Friendships

I'm a firm believer of the following quote. 

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on out hearts, and we are never, ever the same.” ~ Flavia Weedn

I think it was the chit-chat session I had with YY and YC yesterday that left me thinking so much about friendships. 

I believe that when we (or at least, I) forge a new friendship, we put in an equal amount of effort to further the friendship. It's just weird thinking how some friendships turned out. 

I just wished I had put in more effort for some friendships. I had a close friend in Sec school, EJ. Ever since EJ left Singapore to study in another country, we've not talked. Well, not exactly not talk AT ALL. For around 1 year after EJ left, we talked maybe once every 2 months considering that she had limited access to social media because, China. ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯ Somehow as we got busier, we just talked lesser and lesser, and it stopped someday. I always imagine myself meeting her on the streets someday, and that it would be so awkward we'll have nothing to say. Lol.

There are a bunch of friendships I never want to let go. But ya know, nothing can be promised. All I want to say is a HUGE thank you to my friends for being my friends, for bringing so much fun into my life, and creating memories so memorable that I will never forget until the day I die. No matter what our friendship develops to in the future, I am really really really glad you became a part of my life. 

Alright, thank you friends for reading! Time for me to stop thinking so much and get back to work! 

The bizarre story of how I got my baluku

It is 11:02a.m. as I currently start typing on this page.

As my title already states, I got a baluku. Just moments ago.

My alarm is set at 12p.m., with the following one at 12:10p.m. This was the perfect timing I've calculated to wake up at when I went to sleep at around 3:45a.m. last night.

At around 10:30a.m., I woke up for no reason, probably because I need to pee (I can't remember) and I walked out to the sofa in my living room and started using my phone. First I went on Facebook, because I there were a few notifications on my Facebook icon. Then I went on Instagram, because I fucking love Instagram?

At that point of time, I suddenly remembered that my alarm was at 12p.m., so I decided to head back to my bed. But I was thirsty. I decided to go drink some water before heading back to bed. I stood up, and God damn it, I had one of those dizzy spells which are the worst things in life. I walked to the kitchen, unscrewed the cap of a water bottle and started drinking. I missed. The water was all over my top and flowing down my neck. The consequences of pouring instead of drinking from the mouth of the bottle. Do note I was still dizzy at that point of time.

Suddenly, I sort of blacked out and I fell to the ground. I remembered it was pretty loud. After what seemed like 10 seconds, my mind started to clear up, and I realised I fell. I did not know how but I swept quite a few items down with me. A can of condensed milk, a supplement bottle and a glass container filled with coffee beans. My guess is that I was reaching the wall for support but somehow I swept these items down. Oops.

My pose was something like the guy in the picture. Lol!

Then came the pain. Fuck! My head and my (right) knee hurt. I looked at my knee, noticing that I scraped my knee a little but all was well. I then stood up, picked up the 3 items that fell on the ground, picked up the water bottle and drank what was remaining in it. The bottle cap flew quite a distance so I walked a bit to pick it up. Afterwards, I slowly walked back to my room, because I still wanted to sleep. Lol, priorities. I entered the room, took a peek at my brother who sleeps like a dead pig, or rather, champ. Yep, still soundly asleep (he was even snoring) after I made such a crash in the kitchen. I crawled back onto my bed, covered the blankets up until my neck for maximum comfort, and tried to sleep.

I. Couldn't. My head hurt. I tossed and turned a couple of times on my bed, still unable to fall back to sleep due to the pain. Casually, I touched my head to check if there was a baluku. To me, having a baluku is an achievement. An achievement of pain. #sayyestobalukus Damn, that is a big baluku, I thought in my head. I tidied my bed, and decided I should give up on my love - sleep. I walked out of my room to look into the mirror, and I gasped at how cute and 3D my baluku was. What. An. Achievement.

I decided to take a picture and put it out on Snapchat, because I'm not someone who gets embarrassed by it. And it was a first for me to experience something like this from a dizzy spell. And because, what an achievement. Lol, ok I shall stop harping on that. I took 2 pictures of my baluku using my phone, so that I can look back in time and laugh at myself. And, poof, something in my brain asked me to blog about this. I'm guessing that when I fell and hit my head, my creative juices started running. So, yeah, you have just read the bizarre story of how I got my baluku.

What I posted on Snapchat. You can add me @simhuiting if you have yet to do so. #shameless

Woah. It's 2016 already?

So.... like..... The last time I blogged was on Apr 12, 2013. That is almost 3 years?! Woah, time flies!

If anyone is even reading this, hi. I'm just blogging because I felt like doing so and it would be really interesting to read this in another few years time :) Let's get started!

Let's see, the only topic I feel strong (enough) to blog about would probably be my travels. Ever since I graduated from SP last year in May, I've been traveling (quite a lot). Well, I definitely did not plan to do that as post-graduation but somehow, it just happened.

The countries I've visited ever since I graduated are:

1. Taiwan 2x (March - with my family, May - with my group of friends at Omakase Burger)
2. Cambodia in July
3. Phuket in October
4. Hong Kong, also in October
5. Japan in November
6. Australia in January (2016)

Looking back at it, I've no idea how I manage to fund all my travels by myself.... Because, well, I'm only working part-time at a burger shop and for some events here and there. Oh, and I was also terrible at saving prior to this. Basically, I had 0 savings. So, as the saying goes, "If you want it, work for it." So. True. It was traveling that taught me how to save up, but ironically also sucked my bank dry.

