life these 2 weeks has been quite stressful at times, esp now actually. the 1st most stressful thing is my masters application to cambridge. i am applying to another course in cambridge and though the official deadline is 31st jan, the admin officer told me to send be4 christmas as usu the masters places will be all taken by christmas. i have gotten 1 referee's reference but i cant contact my other tutor who has agreed to be my referee. really frustrating, so i think i will just pop by his office on monday and get it from him. i really have no time but there's also nothing i can do. Hopefully i can send my application by wednesday. argh, i'm really chasing time now. and yeah i have already sent my application to eth. oh well, i just need to handle this well for now and i can concentrate better on other stuff.

but anyway, went out today all the way to greenwich to visit shane which is like 1h-ish away from central london. it's really quite far. yeah and super nice shane brought us to the observatory centre and yes singapore is on it! maybe cos we're on the equator. the journey up to the observatory centre was an arduous 1, we had to climb v slippery roads but it was worth it. and then went to the O2 dome to walk around while waiting for laya to come to have dinner at zin! and shane kinda surprised me as he said that laksa is his fav dish there. he should come to sg 1 day and i bring him around. haha!

at the observatory place!

dinner!

today was really fun and a meaningful day i thought. i was able to get involved in some deep conversations with shane and actually talking to him just makes me feel that i am so much luckier and i should treasure all these. somehow while talking i could sense that he got a little emotional (could see tears i think) which kinda affected me too. somehow he's quite diff from the general ang mor i know. very sensible, mature, real, sincere. a really great fren indeed and yes i do hope that he'll be successful in his career and whatever not. haha and i think i cant wait for the day when me alice laya and him meet up in japan from singapore, taiwan, china and london. cool stuff! yes, and shall bring them to nonya and also will go to matsuri!