burn before I get ready for birthday dinner with the family. And you bet I don't want to touch my books just yet.... Maybe later at night I will. Shall blog a little and spam the overdue photos in my phone before I go get ready then!

Guess who's the first one to wish me "Happy birthday" ? HAHA.

er thanks for wishing me on 1st August? Hahahahaha

First mini celebration was on National day at aunt's house! August babies make some noise woooooooo. Happy birthday Singapore! 

Cheesy but thanks for providing me with the safe environment these 19 years, x.

Pretty cake pops and plates decked in Red and White

Also, happy birthday to my lovely gugu. Love you!

Thanks for the mini celebration and for the cake!

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Also, met up with Gabriel recently to study! Went to "Gastronomia" for dinner after the study session. I was quite excited for dinner at Gastronomia cos my colleagues have such good praises for them. One of my colleague was telling me about how they had this $9.80 promotion where she ordered Smoked Salmon pizza and Lobster Bisque. And I was like "what?! so cheap! Must have!".

So we decided to visit the one at Marina Bay. Quite disappointed that the smoked salmon pizza was sold out ): But nonetheless, thank you Gab for the dinner treat, well wishes and for sending me home!

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Had buffet lunch at Triple Three @ Mandarin Orchard with the company for Teacher's Day Lunch too! Lunch there was really good, I shall upload the photos some other day hehehe

August babies in the company

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Also met up with the JC girls just this Tuesday. Suppose to meet them at NYDC at bugis but when I got there, they told me NYDC closed down hahaha. 

So we settled for Miam Miam instead!

Some French name I can't remember but its basically Squid Inked Rice with seafood and Omelette on top! Love it, super fragrant! No doubt going to order this if I ever visit Miam Miam again.

Miam Miam Spaghetti. I thought this spaghetti was pretty interesting...

And it tastes good too!

Something Something Something. HAHA.

Don't know what this is called and I don't really like it too.

Gets really sickening to eat after awhile, very ni!

The highlight of the restaurant.

Chocolate............. (brb let me just google it)

Ok, its called Valrhona Chocolate Soufflé ($13.80 for your reference).

Not bad not bad but also quite ni for us after awhile.

Thank you girls for making time out to celebrate with me and also for the gifts, x.

See you girls real soon!

Oh! Also went to watch "Lucy" with the girls. Eh, let's just say we have the same reaction after the movie haha. The reaction is "Whauut?" Hahaha, pretty bloody some part and quite a lot of like Nat-Geo-Similar-Scene? Haha okay I don't know what else to say about it. The trailer is a little deceiving though, expected more from it haha

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Moving on, met Justin yesterday night! The sweet guy made a reservation which I later found out was at Beer Market. Pretty cool place with the "stock market" of beer prices and all. 

Chicken Rice Pizza.

Was quite skeptical about this interesting topping but it turned out to be pretty good!

Seafood something something.

Pretty sure now everybody knows I'm bad at remembering names?

Ignore my unsightly double chin, baby fats la okay. (I think?)

ANYWAY.

Thank you for the dinner once again. Thanks for the great night out just catching up and chilling. I enjoyed myself! Hope to see you real soon. Thanks, x.

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And now on my actual birthday, I actually really haven't done much like what I mentioned hahahaha. Yesterday midnight my aunts were like "are you partying right now?" and I was just like "nope, I'm sitting on the sofa" HAHA. yup, very interesting start to my birthday spent lazing on my sofa.

What I woke up to today

Love from one of the greatest woman I love in this world.

Thank you, ah ma. Was really touched even though it was a simple gift. I guess its because I feel that her well wishes are really sincere and heartfelt. Ah ma no facebook but remember my birthday ok! Called her and thank her and I just started tearing for some unknown reasons. Love her so so so so so so so so so much. On a side note, I suddenly remember there was this one time in Primary school when we have to do some mini "show and tell" in front of the class. My title that day was "my favorite person" and I proceeded on talking about my granny. hehe

Oh and Google wished me too. How sweet HAHA.

And yup, so far since I'm awake, I have been just watching some online videos and catching up on Social Media sites.

And yup yup, I'm probably going to eat the red eggs and then continue lazing around for awhile before I go get ready for dinner.

And yup yup yup, birthday so far has been going well. Thankful for the wishes received.

And yup yup yup yup, bye!

And yup yup yup yup yup, see you guys soon! *wide smile*

Oh wait, and yup yup yup yup yup yup, I apologize for the awkward transition from one day to another hahaha. Sorry!

BYE!

感动

Out of all the gifts and wishes, my grandma's the one that really touches my heart and made me teared. It might be simple but it's just really nice and touching to see her present every year I don't know why. I guess it's just that I know her wishes and gift is really sincere and heartfelt :') 

Thanks ah ma , X.

On a side note, guess who turns 19 today?

Boring bus ride

Hi there. I'm stuck in a long bus ride now and I'm really bored. 

Did I also mention I have motion sickness? 

Anyway, I only have myself to blame... Here's the reason why I'm in this state. So I walked to (punggol) MRT station to realize the train broke down from Punggol to Sengkang. Found out there's a free shuttle bus that says "Punggol to Sengkang" but there was a long queue. 

And just nice, bus 83 (goes from punggol to sengkang too) came at that time. So I went to take 83 instead thinking I'm an absolute genius to cut my waiting time. 

BUT 

I realize after boarding that the free shuttle bus probably go straight from Punggol to Sengkang MRT without any stops and instead directly there. Whereas, bus 83 definitely stops at every stop and its a loop. ): 

And there I was thinking I was super smart for taking bus 83 instead of waiting for the shuttle bus. So much for being a smart alec. I was really like praising myself when I board 83 la. 

On a side note, it's pretty cool that I experienced a train disruption! (Although I'm probably only saying that cos I wasn't really in a rush to go somewhere...... ) But, woohoo experiencing a train disruption now make me feel like a true Singaporean! 

Singaporean points +1 for me. 

Positivity

Original Credits: Zhenyang

Photo above is all thanks to a really nice reader! Thank you so much for leaving me nice comments when I'm in my low spirits. It's really amazing how far sometimes a little encouragement means to someone.

In my midst of wallowing in self-pity and fighting my own inner battle the past few weeks or so, I have come to realise that there are really nice and sincere people out there who cared for me and go beyond what is required to help me. 

And, I guess it's really time to count my blessings instead of regretting and beating myself up for things that can't be changed. It's always times when I think and occupy myself with the negative things that I lose confidence and trust in myself to move on.

Throughout this whole episode of struggles, I can't be more than grateful and thankful to have a really nice mentor / teacher to care for me and backing me up in financial and moral means. Quoting him, "these few months left is going to be hard, but I will go through the tough times with you for these few months" and "I don't care whether I have to scold you, make you hate me by the end of the day, I just want you to do well". 

There are so many people who have gave me encouragement / help me in a way or so. They could have not done so but they chose to, and that's what I'm really thankful for.

Here's to the friends, family, colleagues, buddy that chose to do so, thank you. 

I guess for these past few months, heck, or rather these few years, I went easy on myself because of personal reasons. 

I gave up too much, gave too many excuses and the list goes on. But, with lessons learnt, I really hope I won't be an empty vessel, and instead,really improvise on myself this time round.

Focus on the positive vibes and goal ahead, Crystal. Focus. Stakes and hopes are too high for you to fool around with this time round.

很想哭，很想 。