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« Wednesday, December 31, 2008 »

(O: i haven't posted in ages! but anyway,)

2008 ends in about, 7 hours' time, or okay, slightly less than 7.

each year i have been struck by how quickly time flies, by how rapidly we'll have to let go of the memories we've had the previous year to embrace brand-new ones that a new year is wont to bring, and occasionally also by the rather tragic nature of time which dictates that what has gone will not come back. this time round somehow i seem to be unable to get my mind to sculpt the continuum of time into years and identify this clear distinction that is a 'new year' - i guess it's just a subconscious response to my not wanting to let go of this year just yet. for the lack of a better word, it has been phenomenal beyond measure, and maybe that explains why i've been feeling a lot more nostalgia at this time of the year than i would have in previous years. :/

all that overwrought emotion in the introduction aside, yes this is the customary round-up-your-year post. (:

so many wonderful things have happened to me this year, all of which have contributed to my being in indelible, immeasurable ways, and i am just so immensely grateful for all of them. :D nsc, icyl, wycf, obs (haha acronyms are convenient in situations like this eh?)...listing these few hardly does justice to the rest, but i feel extremely blessed to have been given the opportunity to be part of all of these (and more, of course). so well, as much as it's going to be long and rambly and barely worth reading (except maybe when i have become old and decrepit with a non-existent memory), these memories are worth my concretizing them. :D

threefourteen!
haha, i still remember how i was hyperventilating and semi-gushing when class allocations were released last year. (: we're the smallest class in our level - and i somehow suspect we will be known as one of the smallest classes ever - and yet we've shown that our craziness and spirit and our remarkableness - in many things like, cracking jokes in class, live vocal performances during recess, surviving extremely awkward post-exam table arrangements...and perhaps even in how hard the class mugs, hurhur - are anything but small. even though we share just about a gazillion different RA/subject combinations amongst ourselves, i'm just glad that there was always this palpably strong bond (i attribute it to the uniformly high wackiness levels across the class) that held us all together even if we hardly share a lot of time together in that one homeroom. and haha, all the random fond memories i have of these people:-
#1: watching everyone go on a guitar craze over recess
#2: hearing people belt out random songs with the rest providing the most awesome harmonizations to them (my brain automatically associates this memory with kristy, heehee :D)
#3: the soft-toys ban that had to be enacted
#4: merlin lurking suspiciously behind the whiteboards and jx's favourite 'merlin is blue' song
#5: stace & brenda with their laptops, (almost) everyday
#6: side-splittingly funny jokes and puns
#7: excessive classroom chatter
#8: the acclaimed series of mrjalleh-chinwei debates! (haha they were interesting, you have to admit.)
...even haha #9: the mcclintock effect experiment that sort of didn't end up with highly conclusive results but was nevertheless one of the quirkiest things i've done in my whole life. (and i have to say that might be kind of an understatement.)

and mind you, those are but only day-to-day memories of all the most ridiculous things we do in class. there's stuff like netball carn, which in itself has a special place in my heart as being the ultimate 314, pi-class experience. i mean, if we were any saner, we would never have decided on a baby pink class tee, never have ironed on the designs onto the tees ourselves instead of sending the tees for printing (speaking of which, a really big thank you to all the amazing people who ironed on the tees for us! ♥), and never rushed for the cheering competition thing-thing immediately after one of our games...so i guess we're truly unique in that way. (: you'll also have to add in the '!! we don't have enough money for our giordano tees, where's the closest atm machine!' incident, the saturday netball practices (and even the one before a particular paper-checking session, which got us entering the hall soaking with sweat oops), the post-netballcarn gelare outing, and even printed angels on the netball courts (charmaine/julia g, i am looking at you two)...and with all that, finishing fourth - nevermind if it's not officially announced as such - is just some grand icing on a scrumptious cake. haha, and i won't forget 'pi-tigress'. :D such an ingenious pun, i have to say, and the best thing is that in essence it so effectively encapsulates everything that we epitomize as an entity - the fighting spirit, the irrationality of the people and all our humour put together with a dash of geekness. (hello, pythagoras?!) that's something i really appreciate in this class, the ability to be serious and not lose our sense of fun, the craziness we share while working towards the very best. :D

to say the least, i am beyond glad for this bunch of people, and for this year i'm also glad to have known a lot of people better. (: and you know what's the most brilliant thing? i'm sure next year will be even better. :D much love friends! ♥