Traveling to so many different countries, I have learnt a lot, seen a lot and ate a lot (like duh). Interacting with the locals and getting lost in the beautiful countries would have to be my favourites. Not forgetting what made my trips super memorable - my travel buddies! Some I've known from work, some I've known since my Sec school period, some (to be specific, 2) I've never even met before (we literally met at the airport on the day of departure!), some friends I never imagined I would be traveling with.

Because of traveling, I have come to cherish spending time with my family. I remember every time I told mama Sim that I am going overseas, she would ask me how long I would be gone for, and she always tells me to not go for so long as she would miss me! Yes and sorry, I am the type of person who would book my flight tickets before letting my family know. Oops.

And since it's only March (we're not too late into this year yet I hope).... I have 2 (sort of) travel resolutions for 2016! Here's to a good year ahead!

1. Travel with my family. More specifically, bring them on a trip once a year!
Time flies. I do not know how much time I have with my parents. It may sound quite pessimistic of me to say this, but my dad is 60 yo this year... and he's still working so hard for our family. Sometimes he (and mostly my mum) would complain of aches here and there, and seeing how their joints ache so badly, to the extent of not being able to go down a flight of steps, just breaks my heart. And it makes me feel really unfilial :( I love you mum and dad..... :') I am going to bring you overseas once a year for sure!

2. Embark on a backpacking trip.
(Most probably will not be accomplishing this in 2016, but I decided to do this this year!)
No idea where, no idea when. But I am definitely going to do this! Maybe I will do it alone, maybe I will have travel buddies? I don't know. I only live my life once (sounds very cliche, I know) so I better have the most fun out of it before I settle down, right?

12 April

Hiiiiiiiiiii

Firstly, work had ended... like 2 days ago!!! I can't wait to get my pay because this is the highest paying job I've ever gotten among all the many other jobs I've had before. Yeahhhhhhh man. And I bought my mum a new bag because her current bag is spoilt so I am feeling really filial right now and just let me bask in that feeling thanks. n__n

I've been spending these 2 days watching a new K-drama, called Time Slip Dr. Jin and I am very fascinated by it!!!!! Okay so it's a doctor/medical show and there are lots of operations and surgeries that of course, would not be lacking in a medical drama. BUT!! What's cool is that they actually do not censor any surgical scenes so it's like super cool and I've learnt a few medical ~thingy~ watching this drama. At first I was kinda like "ewwwwww" but now I'm like "woooooooah" hahahahaha. The grossest thing is the sound of the blood gushing out when the doctor cuts open a body part and when they use some 'kiap' to hold the meat/skin open which still kind of makes me cringe a little. So yes, for all you brave people, go watch it!! Oh.. but I hate the laggy story line and how those 古代 people are so stupid and slow and their slowness and stupidity makes me wanna face-palm myself ya know ya know. Like oh please, this person is already gonna die and they wanna waste so much time stopping and hindering the surgery from going on. Like it's gonna help man.... So ya, typical laggy story lines from a K-drama~~~

Time is up, I'm gonna go watch Survivor now~~~!! BB!!

Was today even a rest day?????????

Today was my rest day and I need not go to work. Anyway, there is still 3 days of work left and I'll be starting school in just 4 days after it ends...... I still thought I could have lots of rest today... but I was wrong.... 

Today my uncle + aunt + their children came to Singapore to 扫墓.. I've actually stopped going 扫墓 since last year?? (I was busy and tired and my mum said it's okay for me not to go) So this year I didn't go too! So once my mum and dad and my relatives came back from 扫墓-ing, I had to kinda socialize with them and stop hiding in my room using my laptop. I was using my laptop earlier, watching YouTube videos, when my cousins came in. 

Male cousin: eeyer 你的男朋友啊!! 

-_________-''

And he just stood there and continued staring at the screen of my laptop while the video just continued playing. And then, I had to accompany them to go out so I didn't even get to rest for today. But it's alright, I told myself "once a year only!!!" and also it's getting so awkward for us (the kids) because when we were younger, we would still go out and play basketball together but now we're all grown up so we literally have nothing to do together. I also remember they would stay at my house for one or two days.. Glad it's all in the past because now I really hate all this relative-staying-over shit... AND today my male cousin also made fun of my Chinese because his parents asked about the education system in Singapore. 

(convo in Chinese of course)

His mum: Singapore no need to take Chinese??

Me: No ah, need..

His mum: Like what??

Me: It's like we have different classes according to our grades, like A, B, C, D or E one..

Male cousin: Haha, then you what class one??

Me: A....

Male cousin: Huh?!?! You A?!?! Hahahahahaha where got possible?!?!

Fuck off la!! I cannot be in A class meh?!!??! He said I don't use the chim Chinese terms so I am definitely not good in Chinese. Must I really apply all the terms I've used to how I speak in real life??????????? I don't see him speaking those chim terms even though he said his Chinese is good eh. Seriously, even his younger sister uses more brains than him and does not make crude comments... Really hate it when Malaysians laugh about the education system in Singapore and think it's so easy. Oh please, come and study here then???? My aunt even asked if there's some super good school in which he can let my male cousin enroll in to learn English within a month. LOL I really wanted to laugh out loud. Please start from Primary school then. All they think is that it is really easy...?? Oh, I also really hate how they think I'm stupid. I'm not, thanks. My grades are pretty okay and my languages are good too. My aunt even asked me if my English is okay or not. She totally thinks I am the type to FAIL English.. Totally speechless..... No la, my English sucks so much ok ok. Ugh assholeSSS. I'm not gonna care about you and let you ruin my mood any more!! My ranting is done!!

Ok, Gotta sleep soon to recharge for work for the next 3 days!! Let's go HuiTing!!!!