First week of...

Full-time course load while working = madness. Especially when there's the killer psych testing module which involves conducting 4 rounds of different assessments & writing 4 full psych reports in less than 3 months?!? Though I know this is gonna be a super useful & enriching course and the one which provides the training most applicable for my future work, I'm still really freaked out by the assignments. Anyhow, enough of studies and on to nicer things..

Recent nail art:
Inspired by my band uniform in sec sch













Nautical













City lights













In celebration of national day @ work
 













And recent gastronomical activities @...
Tiong Bahru Bakery (which serves the best croissants I've ever tasted)










 TWG

GWP hotel's high tea













Carpenter & Cook's scrumptious tarts

And I'll like to end off by showing some love for Harry Potter, my comical dad & my bestie who's getting hitched in Nov!

Fire!

The weather's maddening these days. Where is the rain & wind?!?!?! Our school had a fire drill today but while we were supposed to evacuate the building & escape from the "fire", we were ironically entering real fire because the sun & heat was burning everyone up. Seriously, it was hot enough to start a fire & cook my lunch on the ground.

The elegance of the hedgehog.

It's been ages since I've picked up such a good book which makes me laugh & cry and that's what Muriel Barbery's novel does. Despite plenty of rather lofty & pretentious discussion and analysis over art, literature & philosophy (e.g. what makes a table a table, how humans are nothing more than primates, the awareness of time due to the falling of a rose petal etc.) and the exaggerated praise for Japanese culture, which is typical of the French & most of which I don't get anyways, the style of writing is a delightful mixture of lucidity, wit, humour, sarcasm, intelligence, subtlety and poignancy. The ending was so beautifully expressed that I actually teared and I hardly ever cry when reading novels. And I really really love Paloma & her perspectives and the way she grows and matures as a person; she's really one of my all-time favourite characters from a novel!

Now it's time to watch the film adaptation and see how it compares to the book. Next up on my list: Hector and the search for happiness. And I really hope that I'll be able to get my hands on The particular sadness of lemon cake soon!

Nail @rt

First time doing ombre/gradient nails and I almost died. This is by far the most difficult design i've tried. Took hours and re-did it so many times only for it to turn out to be something crappy like this:















And being extremely dissatisfied, youtubed another design with a much better tutorial and clearer instructions. And though it's far from perfect, this one took just one try, lesser time and turned out much nicer!
 














Hols are (sadly) over and it's back to seeing the kids again tomorrow. Hope this term's a smooth one, especially with a new partner and my new study term beginning in another month's time.

Barely a week.

And I'm already missing him so much...
 


















One more week before sch term ends at work and....June hols arrive and most importantly, Korea in 2 weeks time!! Absolutely CAN'T wait for the break after months of exhausting work + studies since the start of this year. So much has happened over the last few weeks: good news, sad news, bad news, anticipation, closures, grief, acceptance, stress, exhaustion. Really, a swirl of emotions have overtaken my senses in such a short period of time. I'm really really thankful that all these happened AFTER my study term ended or I don't know how I'll be able to deal with it all.

In loving memory....

Of my dear little boy who has passed on after more than 10 years with us.

On his last night with us (10th May)















All that's left of him in a box.

May day

Really likeee this video!...And safari week for me nails :)