OBS!
hillary! ♥ haha, i think it's pretty obvious how awesome obs was for me when 1/ one of my longest posts ever happens to be on obs (in which i actually bothered to do a day-to-day recount) and 2/ when i name the teddy bear hanging from my schoolbag - yes the fluffy one with the adorable pink pullover - hillary. (:

i have to admit, i was highly apprehensive of the whole thing that was obs when we first got wind of it being a compulsory thing for all sec3s. the idea of spending a week on pulau ubin didn't go well with me, and along with all those horror stories of insect bites / the lack of toileting facilities / crazy full-day kayaking expeditions and what have you, it didn't seem like the most exciting prospect anyone could have. and then my shoe sole had to come off at the very moment i stepped onto pulau ubin, which wasn't a very exciting start to the whole thing. but as time went on everything i truly started to appreciate the whole experience. true, it pushed people a lot more, plucked them out of all their usual comfort zones, but in doing that it also brought out the very best in people, made them braver, stronger, tougher. and if nothing else, it really got me to learn to be grateful and thankful for every single thing that comes by way, no matter how small or insignificant they may seem. as joyce said, 'if i don't have my spoon, at least i still have my fork', and although it doesn't sound like a very convincing aphorism, that's something that OBS has truly ingrained into me. not to mention the dire need to find excitement and happiness even in circumstances that do not seem to present much joy, and at the jetty jump, that's all i wanted for this year, 'to be happy'. :D personal takeaways like that aside, i have to say OBS has also been awesome bonding for 314. (: and that's also another beauty of the whole OBS experience - it makes you dependent on each other, since there's just so much one alone can do, but so, so much more a group can do together. :D

i'll also remember OBS for stretching me to do a lot of things that i'd probably never do out of my own accord. kayaking (which, granted, might have been tiring at times, but was also immensely satisfying, especially when you drift along and just lift your eyes up to the uncluttered sky), jetty jump, trekking through forests with tent bag and it'll-crush-your-toes-if-you-dropped-it heavy haversacks, and all - in other circumstances i wouldn't have gotten the chance to do all of that, but in OBS i did, and y'know, they were actually really cool things to do. something different for a change, i guess. (: but basically, it was a most amazing week spent away from the madding crowd, and it's also helped me to grow, put things into perspective and look life in a brand new way. :D

with a bit of luck, we'll go on a longer OBS course at the end of our sec4 year, hahaha. (:

random scientific escapades: nsc + ysc/smp + imcb + astar!
okay there's seriously not much of an order to how i'm listing down all my memories for this year, but not that it matters anyhow. (: and since i've digressed, have i mentioned how fun it is to dump everything in acronyms? x)

but anyway, science has (very interestingly) become quite a defining component of this year, and while i'm quite tempted to say that nsc was one of the most impactful, in retrospect each of them have given me experiences that are equally valuable and unique in their own ways, and suffice to say that i am most thankful for each and every one of these experiences. in some ways, i have to say they've helped to clear up my plans for the future a little bit more, so yes, am infinitely glad they came my way this year. (:

nsc! haha this was really, really something that i didn't expect at all. to tell the truth, i don't think it even featured on my mind at the start of this year, hur. and all this came about because of a chance encounter in the library (and okay, a lot of love from friends + mryang's idea), haha. (: hm i guess apart from experiencing the actual workings of a tv studio (and not-so-glamourously appearing on the goggle box D:), the bigger thing was getting to know The Team, and the people truly made the difference. :D even when the going got a tad tough, what with the long hours spent on concpetualizing, script-summarizing (hahaha i tell you, our summary skills > yours - even though okay my exam results seem to prove me otherwise but i digress), and the 8-5 sessions during apcg week, the rest of the team truly kept me going. and admittedly, it could have been mundane, merely an okay-let's-mug-all-we-can kind of competition, but i'm glad we made it much, much more than that, especially our studio demonstration segments. (: punning even when they are horrendously lame, obsessing over props (the title of ms i-will-ocd-over-props-until-they're-perfect goes to a certain fangying, hahaha), drawing out logistics like there's no tomorrow, our random strategizing moments at various points in the science centre, siyi's tarot card predictions and even the classic 'go raffles' shouts (which we naturally abandoned in the finals for a 'go rgs'), these little things made the whole experience so much more worthwhile, and while i've learnt a lot, i think i've enjoyed myself even more. (: (if that makes sense. O:) and i guess it's also been a good lesson in stress management, in team solidarity, and in looking out for each other. oh, and of course, thinking on your feet. (: i think our studio demo props are the best examples of what it truly means to adapt and respond to unexpected situations, hahaha. x)

