Goodbye car

Today papa finally sold our car to his friend. It definitely is going to be weird not having the car anymore. I mean ever since I was 8 years old, my family always had a car. Let me see, from nissan to ford to masda and finally toyota. Well, guess it's time to rely solely on public transport for our final 2 months now. To the next owner of our toyota wish, do take care to it. It is an awesome car, really served us well. I'm sure you'll grow to love it. And it's the first car that I've driven after getting my licence. Think I've driven it about a total of 8 times. Not bad, thanks to papa who allowed me to get the hang of driving on 'real' roads like expressways and of course trying to improve my extremely bad parking skills. Well, that's our last car in Singapore, I guess. You know what, I'm really not thinking about anything now, just trying to get by school is crazy enough to fill my mind. I'm just going to let things come naturally, and ya, to live one day at a time. Think I might be subconsciously counting down, everyday is starting to mean a lot to me now....anyway, I have about 60 days left in Singapore, so ya...that's how short it is.

Promise to treasure everyday...thanks to all my friends....I know that I'll be able to go through this.

The Day I turn 22...the most awesome dinner ever:)

Today is the day I turned 22 :) Michelle Ho Jia Yee was born on 22nd Feb 1989 at 115am! Thank you Father for creating me, for bringing me to this world to meet 3 awesome people. haha. The 3 darlings, joy skeen and rui qi fetched me from vivo city to riverboat for a perfect dinner :) It was a total surprise! Yes they didn't want to tell me where we were going. I was shocked to realise that we were at the sea. It was a restaurant on a SHIP/BOAT! yes I ate dinner on the sea! Oh goodness! Joy remembered that I fell in love with the sea ever since I was a kid. Haha must be their idea to give me this awesome treat:) After we ordered out food, we went to the so-called deck to take pictures. Had a lovely time. Dinner finally came, had a 1 for 1 special. We ordered 4 giant meals and skeen ordered her all time favourite caesar salad! haha yes, we ate a bomb! I wanted to try the earl gray tea, rui qi introduced it to me the other time and I remember that it was very nice. So decided to get that. It was such a lovely atmosphere, I love the lights and the ambience of the whole place. haha. The darlings bought cupcakes for both skeen and I :) haha sang birthday songs for both of us and we proceeded to the roof top of the jetty/port. Skeen and ruiqi were starting to get sea sick so we had to leave the ship. Went to roof top of the port and we ate our cupcakes there. The night sky was amazing! We saw orion, a beautical constellation with the 3 stars in a row. You can still see it now at this time of the year :) There were so many stars, so pretty! Then it was my favourite moment. We took pictures!!! A lot and a lot of pictures:) Did so many jump shots! haha can't wait to see all of them! There was so much laughter, joy, fun, peace...I felt like the world just stopped and we were just in our own time zone...the night sea was so so beautiful. I bet you can already tell that I have a weakness for the sea, the ocean, the blue horizon....kept saying that the sea is so beautiful. I wished it would last forever...soon it was time to go. My parents wanted me to be home early as I've been staying out late so often these few days. Before leaving, the 3 darlings presented to me a card and my present :) haha took individual pictures with each of them together with the present. It was my trademark. haha Those of you who did notice me clearly, I am a earring person. I always wear earrings to school, when I go out...anywhere:) haha. My three darlings got me this sweet flower earrings. Will definitely wear them to school :) We then surprised skeen and presented her a picture of BUTTERCUP :) haha. Yes in case you don't know, the 4 of us are called power puff girls + mojojojo. Rui qi is blossoms, skeen is buttercup, joy is bubbles and me, mojojojojo. haha though I think it's quite ironic for me to be mojojojo. Can you believe it, I was mojojojo by default, cos I wasn't there to choose that day. Anyway, we'll pass to skeen her present on mon when it is her actual birthday.

We went back to jiahao's car and when we got into the car, something crazy happened.....the car couldn't start! We accidentally left the small lights on for about 4  hours! That was when the battery was flat and the car couldn't start. Skeen and I got out of the car and quickly grab a nearby person who  just parked his car for help. He was willing to help, problem is he didn't know how to...skeen and I then ran into the port building, found a policeman in the office and explained to him our situation. He was a kindest person ever. He got out to help us jump start the car using the other guy's car battery. It took awhile to transfer his car's battery to jiahao's car...but to cut the long story short, we managed to get everything back in working order again. To the owner of the toyota grey car, thank you so so so so  much for lending us your car, your time, your effort and your patience. To the policeman who helped us, you really saved our lives man! Seriously, without you coming out to help us, the 4 of us will be stuck at marina till god knows when. The 4 of us really owe it all to you both.

