klutz

attended my first aerobics class in years last night. i only have this to say..

i'm a first class klutz.

if anyone stood outside the glass door, i'd be the first they'd spot -- for all the wrong reasons. if there was a stray arm or leg, it'd have to be mine. i'm hopeless at coordination. i wanted to do "high-intensity" aerobics, so i was the only one bobbing up and down like a homeless orange while trying to disentangle my limbs. i was also the only one with a goofy grin on my face. i was enjoying myself too much to notice what a colossal fool i was making out of myself. gosh how embarrassing!

i can only pray i do better next lesson. and to think i am/was seriously considering taking adult ballet lessons! di kindly offered to lend me her ballet shoes, so all i need to get is a leotard and some more thick skin (not for the cold; for the additional humiliation).

any advice?

prom pics

yes, i know this is very overdue. it kinda slipped out of my mind =D but still, if anyone's interested, click here.

meanwhile, most of the army boys have gone! gosh, one never misses all the corny jokes and the burps etc etc until one doesn't experience them, man. i wonder how they'll look like when they come out, shaved heads tanned bods and all. hopefully more mature too. =P but well, i'll keep my fingers crossed.

job's harder than i thought! kids can be so hard to handle, especially when they've decided you're winnie-the-pooh/rabbit/cute/chubby cheeks and take it to their heads to hug and kiss you indiscriminately. that isn't half so bad, the worse part is when they don't listen to you and want to play all day long (which of course, cannot be allowed). sigh. i may have to pick up proper cooking skills as well. haha. i guess the worst part has to be having to wake up at 6am everyday except on sundays. gosh, that takes a lot out of me. but i shouldn't be bitching, i've got quite a nice job and kids =)

still, i'm counting down the days to haji, then cny. those days, i can finally sleep in..=D

nostalgia

i'm officially an adult. as of today, i pay adult fare, as reflected on my trip from tampines to bukit batok (my heart's still hurting). as of tomorrow, i'll be a working adult -- a student care teacher, giving tuition on the side.

why does time pass so fast?

i remember being in pri 4, or pri 5? my girl cousins and i used to bathe together, never mind that there were many other toilets for us to use. two of us would wash our hair in the sink, and the other one would use the shower. then we swapped. it was always a super soapy affair, with lotsa shouting and jokes. i didn't associate nudity with any sort of negative icky feelings, it was just me and my cousins doing another thing together.

longing.

this morning, i woke my cousins up. we started a pillow fight and friendly bickering, hardly befitting of us, two eighteen year olds, and another sixteen. while we were arguing i thought, how nice it was, that we could still be so close even after so long. yet we couldn't stay in bed playing all day long, there was work to do, clothes to pack for the tsunami victims (they don't accept them anymore. money will be best, thank you very much), cookies to bake to see if they were of sellable standard (i'm taking orders! =P), people to meet.

nostalgia.

my cousin tells me about her boyfriend problems. my younger cousin is being wooed by a number of guys, one 3 years her junior. these things didn't happen to us in the past. i could eat digestive biscuits and drink milo for tea, and eat a full dinner with lots of rice just two hours later. but now, sweets are no-no, my cousins and i barely eat a bowl of rice put together, we all prefer mee (it's a genuine preference). young as we are, we can no longer disregard the demands of society (women must be slim!), nor the various ailments that will plague us sooner or later. so we must start now, start eating healthily and exercising regularly. bleah.

(is it just me or do strepsils lozenges just make sore throats worse?)

anyway, enough of my ranting and looking back. let's hope that this year will really be a HAPPY new year, shall we? =D good luck in all the best that you do, guys!