28th.

A certain someone mentioned special days about a month ago and today is one of those. Today is the first 28th since that 28th. You don't have to know what the 28th is. Just that the 28th is pretty special.

So come, everyone, say hello to him.

:)

Everything'll Be All Right.

Aaron and Joel. Cousins. Best buddies.

HAHAHAHAHA.

Today the darling Joel Tan Liang Shien turns 9. He comes out with all sorts of "yo yo wassup dude"-s and can actually carry a conversation about RPGs and CODs (No, not the xoxo.chic kind of COD) with Edward kor kor. He's growing up so fast!

Nine. That's old in little boy terms. Nine's like... major, when you're a kid. It's one year short of ten, when you can finally hold out all fingers when people ask you how old you are. I remember wanting to be 10, like really badly when I was a little girl.

It also means that I've been an aunt for nine years. (Yes lah laugh all you want. Lol.)

There's usually six noisy kids running around my house. If you're a guy you'll get coerced into giving non-stop piggy backs.

Six. And there's a little girl on the way. Ka Che is 32 weeks along her pregnancy and there are complications. The water level in the womb is much lower than the average level and if it doesn't go up within the next four weeks, they will have to operate. She will be premature, underweight and have a 50% chance of survival. They've went for two opinions and will be seeing a third specialist on Tuesday and nobody really know what to do. There's nothing we can do but be strong and pray.

It's hard to see my sister look so down.

My thoughts are all over the place. I guess I'd better go.

Lord, please look over my sister, Kelvin and the family and keep both mother and child healthy, safe and sound.

Sweet November.

(If even ZH is revamping his blog with a new skin then I think I had better get my lazy ass off the bed and put my fingers to work on a post. Heh.)

Oookay. Anyway, Sweet November.

That's a movie starring Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron quite some time ago and whilst the movie was damn bittersweet; ending with said leading lady battling terminal cancer (Or did she die in the end?) and leaving charming leading man (I think. Omg, my memory is very majorly bad-shape.) they did have happy days throughout November.

...No, my November has most definitely not been as morbid, and no I'm not dying, but I thought the title was somewhat fitting. Because it's been just that. Sweet.

So the early bits of the month was me still spending every.single.freaking.day in the freaking.cold.Monash.library. Yes, that's how sad it was. Me, a single wooden table (sometimes two when I have to chup places) and a stack of notes with my many highlighters strewn everywhere and that would be my day. (What. Final year okay. Have to study harder. Stop calling me a nerd tsktsk.)

OMG. I feel stressed right now just looking at my study mess.

There was a week before audit paper where I even went on weekends so it was just string of neverending days on campus. Even the security guard started recognise me. In first sem, I saw this girl in the library everyday and we even had several toilet conversations lamenting the lack of tissue paper in Monash library toilets. HAHAHA. Imagine that. But she's disappeared this sem, so I guess she's graduated.

Yeah, there really wasn't any point to that last bit.

Umm, yeah so that was the first 10 days of November and boyyy was it sad. Taking Company Law is even sadder because it's like one of the last papers of the exam period and by then almost everyone is done while poor you is in the library, having almost the whole top floor to yourself. (Oh but thankfully the gang also took Company Law so it was just that much more bearable. Imagine taking it by yourself. Shudder.)

I even finished up my Post-It tabs! Never thought I'd see the day.

Comp Law Bible. A must-have if you're doing BTW2213 in the future.

But then the 10th of November came and went and we were free! Freedom is sweet. And broke. But sweet.

And of course what seemed like the whole world turned a year older in November. Broke-r.

Mummy's was first and we celebrated in the only way we knew how to. Eat. HAHAHA.

Good food good company good cake. And of course despite nagging and grumbling, my world's best mommy.

And then came Adam's where there were lots of booze and lots of changing plastic bags and lots of coaxing the birthday boy who was crumpled up in a heap to give up his beloved vomit bucket. Heh. :P No pictures cause that's where I think my camera flash went kaput and there were probably moooore than enough cameras around anyway - so I steal pics off of Facebook.

Birthday boy guzzling down half a bottle of champagne. First of loads more downing to come.

Aha! I found a pic of my Nutella cheesecake. :D

And then there are a whole load of drunk pictures but I shall be nice and not publish them here. Hee.

Next was darling Siokkwan, who I'm sure never expected to spend her 21st the way we ended up.

Dinner at Aman Suria.

Drinks at Tao.

