Watching the men's gymnastics and it has caused my heart to race like crazy. SO much drama. This year's Olympics has been  very exciting.

Made a trip down to Haji Lane with May Tian yesterday ;D



It was a maiden voyage for the both of us hahahaha. Exploring can be fun!





Stepped into almost all of the boutiques.






Not so much on the outside, but once we stepped into the first boutique, it was a freakin transformation. I swear, I felt like I was back in the UK. The whole atmosphere changed. Almost all of the boutiques looked good, and they were all very quaint and cosy. Very european.

I've heard so much about this place, but never went there before. I was expecting the exterior of these shophouses to look better than what I saw though. More colours and deco. The interior is good, but somehow Haji Lane feels dead on the outside I have to say. I was expecting something more lively.

But, the boutiques there saved it. I loved all the interior architecture and design of the shophouses. Very lovely, with their creaky staircases and adornment on walls. Transported me back to Europe. I SQUEAL.


Like this shophouse we went into,









You can already TELL from the lighting what a nice place it is. I think the upstairs of every shophouse is the best. So quiet and it feels like something magical awaits you as a creak follows your every footstep.

I really enjoyed going into every boutique. Coz each one of them is different and special. The only shops I don't like going to are the ones that sell blogshop sort of clothes. Feels repetitive. Then again, those that are REALLL boutique kinds are the ones that sell clothes you can only hold but not own lol lol. Cannot afford lah?! But they're the ones that give you the nicest feel, along with a European touch. Splendid!

The place that both May and I loved the most, was a shop that was half boutique and half cafe. We enjoyed our time there a lot. I think we spent more than an hour or so, just chatting and nibbling our dessert whilst taking in the quiet and cosy ambience of the cafe.









It's called Pluck btw.
And yeah, as you can see, newspaper reviews hung up on the wall haha.




Teehee!



It was such a nice feeling. I love this!! SO freakin languid. I wish everyday would be like DISS. PISS. KNEES. Ugh! Life is still good.


And that's us, finally, coming out of that cafe. Oh, that's my metal retainers in my teeth! HEE HEE.


So that's our day in Haji Lane. ;D

I think the next stop for us, would be Tiong Bahru! Coincidentally, ST wrote a review on Haji Lane and Tiong Bahru today in the Life! Section. Awesomezzzz!


Ok, can't wait to catch more Olympics action. So far, Phelps has been disappointing. How come! Maybe 4 years of the media's attention caused his downfall. I dunno. Anyway, since young I've ALWAYS liked watching Gymnastics. Such a beautiful sport. Brings tears to my eyes lol, kidding. But what truly brings tears to my eyes are the athletes who show so much joy and happiness upon winning their gold medal. Chills down my spine all the time coz I can feel their emotions emanating. Such raw emotions all captured. Even I feel happy for them, knowing all the hard work they must've put in. Wow, they must really feel like they're on top of The World. The thought of it already sounds amazing.

Believe it or not, I caught the London Olympics Opening Ceremony Live at 3.55am in the wee hours of the morning! Many thanks to Mediacorp's Channel 5 Free-to-Air Broadcasting Channel on Television.

I didn't think I would be able to stay up that late to catch the ceremony. Went to bed at 3, but couldn't fall asleep. I think it was because all the time while I was on the bed, I was thinking... How could I miss such an important and world-wide spectacle!?!?! It's not something to be missed!!!!! What's more, you can't watch it as a re-run! The feeling is just not THERE you know!? You HAVE to watch it LIVE. And I'm so glad I did. I couldn't keep my eyes opened once the different nations' sporting contingents started trooping out and I stopped at Czech Republic, once the letter 'C' ended.

I have to say, I thought the beginning of the Opening Ceremony was a joy to watch. I really did enjoy the historical narrative of the ceremony. Utterly English. I like everything that has a historical element to it. Theatrics were in it and it was good. Love all these high budget performances.

