the transition from IA to normal life seems quite good.
though part of me still misses jurong island a lil. but all's well =)

tennis with the brothers at temasek club in the morning.
time out with the family thereafter (and omg my bros bought a hamster)

free time is good. there are sooo many pple i wanna catch up with. omg.
rae wen, rae hui, jean, rachel, kai, dorothy, jianie, arvin, yunhui, cheegake, xinyi, the oacians and omg so many more... pls pls give me more time to do so! =s i miss them! =(

so many pple to visit too... the auzzie pple wld have graduated by now =s but theres still europe and USA to explore and visit! gotta find a wayyyy! esp once i start working.

i never knew leaving KR would feel like this.

despite being so burnt out for the last year or so.

despite becoming more disconnected from hall than usual because of my many other commitments.

despite telling myself that leaving a year earlier than expected would ultimately be a good transition period from full time hall to full time student and finally to full time worker for the future.

standing on the stage, behind that oh so familiar curtain, knowing that this was your one and only - very last performance to KR,

the feeling was overwhelming.

the place which has given me so many ups and downs.

the place which taught me to love (literally, when i found you)

the place which has given me the most precious of memories

the place which has given me the best and worst of friendships

the place which made me grow into a stronger person.

the place which i've spent 3 years of my life being more of a hall person than a student.

i guess sometimes saying goodbye isn't easy.

i'll appreciate the memories, the friendships the love that KR has showered upon to me.

oh and the money too.

after being presented with the Lee Soon Ann Outstanding Scholarly Progress Award.

i can't wait to see my name on the plaque in the mpsh (probably cos i never really took note of its existence until now, so i'm still kind of intrigued)

ah well,

but yes, my time here is up. and it's time to give this chance of experiencing and growing from the KR life to someone new.

whoever you are, i hope you will seize the opportunities and make the most out of your stay here in KR.

so there it is. another phase of my life passing me by.

thank you KR!

love,

kimberley

alrights! so now i've achieved all that i've set out to achieve this holidays =) passing driving! =D

yeah baby!

wahaha but i still need to get used to auto cars. cos i don't have a manual car. hehhh.

ah well.

looking back at that tiring semester. i must have been crazy to overload myself so much academically in a semester like this =x

buttt nevertheless i'm glad it's over.

and i'm lucky for the support i've been getting from you, my ese mates and the rest of my friends.

if not i've no idea how i would have pulled that feat off on my own =)

alrights it's time to start meeting up with all the non-hall friends whom i've neglected so much all these years =(

time for me to get this right =D

yeah baby here i comeeeee LOL =p

YAY! and today i get koi bubble tea from my neighbour rachel. =)
and i had oreo mc flurry with mogu this afternoon =)
ooh and now kelvin and his big pack of maltesers! =)
people are giving me happy food everyday to bring down my stress level which is like way past yielding strength.
but AH WELL. i dont mind. it cheers me up =)


ps: i secretly appreciate even the smallest things. i'm that kind of girl.
i love my friends! =D

so so much to do. so many things due. =(

yayyeeee! sze sian came over to visit with a rocking snow skin mooncake! =D
reminds me of the time when the oacians came over with popeyes and tiramisu to cheer me up during reading week when i was on the brink of giving up back in year 1 sem 2.
enjoyed the talk. much needed. in a much better mood now =)
yayyy even when all else falters, my oacians never fail to make my day at the right times.
i loveee my oacians =)
<3

i hate falling sick.
maybe its cos i usually dont.
so when it comes it usually hits me much harder.
boo.
i hate the on off fevers.
i hate the sleepless nights.
i hate the runny nose.
i hate everything.
such a lousy timing.
but im glad for the bf.
and the mogu who just came over to cook noodles with me.
so so many things due.
i feel so unproductive.
but i cant help it.

yay! dear's 23rd today =)
shall let the pictures do the talking

hahaha yay and thanks mogu and huiling for helping me out =)

oh. no pics of my pretty present =( hahahaha oh well. lalala....

bahhh. my dear is sick =(

please get well soon =)

happy 23rd =)

hahaha it's been awhile. many gatherings the past few days.

shall let the pictures do the talking.