Finally got back at nus at around 11plus pm....Rui qi darl was so kind to call her dad down to fetch skeen and I home. Got back home at around 12 midnight. Monkey showed me the bag that she got from IMM, I totally loved it!

Just finished reading the card that they gave me. Knowing that this is my last birthday in Singapore makes me want to cry. I wish I could stop time, I feel so lost, I don't know how to react everytime I think of Australia....To the 3 powrpuff girls, you 3 are very very precious to me. Still remeber the first time I met all of you, joy in fairfield, skeen in pjc, and rui qi in nus on a field trip to IMH. I will never ever forget this birthday. To rui qi and skeen, thanks so much for enduring the sea sickness on board just to have dinner with me. To joy, thanks for everything that you've prepared. I know that the 3 of you have put in a lot of effort to make this night so special for me. You know something, knowing that the 3 of you are all attached somehow makes me feel at ease...that when I leave, you'll have not only each other but you are all safe in another guy's hands. I'm so so happy that you 3 have already found that special someone. haha okay, I feel like a big sister now...anyway I am the big sister! I'm the oldest among the 4 of us. I cannot tell you how much tonight meant to me....it was so special...if I were to say thank you, think it'll last till the day I die. Thanks you for everything. We'll always be together in our hearts....no distance can ever separate us ya?

To joy, my dear darling friend since 15 years old. Thanks for always being so sweet to me. You cheer me up when I'm down. You're always with me whenever we meet up with our 4c mates. You always study with me....since year 1 sem 1, we've taken modules together every sem. I really treasure you as a dear dear friend. I know sometimes in life we can have so many questions, but sometimes it might be a better idea to just let go and let god take control and all we have to do is to follow him and see what he has in store for us :) thanks for everything.

To skeen, my dear cheery friend who never ever fails to smile:) I love you for who you are. I love talking to you. I know that deep down inside, you are a friend who is willing to go the distance for others. I've always enjoyed all the times we spent together, in darwin lecture, when we were just talking together over lunch or outings. You've always bring so much fun and joy in my life. ahahaha and I know that you want me to find a boyfriend, but we'll see how things go ya? If it is meant to be, it'll meant to be:) thanks for everything.

To rui qi, my dear sunshine friend who through time, I have come to realise that you have brought in so much warmth into my heart. I loved every moment spent with you. You always say that I am the nicest friend you've ever known...haha I am not okay. You'll be surprised, think there are people who actually thought that I am a cold person....think it's just my face....I know that you are someone whose heart is so caring, so sweet to those who are precious to you. Over time, I realised that you are actually a very generous and loving person. thanks so much for everything.

I love all 3 of you so much! I wish I can take you all with me when I go over, but that will be so selfish of me. I can't bear to do that. Will really treasure every moment we have together....

That's it for my account of my 22nd birthday celebration :) Thanks for hearing me ramble on and on....I just can't help it. Better stop writing now...before I go, Happy Birthday to Me :)

New Makeover..

So here's the deal, we do up the house abit in order to fetch a higher price when we sell it. Sounds like a good plan. But there's just so much work to be done...

Today 5 men campe to our house to do a major re-paint. They arrived around 8plus in the morning(I've barely woken up) and first thing was to hack away our ceiling plastic. Yes, every single furnitutre in our house were covered with plastic sheets for protection. The entire floor was covered with newspapers. Basically my house didn't looked like a house. Papa went our with 1 guy to buy the paints...man he chose a colour that I didn't quite fancy. But ya. Anyway, once the paint had arrived, the men got to work and they painted our WHOLE house. All our ceilings, all our walls, in every room, and even our pipes in the two toilets and kitchen. Amazing ya? I thought it was cool, but our house was in a major mess. haha you could hardly walk around. The floor is covered with ceiling plastci chips and I always stepped on paint. Nonethless, like what I've learnt in teensxicte today, we must always give thanks. I thought the five men were amazing, they painted our whole house in about 11hours! I mean it was a lot of work and yet they were efficient :) Thank God for them! I didn't go for sat evening service. After having cell group with my darlings teens, I came back straight home to help my family with the cleaning up. I was surprised to see the whole house in a different colour (Ice white)! Everything was kind of cleared, just that there were still dust and chips on the floor. I quickly ate my dinner and helped mopped the floor. Oh I did wipe the chairs too:) This is indeed my first time seeing my house having such a new make-over(sort of, but not really). The living room ceiling looks so much better now.

