CHERYL

Got up at 8:59 today just for breakfast, and man I was so tired despite sleeping for more than eight hours ahah. I had two huge bowls of weetabix again, and I love it so much I think I can have them for breakfast everyday without fail HEH. Then I got back to my room and spent some time on my phone looking for dental clinics in Hobart, and called some of the clinics but all of them were closed except for Moonah's, but unfortunately Moonah doesn't have orthodontists so, SIGH. I'm currently planning to go for the one in the same town as soon as I can next week, and unfortunately they are only open on weekdays so I've to make do with it despite my busy timetable.
I spent the morning doing some online shopping, so I was browsing online until Ivan and Eddy asked if I wanted to head to town with them. I told them to go ahead and that Fathin and I will join them later in the afternoon, and so we headed to city at 12 noon. I got a large tanktop, a skirt and a romper all for 50 bucks, and I'm satisfied with my loots of the day heeeh. I also wanted a pair of boots for winter, but it was way too pricey so I didn't get any ahah. Then we had lunch at a kebab store, and I got meself some vegetarian kebab which sucked because of the weird tasting garlic sauce lol, oh and I also got myself a tweezer from Target and some clif bars from the health store to try heeeh. Then upon getting home I immediately cleaned up my room and started vacuuming because I'm #housewifematerial ahahah. But after I showered and got ready to just chill in my room and do some blogging till dinner time, Eddy barged into my room and stole my bunny slippers and pooh bear lol. Then slowly more people started coming into my room, and I forgot how all of that happened because it was too fast and then I ended up talking to Eddy, Timothy, Aniq and Gen in my room. Juanny found my Youtube channel so everyone outside my room was watching my videos, and man I swear that was the most embarrassing shit ever and I just wanted to dig a hole and never come out ahah. They were like literally watching my videos just few metres away from me, and they kept laughing at it and oh my god I really wanted to rot instantly ahahah. A few more people found my blog too, and man I swear it's getting so awkward and I'm starting to feel SO insecure ahah. I'm fine with people reading my blog, but now that it's spreading so fast I feel like I'm getting way too exposed, and that makes me feel so insecure and helpless aaaaaah. Anyhoo, I deleted the video 'You're enough' on my channel because I didn't want more people to watch that ):



Most of them left for the SSS (Singapore's Student Society) event at the pier after dinner so the hostel was quite empty, and I didn't go because I was too lazy ahah. So I walked to Coles with Fathin and we stocked up on some essentials, and I stocked up on So Good's soy milk and guess what, I FINALLY got the ice cream!!! I've been wanting to buy since few weeks ago when I was in Melbourne ahah and I decided to just get it heheh. So after I got home I just took my macbook out and started blogging while snacking on a nectarine and some (sour af) strawberries heh. It was a peaceful me-time alone until some of them came to chill too, then I went to stargaze afterwards heeeh. I've been wanting to stargaze at night alone to spend some me-time alone and do some thinking, but because I don't have the keys yet it's definitely not ideal to be out there alone ahah. So I was really hyped when I heard some of them were going to stargaze outside, and man there is something I SERIOUSLY love doing: stargazing alone while listening to some classical music, man THAT'S LYF. I'd do that every night if I could, ahah. So it was a beautiful night with stargazing, and then Aniq and I chatted outside and came in when it was just too cold ahah, and afterwards we just chilled at the common area outside my room talking to some of them, like Timothy and Gen. I went to bed at 12:30 and fell asleep really soon after because my stomach wasn't feeling too well, but it was a really chill and great day nonetheless.

Somehow I feel like this whole #346daysofgratitude thing has took over my entire blog, and like what a friend told me it's more like a diary than a blog, and hearing that makes me kinda sad ahah. It used to be a platform where I blog about my life and about random topics, but now it's just a logging diary just like Dayre. But don't worry everyone, I'll be back with 'proper' posts soon, and I guess I'll switch to blogging from time to time. Meanwhile, enjoy reading this diary! Ahaha.