and okay, slight digression, but i guess through nsc i've also come to appreciate just how much rgs gives to each and every one of us. the support and dedication the teachers show, it's just...indescribable. so while i run the risk of repeating myself, i'll just have to put it down again: thank you so much, teachers. ♥ (like drslatter and msning and mrlim and mrali! :D) oh, and on an even greater digression, i'm very tempted to ask for a return to the nsc09 team as their honorary pun consultant, hahahaha. (i kid you not!)

hm, ysc/smp. well, in a similar (yet perhaps not so similar) fashion, the end result was awfully unexpected, but i'm very glad for it because it was a neat little form of recognition for how we'd slogged through full days of experimentation, survived even after banging into countless dead ends, and hung in there right to the very end even with the countless O_o looks the people in the labs gave us. y'know, inspiration can really come from the littlest of things, and haha, to think that our gobstopper idea actually morphed into something scientifically viable and purposeful just gives me such a wow feeling. (: and apart from opening my eyes to the rigours (and terrors, maybe) of scientific research, i think both of us have also grown a lot more resilient when faced with failures and hurdles and unanticipated situations, and it's also helped me learn to level-up my optimism in trying times. :D so yep, as painful and dreary as it got at times (especially with the :E zeta potential machine), it gave me a lot too, and of course i'm also thankful for the most amazing smp partner ever, charmaine. (: it's also a plus point that we did crazy things that i'll remember forever in the labs, from drawing loch ness monsters (i will get a picture of that page one day!), to designing a one-of-a-kind souvenir fashioned out of lab gloves for our undergrad student haha. x) in some ways it's also kinda weird to think that we probably won't be returning to the nus labs again (not anytime soon, at any rate), that we won't be having heavily discounted lunches at the nus mcdonald's or be trekking a long way from the engineering blocks to the subway at yusof ishak hall and all that jazz - except if we decide to go down one day to provide our juniors with some Friendly Advice - but it was a good (good enough!) time while it lasted, and that'll be enough for now. :D

okay now imcb + astar, which i guess i'll just lump together as one since it's rather hard to develop two meaningful paragraphs (as if the rest of the stuff i wrote were meaningful, but shan't quibble) separately on each of them. imcb was good, not solely because i discovered a good source for cheesecake (hahaha jiahui and michelle and all the astar camp people who went for breakfast on the second day shall now exchange knowing glances), but also because i like the labs quite a fair bit. (: (to tell the truth, i like them better than the nus labs, somehow, but shh you did not hear that from me. :D) the highlight must have been dechorionating zebrafish embryos, hurhur, but on a less serious note a separate highlight must have been our mad rush back to school for homework (which didn't exist T_T) on day 2. and imcb also built me up a fair bit, over and on top of what smp had already given me, in imbuing in me the courage to acknowledge things gone wrong, so mhmm. but okay, on a slightly happier side, there was also that rolly-polly thing in the playground! in that sense, returning back to biopolis for the astar camp brought back a lot of memories, but above and beyond these memories, the astar award was something i'm truly very thankful and glad for. (: quite exciting to get more exposure now, actually, and when you get to explore together with friends it gets even better. hahaha i don't think i can easily forget the day2 reflection session, when mengshi and jx and samseah and i just went a little bit (yes, only a very little bit) too cranky and started drawing a cariacature of a good scientist, complete with puns on just about every single detail possible. and that in itself made for a lot, a lot of uproarious laughter = extremely effective diaphragmatic exercises, haha. x) plus of course, random bridge games, even on the bus! :D but okay, slightly superficial things like that aside, i'm just extremely thankful for the experience as a whole, and it really is something of great significance to me, quite an effective confidence-booster it was. and of course, a very good reminder to keep working hard, even harder maybe. (:

