I would say I'm gladly enjoying the holiday I'm having now since the start of December. It was not a rush into packing everyday with activities and ensuring everyday is well-spent with a load of activities. I didn't actually plan what I wanted to do over the holidays despite having that some ideas during school. I guess that was a form of motivation to keep me sane amidst the stressful period I had some 5 weeks ago.

This holidays were really just taking my mind off everything and recharge. Most of common of all was to kinda of spend two-digit hours worth of sleep in bed if not living a sedentary lifestyle like now typing this post and watching movies/television shows. Other than that, I guess it would be to meet up with old friends!

So the Saturday before Christmas, I met up with John, Cally, Hong Ye and Sok Yee. A little pity that the rest could not make it for the meet up. It was a nice gathering since I haven't really seen any of them for quite sometime. Astons for lunch and basically it was just that, chatting all the way from 1pm to 4pm on top of our constant refills of plain water because we talked too much. Really nice to have met them in person and chat like we had all the time in the world. We'll definitely meet up again when school's about to start, especially when Jesslyn and Ke xin are back!

Last Saturday was another meet up with my awesome section mates! Norman, See Ting, Ami, JJ and Cedric and I went to Sun Island Cafe at Bishan Stadium there. It's was better than what I expected when we reached there. So quiet and it was basically just us the whole afternoon. Lunch and gaming all the way before we headed to Swee Choon for dinner as recommended by See Ting. I haven't been a dim-sum goer even though I do like eating these Hong Kong delights. Nevertheless, it was awesome food with nice company.

Call it fate or what, while we were at Swee Choon, there was a group of people diagonally away from our table and they were from my primary school. Old primary school friends who I haven't seen in years since graduation (really long ago). I was not expecting them to recognise me since they were from another class. Eventually I think they realised and it was quite a coincidence, when my Primary One classmate, Eunice (I can still recall her name!), asked Norman to take a group photo for them. It turned out one of the guys in the group was also Norman's friend. I can't remember his name but yeah it was kinda of awkward I guess? I don't know what's their perspective but oh well, not like I would really meet them again, right?

Nowadays it really seems like wherever I go, I'm bound to bump into someone familiar along the way. If that someone is a familiar face who I know quite well, it would be quite a nice coincidence. If it's the contrary, it's just going to be so awkward. Well, I guess I have got pretty much 'training' for awkwardness since my time in hall during last semester. Nevertheless, awkward situations can be quite a difficulty fix at times I believe.

So there's pretty not much of activities for me this holidays but I'm totally loving it because quality matters more than quantity. Make every outing count and make it great, go big or go home. Plus, I realise that I'm not alone, I just love solitude. Enjoying every moment of my 'ME' time because I haven't had that in the last few months. It would be a pity if I had spent every single day of my holiday either going out or going school. I've come to realise this 'ME' time is hard to come by and I really enjoy it now, be it if it's cuddling in bed for more-than-humanly-sufficient hours or just sitting on the couch living every moment. Plus, as I would be going back to stay in school next semester, every moment at home is kinda of precious now (especially my mum's home cooked meals). I'm not being sore about anything or trying to comfort myself about anything, really. I'm happy for how things are going now and I'm really enjoying this relaxed and 'chill' pace of life that I'm going through during this holidays.

I've also thought to myself sometimes that I'm being a little selfish of my time, or maybe because I fear my time management skills. Because now it's more of studies, family, friends and myself. I know I cannot juggle too much things at one time, so I would rather focus on each and every thing one by one and do it well for each and every one of it. Trade-offs are inevitable I guess? It's impossible to have everything and sometimes, giving something up may allow you to have something else much more. You'll never know, and it doesn't mean that you cannot have everything either. It all depends on how hard you work at it and how committed you are into putting every inch of effort into it. If you can't, then you'll need to review you basket of eggs and determine which is more important to you instead.

Oh my, I can't believe I managed to babble so much when I initially had nothing much to say. Maybe this is what my tutor mentioned about free writing, just letting every thought you come up with flow into words and penned onto paper (in this case typed into this space).

So it's the second last day of my 2013. Now I think I have a better inspiration of what I want to blog about for 2013 tomorrow. So much ideas now, but I shall let it flow out incessantly tomorrow. Enjoy your day!