sssigh

i've been back home for more than a month now, and it has once again been such an amazing break just kicking back, relaxing, spending time with family and dogs, meeting up with friends and indulging in all that glorious malaysian food. i leave the comfort of my home in a few days' time for the land of riots and constant rain. never have i dreaded starting a term so much; but who wouldn't, when you know you're going back to the stress of final year and job applications. my motivation to pass my exempting exam in january: being able to be back home again in march for electives! and then extend my holidays till graduation time! no pass, no such holiday. so, MUST pass.

i was going through some of the drawers in my room and found a few of my kindergarten report cards! i've never ever seen these before - i think my mum must've found them somewhere and put them in my room. i was so tickled reading what my teachers wrote about me when i was four, five and six. i'm proud to say that i went to a very good kindergarten. i was educated well at an early age and at the same time i know i had loads of fun. i don't remember much, of course, but i have clear memories of riding a pony on kindy grounds and being scared of santa during christmas. and i also remember quite a number of my friends, many of whom i'm still friends with today! in fact i just met up with two of them a couple of weeks back and we were reminiscing those days together. now one of them (sze-ryn) just graduated from dublin and is going to start housemanship in singapore, and another (phui whye) graduated from melbourne a few years ago and is already a successful businesswoman! so proud! and here i am waiting to graduate. hmph.

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this report card was written when i was 5 years and 2 months. hahaha. says here that i was "interested in flowers and plants". no idea. and that i had "a good sense of colours but a little untidy at times". hehehe. guess i was never an artsy person after all. and under general progress: "Swee Leen is a very intelligent girl. Very hard working in class but gets a little too talkative when she sits with her friends."

hahaha. cuteness.