Here's a picture of one of my absolute most favourite place in the worldddd.
I always feel so damn calm, happy and at peace whenever I visit this place. It's the place where we had bbq in Laos.

So first and foremost, Happy New Year everyone!!!! I hope 2013 treated you well coz it did for me. Very very well in fact. First half was exchange in New Zealand and the second Laos. It was a very good year for me indeed and looking back, I really can't help but feel so happy thinking about how 2013 went. Like everyone else, I hope 2014 will be just as awesome and that'll I'll learn more as I grow another year older. I wish I could remain 21 forever but that's not possible and I need to grow to learn and do all sorts of things in life waiting for me.

Also, I have yet mentioned in this blog and that is, this coming 6 months, I wouldn't be going to school coz I've been expelled and I've to kiss my sorry ass goodbye. Hahaha, the first part is true, getting expelled nah, I haven't heard of people getting expelled from university. But yes, like every Year 3 student in my school, the second half of the term is devoted to Professional Internship (PI). Which means, I am off to work for 6 months as I learn the ropes of the media industry. And Internship starts on freakin MONDAY. 6th January. Can you believe it?! Soooo fast. I hardly have time to breathe after coming back from Laos and I'm flung to do PI. Ahhhhhhhhhhh. I think even YOU as a reader are surprised right? I mean like I'M just so surprised by myself by the speed that things are occurring. While I was in Laos, I was quite afraid by how little time I would have left for myself before LIFE decides to jumpstart again. Sigh. But at the same time, I've been looking forward to starting work! I've been thinking about it since I was allocated to my company. I know you guys are curious as to where I'm gonna head off to. I dunno if there are gonna be repercussions if I reveal it here but darn it, I'm just gonna say it. It's Channel NewsAsia. It's been my absolute DREAMMM company. No joke bros. I think my friends who know me know that that's where I've been wanting to work in. No, I'm not gonna be on screen if that's what you're wondering coz a billion people have asked me that. I'm working behind the scenes and that's where I wanna start. I hope I'm not given saikang to do though coz I really want to learn stuff and not be doing paperwork or some sort throughout my 6 months there. That'd be sad man. I'm ready to go all out if I have to!!! My seniors told me work is gonna drain the life out of me. And it's no fun at all. But... I'm seriously quite excited to start work!? I'm pretty sick of studying actually. I really want to work work work. Yeah, and not get jaded mid-sem. So CNA HERE I COMEEEEE. I still can't believe I'm attached to CNA actually. Really think it'll be fun getting down to doing things in CNA and meeting media professionals who hopefully are nice and have loads to share with me the puny lil communications intern.

So yeah, those are some updates about me. I feel like this blog receives new revelations about Tan Si Hui every time she blogs. Even Tan Si Hui feels exasperated sometimes hahahaha but she trudges on!!!! Whooo.

Speaking of studying, I haven't checked my results because my ntu account got locked after trying several times to log in while I was in Laos. Well, I forgot my password you see. So I emailed the school when I came back to Singapore and finally got my account unlocked and password changed. I held my breath as I logged into my account to check my results and LO AND BEHOLD. The damn thing told me.... I had outstanding school fees to pay hahahahahaha. Whatta loser. Results and me were not meant to be coz it says that I have to pay my fees otherwise I won't get to view my results. So I just sent in a cheque yesterday and I shall wait for the school to process it. Which is 2 days. THEN I can view my results. SO I estimated, since yesterday was New Year's Eve that would mean that prolly they'd only get my mail sent by earliest Thursday and then 2-3 days later it's processed. Damn, I think I can only view them next week. God bless me. All that waiting FOR WHAT. FOR WHAT YOU TELL ME. Hahaha.

Ah well, at least this coming semester, I won't have to be stressed about studies. Goodness. A reprieve from academic rigour. Rigour that I feel is very much quite senseless.

So, New Year's Resolution? I started off this post thinking I won't have a New Year's Resolution. But I think I have one now. And it's the cheesiest most clichéd Resolution you hear EVERY single year from at least one pathetic soul. This year, that pathetic soul is me. Haha, so here goes.

My New Year's Resolution for 2014 is, to spend more time with Family and Friends. SEE I TOLD YOU. Sibeh cliché and boring one. I warn you already you still judge me. Nabeh. Hahahhaa. But seriously, 2013 taught me how people other than myself in other countries have so much time for each other. I went to 2 countries that had super slow-paced of life and people just had more time to spend with one another and were more WILLING to spend time with one another. No bloody excuses, no unwillingness to share. Just purely the joy of busking in each other's company. Something everyone here in Singapore lacks in. Well at least I'm proud to say that I don't use my mobile when I'm with my friends haha. But that's beside the point. The point is... we need to make time for people. Yeah, I'm giving myself a lecture on that.

Even though I decided for myself that that would be my new year's resolution, I keep thinking it's a pretty lame resolution. Maybe coz it's not special. Yeah, it sure as hell isn't. But I guess, it's these simple lil clichéd things that we often think aren't important but are? Wow, even that phrase per se sounded cliché. But I shall learn to love all things cliché since they hold some value nevertheless. I guess, maybe, past resolutions were all about me and myself. About how I should be a better person blahblah. Time I think about everyone else around me. Actually, I don't even remember 2013's resolution. DID I EVEN HAVE ONE!? Ahh shucks.

Oh ok, I just went to check it. It's "I'm allowed to fail"

Omg I just read the entire post and I feel a sense of sadness and happiness at the same time???! Sad because reading what I was struggling with is absolutely sad man!? Happy because I think I've grown so much stronger within the year! And I attribute it very much to my time in exchange. I seriously grew a lot from my time then. I feel mentally tougher than before because of exchange. Time alone overseas is always time for self-discovery.

Wow I never meant for the blog post to end up like that. I wanted to blog about Laos, but I shall leave it for tomorrow ya! Much excites to what I'm about to share with yalllll. To me, my second time in Laos was very different from the first but just as awesome the experience.

See you tmr then, I'm having dim sum with the family. See, New Year's Resolution totally playing out from Day 1 bitches. What about you? HAPPY 2014 again everyone!!!!!!