I particularly like the fact that they introduced and singled out specific people who made a great impact in the world. For example, J.K. Rowling and the man who created the World Wide Web as well as many others. I like the fact that they showcased these individuals by allowing them to perform different roles that were input into the ceremony. Like J.K. Rowling reading a passage from a story.

What I also like was their way of making the Opening Ceremony uniquely theirs... and that was by inserting British Humour. It was so, quintessentially British.

I really liked the part on Queen Elizabeth and Daniel Craig starring in their own lil scene and then jumping off the helicopter which then led to the actual introduction of The Queen, herself. Sucha funny sequence.

And best of all, Mr. Bean was in it. How could you EVER leave him out. I found him UTTERLY Hilarious.


I used to not laugh at his antics, but I DONT KNOW WHY BUT HE WAS SO DAMN FUNNY DURING HIS PERFORMANCE!!!!! Love Rowan Atkinson. Can never see how he was able to sink into depression before. I think I was delightfully surprised to see him and felt happy to see an 'old friend' doing something he is best known for and good at. :')

These parts of the Opening Ceremony were good. Because the rest were something that looked very NDP. Like I think Singapore would've been able to pull off as well hahaha.

To me, The Beijing Olympics was really grandeur and splendour at its best. I think nothing could beat the Chinese in terms of the visual spectacle and the whole MAGNIFICENCE of the performance. I can still remember certain parts of what I watched 4 years ago. Incredibly heart-racing. This year's can never beat that.

But I guess, every nation has a bit of IT in all of their Opening Ceremonies and I liked how the Brits had their humour going. There were also parts of this year's ceremony that were very moving as well. I swear my chest tightened in those moments.

Ahhh, I love these world-wide spectacles. It felt like the whole world was connected in those particular moments and I like that feeling. Like, everyone's doing something together, at the same time. I get very emotional when I think about these things. Haha. In that moment, everything seemed to have stopped and everyone was fixated on watching one thing together. I really am very amazed by how Sport is able to bring every nation, the world over, together, even if it's in one short moment in time. Brilliant.

Haven't read Xiaxue's blog in a while and I just did. Her blog always sets me thinking about certain things. This time, it's about this 'The Secret' thing she was talking about. About how after watching a movie, she's a great believer about the Universe and stuff. I always thought of her as the skeptical sort and didn't think she'd believe in this kinda things. But I guess, good things happened to her so she had reasons to believe in it. I would love to believe in The Secret. But these sorta things scare me. It's just like believing in God but not really sure if such things exist? It's all about faith and thinking positively. It's really back to the 'God' question and I remembered her talking about having to have faith in these things. It's the same, no? I get scared thinking about it. It's like, if you don't believe in it, then what you would have is shit in your life. So the best (and only) option would be... To believe in it.

I will only get answers to these when I die. That's what I always tell myself about things I would never know. Like the Bermuda Triangle, if that really exists. Whether there really is heaven/hell, angels or not? Did Dinosaurs really walk the earth like whatever billion years ago? On smaller-scaled contexts, who killed the little girl, Madeleine McCann? And on a more personal scale, maybe I'd finally realise who my grandfather really was, since he's the one person in my life whom I've heard so many stories of, yet never met before.



And the most interesting person as well.

Coz guess what? He used to be a grand prix racer of his time. I find that quite amazing. Not even quite. It's these things you gotta dig/ or find out about and you'd probably have a whole new level of respect and admiration for your grandparents.



I freakin had to stealthily steal this from my dad's thumbdrive which was tucked away lol lol. Remembered seeing them stored in a thumbdrive somewhere.

My grandfather is obviously not one of the angmohs. Front row left.
The other 2 photos are of my grandfather's friend. Whom we visited in the UK last year, in April. He's the tallest man you see in the first photo.



Unlike my Yeye who died at the age of 52, he's still very much alive!



I know you can't see SHIT here. Since his back is facing us haha, but I think you get the sense of how old he is. Not the one on the right, coz that's my dad. But yeah, he's like 80 plus or something. A very quaint cosy house he has, as you can see, along the road deep in some forested area. London, Sussex.


