The School Break Snapshots

(A shot of one of my besties' shoes and mine, now the cover picture for my Facebook account)

I love taking photos randomly in the middle of the day, especially during holidays when I ain't got anything to do. And just 2 days ago, my 1 week school break ended.
Unfortunately I had to end the one week of freedom connected to an IV pole and stuck behind the depressing walls of the hospital :( Yes, I was admitted again. But I managed to capture a few moments of my happiest days of the 1 week break :) Here are the pictures;

The most memorable highlight of this school break is going out to Pavillion with my new found bestie, Celina Bear :) We had LOADS of fun going window shopping (hunting for matching items that we can both wear at school), watching the new movie Lorax (packed with cuteness, enjoyed the little woodland creatures. Singing fishes, cuddly bears, big yellow birds, how awesome can that be?) and eating ice-cream together.
Found matching handphone key-chains!

My favorite picture of us both with smiles from ear to ear.
A 4 framed picture! :D I always enjoy a good four-framed picture :p As you can see, we had some lighting difficulties (picture 2 and 3, the downside of taking photos with a 4th Generation iTouch camera) but I think this was a success as we set themes for each frame. Love the 4th picture, finger-touch-sisters forever!
The Baskin Robbins part of the outing ;D Please excuse my messy hair, lets just say it wasn't a very good hair day :/ I had Rainbow Sorbet (my all time favorite, I only eat non-fat or less-fat ice cream) and Celina had Cotton Candy which she raved about the whole time we were enjoying our cold treats. Whats your favorite Baskin Robbins ice-cream flavor? :)

BEST OUTING EVER!
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One of my FAVORITEEE t-shirts this month, my Lucy Van Pelt t-shirt from Uniqlo's Peanuts clothing line.
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On Wednesday, after we collected my sister's SECOND pair of retainers (she got lectured a few times by our parents after not taking good care of her previous one which 'shrunk' according to her), Mom took us to the Korean marts at Ampang to get some snacks and treats for lunch. Both my sister and I had some refreshing Pear flavored Popsicles to suck on along the way home :) a must try!

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The weather was extremely humid during the week; so after Dad serviced the air cons in the bedroom, we had good comfortable nights of sleep :) To celebrate the cool temperature in the bedroom, I took some hilarious pictures with my friend, Pooh :p
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One of the highlights of the week was sitting in the air-conditioned room and sketching pictures of Disney Characters. I shall share on my blog some of my sketches in the future posts :) Felt like a professional artist the whole time but I was actually copying the sketches from the original ones I found online xD some artist :/
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The last few snapshots of my week are focusing on Mom's super delicious Japchae :D I was all-smiles gobbling down my mouth-watering lunch. Noodles were bouncy and chewy, just how I like it.
For those of you who haven't got a clue on what Japchae is, here's a little description of this yummy dish from my go-to website for knowledge, Wikipedia;)

Japchae (jabchae, chapchae) is a Korean dish made from sweet potato noodles (called dangmyeon), stir fried in sesame oil with various vegetables (typically thinly sliced carrots, onion, spinach, and mushrooms), sometimes served with beef, and flavoured with soy sauce, and sweetened with sugar. It is usually served garnished with sesame seeds and slivers of chili. It may be served either hot or cold.

Well, this is basically all the snapshots I have gathered. It was a good 1 week break, now it's time to put on my thinking caps and head back to school. Well, that is, after I get loads of rest and boost up my energy :)

Unicorn

This picture just makes me smile :)

C.S Lewis once said "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another,"What! You too? I thought I was the only one", and I've found my 'another person' to say that to. I'm going to keep this special someone nicknamed as Unicorn (something she admires dearly).

I once wrote an essay about my best friend (not Unicorn), which I wrote most about how amazing she was instead of emphasizing how much we bonded and clicked as friends. And I realized that as time passes by, our strong friendship seems to diminish. I'm not implying that we are no longer friends, I do want to keep our friendship going, treating it like the 'good ol' days' or in other words, wonderful memories (the ones where I'll look back and smile). My point is, the both of us spent many good times together but we had so many differences, as time goes by, it parted us.

On the other hand, the Unicorn and I haven't spend a lot of time together but through the internet we are able to bond with each other and chat about things we go through. We share a lot of similarities, like being so different in a school full of people who seem to be able to click with one another easily, or, taking interest in childish things like unicorns and magical worlds while girls our age are filling the time shopping for clothes and talking about boys. I mean we do talk about boys and shop for girly things, but most of time we get lost in our very own world where shopping malls or flirting does not exist. I like building castles in the air, and I'm sure the Unicorn does too.

I must say that I have quite an old-fashion personality. Sure, I do surf the internet and browse through videos on YouTube but sometimes Facebook bores me (which sounds insane to teenagers of this generation who log on to Facebook to quench their boredom). Eventually, I run out of videos to watch on YouTube, run out of thoughts to tweet, and run out of people to 'chat' with on Facebook. But mainly, the only reason I log on to Facebook nowadays is to have my 'therapy' session with the Unicorn. Besides chatting with the Unicorn about my day, there's simply nothing to entertain me on Facebook. Being a girl so different like me, you can't strike up a conversation with random classmates anytime because there's simply no similar interests I share with other teenagers and soon the conversation goes dry that you end by saying 'BRB' (be right back) and never come back.

But it's ALWAYS different when it comes to Unicorn, our conversation rarely goes dry, it goes on and on. Which amazes me because I haven't had a solid long chat with other teenagers in ages. And so, I am grateful to have at least someone on this planet who knows how I feel (and mean it), share the same interest, and has the ability to keep a conversation going with just anything that comes up to her mind. What I love about Unicorn is that she never fails to give long replies (something that teenagers nowadays rarely do. They give 'one-word' replies such as 'k', 'oh','cool' and 'bye), and they are pack full with good English. Chatting with her is like sitting in for an English conversation class. She expresses excellently through her words and it's like you can hear her voice without actually hearing it.

Something that I love to do through the week is pouring out how I feel and how my day is to her over Facebook chat. It's really like a 'therapy session'. And I never fail to leave a chat with her feeling encouraged, flattered, satisfied and relieved. I'd really like to thank her for being such a remarkable listening and a true friend that I can relate to. If you ask me to name out a thousand things that God has bless me with, you can be a 100% sure to hear the word Unicorn coming out of my mouth because she is indeed a blessing. I pray that our friendship will continue to be stronger year after year and that both the two of us grow up to be extraodinary women of God, accomplishing tasks together :)

I love you, Unicorn :) Thanks for being there and for being you!

Love,

D.L.F