5th floor outing to minds cafe and clarke quay =)

we loveeee kr d blk 5th floor =)

been spending a lil more time at home these days as well.
midnight mass at st andrews cathedral was pretty insightful. =)

chrismas-es should be like that. haha not stuck alone in hall. =x

yay! the pretty looking logcake at home on xmas =)

dropped by the oac christmas party as well.

loved the talks and the many different insights and opinions into all the different things like marriage and all. =)

haha only that gew and blackie had to leave the dinner halfway to catch their bus to go climb their mountain in malaysia. =x
but still, it was great fun =)

haha yay the 4/2 white christmas at carol's.

pretty nice to see many familiar faces and hahaha all those memories of those little things which used to happen back in secondary schoool. hahaha rocks. =)

and i love carol's =D

and yes, haha that's a crocodile pinata filled with candies. haha how cute is that =p

out to see the singapore flyer and caught a glimspe of the marina barrage with my family before meeting rae weennnnn! haha =D

haha omg our pretty white and silver star-red 2009 diaries from prints.

ex but haha omg so pretty. couldnt help it.

hahahaha! and we bought it as christmas presents for each other too.

hahaha we in we paid for each other's diaries and wished each other merry christmas on the spot.

hahahahahahhaa the sales person seriously had the omg im trying to control myself from bursting into laughter look. LOL. i think she's seriously amused by us. lol.

hahahaha and there we went again buying the same hairband together.

and some other secret stuff too. hahahahaha...

remember buying the same shirt together with rae hui before a couple of christmas-ses ago too.

our last minute white christmas tee buy =)

and a year later pple still ask us where we bought it from hahaha rocks.

haha its no wonder why i miss them when they go overseas.

love the crazy things we do together haha =)

and of course, more importantly, it's.... jean's birthday!

haha hope you had a blast of a birthday =)

oh yes! and haha i passed my basic theory test yesterday too!

haha finally decided to take it after so long.

haha and i had a nice food trail cum shopping session with yuan too! =D

niceee ice cream from shaw towers.

more meetups to come.

too many pple i havent met since like i entered jc or uni.

trying my best to meet all the many many pple i've lost most contact with cos i'm always too busy to be around =(
oh well more trainings to come too...

jiayou ba. =)

haha i'm a very happy girl today! haha =)
so much for being so sad after the ppr cos subway ran out of cookies... haha...
janice and xiuqi bought me the double choc chip cookies =)
jiaying brought us pizza.
weikit and mel brought us mudpies.
oliver's going around with the guitar.
and i just had two bubble teas too.
haha just when you're sad and super sian diao-ed that right after a genetic engineering paper...
you have a paper on... uh. the history of singapore and south east asia.
evolution of a global city state,
people come around making your day.
much love =)
alrights. time to haha start on my history module. though its already haha a little late. lol =)

bah. i realised my posts always paint a very sad image of my life. =/

oh well since im sigh stuck rushing lab reports and critiques in the middle of the night without any time to do my tutorials and assignments or to catch up with anything that i've fallen behind on as usual, i shall post something happier =)

managed to do a camp for HA during the first week of school for andrew. felt pretty bad for missing so many lessons though. rushed in and out for ctw. oh well. felt pretty... how would you put it. weird and unaccustomed to camps after such a long lay off. haha pretty shaky start but hey i guess it got a lot better. first time having an attachee under me too. kind of weird but alright. though dohnut and i took an normal tech class, i think at the end of the day, they really rocked. really really glad to have done this camp. wonderful students. all they need is more belief. belief that they're better than the rest. that they can do it. i'm really impressed by the determination and peserverence i was those past three days. i'm glad that we made a difference to their lives. probably one of the best camps ever =)














best mirror ever














xinyi and i



















haha my very sexy mirror. lol.

lets see. interhall games has pretty much came to an end for me already.

not all THAT great but alright i've to admit that it was quite an experience.

i only wish that i had done better for touch rugby. especially since i made it to the starting 6.

something i thought was impossible when i first entered the team a couple of months ago.

nevertheless, shall keep rugging on. inter faculty games basketball got cancelled. but i'm still playing touch rugby for engin. =)

alright not many photos to show for the many weeks of training and games here it goes...

kent ridge hall girls bball team 07/08

tennis match watching with wormie and kor

chinese new year celebrations this year was much more interesting than previous years =)

visited many many houses this year.visited both my mum and dad's sides, mr lim, carol, candice, minyi, alvan, jason, weeping, mel chua and mel chan's houses. =)

at candice's =)

at minyi's

at mel chua's

at mel chan's

oh well. yay and yesterday was v day. wonderful. had 8am to 6pm lessons. =( kr dinner. watched the guys soccer match. 6-0 whoots! haha and then met up with welson at vivo. =)
haha not bad la. quite eventful. haha.
i still feel so evil for not preparing any gifts. really been so so busy with all my work that i've hardly been having time to even catch up sleep. =(
but nevertheless, thanks for all the effort. =) the pretty doorhanger from cheegake, chocolates in a box from oliver and alvan, froggy snowglobe from kor, the heart shaped-like wand from wormie, chocolates from the korean fish, the tiramisu cake from xinyi, the flower from francine... a big thankyou! =)
hopefully i didnt leave anyone out. if i did im really sorry... the lack of sleep's getting to me. haha.

