Everything in between

I can't wait for this year to end. This exciting, treacherous, fulfilling year. 2011 has been a year of big and bold decisions, loads of travelling, self-realization, growing up emotionally and all kinds of changes.

Leapfrogged into Honours year

My make-or-break gamble paid off in the form of a huge 'culture shock' in Honours year, when sleep became a luxury and working our arses off in school on a Sunday was a norm. Every day was an excruciating battle with time, dense readings and slow email replies. But the camaraderie we forged during those long hours, I believe, will continue to bring us together even after graduation.

Watched an incredible number of movies

The current count is 19 for this year alone, not including those I watched on my plane flights and on DVDs. That's mad, my dear.

Deflowered my virgin hair

Ever since getting hooked on bubble hair dye, I've coloured my hair THRICE this year, with only the latest done in a salon at an exorbitant price (pfft). After shying away from the damaging qualities of colouring my hair, the great leap came during Chinese New Year - auspicious mah (ok bad excuse I know).

We're three. :)

Tasmania, Taipei and Desaru

Desaru has been the long awaited family trip; it's rare that we get to line up our schedules and manage to find just three common free days. The food was sedap, the locals were really friendly and we never regretted the trip, despite the hefty peak period price tag.

Tasmania, on the other hand, was a first for me in many ways - first free-and-easy trip, first oyster in a long,long time, first time driving overseas, first time scaling a mountain, first time running the fluffy texture of day-old snow between my fingers, first time running into wild animals and over dead ones, first time experiencing such low temperatures, first time having salmon almost everyday... Tasmania will be one of those few place I will look forward to visiting again in future, simply because it has given me so much. And I can't thank Gerlynn and Gordon enough for working on the coordination of the entire trip.

Taipei was a challenge to myself - I was juggling a crazy final semester and planning every single detail of the itinerary, while everyone sat with arms akimbo. But it was worth the sleepless nights and hours of research and route-planning with Google Maps.

Celebrated Christmas Eve at Marche - for the FOURTH YEAR running

Humans are nostalgic creatures. Jack and Julie are worse. Without Marche, there wouldn't be our first dinner meeting outside school.

I'll think of more.