We had lunch in his house, and he really is the most Chinese Angmoh I've ever known.


LOOK at all the Chinese things he own. If you can see, there's this small Goddess of Mercy statuette on the top left shelf, and the most obvious overhead Chinese board.

Oh, and to add on to that, he has a Chinese wife. Hahahahaha.


My family and I had a good afternoon chat with him and I listened to him as he spoke of kind words about my grandfather. He was the one person who knew a lot about him... having been in the same racing career as my grandfather was.

The one thing he said about my grandfather that stood out to me the most was, that he was an extremely loyal friend. So much so, that he was always taken advantage of. He never knew how to say no and would always carry out favours asked by his friends and lent them things he'd never get to see again. It was nice to know that both my grandfather and I shared the same virtue, loyalty. Only it wasn't much of a 'virtue' in his case.

My dad would always tell me, "If yeye were alive today, he would dote on you very much. Because he loves kids, ESPECIALLY girls". I know, a lil favouritism going on there, but how can any granddaughter resist not wanting to know a man like him more after hearing that!?

Even so... After having heard so much about this man, his career, his personality, I still feel like I don't know him... It's just the kind of thing that you need to meet this person, otherwise you don't actually really know the person you've heard so much of.

And what led to his untimely death was probably coz he was a heavy drinker. An alcoholic. Drinks for breakfast, day and night. And didn't eat properly. Problems must have surfaced in his life. And he lived almost like a hobo, sleeping in his car or his workshed. He fixed cars for foreigners then as well.

My own dad never lived with him as a boy. He didn't live with his mother as well. He lived with his grandmother.

Listening and learning to a whole lot of family history would then lead you to understand why your own parents are the way they are. Why they have certain traits and quirks. It's a whole chain of realisation. And it really does feel like an a-ha! moment. Like you finally understand your parents. Why they're like that. And maybe why they treat you the way they do. What they teach you. And why certain values hold so meaningful to them.

Like how I started to understand my own father better.


I've always wanted to have a grandparent RIGHT NOW. I became grandparent-less when I was primary 5. My parents became ORPHANS. LOL! Ok, not the time to joke. But having grandparents really does give the family more... depth? Like there's a past. Someone so bloody old to anchor the family. Have always wanted to communicate with an old person. And seeing an ah ma or ah gong holding on to a lil kid's hand would always make my heart flutter ever so lightly. Oh, it is true. What's more, your ability to communicate in dialects would be so freakin good. I'm a teochew, yet I know no teochew. In fact, I know more cantonese, well a little, coz of my grandma who used to live with me a decade ago.


Ok, what a sudden ranty post. I just wanted to do a short para, but look what I'd done? Haha. It's always the case! I always have ideas about stuff but end up with writer's block. And when I write about something, I'd go on about something else! Ah well. Doing this at such a time. K, gotta meet Alicia at 10.30am!

I woke up to this,




This morning.

What are they doing to the pavement outside my house?! The floor's gonna look so dark now lol. Must be part of the govt's repair and reworks programme. Re-cementing the floors. They painted my HDB block, blush.



Anyway, was out with my Block D girls. Hall 3!
Hall 3 feels like a memory now. Like I left a print and never going back. Rebecca's going to Hall 3 btw! Hehehehehe, I congratulated her haha.






Grilled chicken pasta with Huiquan our photographer for the night. Had our dinner at Prinsep street, Hungry Chimps. The food wasn't awesome but oh how I love the whole atmosphere in there. It's so quiet and gives off sucha homey quaint feel. Really love it. Ambience of a restaurant is really important to me. Like reallyyy.
Oh and that's the floral pants I just got from Pull&Bear. So cheap! I think they're going on sale now and I so totally had to get it. Floral pants are a must for me. Haha.

Pearl necklace either from my mom or grandma. The clasp is broken, but I'm gonna find a way to fix it coz I've been looking for a pearl necklace and wow, look what you can find right at home. : )


And I was all the more allured by pearl necklaces when I saw Anne Hathaway wear it in The Dark Knight Rises.




