The Opera Populaire

Yesterday was a very exhausting day, physically and mentally for me. Being a "star" of the day demanded a lot from me. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the convocation immensely, trying to remember that it was once in a lifetime thing.

Very big love and thanks to my parents who came all the way from Jakarta to attend my grad even tho they r very busy. Warmest thanks to my Dad and bro who acted as the professional photographers for the day. They even videocamed everything and we had fun laughing at it later. Thanks for my aunts, grandpa and grandma for giving me face by turning up. I love the bouquets they gave me, but my blur Mom accidentally left it behind when we went home... alamak! Now u know where I inherit my blur nature from hahaah. Thanks Mom for being my porter for the day. Hanyong, Shi zhi and Keong: I wasn't lying ok...they din come from my hordes of admirers hahahaaha. Thanks to Jingting who rushed here all the way after she landed back in S'pore to take picts and congratulate Sophia and I.

Such a great feeling being with the fellow historians once more. Loved our sense of solidarity of bonding as seen during the ceremony itself...the loudest cheerers around! It did make ur 5 sec walk on the stage worth it hahahaah ;) Even my parents noticed us and commented. Sitting beside Huilin and Boi Boi was really enjoyable...considering that I din get to interact with them as much i would have liked to during e sem. Can u believe that this Boi Boi actually wanted to hide behind me when the camera shone to our side???? Erm....a rather impossible feat I must say. Just grin and wave to the camera lah hahaahah. He oso made some very corny suggestions like why dun we all "unsheath" our scroll holders at e same time so that they all made a resounding noise? I was telling him then we would really be condemned liao. But it was kinda funny to imagine the scroll holders as some kinda "sword" that u can unsheath hahaha.

After e ceremony my family went to have a small dinner before I ran to Tanjong Pagar for a career talk, during which I was kinda impatient as I was really exhausted by then. Kept wishing they would quit doing propaganda for their company and give us the bare facts and wat we can hope to get from enrolling in their course. Kinda expensive I must say.

We originally scheduled our trip to Hong Kong on sat, but it had gone down the drain. Wat happened was that we decided on it quite late, like on thu. I thot everything is settled but the lady din get back to me and when I called her just now, she said she couldn't get e ticket or hotel rooms for us! I was not too happy becos that was kinda negligent of her and it wasn't really our fault tho we did book very late. But she really shd have told us sooner, not e day b4. Besides she gave me e reassurance that there was at least e air ticket. Well, watever. Perhaps God has another plan for us. I wasn't particularly looking forward to going HK anyway, so perhaps I'll be able to go elsewhere more exciting. The only sad thing is perhaps that I can't get to see those HK "leng zais" hahaahahaha.

Anyway, I went to see e doc this morning, kinda expecting e worst. But e result of the blood test yesterday was very positive, tho not perfect as yet! I can now take a bit of seafood already hoho! God has been so good to me, as I sought to glorify him. Truly every surrender u give to Him, He turns back to blessings. Thanks oso to Michelle, who introduced me to her church's "Healing Rooms" service, which alerted me to the spiritual aspects of illnesses, something that is interesting me a lot now.

Hope I will b able to load those picts up soon, and perhaps part of e video cam.