wales/ireland08!
spent close to 2 weeks away from home (which also meant 2 less weeks of rest and reprieve in the conventional sense), but it must have been one of the most amazing 2 weeks i've had during the holidays - not forgetting things like icyl & wycf in december, but okay why am i spoiling the fun now? hm each separate trip overseas (think slovenia04, prague/vienna06, uk07) has a special place in my heart, and i guess what differentiates wales/ireland08 from the other trips is that it brought me back in touch with Nature in her most unadulterated forms. true enough, i kept seeing flashes of past trips in this one - the derrygonnelly hostels reminded me of the two-storey houses we had for rooms in slovenia, the library at dale fort reminding me of certain rooms in purcell and the shopping street in ireland reminding me of similar ones i've gone down in vienna - but what made this one unique was all the natural landscapes we partook of: from clambering up and down the cliff-like formations along the rocky shores, to plucking clovers; from feeling the cold air buffeting you about and sweeping across your face to getting dirty in the Trench of Doom (sing 'doom-doom-doom-doom!' to beethoven's 5th symphony's opening motif); from picking up little shrimps and gobies and crabs from the huge Seine net to even just enjoying a picnic amidst the gorgeous scenery of the good ol' countryside, it definitely invigorated me in ways that urban environments cannot. (: sometimes i just think the best way to pass time would be to just wander along the countryside, taking in the fresh air and listening to the birdsong, letting the breeze toss your hair and having a little picnic at the end of it all. and then maybe i'd bring a book along and read until the sun went down when it'll be time to get back. :D something to hope for in the future, i guess. (:

it's really quite hard to put wales/ireland08 in words (i've tried in a separate blogpost, but because that one's chronological and i, well, have not come to finishing it, i'll just call it 'hard to put down in words'), somehow photos seem to work better...just that i didn't take a lot. all on fb though, so that's a good record in itself. :D perhaps one day i'll return to enniskillen - having walked close to its entire perimeter, maybe returning 10 years down the road will show me something new. and although i will start sounding highly fragmentary now, i'll miss a lot of things there. yummy dinners, quaint little shops and houses, the weather...and maybe even the foosball table at derrygonnelly (hahaha); rather random i know but i guess they all do constitue a little of wales/ireland08 that i'll remember for good. (:

RGSChoir♥, wycf♥, appassionata♥!
everything choral shall come together! (: at first glance, 2008 didn't seem to be a particularly busy year for choir-related stuff, but somehow i managed to get myself a lot busier - not that i'm complaining since they were utterly awesome events i went through. (: anyhow, every year choir pracs just get better and better for me, and my love for RGSChoir has probably grown a million-fold over this year, what with the amazing people, amazing repertoire, and the most amazing of all, msloo. ♥ i guess moving up as a junior-senior sorta came with some more expectations, and with every year comes an increased consciousness as to the sound you're producing and all, so mhmm that's a good thing. :D and i'm glad we got to do really exciting repertoire this year, things like diu diu dang a, las amarillas, te quiero, orban's gloria, and even la cucaracha, as much as i never really did come to terms with the O: D: !! rhythms. was listening to The Esplanade Recordings (haha worthy of capitalization!) today and while we sounded hm, quite impressive, it struck me that we did quite a lot of accompanied songs, and that there probably wasn't as broad a cultural sweep as there was this year. not that i will claim for any set of repertoire to be above the other, but i'm happy that we got to work on pieces that we might not be particularly accustomed to or familiar with. (: and that's something i really loved for this year, all the further experimentation and what have you, which yes, at the end of the day, has all its roots in 07's cataract of mount lu. :D

and and, who can forget grease / sectional items! my slight discomfort with the short skirt thing aside, i think this year i've really become more relaxed and more daring to express, and that's quite a significant achievement for me, i shall concede. (: and grease! i had a whale of a time working on it, plus it was awesomely good senior-junior bonding, hurhur. (like i think i got to know may a lot better through our we-must-pretend-to-gossip! section in grease. :D) it does serve as a very effective foil to all the choral servings in the first half, and we all just enjoyed it tremendously, the energy which just gets communicated to and infects the audience. (: and while going back to acsb after a concert at esplanade is a slight bit of a let-down in some ways, there's also a more personal, homely feel to the concert that's wonderful in its own way. :D

now, wycf! :D probably one of the most intensive choral experiences i've ever had, what with the week of back-to-back, full-day practices (even prague wasn't that tightly packed, haha), and while it might have been slightly draining physically, the music just made everything a whole lot more bearable. (: in itself, the whole festival already has a noble aim that i really respect, bringing students from all over singapore to sing, to emote, and to collectively make good music, and so i was glad to have been able to interact with so many other people, get out of my shell a bit and walk around with people i might not otherwise get to know. and of course, nothing beats a first time in an satb choir! hahaha, listening to tenors/basses just, blows you away, for the lack of a better description, and although the choir's big and in that sense perhaps slightly harder to coordinate, the sense of satisfaction that you get when you sing a note and hear that a hundred, two hundred other people are singing together with you in that one voice is just, irreplaceable. :D and even though there was that slightly daunting task of learning 11 pieces in 6 days staring at us in the face, i loved how we still managed to find fun in all that we did, and in us i really saw what people mean when they talk about 'enjoying music' (or embodying music, as dr rogers likes to say).