So freakin pretty! I think pearl necklaces glam up low cut black dresses so well. Smells of old charm.


Speaking of The Dark Knight, I thought it was a good movie. I was kept in suspense all the time, and I was following every bit of the movie, despite it being 2h45m long. It wasn't boring at all and SO thrilling!



** Spoilers

And I'm so happy to see that Robin was introduced in the movie. Shoulda known from the start huh?! I smiled when the first hints of Robin were laid. Luckily, Batman didn't die. Usually, I would love the superhero to die but for this movie, if he died, it'd be like Armageddon, which would make the movie lame. I almost thought that it was gonna be one of those, but the ending to the movie was perfect.





To my surprise..... ANNE HATHWAY WAS CATWOMAN. I'd never have guessed?!?!?! I think I had Halle Berry in my head all the time so I was half expecting a BLACK WOMAN to be Catwoman.

But, again, to my surprise, Anne Hathway managed to pull it off. She acted really well as Catwoman. The moment she changed from chamber maid to Catwoman, I was like 'woah'. I literally said that out loud when I watched that scene. I'd like to watch it again. She was that good.

I think I always had this goody two shoes image of Anne Hathway all the time like in Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada that I thought it'd be difficult for her, or in fact ANYONE, to act as Catwoman. She's such a classic character, and it takes really good acting!!




And hey, Catwoman just cut her locks.
She looks good, but somehow, is it just me, or Anne Hathway still looks better in her thick luscious hair? I think that's her look. She belongs in the Angelina Jolie thick locks kinda look.


Usually, I'm not into the whole superhero, comics DC kinda movie. I didn't catch Avengers, coz I think superhero shows are douschey. After watching Spiderman and The Dark Knight, I've kinda appreciated the back stories of superheroes. I like how they're all not infallible. That they all have some sad pathetic childhood story. Which I enjoy revelling in. Hahahah, sadist. But that makes a good hero. To empathise with the masses and for ordinary people to connect with and look forward to something we all want to achieve as normal human beings. Which makes a good Hollywood A-List Money-Churning Blockbuster movie. Hahaha. But really, it's nice to know and appreciate such back stories.

It was a good movie. Now I know how to trick your mind into thinking it will be a good movie without having watched the movie yet. And that is, to not watch trailers or read up on the movie at all. Just watch the movie with a blank slate of mind. It spoils nothing and you expect nothing.


I say, The Dark Knight, lived up to its hype. So much so that a massacre followed. What a spoiler. The world is gonna end that way I tell you. Us mauling one another.


Yokay, anyway, I can't believe Aug is coming and school's starting so soon. Zomg. I'm gonna enjoy the rest of my holidays day to day coz I know once school starts, wow, it's gonna be a whole new flurry of THINGS to happen!

I used to always listen to my friends rant to me about how awesome it is to be a boy or to have good guy friends. I would subtly agree with them but most of the time, it is, in one ear and out the other HAHA. Coz I'd still think it is way better to be a girl, than a boy.

But now, I'm beginning to think... I'd be better off being a boy!


My cousin tells me, having guy friends is better than having girl friends because firstly, they are not wishy washy. If you ask them out for an outing, say a dinner, they're always at hand, and ready for you. Macam at your disposal, but nah, let's not put it that way. Girls tend to be less on-the-go and ready for stuff. Like they'd give other reasons and be a lil more occupied. And as always, reply messages late. Hahahaha.

I used to be like that, reply messages late, coz, well, I'm a princess. Haha kidding, but I mean now, I think it's actually polite to reply messages when you can. If I really am occupied, I would apologise for late replies. But yeah, that is a typical girl for you, because we all want to be royal highnesses.


A friend told me, it's better to have a guy friend because like the above reason, they are very good buddies. Like you can tell them things, and for some reason, you know it'll be safe with them. Like they won't rat on you.

