you're not worth ruining my day

Hello readers, yesterday's adventure time led me to a park behind the stadium. The weather was perfect, my mood was over the moon and I made swans my favourite type of bird. They're majestic and so will I be in the future, maybe, I hope. 



I can't wait for spring when flowers start blooming and trees start growing back their leaves.

♥

fun fact #11

I hate the sound of clocks ticking, one of the main reasons why I don't wear watches.

thank you

Picture was taken nearby University on one fine beautiful afternoon

"You are confident,

You are able,

You are very bright,

I could put you with anyone and

I know you can work very well with them."

Blog Dedication #1 Christabelle Yap Xing Ning

Hello readers, an explanation for why I'm going to start posting blog dedications is just to show my appreciations and to state my memories, embarrassing moments and the little things I share with the person I dedicate the blog post to. The sequence of my blog dedications do not apply to who I'm closest to or most favourite, I just post blog dedications for a particular person when I feel like it because I'm a shameless princess that do whatever I want, wherever and whenever.

11.11.2013

Where do I start with you, wifey?

Should I go back to my oldest memory of you? Well, I would say my oldest memory of you was going to Gayana Island with a huge group of church members when we were probably seven years old if I'm not mistaken. I got a picture of you in the boat sitting next to Nehemiah's mom in my room back in Malaysia. We had a bunch of mutual friends but never really interacted when we were younger. As years go by, I remember being in Club 61 with you during primary six in Glory Kids when we had to separate from the primary 1-5 that get story time in the old GK hall. Still, we weren't as close but I remember you constantly without fail will always have your red metal cover bible with you every single Sunday. Do you remember collecting GK coupons and saying our memory verse to collect chops?

Only after the China+Hong Kong trip then we got closer but of course not forgetting all the hours of church dance practices for about 3 consecutive years. Years of thick make-up, our whole body being glitter bombed, having a nervous breakdown before going on stage and singing "Feliz Navidad" after every Christmas performance, those were the times. Even during the China+Hong Kong trip we weren't exactly close, I don't know the reason why. We started bonding because you and I were the only ones that got to skip orientation classes for dancing and skip dancing practice for the holiday trip.

When junior year started, I remember visiting you next door where you introduced me to Shafie. It was probably at the last row of the class and I'm sure you remember him wearing his black jacket with colourful printings of the word 'Quiksliver'. For the years of 2008-2011, I remember proposing to you with a popped balloon ring during youth and asking you to be my wife somewhere around there. I don't quite remember having you in my life as often other then interacting in youth from time to time. During Senior One, I remember you performing for Tshung Tsin Star with your classmates. I cheered loudly for you, really loud that I might have gotten a few death stares.

In the year 2012, our relationship became stronger because I was always visiting your class during break time to find my group of girls. From there, I remember writing long letters which took you very long to reply but appreciated it when you did because I know how busy you can get being all smart and a prefect. It was also the time when I fell in love with your maid's prawn corn soup. One of the warmest and most favourite memory of you was that you brought fried rice for me on Valentine's day. I loved it that you did so. Not forgetting the beautiful card you made on my birthday with my name all glitterfied. Thank you.

For the whole year of 2013, I cannot be grateful enough that you were there to be my pillar to keep me sane. Over the nine months in the city, you were always there even though I know how busy you can get with your activities and work. From cooking together, swimming, gyming, shopping, having casual/serious talks, going to church, eating out, watching movies together and so on, you were always a great person to be around with. We may not see eye to eye from time to time but it's ok, it's normal for husbands and wives to have disagreements. I really appreciate for all you've done last year and I do miss you, just that I'm the kind of person that don't exactly fancy confessing emotional feelings up front and when pressured.

For all the little events or big events that I remember or forgotten, I just want to tell you that you played an important role in moulding me into the person I am today.

Thank you, wifey.

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"Telling someone they can't be sad because other have it worse is like saying someone can't be happy because others have it better."

Valentine's Shmalentines

Happy belated Valentine's day, readers.

I wanted to wish you guys with a picture of bbq pork ribs right in your face. Anyways, I had a lovely day in university like any other day and received Twix from a nice friend passing out chocolate to brighten everybody's day. University is a little hectic this past week because lecturers are throwing assignments at us like they were Oprah Winfrey.

"You get an assignment!" "You get an assignment!" "Everybody get assignments!"

