wednesday

i don't think anyone reads my posts anymore :(

anyhow, classes have been pushed back yet another week. which means that my 2 week long term break is turning into a 4 week long one. don't want to complain, and the uncertainty of the term, classes, and studying for exams is starting to really get to me. but still, i will stay calm and not complain, because i am alive. and i am very thankful for that.

just please... no more quakes. no morrrrrr...


on another note:
my church's 10th anniversary celebration is on this week. going straight on despite the recent disaster. which is cool, cos it takes our minds of it somewhat. i'll be going for the banquet on friday night, and us malaysians decided to put up a tiny fashion show for cultural night on saturday. getting quite excited about it. hehe. i feel so dainty and demure with my little "chinese" umbrella and cheongsam. not to mention, more chinese than i've ever felt in my whole life. i love how there are so many nationalities in Every Nation CHCH. really suits the church's name. so yeah, definitely looking forward to seeing people in their traditional costumes doing their thing on saturday.

seriously...

i think i woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.
so cranky. because the aftershock jolted me from my bed, which then triggered the alarm in the next block, and made me get up thinking i should go check it out, which then made me unable to go back to sleep until 5-ish.

and i got up late today. which is annoying because i absolutely hate to wake up after 10.30am. such a waste of time and i always wake up woozy afterwards which lasts pretty much the whole day and leaves me very snappish and grumpy.

so yeah.
angry, grumpy, sleepy, frustrated.
don't make me unhappy.


on another note...

it's day 3 of the massive christchurch quake and the buses are back to running, malls are opened (though some shops are still not), and people are busy fixing up their houses. aftershocks are still aplenty which is sooooooooo annoying. sometimes i'm not even sure if it's a tremor or just me imagining that it's one.

but still surviving.
anyway, foound something that tickled my funny bone. people who can still capitalise on this disaster.


this is a product on trademe (nz's online "mall")


the Aftershock Indicator.

measures the degree of aftershock from 'it's just in your head' to 'RUN!'


lol

in one moment

how does one learn to pick up the pieces from when something momentous happened and move on?

we just do.


i guess.


yesterday i didn't even know that new zealand is prone to earquakes, being in the volcanic region.
Today i'm just praying and hoping for a good night's sleep.
in one moment, so many people's lives have changed.
so many people made all the wiser.
ignorance is no longer bliss.


yesterday i was safe in my ignorance
today...

the earthquake and i

ok, so by now almost anyone within the radius of any form of news would've already heard of the ginormous quake in christchurch. well my knowldge of earthquakes prior to this was confined to just reading about it in newspapers and pitying the residents, but if i must say so myself... 7.4 (7.1, 7.0?? they can't seem to make up their minds about it) on the richter scale is pretty scary.


so, how did it feel? c'mon, i know you're dying to ask... haha.
like a really bad dream where someone's rocking your bed so hard, and you realise after a moment that it's not going to stop and wake up to find that everything else is moving. pretty scary moment aye. and noisy too. and then everything blacks out. which leaves you groping in the dark for your glasses to see what's happening. and then it hit's you: Earthquake!

oh crap.


we then had to evacuate the buildings, and stand outside on the lawn in the cold in our pj's and winter jackets. well, not everyone. apparently some guys came out shirtless...
and once they were satisfied everyone was accounted for, the ilam people let us off about 2 hours after it happened.

once i got back to my flat, i couldn't get anymore sleep. well, honestly, the belated shock of it coupled with aftershock tremors... not conducive for sleeping.

but oh wells...

at least everyone i know is safe. praise God for that! and also that there was relatively no damage to the ilam apartments and uni save for some cracks. a lot of things to be thankful for but as i've been repeating the same things to different people all morning and afternoon, quite lazy to write it down here now. but i must say, i'm so glad my flat's so sturdy. nothing fell of the shelves except for my books. surprising.



i guess i can say that i've experienced and earthquake before now.
hey when life hands you an earthquake, what else can you do but put it in your 'have done' list?


ps: very touched from all the texts, calls, fb messages from friends and family. it's enough to make a girl feel loved :)

term break again

time to take 5...

holidays are fun.
but they would be so much better if i didn't have this thick cloud of doom assignments looming over my head all the time.
i feel guilty after playing.
:(
so hard to research about stuff in malaysia while i'm here. but hopefully all will work out well.


going to bake tomorrow! yayness.


and in 3 months time...


:)



ps: the flowers are blooming! *excited*
i saw cherry blossoms on saturday.

it's not happiness... it's joy

"True joy is one that flourishes during hard times.
Your joy will only be taken from you if you give it away."

~Pastor B

for kicks: past headers

some are missing, which is a shame cos i had quite a few and it would be nice to see them all. but well, at least i preserved some of them.

and i can't even remember how my first one was like. ahh so sad...

Love is patient

i'm not the most patient of people.

haha. understatement.

impatience has gotten me into trouble time and again.
made me do things i wish i hadn't.

so now i'm going to try to quell it.

wait. patiently.

so not me, but i know i can do it :)

when everything's finally going good, going right... don't go and ruin it again by impatience.
cos love IS patient.

it's been six months

since i last saw home.

yeah time does fly... or crawls by so slowly. depends on how you look at it. i veer my opinions from one to another depending on how i'm feeling. hehe. yes i can be quite contrary at times :D

so it's been a very pleasant 6 months here and i don't regret coming to christchurch at all. but now that the initial excitement of coming to a new place and discovering new things has wore off somewhat, i feel myself quite looking forward to go home. have been down with homesickness these few days. but again, shouldn't complain. this is a great opportunity and i should take every moment to enjoy it.





my gums hurt like crazy... i really hope it goes off soon. it's driving me mad and giving me a headache.

... and the stomach rules

generally (but thankfully not all the time),

i get cranky and grumpy when i'm hungry and food is no where in sight.

well, i was hungry.

and i love my bf for loving me even when i'm hungry

:D

*hearts*