That one, I'm slightly on the fence. Probably because I have girl friends whom I know I can trust with all my heart that secrets will always be safe with them.


Those are just some of the ideas coming from my friends and cousin.

MY reasons for wanting to be a boy are basically only 2 reasons. Some of them echo that of my friends'. And the past few days, I've been thinking, it would be nice if I were a boy.




Well FIRSTLY, GUYS ARE JUST NOT FREAKIN BITCHY TO ONE ANOTHER!!!!!

Ok, they can be very bitchy when they talk about things. But when it comes to guys and their own kind, they're BROS man. They don't bitch about each other even before knowing the other, or judge one another. They all seem like Friends.

They're really just that simple. They've no hidden agendas, no nothing. It's as if nothing's going on in their heads. But they're really just THAT simple!


Whereas for girlssss... Good Lord. Don't get me started. We just seem to always be talking about other girls, and judging other girls before knowing them. Who is prettier. If she's pretty, she must be bitchy.

You see, labels such as a 'Slut' and 'Attention seeking Whore' are all associated to the fairer sex. THE FEMALE. You can never hear a thing like Attention seeking BASTARD or ASSHOLE. It has to be a WHORE. And a whore is well, usually used on a woman. Also, you don't call a man, a slut. Someone who sleeps around. At most, you add the word 'Man' in front of 'Slut', so it becomes MAN SLUT. So, almost every derogatory label has got to do with a woman.

Even if a man curses another man, you don't really hear bastard or asshole anymore. You just hear, "that fucker". That's it. When it comes to women, wow, a slew and broad range of terms and vocabulary.

Ok, I'm kind of going into the semantics.


But you get what I mean. Girls are just always so mean to one another. So bitchy towards one another. Why can't we all just be bros and be friends man!?



This video by jennamarbles, will explain this, and I TOTALLY agree with everything she says! If you're a girl, you should watch it. And the world will be a better place.





SO FREAKIN TRUE RIGHT?!?!?!?!

I cannot agree with her more ya know. I just wish every girl would watch this video and just be FRIENDS to one another.

Maybe I've been observing more so I think girls can really just be too bitchy. Worst thing is, girls are bitchy without knowing that what they're doing IS bitchy. The fact that a girl doesn't even want to TALK to another girl coz she judged her beforehand is already bitchy. It's in-born now. It's actually natural... which is kinda scary.




Another reason why I wish I were a boy, would be personality wise.

I think... I can get a little funky, a lil mad and a lil retarded. And those aren't really traits of a girl. Society's expectations of a girl is to be dainty and gentle and freakin housewife-like. But being not much of any of those, I feel like, I would be better off being a boy that way and as a boy, I would be able to do all of that without looking unattractive.

Guys can do retarded, open and wild gestures, but us girls, we can't. We can, but it'd be off-putting and I think, quite a turn-off haha. SO it's really unfair!! I didn't say all of those, a guy friend actually told me that recently. Haha. But yeah, I think society would welcome me in open arms if I were a boy. And I swear I think I would be a cassanova and date all the girls who fall in love with me heeeheheheeehe. They'll all fall at my feet please. *rollz eyez. HAHA.

Sigh. I think I would be cool if I were a guy.

With that said, I guess I have to make MY WORLD a better place since I am and will always be a girl so I will think along more positive lines and that, I guess I'm actually pretty unique lah. LOL!!!! FREAKIN CONSOLING MYSELF. It's like all the winners took the top 3 prizes and I have to accept the self-consolation. LEWSERRRR.

But seriously, I am me I guess. And as Jenna Marbles said, I'm just gonna be me and myself in this world and there's only ONE of me! I'll just be friends with every girl and be bitches together yow!

I love her and her vids. Can't tell but she actually has a Bachelor's in Psychology and a Master's in Sports Psychology ahhaha.


Ok, that's my take on me wanting to be a boy. As much as I wanna be a boy, I still embrace my vageegee. Wouldn't replace it with heavy things... down below.

