Life is still beautiful

So another chapter of my life has began. =)

Last week was an emotional rollar coaster, but it has been for quite some time. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be so thats cool.

A brief update on what I've been up to this week...

Laserstrike - Gosh I totally sucked in the 1st round. I broke all the rules and attained the one and only last position out of 10 players. Although I was dressed in black and supposedly be hard to notice, everyone said they could recognise me from far because of my voice.
Lionel KEPT chasing and following me and shot me everytime I recovered. I was so irritated that I laid flat on the floor thinking that he can't shoot my front tags, only to realise he could attack me at the back too. BUT I redeemed myself by improving to the 3rd position in the 3rd round! Awesome game!

Steamboat/Drinking/Karoake - I decided to be ambitious and prepared steamboat porridge. It was super yum and we ate so much we felt like puking. At the same time, we finished 8 episodes of "How I met your mother".
Sean and friends came later for a round of drinks. Rather, a few rounds of drinks. I almost died half way through the 1st round but they tried resuscitating me to ensure I was sober enough to go for K. I concussed for awhile before getting back on my feet for K. The night felt like it would never end and I couldn't take it any longer before dozing off again during K. Its amazing how can I sleep through all that shouting, out of tune singing and screaming. Finally, the night ended.

RENT Musical - It was good, very different from the other musicals I've watched but refreshing. More rock, more contemporary, and a bit emo (or maybe I was just being really emo that night).
Here's a short synopsis of the musical: RENT tells a story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.

My hair is purple - I dyed my hair dark purple!!!

Rally New Zealand - The Rally of New Zealand is the oldest WRC event to be held in the Southern Hemisphere. It is famous for its fast flowing gravel roads which carry the competitors through forests and alongside the impressive New Zealand coastline.
So I headed down to Domain to meet up with the rest for this event. I'm not a car-lovin' person so I couldn't really appreciate anything that was happening. Saw a couple of drifts, heard the loud engines, knew it was cool but just didn't quite know how to appreciate it. After which, we'd an impromptu pot luck at my place to kill time before heading down to Hulu Cat for milk tea (I spent 6hours there in a day! 3hours with Joyce in the afternoon, 3 hours with the rest at night!). We played the murderer game and I thought it was pretty fun! 'twas a good night out.

Our legen----dary ski trip - MP finally booked her tickets to NZ during July! Since I've travelled most parts of NZ a couple of times, we decided to make it a purely skiing/snowboarding trip! That means, we will be visiting all the ski fields around NZ for 3 weeks! AWESOME!!! Not as if I know how to ski or snowboard, but I better do by the end of the trip! Can't wait! And knowing Ms MP has its own awesome incentives - it comes along with a FREE NIGHT AT HILTON HOTEL! Thanks to Ms MP's corporate status =) I don't usually enjoy such luxuries during backpacking trips!

Sunday - It was so nice of Joyce to ask me for church. We chilled at her cozy house for awhile before she left to usher. I then followed her dad and sis, Grace to church. They are an awesome family, apart from their cozy house filled with warmth, the sisters are really high achievers. Elder sis is a doctor, younger sis is a soon-to-be lawyer. Most importantly, no airs and very down to earth. We went for lunch and it reminded me of the times Cheryl was here, when we'd stayovers and dinners with her family.
Grace and her dad then left and Joyce and I decided to head down to K-road to source for some gifts. Took a couple of detours but finally made it there. Iko Iko is the name of the shop and its THE shop I wanna acquire in future. They have all the vintage stuff, notebooks, folders, creatively crafted gifts, aesthetically designed stationery but exorbitant prices. Still, I immediately succumbed to temptation when I saw the magnetic poetry kit. I've been absolutely attracted to it since the last backpacking trip where it was stuck all over the backpacker's fridge. I now have them stuck all around my apartment and it is a joy to read them through the day. =)


Although significantly horrid stuff happened during the week, I try to remember that I've also been blessed with many other happy ones to pull me through. Time to be looking on the bright side.