Been writing for fun less and less, its getting kinda sad. tried posting this just 1 day late but here I am, more or less a week late (again) (sorry)
First off, happy birthday baby! Thank you for being the one constant in my life. I mean, social media is awesome, and talking to people too, but I talk to different people about different things, and somethings I need to just... rant it out on a platform... where people don't react... yeah.
On to the next event! Reflection, month by month (2017)
JANUARY
So beginning of this year, for some reason archie was around so he kept bugging me. Eventually he invited me to go to a drinking party w his mates (i was working half day so he was all "I'll pick uuuu", not realising I was part timing in RRR instead of TAH haha anyway
That night was good I think. Reconnected a little with Nat Chan, drank a little too much, got a little too emotional, broke a brittle railing, lost my glasses momentarily, and drunk drove safely home with archie panicking in the back seat and nat chan shivering cos she had the bright idea to jump into the pool with all her clothes on.
Okay maybe it wasn't one of the best nights but hey, I remember only 50%, so yeay. Renewed vow to not get pissed drunk again. Broke my record of 2 years... ah well
As usual, work at RRR w saput esp embrace was fun, I always enjoy those. Also we had DOE first ever inter school talk (Ravi as speaker) in Sabah Art Gallery.
By the end of the month I realised, hey, I got this. I can finish this year strong.
FEBRUARY
End of Jan was CNY, and I finally reconnected with my Shan Tung side, oh God did I connect with them. They are all huge!! We also gambled a bit, just a bit, mostly cos we were all broke and some players were kids hehe
Marco visited. I've never been happier to see him. I kept telling him to visit again. Brought him to Wild Hogs, and I invited Tatti, of all people.. and saput came alone too cos the meet up was after dinner and saput wanted to try.
I resigned at the end of Feb as March ish I had to go back to Miri dy. I still feel slightly upset I couldn't stay to finish organising that year's RRRide.
MARCH
Ah. Began my 2017 year by going to Tusan and then after sending chan we (me and bud) grabbed syafi and went back to Koffee Brick for... tea. Yeap. Good times
I think the week after that then we had a small futsal match and that was how our "Adventure Time" group was born. Random dinner dates, trips to tusan and trips to canada hill :) I realised I loved the boys at the end of this month, and that I was really thankful to have them as my geng keluar.
APRIL
Ah, the month of changes... and due dates. Went a little cuckoo here but sokay, alls good. I somehow survived. I did ask for one extension, but that was about it. Grad 2017 was painful to attend but I felt a social obligation to go, somehow I knew that if I didn't go I would regret it. And yeah, I don't regret going to congratulate my friends. It was extra painful though when I met Amate's fam bam. His brother looks and sounds so much like him, I nearly cried. A bunch of us hung with them for awhile, I gave Mal some much needed emotional support, and we took photos.
On a side note, the after party was lit. Got drunk on free drinks, nearly didn't have a ride home, and uhh got invited back to someone's hotel room to have more wine... but I felt like puking and the invite was from someone I never expected to be happy to see me soooo yeah i rejected the offer and was like "pls man I want to go home and shower"... and to puke. which I did. Urgh. But I didn't black out, which was nice. Here I learned that the secret was to take it slow and not just chug lmao
MAY
This month was pretty uneventful, except for Cyn's birthday, going Ming's before CYA event and Borneo Jazz and Elaine's farewell party. Cyn's birthday dinner was nice, we got to chill and catch up, me and mandy being the 4th and 5th wheel of the activites, and me and cyn connected the dots/story between clin and nelson's breakup. Ming's before CYA event (which I got Jordan to volunteer for hehehe) was half a mistake as Bren got too drunk to drive back and Jer was there. Yeah. Half a mistake. Borneo Jazz was nice, as I finally got to do back stage (while panicking about assignments). Elaine's extended farewell party was a good night, even though bren couldn't come :c it was a chill night, got nice and buzzed with beer.
oops, almost forgot my last Gawai as a student. Fuck that night, I barely remembered it. It began as usual, with the food not cooked yet. So I spent my first 2 hours there bbq-ing. I mixed too many things together and weu ended up home somehow, 6 hours later. My whole room stank and I didn't shower. Probably my worst blackout yet..... Hungover for 2 days, and my streak went back to zero.