I had three bowls of weetabix for breakfast with blueberries and soy milk, and man I'm loving weetabix so much now heheh. It's like my staple breakfast now because it's soft and it doesn't hurt my ulcers when I eat because it's soft and soggy with milk, so YUM. I didn't even realise that Bob wasn't driving today because I slept early last night, so when John was about to leave I asked him where he was going and thank goodness I did, because if not I would have taken my own sweet time ahah. So I quickly ran to the kitchen to prepare lunch, and made a peanut butter banana oatmeal in the microwave heh.
Today was another long and draining day of school, and man I seriously dislike 3.5h lessons because they are SO dreadful. I had three hours of English in the morning, then another 3.5h of Math in the afternoon and I was so done with life afterwards lol. Math seemed to be never-ending, and I even fell asleep in class because I was so drained (almost I meant, since Fathin woke me up a second before I was ABOUT to fall asleep).


Tonight's dinner was fried rice, and man it was so tasty I had three servings of rice ahah. I had double portions of rice for the first round because when the guy gave me my first serving I turned to Christie and said, "Can I have more please..):" and she gave me ahahah. But being a pig as usual, I asked for seconds so that was my third serving, so I had hell lot of rice for that dinner but I was still NOT satisfied. So I finished all my digestives and lots of seaweed crackers for dessert/supper afterwards in my room, but I still WASN'T full ahahah. Something must have gotten into me today lol, I can't seem to ever feel full.
It was a really tiring day and I was really drained out at the end of it, so I wanted to turn in early at 8:30 but stupid Wen kept disturbing me so I ended up keeping him company while he read his fricking book, and then only got to sleep an hour after. I haven't talked to him in ages and so I wanted to talk a little but that guy never gets serious so it really sucks talking to him ahahah. And he seems to have a fetish for my bunny slippers, and couldn't stop threatening me by telling me that he would kidnap them from my room while I was still in school, grr.
Oh and right, welcome to this blog Aniq! Giving you a shoutout since you read my blog instead of paying attention to your lecture just now ahahha. This is probably my shortest post ever, but goodnight everybadi. I'm dead beat!

I think I've to start making a point to draft my post after each afternoon because I'm so bad at remembering what happened more than two days ago ahah. I honestly can't remember what I did on this day, but I have the worst timetable for thursdays so I had to survive a loooooooong day in school with four hours of break in between. Well and the worst part was that, I forgot to bring my laptop with me to school because I was rushing to prepare my lunch in the morning. Ahhh so I had to endure four hours of doing absolutely nothing, and the lessons in the day were such a bore. I had three and a half hours of Chemistry lesson today and it was so draining ahah. School's really tiring me out though, I've been so drained ever since lessons started. And it's only the first week of school, AHHH. Well I guess I've to plan out my time better and make full use of it from next week onwards heh.


YES, I finally managed to wake up for a run! While I was still in bed all I wanted to do was to grab the blanket and sleep in for another forty-five minutes, but I was just like HECK THIS I should just get up and do it, because if I don't I know I never will ahah. So I quickly got changed and met Amelia outside the entrance just before she decided to not wait for me and leave, so we jogged from the hostel, to the bicycle lane and fro, then we went to the steep hill near the bridge to do some incline cardio. I was actually just planning to run up and down the hill five times at most, but Amelia suggested the bicycle lane so I thought why not check it out heeh. My stamina has taken a plunge after almost six months of no running, and man I was out of breath after barely a km because of the chilly weather. It was my first time running in a cold climate and it was obviously not ideal for me because I have relatively weak lungs and it's difficult for me to breathe in cold climates and anywhere cold. It has been something I've endured since young, and sometimes even in air-conditioned malls or rooms I experience the same condition too, and it always gets better and well after being in a warmer place. My lungs were definitely working harder than usual, and man it was so hard to keep up at the second half because I couldn't breathe well but I only stopped after I was about to reach the end. I stopped to catch my breath, then slowly walked towards the hill and did incline, well it was a little intense but I personally prefer incline more than flat roads ahaha. We ran up for only three times because I suggested to do only one lol, and when we were on our way to the hill we bumped into the hostel's cleaner and we greeted each other heh. And because Amelia left the door ajar since she didn't bring out the keys, he remembered after he locked it after he left and then walked back again to unlock the door. He's literally one of the warmest people I've ever seen, and he just looks so darn kind aww. I always see him in the hall and in the kitchen cleaning and every time he sees me he would give me a smile and greet me good morning. I seriously love kind-looking people like him, and I'm not close enough to say that he indeed is (but well I'm sure he is anyway ahaha) and it's always so nice and comforting to see his lovely, warm smile.

