yohoo! alright, i'm back again. but not much interesting stuffs to update on, because most of the holis are spent revising j1 stuffs or simply, just slacking. =) i believe that this entry will be quite lengthy due to my sudden inspiration. HAHA

and so finally i got to meet my dear 2e3`o4 peeps. not everybody may have attended the gathering because of projects and stuffs, but it's still enjoyable. you know, sitting around 1 table together eating steamboat, it always gives me a good feeling. and the food there was also not bad, making it even better. tried to secretly get cakes for our dearest lamey but still failed to make it without her knowing it. becos i think it was just too obvious.
but whatever it is, as long as everyone is happy, everything is just worth it. i wish we can have more of these gatherings often but it's kind of impossible due to everyone's busy schedule and different holidays. wanted to have a chalet in dec but there wasnt any available slots even though most people's schedule allowed them. So, perhaps we have to postpone it to next year already.
still, i hope i'll be able to organise more of 2e3 gatherings so that we can meet up often to catch up with each other's lives. x)


and so today, all of the families went to my grandparents' house to celebrate one of our cousin's bday. it's really very heartwarming to see everyone gathering there like we used to in the past. no doubt we have less of such gatherings now, but it is when we don meet so much, then we have so much to talk about when we meet. LOL and it really feels good to just sit there and chit chat about anything under the sun. through all these, i can really feel the power of a united and big family. it's all this that made my life, filled with so much happiness.

just recently, the cousins' blog suddenly just came alive. LOL as in almost all just go in to blog or tag. and seeing them trying to organise an outing for all the cousins, it feels really good. now, it seems like all of us have really grown up a lot as compared to the past. seriously, i really do miss the past when we were really kind of innocent. like during christmas in the past, we used to queue up 1by1 to take our presents and open them up 1by1 to see what we've received and you can always see a smile on our face with whatever we have got. thinking back now, i really do miss those times. also, like they organise some x'mas party and included some games, and we have to do forfeit sometimes, all these i can still remember them, clearly.

now that we've all grown up, we may have our own activities during x'mas or whatever, but we still never fail to make it to celebrate with all the cousins and even adults. just last year when my aunt went overseas and no one organised any party. we cousins just took our own initiative and went for dinner at swensens together. even if it's just a simple meal, we all still enjoyed sitting together and doing funny stuffs and chatting about anything. it is all these gatherings that really enable me to feel the warmth from family. to be honest, i don't see many friends around me having these kind of such close kinship with their cousins. therefore, all the more i feel that i should treasure this bonding with all of them. way to go, my dear cousins!!!

this break is left with a month to go, it's time for me to start mugging already. sigh... work hard!