part of the beauty

I need this weekend at home. I need to clean my room, decide what I want to bring back to Jurong Island next week. yesterday I dropped by for abit and realised I miss school. not so much classes and projects, but the girls, our room, my neighbours. the best piece of news I've heard so far is that Fahi and Nad have already gotten their rooms, and everyone (except Sal who loves home) will be living nearby next sem! Jinli and Rachel live in the same block which is a 5 min walk from ours. Nad's staying at my hall, Fahi's staying 2 halls away. hooray!

so how was 2006 really? it was excellent. earlier part of the year went by painfully slowly, but it picked up when I got a decent job, met Rizan, got into SCI, realised that I could actually be good enough, or just good, for lots of things I was afraid to do. in 2006 I had a few hesitations, but I overcame those. it's good to know you don't have anything to fear anymore. I learnt to let go of things that shouldn't matter. my family got bigger, and though I admit I miss days when it used to be just the 5 of us, I think I like this new family. I like Games Night every Saturday with the Brady Bunch, I like birthday celebrations where we make reservations for 10; always 10.

living on my own for half a year- big step. I knew I could do it at the beginning, halfway through I thought twice, and now that a semester's passed it's back to being sure again. I survived. the baby of the family survived. Nab wonders why we never skip classes, then I hear myself thinking I'm glad we don't. next year we all hit the big 2-0 but I'm not panicking because would you believe it? I got to do almost everything I wanted to as a teenager.

here's to tomorrow.