As soon as we got back I took a cold shower and then had breakfast afterwards, and since I wasn't hungry I just took a bowl of cereal, packed some sandwiches and left. I brought two sandwiches to school and a box of rice from yesterday's leftovers, and then had a looooong day at school ahah. I had pumpkin soup and pesto pasta for dinner today, and man it was the hardest dinner ever because my ulcers were literally screaming in pain, and after that dinner I immediately went to the toilet to brush my teeth and tried to break the wire, but to no avail. If you've read my earlier posts you would have learnt that I've a protruding wire at the back of my mouth and it has been hurting me since almost a month ago, and I've been ignoring it and enduring the pain for so long. And it has caused six mouth ulcers, and on top of that it wouldn't stop poking the ulcers and hurting them more because it was still at the same spot. So I literally spent almost two hours trying to break the wire myself, but came to a realisation that my dentist had given me one of the thickest wires so it was almost impossible to break it. Basically I tried all sorts of ways to get it out of my braces but it just wouldn't barge, but at least I've tried my utmost best to change its spot so that it wouldn't be able to hurt my existing ulcers anymore. So now it's 90 degrees down, and it's hurting my lower gums and it still hurts but I would definitely want to fix it asap during the weekends. I asked Christie where the nearest dental clinic was and she told me, but while all of that happened I actually got scolded for blocking the way lol, which made me pissed like hell and I cried afterwards because it was just so painful and frustrating at the same time. Some people are just so unkind sometimes, but that definitely makes me appreciate the good ones even more. So it was basically a shitty night with lots of frustration, so I went to bed early at 9:30. It wasn't a great day, but nevertheless I'm still thankful for the run I did in the morning, getting a smile from the lovely uncle, the food I had and the early night's rest. Peace out.

Guess who had a hard time sleeping last night because of the weather. I think I spent an hour flipping on my bed because it was so hard to sleep with that heat, and even the fan didn't help at all ahah. So I ended up sleeping past 12 but guess what, I GOT UP AT 6:10 today. It's my first successful attempt at waking up early ahah, and even though I was still sleepy and tired af at that timing I told myself that I had planned for this already, so just WAKE THE HELL UP. I guess 'mind over matter' is really true, and that I could have fallen back asleep if I didn't convince myself to get up. Your mind is indeed a powerful tool, and what you think - you just become. So that was what Magic taught me last night before I went to bed, and the book also emphasised on the importance of thinking positively because of a simple rule: What you give, you receive. If you give out negativity, negativity comes to you. So if you have a choice to be happy and positive each second, WHY THE HELL NOT? Happiness is a conscious choice we make everyday, so don't lose sixty seconds of happiness when you choose to be frustrated, angry or sad for a single minute.