Oh... watching this MV makes me wanna fall in love a thousand times over. WHY WHY WHY AM I STILL EVERGREEN!? Any takers? Going once, going twice... SOLD! To.. myself. Yay.

Why :'( I tried so hard, God! I tried! I tried. They say "Be Yourself" and people will love you for who you are. I am myself! I am.. being myself!

OHHHH, then God tells me, That's the problem. It's YOU. YOU are the problem. And that is the cue for me to go to the toilet and rock myself to sleep while I cry sitting on the toiletbowl. Sigh! This is life for Tan Si Hui. Being herself, yet nobody loves her for who she is. A very sad but whimsical tale of That Girl's life.


Anyway! What a cute MV this one is. Not the official one but still AWWW. I don't usually fall for such superficial hehe haha cutesey love on cloud 9 kinda things, but this one is really... aww...

They say it's coz my period is coming. But I don't think so.

What's more, I think the MV's really well shot. Would've gotten an A. Maybe it's the actors. They're angmohs. They seem to be able to pull off anything. It's a LOVE story, do you know how freakin hard it is to convince an audience with a love story!? VERY. Hard. And oh how I love the way they're dressed. Her orange hair and jacket with the dude's tinge of blue and blazer. How matching. Ugh, I just love the whole bloody MV. Although very cliche with the running and all BUT THAT'S WHAT'S SO AWWWW about the vid. The colour and all. LET'S GO AMERICA.


I can watch this MV a million times. But I won't want to, coz I don't wanna get bored of it. So pretty! I think it's the orchids.



Anyway, last night's Reverb ;)

I say it was awesome! Really. I really enjoyed myself there. But of coz, really tired after that, zzzzonkkked.


Hahha Lucas hated the flash on my iphone.



He likes it dark


Shahirah!



And Russell.



Some better quality pictures I koped from Facebook. The place to be. Lol!








We have found a Junior Stingray to continue on the legacy fwahahaha! I SAY, VERY NICEEEEe.



The rest of my Sioux freshies!!! : )
Why they so fine? OH SO FINE!


Reverb was really good I must say. The atmosphere was gooood. Music, not bad! And the company, Sioux-tastic! Hahahah. Loved the night.

I thought everyone was gonna try to impress everyone else since it was the first outing. But nahh, the night was pretty chill and fine and dandy. Oh love it love it.

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NDP Rehearsal 2012


I would say it was okkk haha. Only thing spectacular is, my bro's marching in it!!! Heeehheee. That's how we got our tix in the first place haha. Oh, the funpack is pretty impressive I would say!! Fireworks were of coz dazzling. : ) Went with pri.5 kids. They were entertaining hahahaha.




Wild Honey @Marina Mandarin with Hui Quan!!!


Damn good brunch, just a lil too pricey for penniless university undergrads like myself. Hahaha, but I like it a lot! I like the atmosphere as well. I feel like tasting the entire menu man. Anyway, after that, I went around shopping by myself while waiting for Hui Quan to knock off from work. We went to A&F first before her work started. It seriously is quite like a club inside there. With the scent of a thousand men. Freakin cologne everywhere lah?! It was like I was smelling Joshua x1000.


Anyway, I kinda like shopping alone actually. You can take your own sweet time. Only thing is, you won't have someone to tell you if something looks good on you. You have only your eyes and your mind to tell you. No second opinion. But other than that, hmm, quite awesome actually. Time flies as well.

By the time I got home, I was dead. Really wanted to sleep.




Anddddd,



Look at what I got in my mail today!!! : )
A little bit of Vivien. She sent me a picture of her with a message written behind it, just like a postcard. A necklace from Africa came with it. Her letter was dated 11th July, the day she left for Brisbane. Must've written it before she flew. Really hope she's doing fine there and that she's well-settled. But seeing how she's travelled a lot, I would think she is. Sigh, miss her already/

Woke up today feeling super giddy. Couldn't walk properly... like a hangover. But it wasn't, of coz. All I wanted to do was sleep. I think I haven't recuperated since camp man. Was just damn tired every single day since then!! I've not eaten well either. I always finish my food, but during camp and since then, I can't finish my food. My mom says I'm too tired lol lol. Too tired to eat. But I still have my appetite tho! So, for the whole day today, I've been lying around the house and sleeping. Even when I go out the past few days, all I think about is, SLEEP. I think it's coz during camp, we've only had at most 3 hours of sleep per night. Crazy! But worth it.

