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Jocelyn A. Monique

is currently an undergraduate student, and coping with her ~~overwhelming~~ commitments. I like long walks in solitude, cosy chats, usually sleep like a log, and beg your patience in tolerating my versatile humour

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Friday, December 31, 2010

11:45 AM

Just a little update on what's been happening so far:
1)Mommy day out again - after ICA trip we went for a JB day trip. Cabbed to Angsana and walked around, before we were looking around for a cab back to City Square when something surprising happened. Basically this Malay lady looked at us and was saying "Tolong tolong!" because of her huge shopping trolley which she was trying to mount on the pavement. We helped her and I gently nudged my mom to ask her for directions. Then this very kind hearted lady offered to drive us to our destination. (: Along the ride she was really open about her life and told us about her children, occupation, shuttling to and fro KL/JB etc. I think this incident reminded me not to be so cynical about life and people in general because of random unexpected acts of kindness by strangers.

2) Shopping with Nikki (: We were in town again (gosh I've been haunting central area nowadays) but it turned out her shopping was much more productive than mine. She's a good shopping buddy because she always has sth constructive to say about shoes/bags/clothes and we laugh at how everytime I'm with her we always either eat at Soup Spoon or look for shorts.

3) Ban mian and Vanilla milk tea with Carmen! (: Yay so happy to see her too, after eons. I always joke that booking me is like booking for a SSDC driving lesson - must be always two months in advance. Not because I'm exceptionally busy, but because things tend to crop up last minute plus Carmen is hen mang one hahaha. It was nice to be back in my good old tpy and immersing in the super hectic culture downstairs of frenzied Christmas shopping.

4) Passing Threadless stuff to people. This included Daryl, Joel, Andrew and Fishy. The Erwin incident during the phone call was really funny though - we had mistaken identities on both sides so the conversation went on for quite some time before we realised we were NOT the people we were looking for. HAHA. Oh and on the 24th I decided to be ambitious and incorporate my exercise routine by walking from my place to J8 (about 20-25 minutes by foot). Was reaching J8 when Joel called and said he had already gone home -_-" so I had to change my route. Then when I actually reached his place I forgot which block it was HAHA SIGH. Ended up doing some saikang for church wrapping numerous fruit plus and various assortments of sweets into 30 pretty plastic bags and twining it with gold pipe cleaner. And halfway Andrew dropped by to exchange presents too!
After which I was waiting for my dad to come pick me up so I bought my favourite $1 honey peach milk tea from the shop! Drinking it made me nostalgic and think about my failed maths tuition days back in JC when I went to the place with Aiming and Audrey (:
Went to Little India with the parents thereafter, and had our lunch there. Btw I think festive indulgence is getting a little out of hand because I'm eating meat everyday :/ And it's super heaty and messing up my skin again ): Offered to wash the car when we got back BUT Daddy was super apprehensive about my parking at multistorey carpark skills HAHA so now we have to wait until this coming weekend perhaps.

5) 26th - 29th: Ipoh and KL trip!
Very memorable albeit the numerous hiccups and insistence of relatives. Will probably upload pictures later on because blogger is not very picture friendly. First time I'm actually buying alot of stuff (for myself! that's a first too!) and I'm slightly worried about how December has turned me into this consumeristic freako ): Ok need to start keeping my cards at home to discipline myself.

6) Tourist trip with Fishy and Tings
Very long overdue meetup - because we are all from different unis we probably only see each other like twice a year or sth (quite ridiculous considering that we are all in Sg). Ate Korean food! (: Very yummy but I think my throat is starting to be scratchy from the heatiness so will have to down some herbal stuff later).

Now it's time to stalk the breadth/UE page and do something about my life. Can't really say I'm looking forward to 2011 (it must be the jaded senior inertia syndrome catching on) but I guess I'd just have to stick around and soak it up.

Here's to a better new year folks,
xoxo.

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Jacq
Joel
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