TODAY!
Sat in the front row for thanksgiving service.
Realised I really have just made my holidays full of plans I haven't thought like I wanted to..
That said, I know I am so thankful to God for more than providing for me/guiding me.
I don't think I'll do any justice to write any of my sporadic messy thoughts right now.
I guess at new year's I'll write up a proper 2009 GOODBYE-esque post, well-thought out like it deserves.
My one thought on thanksgiving service is how far our church has come (:
I remember when I was in Sunday School backstage waiting to put my junior pledge into the basket for the dedication service and now this is our (hopefully!) last year doing it. That huge loan is almost gone, I remember when I was young and my dad told me how much the loan was I didn't even know how much money that was (a million was like infinity to me then. Haha yes my math sucks THAT bad).
Rev Paul Thian's message really struck a chord with me about how in abundance, we forget God's provision and guidance. When God takes away from me, I'm always reminded to turn back to Him because my own resources have failed again.
The more I look around me the more I realise this world does not satisfy, it's so confusing (you think religion doesn't make sense, try making sense of this world.) and pretentious and unloving sometimes.. That's a whole nother story but at the end of the day, I'm realising God is the one who gives me real peace. The kind the church members in Phayak were talking about in their testimonies.
So thanksgiving service to me is always about giving BACK to God. Gotta look at the money not as something like that I'm paying God or giving to God out of my own money, but returning what's His, what He's blessed me with to begin with.
Mm that's about 10% of the thoughts in my head. They're all jumbled up right now I need to sit down and think them through.

Hung around with Liz for a bit and ran around talking to a bunch of people.
Thanks for all the christmas presents, sorry I'm so horrible I didn't return any YET YET YET okay YET is the keyword pleaaase haha.

Went to ahma's house for lunch (after such a long long while but I missed Cheryl/Mildred/Dalton for random reasons meh no cousins = no fun).
Hung out with Zihan for a bit, played bananagrams, which really gets me very tired lately haha. Like when I first started I was so excited but lately I'm tired after 1 round.

Porpor came over and cooked her famous duck soup for dinner! Yumyum and then we watched Singapore Idol finals.
ANOTHER MALAY MALE WINNER, no comment srsly.
I wanted Sylvia to win since the start of the competition, I followed SG IDOL OKAY WHEN EVERYONE LAUGHED AT ME thinking she would win.
on the plus side, the production this year was SO much better, HD and better sound and Charice was amaazing.
And Shu enlightened me that Starhub was having this I-have-no-idea-why but preview of ALL channels for I-don't-know-how-long it's like the comfort delgro cows, they just pop out of nowhere some day and disappear another.
Anyway so I have E! Entertainment now! Haha shu and I want to never leave our house ever again and panic at the mere thought of this amazing gift from Starhub disappearing.
Which reminds me, I need to complain about my phone not working in Thailand and ask them this golden question my mum/Amadea taught me, "How will you compensate me for this inconvenience?" and wait for Starhub to send me millions of vouchers and offer to pay for 6months of my phone bill or something.

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Really turned off by alot of things I've heard/seen today.
Anyway looking back on 2009 (this is not my 2009 post), I've realised that.. change is inevitable? I'm not saying anything specific, it's just that I always have moments when I look back on certain years (especially 2006 in sec2? Was it? I love looking back on you, 2006) and miss certain things about that year. Then I try spending 2009 re-creating it but then I realise I can't.
2006 is 2006, what made those years is special and 2009 is a new thing altogether.
Guess what I'm saying is we don't like rid ourselves of the past, but I remember when I read 2006 archives I'd get damn upset that I don't do certain stuff anymore like wear pajama pants and run around my neighborhood and camwhore and dress up and conference calls but I do loads of other things now in 2009 like.. play bananagrams. (joke.)
Anyway, every year is special for certain reasons. Hindsight is 20/20, a phrase I learnt from a dad's friend which I really love. Hindsight always shows things clearer.
2009, thanks for ACJC and the friends I made and my results and my realising that I need a bit of maturing and relaxing (I'm not at that perfect-place I thought I was at the close of 2008 where I didn't need to change and I finally reached a I know who I am where I am point in my life) and a whole lot of other stuff that will show itself in my new year post.

I AM SO FULL OF THOUGHTS I COULD EXPLODE.

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Gonna watch Sherlock Holmes and Fourth Kind tomorrow!
Nat says Sherlock Holmes is a MUST-WATCH.
Haha I have to say I'm very proud of my explanation of why avatar is epic. My reverse-3d (not pop-out but depth into the screen) explanation for why the technology is so amazing is like my most confident conversation line ever, I keep wanting to say it because I made up the explanation for the technology which otherwise cannot be put into words and to be honest, I'm just really quite happy with the explanation. Haha does anyone even get what I'm saying ohwell.