JUNE
Here I managed to get DOE Sabah to Curtin, and somehow my parents managed to fit in my room lol so smol that space, I was so stressed.
Semi surprised Syafi on his birthday, but then got stuck with a MAS flight that got cancelled. On another note, met Yazid and Melon when I went to LBN Transit :)
The other highlight was at the end of the month we went to Weston and I got to see fireflies in the wild, as well as Seanna actively believing that it was magic. So cute, I STG
JULY
Met up with Bel and Joanne (of all people), who I haven't seen in years... Good 2 hours talk. Also had a brief conversation with a cute guy who was semi making fun of me and my indecision at the counter. If only we can meet again!
Finally got my teeth x-rayed, and to top it off I decided that I was going to do my FYP on an organisation based in KK.
I went scouting lo, went to interview Bentarakata and Changgih Designs. Bentarakata was nice, they are a good platform for expression. But CD jugala I chose, mostly because B was still new, and doing the video for them would require a lot of time which I foresaw that I would not have.
Before I flew back to Miri I froze my butt off with Brit at Huonon Ridge. Highly recommended. 11/10 would go again.
End of the month I was back in Miri, and even though my house got broken into, I still managed to find a way to deal with it. Thank you Adventure Time for being a part of that way. Random breakfast trip turned boat ride and BBQ party at my place really helped, especially with that CAH game X)
AUGUST
Ah. The month of change.
We lost Marco.
For the few of us who considered him a close bud, it broke our hearts. I was freaking out in class. I thank God everyday that Mandy was with me in class otherwise, how the hell would I have dealt? I would have left class and gone straight to the marketing officer who messaged me. But anyway more on that in another post, otherwise this is going to be a little long
Hanley dropped by for a week. Nice seeing my ol pal. Shame Chan wasn't around or we would have had a proper reunion.
Had a semi falling out with Nat Chan, more HS drama, urgh. I ranted to Chris though so at least I got that out of my system.
Also, Ms T made it her business to get into our business, just to keep an eye on us I suppose. Her dogs are adorable.
Also, Ms T made it her business to get into our business, just to keep an eye on us I suppose. Her dogs are adorable.
SEPTEMBER
Ran into Chiew Hui at Ming's, of all places. Bought a happy meal just to collect Marci. Also finally paid off my Spotify haha
Got really emotional on our drinking night for Marco after AT left. I lost I think 2 hours of the night, in which somehow I decided to save 2 black people's numbers before my phone died. They tried calling after me and bren left, but yeah my phone was ded so heheh
This was also the month of shooting. Mini project and Major. Gila IDK I think was semi running on adrenalin and disappointment, but at least my video of Changgih Designs made up for the lack of effort me and Lan Ning put in our online side hehe
Proud to say now however (7 Jan 2018) my streak is back at 3 months. Hoping to keep it going till forever.
OCTOBER
Josey and Dani were in Miri this month, managed to get to hang with em for a while (in the middle of assignment stresssSSssSss but how often do you see them kan)
Papa got the abnormal growth cut out, thank God he survived that, and managed to finish editing my video, to the best of my ability. Kinda proud of it. Wish I had more time to review though, cos now I see so many tiny mistakes I wish I had noticed earlier, and they probably costed me marks
NOVEMBER
With the semester ending and final parties to attend, I say not much was really "happening" here. Esther visited on the day of my paper, so I had a good long quality catch up time with here. I attended my final CSS Campus Mass, kinda sad not many people came though. Managed to somewhat pull together a bbq party with Lan Ning in which only Ngu and Jamba came, as well as like 5 other people. I dubbed Jamba as Firelord Jamba that night as he basically came and saved us aha. Then I went drinking with Bren and Brian 2 nights before we left Miri.
DECEMBER
I went to Lok Kawi Wildlife Park, finally, and as usual find the birds most interesting. Although the Ankol was pretty neat as well.
Attended OBS for 4D3N (amazing btw everyone should go if they can)
And landed a job in an online store, based in Beverly Hills.
Good ending to an Impossible Year, I think.
That was a reference to P!ATD btw look it up