I had the best bus ride to school this morning, sitting by the window and enjoying the cool breeze and listening to yiruma's playlist. I really do enjoy and love 'me' time alone especially when I can just sit back and enjoy the beauty of the slow, peaceful and serenity of everything else. I get to see stunning views of the open seas, mountains and hills at the backdrop on my way to school every morning, and that's pure bliss. And looking at them, I just can't wait to drop my books during my term break to explore Tassie, heeeh.
I had two English lectures in the morning, and man I swear I was FAMISHED by the time they let us out. I had three bowls of weetabix for breakfast, and I thought it could fill me up but nah, I couldn't even last for four hours hahah. My stomach was making so much noise and grumbling so loudly in the lecture theatre, and when my friends turned around they were like: IS THAT YOUR STOMACH? Aaaaaah and I had to say yes LOL, it's so embarrassing when you can't control something your body naturally does hahah. So I gulped down lots of water because that was the only thing I could find and drink in the LT, and it was a way to tell my stomach to shut up and HANG ON hahaha.
So after we got released I immediately got to the common area outside the class, finally sat down and was finally ABLE to eat, but I realised I forgot to bring any utensils LOL. So I was like: How am I going to eat without anything.....and just then, few girls came to the area and I asked if they had any, and one of the girls actually borrowed me hers and waited for me to be done before she ate her own lunch. I didn't even know that she was going to wait for me because she mumbled about using a fork or something before that, and seeing one of her friends eating pasta I thought maybe she would use the fork too, so I didn't ask. But after that realisation I quickly stuffed lunch down heeh. Oh and I would like to add that lunch was amazing AF, like I realllllllly love that dish of baked beans, corn and zucchini, oh my god. It's pure bliss and heavenly hahah. To the girl it may be a small thing to lend someone a spoon, but to a starving girl it was like a godsend thing hahah. Nevertheless, I was so grateful for that girl who saved my stomach and turned it into a happy, satisfied one. I wolfed down like more than two bowls of rice because Jon gave me so much last night, and lol I didn't realise but I wasn't even full after all that rice. In fact I wanted more HAHA. Why do I have a feeling that I would end up being another girl who eats ten bowls of rice for dinner soon? #comingsoon ;)

Pysch class was supposed to end at 6:30 but the the teacher released us early and it was much-needed since the last metro leaves the uni at 6:30 ahah. So we took the metro home and joined the rest for dinner at the hostel as soon as we got back. Today's dinner was turmeric rice with red curry, and then before I had dinner Christie told me that she made vegan dessert for me so I was looking forward to it heheh. I wanted to have a lesser portion for dinner (when I mean lesser for mine, it's usually more than average ahah) just so I could save some space for dessert, but I was given two bowls of rice anyway ahah. I've been skipping on desserts since all of them weren't vegan, so tonight Christie specially made me one while everyone had vanilla ice cream with jelly. And guess what, it was CHOCOLATE NANA ICE CREAM, and I was delighted to see that it was a chocolate dessert, but I was EXPLODING with happiness when I tasted it and realised it was nice cream. Man, you've no idea how much I've missed nice creams and smoothies, and it was therefore the BEST chocolate nana ice cream ever, made with so much thought and love heh. I was just grinning from ear to ear because I was so happy, and Christie even topped my nice cream with almond flakes and man....it was fricking AMAZING. I just love nice cream so much, gahhh they remind me of how wonderful bananas are ahaha.
Adding on, I got the leftovers for tomorrow's lunch too and HEEH, I decided to share half of it with Eddy since he said he wanted to have rice for lunch too. And while I was chilling with Eddy I got the chance to talk to some people I've never talked to before even though I've seen them countless times already hahah. I talked to Aniq, Timothy, Gen and Ernest, and it was a great chilling and talking session heeh. Then I got back to my room smiling, because it has been a beautiful and great day. What am I grateful for today? The best bus ride to school, the yummy weetbix breakfast, the girl who gave me her spoon, surviving this tiring day, NANA ICE CREAM that I'm especially thankful for, Christie for her love (ahaha) and getting to know a few of them better.

So this was supposedly a long post but it got DELETED somehow, it just went missing after I painfully blogged about it using slightly more than an hour of my free time in school. SO well, I don't want to leave it hanging and skip to day 37 immediately, because I want to make sure that I blog about everyday just so I'd remember them in the future, heeh. But it indeed is tiring and time-consuming sometimes, and I wonder how I'm going to cope during my exams period so I might stop during that time and resume when it's all over. But of course I hope not, since I've such poor memory and blogging about something that has happened four days ago is already too much to handle ahah.