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New Year's at YPO this year ):
I guess the plus side is good food, free flow of champagne (Hopefully margharita/red wine instead) and good music (so I've heard).
I'm quite excited to wear a nice dress/heels for the night though. I don't LIVE for these nights, but it's fun when it happens.

Something Sarah said to me the other day that I'm keeping in mind, she's not wearing alot of black at this age (and she's 22) because she figures when she grows old she'll be wearing alot of black so she wants to spend her youth wearing brighter colours.
I have a wardrobe that's about 70% black/darkblue.

photo-heavy, text-light.

24th,
ZIHAN IS BACK! He came over to help prepare for the dinner where we got ordered around by Ethel to mash up sweet potatoes (I don't like sweet potatoes bleh), played a bit of bananagrams (I can totally see how this is addictive).
Stayed home for christmas dinner with extended family which Ethel cooked. The turkey was super super good.
Realised something while watching TV before dinner, I don't get why they air cooking shows for christmas when christmas is so near. Like 2 days before. They should do it like the whole 2 weeks leading up to christmas so people can ACTUALLY use the recipes. :/ Unless you are Ethel extraordinaire, she saw this carrot recipe on Anthony Bourdain like 1 hour before the dinner and was like "I'm going to make it" and it's on the table for dinner. AMAAZING STUFF.
Stayed over at Sarah's.














25th,
Sarah and I overslept and missed the christmas service, which my family apparently never goes for :/ something I just found out this year.
Went out with Zihan to buy some presents, then went to his place to hang out cos the queue for the Converse Warehouse Sale was craaazyyyy long.
Tony Romas for dinner with the family (The ribs are SO SO SO SO good) and then walking around super crowded town and dessert at Swensen's. I love Sticky Chewy Chocolate.








26th,
Went out with Zihan to get more christmas presents!
The presents are all so good but not person-specific, like I just want to buy everyone these super cute earphones or this super funny book but I don't know who would want it, I just want to buy it. Dangerous shopper.
It was raining really heavily and the roads were still really crowded: which reminded me that it was Saturday. I'm completely disorientated, I keep feeling like 25th was Sunday because there was church service and therefore today was Monday.
When I had to pay 7bucks for my Mcspicy meal, I was like oh yeah today's not a weekday -.- bleh.
Got myself a baseball tee, finally!

Happy birthday, Amy Yam! Sending you loads of DG-love!

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I quite like the holidays.
Been wearing all the dresses I don't have the chance to wear otherwise yay.
Haha and my shoes! Cream ones on the 24th, and purple ones on baptism Sunday.

Photos from the DG's baptism from Jiap!



27th,
Thanksgiving service in church, lunch at ahma's place (where Dalton and I have planned a boardgame fest for the cousins if he actually turns up, haha cos we usually all just eat and then end up falling asleep after talking somehow), then dinner at home (porpor's cooking ducksoup after Ethel and Sarah's incessant convincing)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE, EVERYONE!
Yes I've gotten loads of "Merry christmas Eve, Eve! HAHAHAHA" messages today, thanks guysss thankksss.
YAY TURKEY! Ethel's cooking tonight and I'm going to bananagram my night away with Sarah and my dad.

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Yesterday,
I had a superduper sleepover with NaomiIIIiiiiI.
We only took 5 photos, which is considered a great feat since we took about 100 the last time she came over haha.
Watched Prince&Me and Scoop (Woody Allen is so funny in the movie), and stayed up almost all night to talk about alot of stuff since we both hadn't met up in AGES.
And we ate, so much. Both of us were so unexplainably hungry like all the time.

Naomii arrives at 7pm,
Naomii: I'm hungry
Eve: Ethel's buying us dinner!
Naomii/Eve: YAY

Eve and Naomii wake up at 11am,
Eve: Ethel's buying lunch! I'm hungry!
Naomii: YAY! Me too!

and repeat this conversation like ten times.
Anyway thanks Naomii for the heart-to-heart and all the laughs, love you loooads Melwaniii.


And then I went for dinner with the parents and this 80year old couple on their 1 month holiday cruise around the world. So so cute.

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Today,
I finished up my mission trip testimony and sent out the chapel songlist. I am so rusty! The vegetation this holiday has left me like unable to do admin work anymore ):
Anyway, I'll post up the testimony too later. Decided to write it on the.. focus of encouraging people to go because I remember that Mildred kept saying the point of our testimonies/sharing is to encourage more people to go for the trip so I wrote it in that context.. I always feel like I have so much to share, so it takes me really long to write up my testimonies because I can't pick what to share. Haha I guess that is something to be thankful for in itself :)

Gonna pack my room before Zihan comes over.

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Fourth Kind sneaks are out, and Sherlock Holmes is out! Exciiiiiited~