Graduation !

16th November has always been a special date to me, being Taupok and I's anniversary.

16th Nov 2015 is additionally special because it's Graduation Day!

Made the mistake of not taking photos with family when I got my diploma.

Not gonna make that same mistake for my Bachelor's!

Truth be told, other than a rush of achievement, 

I feel a great relief, a burden lifted from my shoulders.

God knows it has not been easy juggling school and full-time work (and part-time too, actually) at the same time.

So many people my grateful souls want to thank.

Me and the lotuses from my Ahgong's niche.

He died 2 months before TP convocation, and he isn't here to see me don the mortarboard either.

But Ahgong, I know you're seeing this from heaven and very proud of me.

I still miss you and love you very much.

The second most important woman in my life. Ahma <3 p="">♥ 

She raised me up through my childhood, and scolded and nagged at me more than my mom.

Ahma has always been very worried that I was stressing myself too much, juggling too many things.

Never mind Ahma, the awesome dishes you cook with love every Sunday helps! :D

My three aunts, aka fairy godmothers.

They are an integral part of my childhood years too, 

The love they showered on me and jh definitely demonstrated to me the unconditional love of family.

More than anything they taught us the right values.

大姑姑

You've taught me how to care for every single member of the family, big or small.

You've taught me kindness and compassion, doing what is morally right.

I've learnt to look out for people around me because you have done so for the family too.

二姑姑

You were always the most strict of the three 姑姑s

I still rmb you banned us from reading ghost stories and locked my books in your cupboard HAHA

You've taught me that discipline is needed, but can be tempered with love.

You've shown us that perseverance is truly a key to success, that hard work will always pay off in the end.

三姑姑

The youngest and prettiest of them all. The most hiao too, HAHAH!

She's the one I turn to for beauty advice heheh.

Beyond skincare, she's also taught me tenacity; 

stick stubbornly to your beliefs and not to be easily swayed by naysayers.

大姑姑 and 大姑丈

Dr Lee has been vital the development of my literary skills, hahah!

He's the reason why I love reading.

Every evening when he comes for dinner I'd grab a book and get him to read to me.

And afterwards I progressed to reading for him.

Now he comes to me for e-book downloads HAHAH.

三姑姑, 三姑丈 and Chuanjie!

三姑丈 is super annoying cause he's sibei gl. Shit that comes out of his mouth sometimes..

But underneath it all he's really caring and looks out for his family members a lot.

Like during ahgong's funeral he helped with many arrangements while all of us were lost in grief.

叔叔，婶婶 , Ethel and Wayne!

One with Ahma, aunts and uncle.

Okay then madness HAHAH.

With the kachengs!

Aka the annoying little shits I am supposed to be an example for..

Sucks being the eldest (yup, even in the extended family) sometimes.

But seriously, everyone excels differently so I don't think there's anything they need to 'follow' lor.

Except the funny faces. that one can follow.

Graduation Day!

Omg the bear so cute.

Selfie while waiting for people to arrive.. I was so damn early ._.

Yay my VIPs reach liao!

Had to buy extra tickets for ahma and pok, but of course its worth it.

Family is the most important of all in my book.

They're the ones who give you almost everything you need from the start to the end.

My parents might not be rich or highly educated, but their love and concern for me, 

is of more value than anything else.

Dad gave me rides to work cause he says it's 'on the way', 

but he could have picked up other passengers if I wasn't in the car.

Mum asks me if I'm coming back for dinner everyday without fail.

It is the little things that matters most.

Happy Anniversary to us !

Bwahahaha this kind of coincidence is once in a lifetime.

My fellow graduands.

Michele is a classic example of 'don't judge a book by its cover'

Her pattern damn hilarious one, especially when she rushes for mrt seats after class hahaha.

Levon is nuff' said HAHAH. 

My favourite lab partner in the limited no. of modules we managed to take tgt.

Oh yes and my alarm clock during lectures HAHAH!

Basically my only friends in Uni LOLOL #trueintrovert 

And if not for Levon's introduction I seriously doubt I'd even know them.