All in all, I can only look back and thank God. Thank him for the five men, thank god for my family who worked together to clean up the house and thank God that despite the chaos in my house, I was still able to attend tenns service with my girls. Haha Anhyway, my parents are flying over to Aussie next wed, (crap they won't be here to surpport me for my driving test). Guess things are slowly starting to shape up. I'm just letting nature take it's course man. I'm sure with the Lord, everything will work out well. I'm excited yet nervous.

Well, that's all I have for today...oh yes, glad that I was able to spent time with some people this week:) meetings with friends meant a lot to me...especially in this season

The beginning of the last semester

Yeah, school has started. So far it's been alright. Normal I guess, lectures as usual. It'll all soon pick up pace as we go into week 3 onwards. I must say that my modules are as interesting as ever...interesting is one thing by the way. Difficulty is the other. After looking back at almost 3 years of university life, I must say that my love for psychology has never once wavered. Which I thank God for. It reassures me that psych is what I want and what I can see myslef applying next time when I go out there to work. Many of my friends are getting a little stressed up over graduation, whether they can do honours or should they just file for graduation this semester. Well, it is a serious decision especially when you're kind of approaching the end of your tertiary education. For me, I've just filed my graduation today. Yeah, going to get a BA end of this semester. Somehow in me, I feel that it is God's plan for me to do honours in Aussie. I mean, In Aussie, psychology is so much more established and ya, all my life in NUS I've always admired people who've been on SEP. They come back with awesome stories about their time spent in Canada, UK, Korea, Germany etc. And I remember hearing them all and telling myself that is it indeed a great experience to go for SEP. Really and eye-opener. Well I guess God has been gracious to me. My honours year will be spent in Australia and I'm definitely going to treat it as my very own SEP. I want to start 2011 right, being a good student is not really what I'm aiming for. More like, wanting to treasure everything I can about NUS, friendships, FCBC and of course, the one and only Singapore. Time seems to fly pass me and I entered into 2011 without even realising it. Amazing isn't it? I know that it's going to be a year of great change, and sometimes when I think about it, it is as if my heart can barely take it. It's like exciting, yet fearful, happy, yet sad. Looking forward is something that my papa has always taught me. He told me to never regret doing anything as that's part of life. Part of growing up. I agree with him. My policy is that, whatever that your heart has set out to do, do it to the best of your ability. Why? 1) It pleases God, it's worship to Him (coz He gave you His very best) but 2) So that you know that you'll have no regrets. Whatever the outcome maybe you'll just have to accept and learn from it, take it as an experience. Don't have any regrets, coz you've already done your very best.

Not esay, but possible.

One more thing, after a while, I feel CAP or GPA doesn't really matter. I mean, not that one should heck care about it, you should definitely aim high and still work hard. But I mean, you shouldn't let it dictate how good or smart oyu are. Coz it's not accurate. I mean 4.06 is just, ya 4.06. That doesn't mean you're not a good student. I don't know, but I strongly do not believe in that. Sadly, most students in NUS do not think the likewise. Anyway, it's gettign late, I'm turning to my bed now. Take care peeps.

Countdown 2011+ Lunch at Serene's house + Hiking + Updates

Guten Abend Leute. Wow, have quite a few stuff to give thanks for and also to update you about. Let's start with countdown on 31st Dec. Had an awesome day at jo's house again. Arrived at around 11am. Wir spielen X-box und Karten. We played X-box and card games, yeah, some of the girls loved monopoly deal. Wir haben Pizza gegessen. Ich finde, es ist sehr lecker. We ate pizza for lunch, had a nice time introducing the girls more to Louis. Then, it's movie time. Watched 'I am Sam' (I cried like MAD!) and Step Up 3. Not too bad. Then jo came back. Did a short thanksgiving session with everybody and off we go for dinner. It was a simple dinner at a hawker centre, soon, we set off for tct for countdown. By the time monkey and i got back home, it was already close to 2am. Very tired, feeling a little sick, but yet, I just can't help it but to thank God for a wonderful time. I'm glad that I was able to spend time with some of my darls, to cross the new year worshipping God together. 

