it's been a week SO FAST.

the day before convocation, i spent literally 6 hours sitting with jasmine in a cafe, making billions of furry red pompoms from wool and decorating with stick-on-eyes. we were quite high and happy doing it initially, but towards the end it just got plain tiring. the irony is that almost NONE of the pompoms made their way to intended recipients because of the convocation hectic-ness and crowd. sad.

monday was CONVOCATION, that once-in-a-lifetime event of graduation and ceremony. i dreaded it for weeks but it turned out lovely (: a BIG thank you to my family and all my wonderful friends. i've never felt like i made much friends in university but i guess i underestimated! thank you especially too to shimin cindy peijun angeline for the flower bouquets, and xueli peishan weiming for the penguin. also thank you to simyee who stayed back just to take a photo! it was also awesome how so many of s21 managed to congregate together for a photo! so nice to know that after all these years, jc friends are still close. i literally spent the whole night running around taking photos and trying to catch up with everybody. lots of LOVE.

there was that tea i had with haowen and anusha on tuesday in esplanade! we had max brenner's. they both ordered hot chocolate while i ordered the chocolate mousse cake. it was HEAVENLY, oozing with lots of dark chocolate and surrounded by raspberries and vanilla icecream, i enjoyed EVERY SINGLE BITE. but it was quite expensive - $12 for a slice. but oh maaaan. i have to steal that recipe somehow and bake it for myself. i could finish a whole cake.

wednesday was a morning swim again with xiefen, i saw the funniest guy doing WEIRD MOVES in the pool. thursday we played playstation and watched How I Met Your Mother at kenneth's house, there was a moment when peijun and i were stuck alone with the PS and the dog dodger. omg he barked and barked and barked until we were going deaf, amazing how such a small dog can make SO MUCH NOISE.

saturday we went for bbq at weiming's house! ok it was a little weird since it was just me weiming peijun, and then his brother and like a million friends. but it was quite fun, we played lots of wii and guitar hero! and some PS too. andweiming's sister was absolutely hilarious when she parked herself in front of the tv and just laughed at everything on Freaky Friday. it is so cute to have people like that, totally open and not afraid to just laugh in front of strangers. and finally monday, i had dinner with kenneth jasmine and shiwei in town and we watched that hongkong movie overheard. it was a little weird and the ending was super morbid but i guess it was all right.

for myself: it has suddenly hit me that my gorgeously long holidays will officially end IN TWO MONTHS and i have many little things i have not accomplished! so it's going to be down to making each day mean as much as it can, even if i am just being alone at home and spending quality me-time. three particularly nice things i did for myself this week: i attended evening mass at st. mary's on sunday alone, i was so uncomfortable at the thought of going church alone initially but it turned out great. and: i finished reading jeanette winterson's The Stone Gods, it was awesome and poignant and had magical prose. it has been a while since words tumbled like that at me out of a book's pages.

and finally, today i jogged; albeit slow, but yes it was a first effort, pushing forward until i panted like a dog