was at the lobby of Mandrin Oriental Hotel waiting for N to be done with his caroling, and we saw a bride and groom making their entrance into the ballroom. 'twas just so.. magical. weddings are always happy occasions.

merry christmas y'all! :))

everything was fine, until i started playing with the stud on day 3.
now, it's swollen.

geez.

I need to stop shopping.

planned to check out Oh So Fickle's sale on Saturday, but we woke up late and when we saw the queue plus the insanely hot sun, we left to check out the Maybelline flea!

Y was deciding if she should get a bag, and while standing next to her and helping her to make up her mind, i randomly tried a bag. and i ended up getting it. one of the rare occasions when a black bag catches my eye! and this is my first purchase from The Tinsel Rack! love their clothes but they either can't fit me or are too pocket-unfriendly.

S was performing at Plaza Singapura so we decided to go support him! got approached the minute we got there to take part in some stage games. throw face max, but I won some vouchers heh. met C and G there, and we ended up spending the afternoon together.






met the ODACians afterwards, went to watch C's performance at Lucky 13. wasn't worth our money at all, hmph. left for Zirca cause the bday boy wanted to club. the atmosphere pretty much sucked actually. 4 drinks and I was mad sober, feeling uber sian.

home sweet home at 4am, body clock insanely screwed now cause I woke up at 8-ish the next morning for church and crashed at 1pm.

I think I just watched the best Gossip Girl episode since Season 5 started. and I still cannot get over how superbly awesome my beloved Chace Crawford looked. bloody hot and handsome please zomg. I literally melted.

last episode next week, sobs. the only reason why I continued watching the show was because of how awesome the cast looked. and by cast, i only mean Chace Crawford. teehee yes I have a massive celebrity crush, as most of you'd have already known by now. i even made his photo my event picture heh.

speaking of which, if you're reading this and you've been invited to my 21st, rsvp pleaseeeeeee. tyvm.

shopping spree in Malaysia today! (or yesterday)
AEON had members-only sale with up to 70% off, and zomg the sale was freaking massive.

all expenses paid trip too! heh. okay actually i didn't shop shop. i got quite sian of the crowd. and i was too lazy to dig through piles of clothes to find deals. if i see it, okay. i don't, then too bad. in the end, i bought mainly from brands that I was familiar with, seriously too lazy to scout for good deals elsewhere. the crowd was seriously crazy. pleased with my other buys though! :D

back to Singapore, back to reality. for now, reality comes in the form of my ntr paper and my almost complete Philo essay. last lap, let's gooooooo!

I never really believed in the horoscope tweets. yes, i follow those accounts, but i hardly read their tweets. i have no idea why i even follow them haha. just now, i randomly looked at @TrulyCapricorns' tweets and somehow, they really made a hell lot of sense. i used to believe (and maybe I still do) that we are all unique and these horoscopes thingy merely generalize things.

they write these different things every day and hope that these things describe some of the readers. for the rest? they'll think, nevermind, maybe tmr's will be about me.

                                               - Angela Ang (played by Janice Koh), The Pupil 2.

are we really classified according to the time period during which we were born? does society hand us social scripts according to our horoscopes? i don't think so. okay, but I gotta admit, as much as i would want to refute all these horoscope claims, part of me has to admit that most of them describe me. or maybe most of the horoscopes say the same thing, i don't know.

i always believed that almost everything in life is a product of nurture, not nature. your feelings and emotions are moulded since you were born, after experiencing the different seasons that life puts you through. and these experiences shape your mindset and subsequently attitude in life. how then, can two people be so similar, seeing as how we have totally different upbringings? it's really scary. and the best part is that these 2 people share the same horoscope. y'know, as much as I refuse to buy the horoscope story, some if these things are really screaming in my face. but i still stand my ground that all these is a mere coincidence. i guess we should take all these with a pinch of salt. daily entertainment huh?

i had something else on my mind, in fact it has been on my mind for the past 2 days. but somehow, i just can't find the words to pen it down. maybe some other time.

took my own sweet time and now I have no idea where I should have my 21st. *pouts*
last resort of waiting for Edison to get back to me regarding the booking of SAF Seaview. 4th person I've approached, i hope there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

would love a hotel room but then there's the issue of catering and what not. there's always Costa Sands, but the place is crazily small. function rooms and all are good, but I'd prefer a stayover.

okay i think I'm just damn fussy. my guest list is another headache sighhhhh.

edit: after talking to Eve, i see light at the end of the tunnel teehee. home team ns chalet? keeping my fingers crossed :D

I hardly head to Starbucks on Sundays because of the church-crowd, no idea why i made an exception today. glad i did tho, cause I bumped into Z there! it's always good to see a familiar face while studying, saves you the awkwardness of asking a stranger to look after your things while you head to the washroom etc. and yes, dinner buddy!

'twas a productive day today! although i froze my ass off 'cause the aircon was spewing cold air directly at me and i was in shorts (as usual). saw a total of 4 familiar faces today, 3 of whom were from the UBSC Events Team. small world huh. oh and we bought Starbuck's 1-for-1 cheesecake a minute before their promotion ended. cheap thrill haha.
home sweet home at a quarter past 2; thanks for the ride home, Z! :))

okay I'm tired after a day of brain work. goodnight y'all, don't let the bedbugs bite.

xoxo,
Jessica.

Randomly looking at people's Twitter profiles, randomly clicking on the links to their blogs and I came across this post.

Every second is God’s good gift to us, no matter what we are experiencing at any one point. Sure, there’re ups and pretty low downs… But i guess if we keep our eyes fixed on God, on His love, His plan, His mercy, His power, His goodness, basically everything about Him, we’d be a whole lot better off :) sometimes things just don’t go the way you expect them to and yeah we get knocked off our feet sometimes… But He is always there to help us up everytime we stumble, fall or wander off track.

I find that if i try to look at things from a perspective that acknowledges God in every circumstance, things seem a lot brighter even though they can get pretty dull at times. It’s just… God. He turns the ordinary into extraordinary, broken into beautiful. That’s just who He is :) words can’t even describe how thankful and happy i am to know that He loves me. It doesn’t mean that everything will turn out the way i planned it to be, but it does mean that God will never put me through anything that will harm me. Never. I do believe that. It’s like God has totally proved His faithfulness to me in ways i can’t seem to pen down.

Sometimes we just need to be broken to be healed. Sometimes we just need to be broken to be made whole again. Sometimes we just need to be broken to experience God on a whole new level. One thing’s for sure, God never wastes our pain. And He definitely fixes things, one way or another. He’s like the super glue we all need in our lives :) best part: He loves us so much even when we will never deserve it. It’s like when we know how much we’ve failed, how hopeless, broken, full of shame, pride, and the list can go on……………. basically how ‘bad’ we are, we can have a better understanding of just how precious, how much that gift is worth :)

i do not want to imagine my life without God. It would just be scary and not worth living. It was when i had nothing left, literally no strength, no courage, nothing left to live for that God just carried me through. It was then God helped me to realize how much i need Him and want Him in my life. No God, no me. Simple as that. In the words of Corrinne May, “but what am I but a single breath that only You sustain.” How true :)  i guess life won’t seem so hard and tiring if we trust God and know that He will always provide :) take things one day at a time, trusting and knowing that God will provide.

-http://lovelikeultraviolet.tumblr.com

og mate, thanks for reminding me that we have an awesome God :)

'twas a good day. good company, good buys, good food, good laughs, good moments. :))