firefly and i

haha check it man. who's eyes are smaller. lol. =p

whee met with my beta hc today. froggy drove me over. went to cityhall for a dinner together before ain leaves for aussie. felt great meeting them again. after so so long. miss those times we had back in tj. simply amazing. =) no photos yet though. all with arvin and grace. shall update on the meeting again once after i get them.

too tired to carry on. it's nearly 6am already. bah. at least the lab report's done. shall continue with the critique and the rest tmr. goodnighttt =)

whee it's 2008 already!
probably and hopefully that's a good thing.
hopefully things will finally work out as it should. lets pray that it does.
a little rare optimism does help doesnt it =)
perhaps the new year's a good thing. time to put some things behind, time to cherish some, time to look forward.

looking back, 2007 was... a pretty eventful year.

working at micron... was a pretty interesting experience. though it told me that electrical engin is definately not for me, the people i worked with there were amazing. yuan, ppb, chern xin, irni, daiyu, thank you =)

release of the a level results and uni application... the results were yeah not too bad though honestly a little bit disappointing cos i knew that i could have done better. the mistiming of the paper and reading the wrong question thing. bahh. im just glad to have proven to everyone that id still make it at the end of the day despite the cca overload that i had. for all my tutors who never gave up on me though i was probably the least of model students, thank you =) also, i realised more than ever that when they said follow your heart and do something you like in the uni, i think they were right. it's now probably the one thing i regret doing the most. ranking practicality above interest.

camps camps and more camps... from the first camp at loola, to my last jbac camp. oc, rocky, campha. i realised how much i had changed. starting off really lousily, disliking the rarh rarh concept to daring to do so much more as camp chief at the rocky side. the challenge of catering to all sorts of campers. and the feeling when you know that you made a difference to their lives, phenomenal =) it's all about the campers. to all the instructors, yanling, song xi, chun kin, si lin, eng wei, wei qi, ben and all, especially yinwei, my camp two, my best friend, thank you for always being there, welson who never once stopped encouraging me and xin yi, thank you for the experience of a lifetime =)

campha

oc

rocky

that operation... mentally and physically demanding and depressing. but through that i knew more than ever the people who would always be there for me =)

uni life... i don't think there's a lot more to say about it. adacemically wise well its been and will continue to be a struggle. the many problems faced are still oh so evident and hopfully itd be resolved soon.

some random frustrated in engin look in engin. haha i think it looks retarded.

i remember coming into kr tired unenthuasitic and fighting for fitness, less than a mth after the operation. luckily, the people i met here were nothing short of amazing. cheegake, whye kiat, khairul kor, jiani, insung, my block comm, huiling, wang zheng and all... what would i do without you guys? =)

touch ruggers.

d-blockers

glacius

and of course, not forgetting the oacians, my house comm, and ij pple esp jean rach kai dot cheryl carol rae hui and rae wen, nicole and all, thank you for always being there for me =) even the smallest words of encouragement, whether i reply to them or not, thank you because that's whats been keeping me going these past couple of months.

oh and those recent gloomy posts shouldnt continue. it's a brand new year. i'm starting a new. and i'm going to get it right this time =)

btw, if you don't fight for what you really want, you'll end up losing it.

time and tide waits for no man.
indeed. with just a blink of an eye its been a year.
many things have changed. many things are still in the process of changing. for the good or for the bad, only time can tell.
it's christmas already. supposed to be some really joyous day.
don't know. suddenly i don't feel much.
its been too much of a wild roller coaster ride this year.
up down up down. i'm physically mentally and emotionally very tired.
i no longer know how to feel.
hopefully everything will sort itself up.
especially engin. its starting to get me quite frustrated. the things that have been happening. hopefully a solution will be found soon. i'm getting very tired of just sitting and waiting for the news to come.
oh well. sigh. on a lighter note, was out with mw just now. its been awhile since i had such fun. arcade-ed after dinner. not really my kind of thing. but ended up pretty fun. shows that ive to improve on my shooting and counting skills. but ehhh my air hockey is not too bad lor. hurrr haha.
warlords was pretty good actually. just um kind of tragic the movie. but not bad la. engaging. haha =)
ahh sigh keep wondering how im going to get past next sem. results for this sem are coming out tmr. not that im very interested to know how well i did or anything. but yeah.
i don't wish to keep doing this. i don't see why i should. why should i be going through this when it isnt even my fault. i'm really tired of it. its not fair. not fair that my uni life is going to keep carrying on like this. i made a wrong choice to come here. i really feel like leaving. but im not sure if its the best thing to do right now. actually i don't know what i should do any longer. this is rubbish.
ahh sorry for the random outburst but yeah. if i had just one christmas wish. i'd wish that everything gets sorted out to what it should have been from the start. sigh.
enough rubbish from me. shall stop de-stressing here.
christmas is here. im just really thankful for the family and friends. for always being there for me no matter what. thank you and have a merry christmas.

