not so late night musing.

it just hit me that my exchange experience
will officially be over in 39 days.

seriously?!?!
feels just like yesterday when i still had months before coming here.

it's not that i don't wanna go home.
i do, i miss everyone and everything in sg
and i can't wait to do all the catching up.

it's different here.
a different sort of independence,
a situation that i've never been thrown into and got to experience before.

and i like it,
i love it.

not to say that i have no freedom back in sg, i do.
but yeah, it's just a different sort of freedom and independence.

physical, mental, emotional.
literally, figuratively.

part of me thinks (and kinda hopes, actually) that i will go back
slightly, somewhat different.
(and no i am definitely not referring to "fatter" LOL)

and for all those doubts & fears i had before coming,
i'm glad i stuck with this opportunity.

i've been a lucky girl ☆

just finished the latest episode of grey's anatomy,
and i have all these different feelings inside of me.
season 6 episode 10 goes onto my list of favourity grey's episodes.
haven't cried while watching the show in a while, but this ep did it for me haha.

really really hope it snows in mannheim.
and i'm looking forward to christmas.
it's gonna be a different experience; away from home, somewhere wintery.
still have no idea how it'll be spent but somehow after watching this episode,
something tells me, i am hopeful, that it will be some kind of special.

i'm really looking forward to the holidays, can you tell? (:

p.s. shall download christmas songs now ♥
p.p.s. oh no just realised that i won't have a christmas tree.
how? i want/need a christmas tree!

love the trees now like, semi bald.
even the bald ones are lovely, the twiggy shapes are super pretty.
christmas in a cup with starbucks!
toffee nut latte, not sure if i really liked it.
they have dark chocolate cherry again!
thing is, they don't have it as a frappe here :( & it's only nice that way.
blue berry muffin! (reminds me of dinah)

and my breakfast bunch!
secretly happy to see them all laid out like that,
gotta love having options (:take the above and a lot of other things not pictured
(like ice cream and milk+cocoa powder),
i think i just had a 1000calories breakfast O.o

this afternoon, i switched on the lights in my room by accident.
(no idea how it happened, i think it was reflex)
however when the switch was flicked, there was no light.
instead, i heard the sound of a bulb dying (you know, electricity).

the last surviving bulb in my room, out of three.
just so you know, it's not all me.
when i arrived here, this was the only one that was working anyway haha.

and so tonight, i am living in darkness.

lol.

this is what happens when you overestimate how much lettuce you need
(try spotting the slice of ham)

at least it was one crunchy+healthy sandwich :D

eeps, 5am.
officially my latest bedtime in germany.
with the sky getting dark at 5pm here and my current sleeping pattern,
i'm not going to see daylight at all! >:\

time to head to bed.
and only because i can't wait to wake up and prepare breakfast.
:D

on thursday madlene and i met up to have dinner.
been quite a while since we had some one-on-one buddy time.
headed to Vapiano where we shared a funghi pizza+spinach pasta+bruschetta.
food was good, pizza crust was super thin just the way i like it.
love listening to her date stories haha.

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and on friday we visited the welde brewery in schwetzingen!
thought the tour was just okay, nothing really fascinating.
good part was probably the 2hours at the end where we had a chance to taste
all the various beer welde produced, free flow.
the pretzel that they served was so yummy, but sadly we could only have one each,
we had such crazy pretzel cravings after haha (oh no i want one now!)

eriko was devil of the night, egging everyone to drink & drink.
but one too many beer later, it was k.o. for her haha.
helped her back to steingarten, sobered up & we talked for a bit.
pretty sure i'ill miss the friends i've made on this trip,
and probably eriko the most since i'm somewhat closest to her.
but it's okay, i now have people to look for when i go to bangkok! (:

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so sat night at zouk,
the bf somehow ended up alone and with my friends & everyone had supper at meng's.
undeniably secretly felt a bit sad to be missing out on all that.
(and dinah's back in sg! please don't let your party energy die out too fast,
wait for me to come back okay thanks haha)
but of course we can't be in two places at once
(even though shane west made it possible for mandy moore in a walk to remember lol).
do not be mistaken though i am having fun & learning a lot here here,
it's been & still is a good experience & i'm glad i decided to come on this trip (:

november is speeding by, it is already the 15th!
so fast so fast, no idea where the first two weeks of the month went.
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awake at 4am equals hungry at 4am equals eating at 4am.
yikes!
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why are concert tickets so expensive :(
$168x1 + $128x1 / $168 x2?
this money can get me a lot of clothes/shoes/a nice bag sigh HAHA.

i just became my 10 year old nephew's first friend on facebook haha;
meet Thomas Poh
(cutey nephew who doesn't love me back, always plays hard to get lol.)

oh these little ones, they are growing up so/too fast!

p.s. timmy/korkor ernest if you are reading this,
is he 10? he is right. i hope i got his age right haha.

and what a story to tell your friends when you grow up.
"yeah my first friend on facebook was my aunt!" lol.
well i hope at least i'll be a cool aunt then :B

not feeling like much of a narrative.
beautiful Praha, pictures speak for themselves (:

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a few days late,
but happy belated 21st my dearest CHUBBZCOUZ! (lollollol)
wow this picture is more than a year ago, doesn't really feel like it.
jsqs; happy birthday, we've made it to 21 together.
i love you! ♥

and apparently according to johannes, at some point,
i did cross the 200 mark.
woohoo! :D

best advice from an auntie;

"dont think just buy. you need them there.
but dont tell your mom i said so"

:D ♥
auntie jenny ftw!