I'm going to keep this post short I believe, since I don't really recall what happened on this day oops. Anyhoo, I started the day with peanut butter banana oatmeal and woke up only at 8:00 to an empty hostel because everyone had already left for school. So I had all the time in the world to myself, slowly doing the things I've set out to do and pacing myself slowly before my class at 4 in the afternoon. I spent most of my morning doing my timetable after my breakfast, and then it happened to fit in nicely on my board so that was a productive morning heeh. Then I spent the remaining afternoon just leeching off the wifi because I get all the wifi connection to myself when everyone's gone lol, and I caught up on some Youtube videos and Madame Antoine heh. I did the laundry afterwards and hung my clothes up to dry, then basically lazed around in my room the entire afternoon haah.
John had lessons before noon and we made a pact to go for psych together after he comes back to the hostel, but when I asked him if he was still coming back he said 'Don't think so' but after learning that I was all alone in the hostel he came all the way back, and man I was really taken aback when he knocked on my door because you know, he's like one of the laziest guys I've ever met and known, and the fact that he actually came back to the hostel despite it being so late already was just... really SURPRISING ahah. But I'm grateful nonetheless, for what he did and being my company for the remaining half of the afternoon and making the trip to school much more enjoyable because I just couldn't stop laughing during our conversations. So I told him about my plans for next year but he just refused to believe me lol, and kept saying I was a liar because of that. But he was the first person in the hostel I've ever told my past to, and I'm sure (I hope) that he didn't judge me for that.
So well, it was psych class and then we took the metro home, and guess what I had for dinner. VEGAN TACOS. Before that I had some thick vegetable bean stew and then I had the most amazing tacos ever, WHOOP. The fillings were made up of baked beans, zucchini and corn in tomato sauce, and it was just HEAVENLY. I would have asked for seconds if I was hungry, but unfortunately I wasn't so I just settled with what I had.

After dinner I went to kmart with Jy-ann, John, Ivan and Bryan, and I got meself a tupperware, maple syrup and a tank top for 2 dollars heheh. And when I got back Christie asked if I wanted to have the leftover soup, and in fact she gave me all the leftovers for dinner because I asked if there was any hahah. I asked without expectations because it was my first time, and because it was so darn good I had to try my luck and see if I'll get more lol. And turns out that she had leftovers for both the baked beans dish and the soup too, so I took both HEH. I'd hate to waste any food, and vegan food is always amazing so WHY NOT RIGHT. I also shamelessly asked if there was rice to go along with it, so Christie told Jon "give this carbs girl rice" and he really did, WEW.
I got back to my room afterwards and then I facetimed my aunt, six grandaunt and granduncle, and man I've missed them so much. I can't wait to see all my family members again when I get back heheh. I'm also really blessed to have my grandpa and aunt texting me almost daily to ask if I'm doing okay here, and all of that just makes my heart whole. I spent the night reading about hundred pages of the Magic before I went to bed. And of course, like every other day I'm grateful for many things: A relatively free day, John keeping me company, Vegan tacos, catching up on social media and facetiming my loves. Heee.

First day of school today. I got up at 6:30 and literally had to drag myself out of bed and stop myself from sleeping further because I was THAT tired. I only fell asleep past 12 the night before so I was obviously not well-rested. Well but I got up anyways and got to the dining hall for breakfast on time for the first time in........about four or five days ahah. I had about five weetabix and mighty grain with blueberries all in soy milk, and man I'm really starting to love weetabix! They are so soft and crumbly with soy milk, I actually used to hate them because I found them way too bland and tasteless. But since my tastebuds have changed (drastically in fact) over the years, I'm starting to love them :P It was such a filling breakfast because I wasn't hungry, and then I prepared lunch and stole two bananas and an apple back to my room heheh.

I had Chemistry for my first lesson at 9:00 today, then Math at 12:00 and finally Psych at 4:00. All the lessons were so boring hahah I almost forgot how being in school felt like until I had my first Chemistry lesson lol. Most of the time was spent doing self-introductions and the teachers gave us an overview of what we're going to learn for this semester. I almost died of boredom during my break from 1:30 till 4:00 because I literally had nothing to do in between, but thank goodness John took psych too so he came to look for me after I sent an SOS hahah. We were just chilling at the common area outside the classrooms until he dragged me to get food with him because he was hungry, and then we went all the way to the other side of the school, which was FAR like hell. And then because there were almost no food left we went to the main campus to look for food but they had almost no food left too, so we went ALL THE WAY BACK to the old medicine building, the same place we were at before. I swear it's sooooo far. So by the time we got back we just chilled outside the building because it was more chilly outside, then Ivan came and not long later it was time for class, like FINALLY ahah. Psych class was just nothing but introductions, and to my amazement I learnt that there are five more Singaporeans in my class. So that makes it 6 Singaporeans out of 27 students, man that's quite a rare sight to see hahah.