After service on 2nd Jan, the special project people procceeded to Serene's house for a lunch treat. It was my first time going to her house. It is beautiful. Everything looks so new. Ja, sehr sher neu und schön. Ate Pizza again, had a nice time chatting with Serene and her husband. Really thank God for such awesome people. Watched a bit of Harry Potter (was trying to explain to some of them the story). Reached home around 6plus...

Today 4th Jan, went on an awesome hiking trip with my darls (Izzah, Jona, Jeanna and Kester). Can you believe it? We started at Kent Ridge Park, to Hort Park, to Henderson Wave, to Mt Faber, finally to Vivo city. Took around 3hrs plus...did a lot of jump shots...talked, laughed. haha Ate luch (more like tea) at vivo and we talked and talked and talked (the topic was on KIDS!!) The thing I like about them is that we can talk about anything and everything for hours! haha went zara after that, reached home around 7pm.

All in all, I must say that I've been blessed :) Thank you Father for making the weather so beautiful for us today. It didn't rained till we've finished our hike. You have brought me so much joy and fun as I entered 2011. Tmr I'll be spending time with my awesome 3 ladies (Joy, Rui Qi and Skeen). These 3 ladies are awesome people who also always bring so so much joy to me :) Thank you for giving me so much before entering back to school. I know that it's going to be a great year this year. Just so excited to see your plans unfold. Use me, I want to be part of it.

Amazing development of my future house

There you have it people. Das ist unser neues Haus. This is going to be my new house in Australia. It's not perfect yet, but it'll be soon :) Work started around late sept or early oct this year. Ich finde das Haus sehr toll! I find the house amazing. I remmeber six months ago, papa and I took a trip down to our house agent's office in perth to select the tiles, the colours, the everything. And now, I can actually see all the selections that were made falling into place. Thanks to email, we can get frequent updates and photos of our upcoming home. haha perhaps I should explain to you abit about the house. The first picture is the side view of the house. The transparent sliding door that you can see is going to be our laundary place. The washing machine and clothes rags are going to be there. Yup. I believe the windows belong to the kitchen. The bottom picture is the front view of the house. Can you see the front door? The huge hole on the left is our garage. Vater will zwei Auto haben. My father wish to have 2 cars. The huge windows on the right belongs to the master bedroom. Ya that's about it.

I can't wait to see the end product. So far it looks good. Thanks to Don Russell, everything's going according to plan. Thanks alot guys. Viel viel dank! It wouldn't be possible without you guys.

Inspiration

I've heard somewhere that where your heart is, there you'll be. You can be physically here, but if your heart is not here, then I believe that it is as though you are not here at all. Cos your heart is not here, it belongs or longs for somewhere else. When people meet, they share and bonds are created, that's where hearts born and bond. Yes, I believed that our hearts are connected to many people, your family, your friends, people who are close to you. When a person leaves, his heart gets entrusted to his friends, family...and they will carry his heart for him, as an encouragement, as an inspiration, as a remembrance. Our hearts are not exactly in our bodies, it's connected to so many other people. Guess that's what keeps people connected even when they are gone...or distance away. The sad thing is that this world is not perfect, sometimes this connection is just one sided...

People fight and protect the things that are dear to them...I believe that people do fight to protect their hearts and all the connections it has. Amazing ya? I mean have you ever thought about it...like when a friend is in need, you'll want to help him or her. Even if it is just a simple prayer for that person, you'll tend to want to do it...because your heart is connected to her's. When your grandmother needs something and you're already so tired, you'll still get up to help her.....because your heart is connected to her's. And yes, there's something else that I believe in as well...if you want to do something or if you agreed to get something done, then do it to the best of your ability, wholeheartedly. Be it in helping a friend, in your studies, in organising a party, in writing an essay, finishing a tutorial....do everything with no regrets. If someone does things halfheartedly, it'll not benefit both herself and the other party.

I heard somewhere too that people fight for 2 things...one is to protect their pride, the other is to survive in the world...but ya, it kind of boils down to 1 thing, people fight to protect their hearts. But I also believe that there are people who fight to protect what they believe in. See, it is not our background or up bringing that matters, but it's our choices that makes us who we really are.

I got alot of inspiration from anime stories, they are really not all about fighting and exaggerated effects, but their stories do have meanings and learning points. Perhaps that's what I like about them. Perhaps that's why it is part of my dream to see movies with beautiful meanings being made and share to the world...

okay, it's getting late...I'll stop here.

Gute nacht.