The Ultimate Thank You List

One rainy night in Akasia, I felt inspired to list down these things, and I promised to myself that I'm going to post it here, so here it is:

Thank you for -

1. singing together back from dinner.

2. teaching me the songs.

3. accepting my invitation.

4. asking me.

5. helping me to order food when I'm so blur ><

6. helping me to buy lunch :D

7. saying that you like my laugh.

8. teaching me the lay-up shot, over and over again.

9. allowing me to study in your room.

10. doodling together with me on the whiteboard.

11. texting me those encouraging words.

12. asking me "How are you today?"

13. approaching me when I was emo-ing.

14. smiling back.

15.helping me to print my Bio report.

16. giving me the plaster when I slipped and hurt my pinky toe ><

17. giving me the chances.

18. your jokes.

19. letting me speak.

20. being my friend.

21. forgiving me.

22. noticing at least something about me.

23. saying "hi" to me.

24. having lunch with me.

25. lending me your laptop.

26. the shoulder to cry on.

27. the gifts.

28. sitting beside me in the bus.

29. answering my questions.

30. saying that I'm good in something.

31. the pat on the back.

32. opening the door when I'm too lazy to take out my keys.

33. lending me your guitar.

34. offering to hold my books when I'm standing in the bus.

35. allowing me to join.

36. inviting me for dinner.

37. helping me to cross the road.

38. inviting me to church.

39. helping me with my Chemistry.

40. explaining the Stats questions to me.

41. spending your time to explain Maths.

42. the high-fives.

43. the tissue when I wept.

44. the hugs.

45. the char siew pau.

46. the beer root beer.

47. the nestle chocolate wafer.

48. the ice-skating experience.

49. the photos.

50. ...and other things which is just too impossible to list down.

People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel.

I choose to remember all three.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart! :D

2011

Last Year..

1. In some aspects yeah I think I've improved, in other words I did grow up. Left home and learnt to deal with a lot of things alone, with some help from awesome friends. Physically - gained weight, grew taller, so yeah..

2. Confidence..it's a huge word. I need more time. Although some good things did make me feel confident sometimes, I don't really think I'm confident in a good way.

3. Yes! :) 

4. Yes! :D

5. No. I really need to improve and get back the old feeling of studying. I need to enjoy studying. Too bad I think this year I'm doing quite bad academically. I need to change. 

6. Ow yeah. I always hated changes, but now I'm looking forward to (good) changes in my life. Didn't feel homesick as I thought I would feel when I first arrived in SA. Faced a lot of challenges, yeah there were tears (and sweat and blood - no kidding) which in the end revealed to me that there are a lot of things to learn when you're far away from home. 

7. Friendly? I guess people became friendly to me first. I don't think I've done my best in socializing with my classmates in M8, I didn't really care, to be honest. Now that's one of the things I would like to change next year. Jing said it's important to have a close bond with classmates, and I have to admit it's very true. I don't know..some people have been very nice in my class , but I'm still looking for a real bond. Maybe I've found it, but didn't care to appreciate it? Friendship is one big thing. I thank God for the awesome friends this year, who've just simply been there for me, and I hope next year I'll be a good friend to them too. 

8. Yes, did read some novels while waiting for my SPM results. After entering college I find myself reading textbooks more than I read newspapers, and weirdly now I don't even know how to read the newspaper anymore. 

9. This year is an awesome guitar-ing year, I have to say. One of the reasons is that I had the chance to play a lot of guitars of different brands and from different owners. This is the first time in my life that I played so many guitars in just a few months, thanks to the awesome guitarists who had given me the chance to abuse their guitars to the max. My fingers were indeed happy to meet Takamine, SX, (two) Santa Cruz, Groovy, Yamaha F-210, J.D. Marvell. Haha. 

10. Learn another language? Ghahaha, learnt how to speak in English (again). Ow yeah.

7/10. Not bad.

Wishlist...

no. 3 and no. 4 yet to be fulfilled. 

So yeah, 2011 ain't bad at all! :)

Random Moments. 2011.

This, (both hands on the basketball)...

is..a fadeaway shot. You take a jump shot while jumping backwards, away from the basket, like this..

*jumps backwards, throws the ball*

...AND THE BALL ENTERED THE HOOP. :O

-true story. During a basketball game with Jing one evening. Made me realise that badminton and vollleyball were just not my type of sports. :P

Nah, it wasn't a true fadeaway shot like this one, but it was among the many perasan moments I had in 2011. XD

I Read..

..books..

..halfway nowadays.

And now that I'm almost reaching 19, I have this regret of not reading more books when I was in secondary school. 

I used to grow up with books, having bed-time stories almost every night as a kid, borrowing up to five books from the library every week and going to the bookstore to get at least two books every month. As I get older, everything changed. Moved to an area where the nearest library isn't decent enough, books are darn expensive and the awesome state library is too far from my home. Well, I sound like complaining, but we cannot blame the people of this country for their lack of interest in reading.

As far as I can remember, I started to read less once I entered secondary school. Academic things and textbooks suddenly became the main priority. Carrying an English novel was not a style in a not-so-town-school like mine. Honestly English has forever been my favourite subject, and I love language subjects more than science and maths, but I can't state a reason why I read less other than one typical reason: I didn't have time to do so.

Gone were the days when I can just finish a novel in one sitting. 

I believe that if I had read more during my early teen years, I could probably write way better than this now. I had a very good, steady start as a young kid, alas I didn't continue with it. So kids, pick up a book today. Before you get old like me and start questioning yourself. 

And yeah, I keep on jumping from one book to another after reading each book halfway this holiday. Me too lazy or the books are too boring? :X

Just an Old Song

..which reminds me about quite a number of things..like..

- how I used to like Simple Plan's songs.

- how I listened to a lot of their songs when I was in my early teen years. Ouch. That made me sound old.

- my dreams of jamming with a bunch of people like in the MV lol.

- and ah, this is my type of music haha.

- I am obviously being nostalgic again.

- and showing signs of talking to myself.

******

 

Been uninspired to blog. Trying hard to minimise my time online. In other words, trying to get a real life, and enjoying the true meaning of Christmas.