Anyway, if you wanna know what happened during WKWSCI FOC 2012, I think this video gives the best highlights of it. I don't have any photos to upload here so.. Watch it please! : ) You'll get to see my face and my beautiful tribe hahahahaha. Shameless advertising. But seriously, you'll understand why I'm so proud to be a part of this year's FOC after watching this video!



Credits to Edwin Lim. Really good video editing skills.



And if you're interested,



The skit, Sioux, came up with on the last day hahahahaha.

Camp was brilliant.


Sioux won second overall and I have to admit I was slightly upset coz I really wanted Sioux to be first! Really wanted Sioux to be the best.

I told Lucas, Sorry, I didn't get first for you. Coz we were always talking about how Sioux's gonna be first blahblahblah.

But Lucas told me, "Sioux is first what? We won best manslut, best skit, win already"

I was so damn touched I swear. It was the nicest thing he ever said to me hahahah.


But seriously, Sioux was the best group ever. I could never have asked for better freshies. I wouldn't swop any of my freshie for another. None of them. I loved each and every freshie. Every one of them made Sioux a lil more fun and a lil more spicy. Hahhaha, don't even understand that. But you get what I mean.

We even won most enthusiastic. From the start, the other tribes already feared us. We were freakin gungho and garang and I love them so much :') It really was a great experience.







And it wasn't just the freshies that made the camp so f'ing brilliant.



My own friends made it so awesome.

I made better friends with my own batch of people. I know them better now. And I'm sioux-per happy to say that I've finally found someone who has a super-similar frequency as I do.




JASMINE TAN!

I know right... why do they all have to have the same surname as I do? Tan. LOL!!!!!!!!!!! I guess, it's all destined to be.
She didn't go for FOC last year but joined us for this year's. I've heard from Joshua and Lucas a gazillion times that they think we're super alike, and that we will conferm be friends. Conspermz also can.
I guess our friendship has just begun and I hope for the many years to come in wkwsci, we will still be awesomez. I swear she has made me laugh and cry so much during this camp. I've not laughed till I cried since forever for so long. So thank you, Jasmine.










My fellow GLs and seniors made the camp experience ever more compelling and endearing as well. I felt it. I felt that bond.

Something major happened during camp. Problems surfaced at the very last minute. Everyone was panicking. People were crying. But something touched me, and that was when I saw all the GLs and main comm trying to work out something together. I saw it and I felt.... I felt proud of all these people. I was amazed as I watched them all racking their brains. They were all so intense, all so freakin brilliant in their ideas. I saw it. And felt it. And I felt proud to be part of this cohort of brilliant minds.


I cried on my last day, while emotions were running high as the 4 of us talked to one another. I knew this was the end. I mean, they always say it isn't the end. We'd all still be meeting each other for more events with Sioux. Dnd, Reverb, outings and stuff like that. But I knew... I know that somehow, the feeling of togetherness would only last while camp lasted. There was no other reason for us to feel the same way. And I've always hated that. I hated how such good feelings would only last while it could. And I just wanted us to remember, in that moment, what good friends we were. Camp was the only reason that brought us 4 together. The reason how we even got to know one another. And now that camp is over, I know that things won't really be the same again. And that made me sad. I still feel sad thinking about it. Even right now, I feel like tearing up again. That was why I made that little memento for each of you, Deyong, Kia and Hilary. I wrote them, so that you guys would remember those moments when we worked together, for this camp, which brought us together as friends. I won't forget them. And I wish you guys never will either.

















Thanks, you 3. :')