It's kinda hard to want to socialize after a long day at work and you still have to attend lectures. 

Plus the fact that some people you'll basically only see for one module and sayonara..

And those who just make use of you for lab sessions and answers.

I wish it was me being too wary of people but it is actually the cold hard truth.

For example, one of my bench neighbours was really friendly with everyone across the labs.

So he always has answers from earlier sessions as reference.

He always came late to class, expecting me to help him set up, or even leech my data, 

which of course I didn't allow la!

He once asked me why I was keeping to myself and not 'trying to widen network to make lab sessions easier' -.- 

'Eh cause I'm trying to widen my brains instead' LOLOL my reply #nohecksgiven

Hello Wai Eng :D

Another semi-airhead. This one v easy to scam also hahahah.

Came out and saw my original Bimbo holding flowers AWWWWWW.

When I met her earlier for lunch I still told her not to waste money on flowers some more hahah!

Who knows, she actually got up bright and early to get them with her ahma 

Omg so touched.

The bouquet is damn love la, my favourite blue rose! 

Color combi also like rainbow.

Oh and gimme the penguin!! ♥ 

AHAHAHA the two kats bought me food 真了解我 !!

My favourite Lay's and omg Japanese Cheesecake.

TIE WITH BLUE RIBBON SOME MORE HAHAHAHA.

Feeling all the love.

One with the family! This time with the two sisters.

See ahma smile until so happy hehehe.

With my doppelgangers.. wtf la why they both so tall one.

I'm wearing heels and the mortarboard but jx still looming over me #whatisthis

My best friends at home.

Thanks for tolerating my bullshit when I'm extremely stressed.

While family photoshoot was happening my bffs were entertaining themselves too.

#bitchstand !

Seriously lucky to have these two by my side and keeping me sane, listening to all my rants abt work.

Love how we encourage each other through simple acts like buying koi, and basically being there.

It's not easy to maintain friendships when life puts you into different stages, but I'm glad we made it.

Gonna be even more difficult now cause we're all working shifts in different labs!

#lifeofamedtech 

Of course, at this point I'd inevitably feel a pang of sadness for the other half of my poly clique.

They undeniably played an important part in my life, cause its not like we didn't have great memories and all,

but ultimately they weren't able to balance between their new lives and their old friends.

It was tiring being the one always stretching, reaching out, only to be snubbed.

Nevertheless, thanks for the memories.

AWWWWW GREEN KAT muacks my childhood friend of omg what 16(?!) years

Legitimately watched you grow up, even though we didn't meet each other as much as we do now.

This one, instead of keeping me sane, added some fun insanity to my life :D

 

This one no need to say too much in case I get too sappy HAHAHA.

Thanks pok, my one and only ♥ 

Oh yeah since we're done with photos let's just mess up her graduation robe.

I'm soooo going to hell for imitating nuns.

Selfie spam!!

Tmd this Bowei so joke one. That face!

Received this bouquet and gift at my place a few days later!

Seriously my mum was saying over the phone that "wah taupok so sweet, send flowers!"

I told her it's definitely not him HAHAHA.

Sender is none other than Manlin! :D

She damn cute lor, feel guilty she can't attend me and Michele's grad, so she had these delivered.

And unfortunately she didn't have my address so she turned to my #buddingyeast for help.

So Bimb had to trick me into telling her my own address.. by claiming it's for blogshopping purposes LOL HAHAH.

Didn't suspect anything at all!! #smoothaf

My love for penguins is so widely known sia hahahaha.

Anyway super touched and extremely blessed to have such a thoughtful friend.

I only got to know Manlin better during Uni, when she became my lab partner.

We're so so different in regards to our personalities, yet we could click really well.

I guess the fact that we were in the same work-study balance situation allowed us to understand each other in some ways, 

more than other people could. (:

Oh and her birthday is like, one day before mine! So qiao.

Extremely blessed that I have so many awesome people in my life. (:

(And omg super belated or what, this is almost 1 year after graduation HAHAH)