Advanced birthday celebration
This year, I'll be celebrating my birthday on an island with a expedition group to malaysia frontier for 9 days. It's the 2nd time i'll be away for this long. But what lies ahead are many uncertainties, obstacles that we need to find our way to overcome. Try, learn, absorb, explore, adapt and ideas will come. I believe I'll return as a stronger and better sam.
Thanks desmond and stef (: I had a great time catching up with you guys. Thanks for e understanding all this while, being tied down with projects, ccas and commitments. I know there are also times i can get very busy but am glad we still manage to keep in touch all this years. Thanks for being there and the many lovely presents. Love them loads!
And dearest mummy surprised me with a pooh cake outside my door at night (: must be the collection of my new darlings! I must say it's the first time i cut e birthday cake alone without my brother as he's in camp now. His birthday falls on the day aft mine, so we've been sharing cakes for 18 years? Isn't it amazing? Thanks mummy!
Thanks dd for e present, i know you've put in alot of hard work. Sorry for not being able to be there during ur book out. I believe absence make the heart grow fonder =p 9 days will fly pass and i'll be back soon! Thanks for the many calls and smses for e past days. I know you can't help but worried about me. No worries, i'll take care of myself. You too (:
So light a candle on your cake
For every smile you've helped create
For every heart and every soul you've helped to grow
A little more
A few more pounds, a little more grey
Don't count the years, just count the way
It takes a little time to go from water into wine
Don't ever lose the wonder of that child within your eyes
Happy Birthday!
ps: take care folks, you'll be missed!
Will you remember?
Bare feet tickled by the powdery sand
Pressing footprints along the shore
A vain attempt to leave a testament
That I walked this path before
My face on the water
Wrinkles with the tide
And vanishes from the ocean's silver screen
Like stars sprinkled in the sky
Forgotten when the sun appears
Will you remember?
grandpa, may you get well soon n rem me someday. take care!
Back to 'normal life'
Have been catching up with sleep, baking cookies with bestful, back to sch for meetings, doing research for the upcoming train expedition. There's pretty much more reading up and preparation to be done by then. I'm sure many of us are excited even though it can be quite stressful on our part as organisers. But i believe we all learn and grow together as we go along :) Jia you!
Caught up with sam this afternoon. And yeah, we've confirmed a date sometime next wk to meet up with e np guy. Let's hope things will go smoothly, i really own you a big flavour this time (: And my boy is back, sorry for being a cranky lil girl over the past 3 days. Thanks for present and glad that you like my 'surprise'. More photos up soon, i'm heading to dreamland now. Good night, folks!
i tried so hard to plan my schedule for the upcoming weeks
but all plans just failed on me today
no more 'weekend get away' and holiday
test prints were disasters, colours were totally off
but you said: i have been through so many obstacles, this should not be a problem for me too.
then i told myself: this will not be. never will be :)
Have i been very busy or rather overloaded with work that i simply can't catch up with time?
So i just found out that mimo is leaving for osip next mon. Take care my twin, all e best for ur osip :)
So today it's our 10 mths :)
So tonight, i'll try my best and complete as much as i can.
And i'm pretty worried over ah gong and many other issues.
5 more days.
Endure first, more time later :)
my reason to run is not because i've put it off long enough.
but because napfa is only 2 wks away n i might have to miss it due to e recce trip =/
oh wells! i'm looking forward to e upcoming short vacation already!
(i know what senior is going to say if he sees this. haha!)