and of course it was a great honour to work with renowned conductors during the festival itself and listen to clinicians/lecturers share their perspectives on choral music-making. in terms of interpretation, rehearsal techniques and even repertoire choice, there was just so much to learn, and getting to completely immerse myself in the world of choral music for two whole weeks was just sheer joy, haha. :D plus the concerts - truly electrifying experiences, with each choir building their own connections with the audience, each one different from the next. and perhaps what impressed me most was just how much passion and love for their music they showed, how much emotion and feeling and effort they put into every single phrase and every single note, and how there seemed to be an unspoken understanding that in everything, the choir went together as a whole. (haha, i quote grease! xD) and how music moves/affects people really took on another dimension in those concerts; i don't think i've ever cried in a piece (with of course, an exception being made for itsuki), and yet in those concerts i've so often found myself on the verge of tears because the raw emotion, the dramatic tension, and the message that yearns to be heard just tug so strongly at you. not to dismiss any other musical form, but that's one thing i love about choral music, espeically when you're involved - the immediacy of the message.

at the end of it all, even as it got rather squishy for all 250++ of us on the vch stage (even worse when it was with yo), i think none of us could have been any prouder when we sang with our voices out to the audience. :D the suspense of 'the north wind and the sun', the joviality of 'morning tide', the wonders of music in 'the goose and the swan', and just the grandeur of the wycf theme song...all these just gave me weird (but nice!) tingly feelings throughout the whole concert, haha. suffice to say it was just one of the most fantabulous experiences ever, and it's just convinced me even more of the magic of choral music (not that i needed more convincing in the first place, but well, yeah). :D

and of course, appassionata my loveliest batchy! ♥ am so glad busking really took off this year, and that we've taken on so many performances. in the midst of preparing for all these gigs (i am suddenly very tempted to call them 'gigs'! :D), i believe we've also grown a lot closer together as a batch and also musically. (: from djb to randomly rifling through msloo's whole treasure-load of scores for suitable busking stuff and even the constant fretting over gig costumes (like haha, grease costumes O:), we've had so many funny times together it's so hard to start from somewhere. D: but well, for me i'll always remember our fam performance and our christmas carolling, haha. (: fam not only for the ultimate purpose of our performance, but also for how we rushed everything out, kept changing pieces even at the very last minute, and came up with a convenient little storyline that strung everything together in the end. :D (and maybe also for forgetting me rawr :E, but okay i'm kidding. xD) and maybe also for our takashimaya sushi outing in our extremely eye-catching golden choir jackets, haha. (: and then there's carolling, which i haven't done since...p6, i think. haha it would seem like we're frightfully last-minute people, but well i'm happy that everything turned out fine in the end! it really is immensely satisfying to be able to spread christmas cheer to people, and while admittedly we had our little bloopers here and there, at the end of the day i still think we managed to bring smiles to a lot of people's faces. :D but actually, what struck me as particularly memorable in this whole carolling experience was (as weird as it is) how we rehearsed at the most random spots possible before our performances, hur. on the circular staircase at bras basah (that i'd never even been on despite my having frequented that place quite a bit), at some sidewalk next to the carpark entrance at united square, and even just sitting down on the tarmac directly outside the angmokio outlet - just about shows how versatile we are, eh? making music at the places where music is least likely to touch and singing to random passers-by who might otherwise have not heard much else other than the passing cars on the road...they're not something people would usually do, but in certain ways they're worthwhile endeavours, and although it might possibly seem rather absurd that i'm reading so much into little things, it's also these little things that brighten my day. :D

anyway, apart from that long recount, i just wanted to say thank-you appassionata, you guys are the awesomest! ♥ here's to a wonderful 2009 ahead. :D