In the bright side, we have a week free of classes because it's consolidation week where we catch up with our reading and complete our assignments. After classes, honeybee and I did a little grocery shopping in Tesco Express for dinner because we were still deciding on whether to cook Western or order delivery and just pig out. However, God shone a light to us to cook Western because there was a sale on two full rack marinated bbq pork ribs for only £6.50, amen. Popped them into the oven when we got home while I prepared the sides. Boiled carrots, boiled broccoli which I then heated them up in a pan with a bit of butter, boiled potatoes and mashed them while adding milk, butter and salt and lastly, pan cooked sliced mushrooms to top them off on the mash potatoes. To make our night even better, we watched "About time" while eating dinner and it was unexpectedly brilliant, 9/10. And what more I can dress as sloppy as I want with my messed up hair all over the place. Well, that was how my valentine's day went. Nothing special, just good food, good movie, good company, the way I like it.

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This picture was taken on the 6th floor of the Newcastle City Library. For this week's british institutes and culture class, we had to visit the library and The Laing Art Gallery. It was lovely, nothing spectacular but just lovely.

And for these couple pictures of little amount of miserable snow on the ground, was the morning after my first encounter with snow the night before. It was on a cold tuesday evening, 11th February 2014. Study clinic for my study skills class with a time dragging lecturer was finally over and just when everybody exited the building, it looked like it was drizzling. Despite that, the rain drops became thicker and shocked as I was, it was snowing. My feelings at that time was indescribable. I wanted to call up all my favourite people, I wanted to stick my tongue out, I wanted to give everybody a hug but I couldn't. It was mesmerising, it got me just gazing as the snow continue falling. I was smiling ear to ear as I walked back home.

I'm a happy girl and couldn't ever be thankful enough to God for making me one.

Sarah goes to Liverpool

fun fact #10

I wore a giraffe headband to my first concert which was Super Junior's Super Show 2 in the year 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

dream journal #11

9th February 2014

I dreamt this dream on the way back to Newcastle upon Tyne from Liverpool in the bus. Petra and I were sitting next to each other and I slept throughout the journey because if I don't, I might get motion sickness which was triggered during the journey to Liverpool because one of my friend's perfume was too strong for me to handle. Anyways, as I fell asleep in reality, in my dream I woke up in the same seat of the bus. I remember the bus going in a strangely fast pace than usual and right that second, we crashed through a road block and plunged into a lake. Right before hitting the water, everything was slow motion. I saw people covering their faces before impact, I saw things slowly falling from the compartment above, I saw Petra looking forward in shock. I was holding onto my bag and jacket but I manage to grab hold of Petra's hand to brace for the impact.

As soon as we hit the water, the slow motion turned back to normal speed. I unbuckled myself from the seatbelt and stand up to look around. There was a crack in the windscreen in front and water was entering really quickly. I grabbed the glass hammer at the side of the window and told everybody to wait because we had to wait for the bus to be filled with water before breaking the windows. I remember reading from the internet that if we were to break the glass when there is still space for air, the water will push its way in making us impossible to push our way out. There were four emergency glass hammers in the bus and I was holding to one of them. Not long after, the water level was already reaching the top level. Everybody took a big breathe and the ones with the hammer broke the side windows for everyone to escape. I had the hammer on one hand and held Petra's hand on the other before smashing the window into pieces. I lost grip of Petra's hand when swimming out of the bus to get to the surface for air.

It was freezing cold but I gathered all my energy to shout Petra's name and find her. I panicked like a little kid losing their parent in a carnival or supermarket because I couldn't see her anywhere from my view. Few minutes passed which felt like hours in the freezing cold water, I heard my name being called not far from where I was. Petra swam towards me and we both hugged each other feeling relieved and swam to shore. At the end, I remember getting out of the water and just lying on the ground slowly closing my eyes, that was when I woke up from my dream.

gold, glory, gospel

Life is just perfect.

Everything is going so smoothly and everybody have been so nice to me. I pray that life goes on to becoming even brighter and for more happier days ahead. Visited the Discovery Museum yesterday with my classmates for British Institutes and Culture class. I love it that we get to visit a different museum every single week and what more it's for a class that we get to explore museums. I've also grew closer to my classmates, they're all really nice and 'special' in their own ways. Of course, life is not going let me ride it so smoothly. I lost one of my favourite earrings today, it was a gold stud. I remember getting it for a cheap price and wearing them countless times because it went well with anything I wore. In the bright side, my other pairs of earrings will get the opportunity to be worn more by me. I talking so much jibber jabber, you guys probably stopped reading halfway and scrolled down to see pictures only. With that, I shall go tuck into bed and read a good book.

Goodnight and have a nice day everyday.
♥