suddenly i miss a lot of things more than ever.
i miss home. i miss my family
i miss tj. i miss oac. i miss my beta hc.
i miss the times we trained together.
i miss the times we never stoped debating with one another while planning events.
i miss the times we enjoyed together. the competitions we took part together.
i miss the times we studied together and struggled together at the last push.
i miss the motivation and support that we gave each other.
i miss ij. i miss the 2/4 and 4/2 girls. i miss the ij bballers.
i miss camps. i miss HA. i miss OC. i miss rocky.
i miss the times we had together.
i miss the fun. i miss the laughter.
i miss the neverending support. i miss the challenges.
i miss the instructors. i miss the campers. i miss the cheers. i miss the activities.
i miss the times we camped out together. when i believed in you more than anything.
i feel alone. defeated. demoralised. unmotivated.
ive lost my reasons for doing this.
i don't wish to do this anymore.
but then again. would it matter to anyone. no.

hello =)

yay happy happy it's 28th august! lol...

thank you everyone =)

thank you to glacius who came to my room to surprise me with the ice cream cake at midnight. love you guys!

thank you to cheegake for the cute cute lion which will become a permanent fixture in my room. =p

thank you to our d block bballers. thank you for the match... and thank you for the suprise at munchie monkeys. i won't forget standing there on the stage alone holding the cake while you all sang the birthday song. haha =) you all rocked =)

thank you to yanling, amanda and yinwei for coming all the way down to kr (especially yinwei all the way from ntu) to surprise me =p

thank you to xin yi too... for coming over from sheares with the two slices of cake... and the couldnt be lighted candles =) love ya!

thank you to jiani khairul and insung... for the videotaping of you all crashing my room lol. and for the card and the cute animal pouch...

thank you meyling for leaving the slice of cheesecake outside of my door while i was out =)

thank you to everyone who dropped me a birthday wish whatsoever... thank you for remembering though most of the time i usually disappear cos im busy with other stuff. thank you =)

eh i don't have most of the photos but i'll post whatever i have first... =)

from xinyi =)

from meyling =)

yay crashing my room =)

yinwei and amanda

yinwei and kim

ooh whats this? scandalous. lol

alright that's all for now. cyaaa

whee time for a little update =) been going out quite a fair bit these few days now that im finally allowed to walk. though my walking capability is still quite pathetic. haha... oh well.

went to watch the ndp preview with xin yi yesterday at marina bay... not too bad having a brother marching in the scouts contingent ehs. pretty cool. wahaha... a lot smaller than the usual ndps but then again it's not exactly their fault. the capacity was so so much smaller. oh well. lalala i declare that marina bay is super pretty though. especially at night as it always is. pretty pretty place =)


















xin yi and i at the greennn grandstand. =)



















the marching contingents and the state flag



















pretty pretty costumes! i like the starfish. reminds me of patrick the starfish... ahh where's spongebob? haha =p




















pretty pretty marina bay at night!

haha okie i shall stop spoiling the show. rarhs. =)

hmm went for ocs family day with eng wei's parents today. whoa the ocs camp's really really nice la. everythings really a lot nicer than tekong. and i still remember in the tekong audi we were sitting far far away from the recruits who had to sit together for the commisioning.. but over here in ocs they get to sit with us for the talk. whee a lot more freedom and independance in that sense. and i realised ocs people carry themselves very well. hmm eng wei brought us for a tour of the area and whee this is what we saw





















the view of the parade square from up the three sided tower. which i learnt from eng wei that it, together with its surroundings have a lot of symbolic meaning. whee saw quite a few tjcians... and omg we were at the mess hall when someone called me from behind... i turned around and guess who i saw... haha i saw Am! havent seen him since my first ever camp at loola la. haha so qiao. we saw a video of what the echo wing's been doing for these two weeks of training too... just like what ew told me about. haha... not bad. tmr's the initiation ceremony already. so super fast la. 5 more days to bookout! haha finally after what'd have been three weeks. 3/4 of a mth la. so long. yay! haha. so sad didn't get to see the female officer cadets though. think it'd be damn cool la. sierra wing. whee power =)

his parents gave me a lift to amk. shopped awhile there... haha reminded me of engin camp where we spent the day there and got chased out by the security guard... haha omg. then went to meet my family at toa payoh to celebrate my mum's birthday... happy birthday mum! whee =) and wahaha guess what i met sophiaaa! haha... long time no see! haha and ehhh i met my ftpss campers too... wahaha so qiao lor. went to bugis thereafter to shop for a short while... finally got my white skirt from esprit. yayness!

super tired from the walking around... haha okie that's all for now... wahaha wheee