rgspb; ICYL08!
okay will probably end off after this chunk, but covering this chunk nevertheless is a must. (: like choir the pb calendar for me this year didn't seem particularly packed at first, and then came ICYL. :D i guess at first i didn't feel so hyped up and excited about the whole convention as i ought to have been, but i'm glad i slowly grew into it as time went by, especially when planning for cool events like OpMAD and world cafe conversation went underway. and going into the convention itself was when i finally started to understand and feel the signifcance of the whole agenda in its entirety, the all-important dialogue about the future of female leadership we were now engaging ourselves in and the inspiration we would be giving to this entire batch of young ladies. and seeing the delegates making true meaning out of the whole experience, giving all the issues very careful consideration and enjoying themselves all the same just makes me so, so proud of this ICYL that i've been involved in. okay i guess the icyl post says it a lot better than i will say it now, but i guess it's just the wow-i'm-actually-making-a-difference-to-lives feeling, the feeling that something you've done today will be brought back across the globe to another part of the world, where hopefully a ripple effect will continue. (:

of course, ICYL allowed me to work with the most amazing people ever, FIX comm, and i'm truly glad for all of them! becky with her cool and almost forbidding james bond pose, anne the ham(ster)!, vanessa and her shutter shades, rachel and her classic kungfu panda morning workout, japna and all her water guns + long hair, and joy the perpetual voice of reason - these are just people i've been so privileged to work with through the course of ICYL, and i am thankful for each and every single one of you! (: FIX must have gained some wonky-ideas-people reputation throughout the whole of ICYL, but guess what, i'm proud of that, for being the wacky think-tank that never fails to find ways to liven up the whole programme and refresh the participants (most literally with our water guns before OpMAD, hahahaha). hopefully we'll all get to come back as facils in ICYL10! :D

and of course, ICYL's tied to rgspb, and that's another group of people i'm truly grateful for too. (: my first board camp (sad i missed last year's :/) just concretized for me the whole warmth and closeness of the whole pb family, and throughout the year, be it in cheering or helping out or even looking at the pb uniform before donning it every morning, i'm always filled with this strong sense of love for being part of this most wonderful group of people. (: as fior steps up next year, i'm sure we'll be able to leave our own unique legacy, so yes, go fior! ♥

whoa okay, even i have to say that that was rather tiring to type, and as i went on my words started to flow less and less, but i guess that just about sums up how brilliant my 2008 was. (: of course, there were other cool things that came along like founders' day (arete! arete! arete!) and all, and those were fantastic events in their own ways. (: and although i say this oh-so-often, i cannot help but feel an immense sense of gratitude and thankfulness for how 2008 has turned out to be - a lot of pleasant surprises along the way which made the whole year a lot more worthwhile, and while it's kept me busy (when i initially thought 2008 was going to be a not-so-filled year), i have absolutely no gripes about that because it's kept me busy but also very, very fulfilled and happy. (: and well, above all i'm glad that i made the transition into the upper secondary years quite smoothly, especially when it's touted to be a painful and torturous one, and also for new beginnings that went quite well, so yes, really, many, many things to be thankful for. :D

and of course, many, many people to be thankful for too. people who have brought me joy, who have weathered many storms with me together, who have unwaveringly cared for me, who've bore with my many tantrums and who've given me so much love - threefourteen, RGSChoir, rgspb, + daddy and mummy too - thank you all so, so much. michelle loves you all and wishes you a very awesome 2009 ahead! ♥

and now you can see why i don't really want to let go, haha. it's been so awesome. (:

but anyway, i guess 2009's looking equally great and exciting! rgs' 130th anniversary is in itself a really big thing, and so is rgspb60, and while it looks set to be Busy Busy Busy, i really wouldn't give this chance to be part of all the excitement up. :D and also other stuff like artsfest, syf (i am tempted to hyperventilate but okay i won't), wsc (again, cue for hyperventilation but will curb it), a lot more active mentorship for pb, and hr stuff...we're taking over as the senior-seniors, and while a little part of me doesn't want this year to come because it means soon everything will be over, the prospect of all the things lined up for 09 also excites me greatly. (: so well, will be glad and :D :D :D about it!

hm and to end off, 08's resolution was to 'be happy' (as in OBS), and while perhaps i may have lost sight of it at certain instances along the journey, i'm still quite glad that i've more or less lived up to it. :D for 09, well, since the theme is 'live the legacy', i'll just be really glad if i could leave even the faintest mark somewhere. (:

alright then, see you 2008, thank you for all the awesome memories. :D and yes, welcome 2009, off we go! ♥

composed; 5:15 PM :D