Andrew and the shot of a blowjob. :P

Dinner and drinks, which was nothing out of the ordinary. But then, come midnight, we were on a joyride to Klang with the guys to eat BAK KUT TEH. No kidding. The bak kut teh stall only opens from 2am to 5am. Or something like that. And theeeen, to satisfy the guys' curiosity, we went a-searching for what they refer to as the "papaya farm". Whoaaa, damn nasty. Josh couldn't bear to look at them. Andrew had no choice cause he was driving. HAHAHA.

Klang feels like almost another state but the bak kut teh was damn worth it. Yum.

And then, what with us being very sneaky best friends, Mary and I devised a birthday surprise for her - a slightly bigger one than the one she had for herself.

Self-made David Cook album for her. Gee, I don't know why his album name is so long. HAHAHA.

Favourite flowers for the birthday best friend. Anyone wanna kau Siokkwan, remember to buy gerberas.

There we go.

Birthday muffins.

I drove around all afternoon looking for balloons that said 21 or in the shape of a 2 and a 1 but I failed so the marker pen it was. Okay wat, my free hand drawing. Heh. Not very lopsided ayyyy.

A mushroom for a mushroom. :D

Brought her out under the pretense of a sisters' night out and then we blindfolded her and brought her to the party venue. Bar Savanh Mont Kiara, it was!

Oh and next time if you're planning on blindfolding someone, perhaps you should consider gagging them as well.

"Are we there yet?" "Whoa Wen you driving like Lewis Hamilton" "Where we going?" "Feels like we going KL." "Are we there yet?" "Whoa Wendy your sharp turning very chun" "Are we there yet?" "Are we there yet?" "I feel like we're on Jalan Duta." "Are we there yet?" "Are we there yet?" "Where's my clubbing music?" "Are we there yet?"

-_________-"

Oh well, Mary and I still love you babe.

Flaming lambo which she did alone. Hee.

Yeay Jow is back!

Dancefloor!

Krispy Kreme which flew all the way back from Melbourne thanks to dear Jow. Wiped. Out.

KBU-ites.

BIL so cute. Ahem. Lol.

We be pimpin' Josh.

Lol. I have no clue what we're doing but we look so happy here. Alcohol-induced, undoubtedly, but still happy nonetheless.

xoxo.

Sisters. And Josh. Oklah, sister also.

And one more birthday of the month - Mich's!

Yuen's steamboat (which I think Josh - okay different Josh now - ate more than enough to make up for everyone's share), Laundry after and then the after-after-party at Sanctuary. Hee. Also mostly stolen pics.

Michelle and the guys.

No prizes for guessing which guy this belongs to.

Girls.

Birthday girl looking happy. :)

Josh and Adam bullying Mel with not-so-alcoholic drinking games.

Group chai-mui.

Aww, I like this pic. This is gonna be one of those I look back in years from now and smile upon uni days at.

Josh, finance buddy through many Investments sessions, library days, past exam papers and Jothee's lectures.

Nice Adidas ad, no?

Christmas is coming :)

Random pictures:

Dinner at Wendy's. Someone bought a kids meal just because he/she wanted the toy. :P

And then we had a lot of fun laughing. Look how small the fries holder is!

Lil Amelia is soooo vain.

Josh in the process of getting a faux hawk.

Random car in parking lot. Geez, would you look at that?

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And then it was the day we all feared. Results. By third year, we all know that Monash's results come out a day before said date. So on Thursday everyone was all ready for the good/bad news. Me, I have to emotionally prepare myself for results. So, if say I psych myself up to see it at 9pm, I have to wait till 9pm to do it. Because... I'm a bit weird and stubborn like that. Even if you call/text/leave me offline messages on MSN to tell me that results are out, no difference. I won't check. Not just yet.

Luckily I have amazing, very funny friends who are willing to sit through dinner with me and take my mind off results, even if only for that hour or so.

Of course by the time I get home, even parents are glaring at me telling me to go check my results. So I did. And the verdict?

Three years, six semesters, twenty-four units, hundred and forty four credit points, more than forty assignments, hundreds of lectures and tutorials (mostly diligently attended, of course :P), countless days stressing out in the library and many moments with uni friends I wouldn't trade for the world...

I am now officially a Monash University Bachelor of Business and Commerce graduate with a double major in Accounting and Banking & Finance and boyyy does it feels damn sweet to say it.

(Monash says we've merely completed our course and not officially graduated yet as graduation's only in September - but pa-tooi I don't care because graduated sounds better - of course this also means I'm officially unemployed dammit)


That was Thursday night. And then of course there was Friday night.

Friday night was significant. Special. And sweet. Blurry, but still sweet. A mistakenly uttered/comprehended "See how things go lah". Sleepy, but yes, still sweet. :) :) Hee.


And yes, that about sums up my November. How was yours?