Luckily for us Bob came to drive us back to the hostel today after we ended at 5. But there was a really bad traffic jam so we took an hour to get back, and damn I was trying so hard to sleep well properly on the bus but it was so hard to fall asleep with all the sudden swerves and jolts. But I managed to listen to some piano pieces on the way back so all's good HEH. I showered as soon as I got back to my room because I just wanted to be in my clean shirts and comfy shorts asap, and so I did. Then I watched Henya's latest video on Youtube and after that it was time for dinner heh. Today's dinner was pretty good I must say, it was just shit tons of rice with potatoes, KIDNEY BEANS, celery and carrots stir-fry. I asked for double portions of rice so I was super STUFFED after dinner, like really really stuffed lol. Even after three hours I'm still stuffed ahaha, I haven't eaten that much rice in a sitting for awhile now :D But I looooooove carbs.
So when we were eating I noticed some people eating the same thing as me, so I asked if they were vegetarian but they said no, they were just eating that because dinner for the non-vegans tonight was rice with LAMBS. I was utterly shocked at that, like c'mon why are lambs not even spared for food.................And some of them were equally shocked as well and immediately stopped eating the rest of the meat on their plate after realising it's lamb, and they just looked so disgusted. You know, I just can't make the connection or comprehend why people think it's okay to eat chickens, pigs and cows but not other animals because it's 'gross'. You know why other kinds of meat are gross? Because we aren't used to eating them. And if people never killed animals for meat, everyone would be equally disgusted and horrified at anyone else who eats them.

Then it was time for dessert, and everyone had ice cream with this brownie thing but Christie forgot my dessert again, so she made a deal with me and said that she would get me vegan ice cream or sorbet next time IF I talk to her sister. I found out that her sister's in the same psych class as me in the afternoon, so deal's on I'M GOING TO TALK TO HER TOMORROW EHEH.
We had a briefing afterwards by some staff from the Uni and they came down to our hostel to talk to us. Apparently ten students from my hostel have to leave for homestay, and that each of us are open to volunteer ourselves to leave because of the serious lack of space here in the hostel. I seriously don't wish to see anyone leaving, even though it has only been slightly more than a week I'm getting so used to everyone's faces.

After dinner I went to the game room again and played Just Dance again for a little and just chilled there after, then disturbed Wen for a bit in his room (Screw you if you're reading this, STALKER.) and now I'm back in my room and ready to head to bed, I think. I have lessons tomorrow at 4.....wow.

Today was a slow-paced and a relaxing stay-home day, and I woke up just in time for breakfast so I had a bowl of mighty grain with weetabix, bananas, strawberries and blueberries heeeh. Then I had another bowl of weetabix with soy milk, and then after breakfast I went back to my room and fell asleep again lol. I was finding something to do and ended up sleeping after reading a few pages of Magic, man that book just bored me out totally. The beginning was just all about how we all have the power to be happy or not, and whatever you do it all boils down to only one thing: that the power is in your hands. All of those sounded like a "DUH" thing to me so I was so bored after reading it, but I'd try to continue reading that book to see if there's anything that's POSSIBLY interesting hahah.
I fell asleep for about an hour plus, and woke up at 12:30 to some messages and slept in a little bit more after knowing some of them have went out already. So some of them went to the beach in the afternoon, and I actually really wanted to go since the weather today was totally PERFECT for tanning. But I decided not to since Fathin the lazy ass didn't want to go and I just felt so tired, so I slept in lol. And because they were already having lunch outside and were almost ready to go, I decided not to join them since I haven't showered or eaten lunch. So I got up awhile later, showered, made lunch and decided to check out the timetable.