Fantasy for Jupiter

(Note: This was a draft from a week ago or more hahahaha)
A totally irrelevant title but it was playing in my head, fyi it's a band piece. (yup still a band geek!) 

Life has been crazy. Both good crazy and bad crazy. I like it crazy. I whine about it from time to time but looking back, I have no regrets making the biggest decision yet in my life. As you may already know,  I am a full time working young adult. It has been close to 3 months, and yes... it has finally sink in that I have a real world job. As much as I didn't want to start working yet (because I believe I am still a teenager HAHA), working here has been a real eye opener. Internship vs real job...... Evidently a vast difference but I'm truly happy with how it is. I vividly remember keeping in contact with my supervisor (during my internship) over emails and now she's my boss! Too cool for me to handle. I'm still amazed from time to time. Working with a team that I've already known during my internship was definitely a plus point for a newbie like me. So yes, update on my work life: I really love it and hello, I get to travel to different parts of Singapore as part of my job. After work hours, I do feel like a tourist cause I've never been to these places. Call me suaku but I enjoy such perks!

Hello from River Safari | Spot the cute red panda in the background!

Company retreat | Just us camwhoring cause we just wanted to nua within the hotel compounds...

What I struggle with is..... trying to get enough sleep. I'm a pig so I want to sleep more than I should. Ok I kid, I just have bad time management. Sucks, but gotta work on that most definitely! I feel rather detached from my family at some point cause I barely get to spend quality time with time. That's something I really hate..... It really hit me before I left for Batam for my company retreat. (yes, I joined the company in time for a getaway that I really needed)

Me: Don't miss me too much ya?

Ibu: I already miss you. You're always so busy.

I could hear a tinge of sadness right there at that very moment and my heart sank hearing that. I already had to rush for my ferry so I was just really upset then. I am really close with my mum (I camwhore with my mum hehe), I tell almost everything from my pathetic non-existent love life to swollen eye every other mornings. I tried to spend time but I am one mothafuckin lazy bum who sleeps her life away when I have no plans or when I have plans..... Ok point is I haven't been having time or making time with my family. I'm always so cranky but my mum and dad always so tolerant of my nonsense. My dad waits for me to come home... Sweet right? So I decided to let go of some responsibilities and prioritise my shit. Today we finally had a proper bonding time plus it's my dad's 59th birthday!!! It was definitely an awesome time spent with my family I couldn't ask for more. Beach day with the family. Hot hot hot day but seeing my nephews having the time of their lives and catching up with my parents and siblings.... It was blissful. We're all so caught up with our work that we carelessly forget the ones that kept us going when we're in the dumps. I super love today x 1000000000.

 ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Family Beach Day | Camwhoring in the backseat with Ibu

Baby Kalen just having some fun with ribbons!

I love my job but work gets crazy undoubtedly... Nevertheless, I have to meet my crazy friends too! From desserts to ice skating to concerts to shopping... Or just a simple lepak session. That's good enough to end a cray week. They say friends come and go but those who never left, I'm glad you guys stayed on. And for the sweet birthday celebrations, thank you so so so so much :') Here's a bunch of photos from here, there and everywhere.

Birthday dinner with the team | The Glasshouse, Fish & Co 

Snippets from shopping/dinner dates/concerts | Hei Sushi | (4+1)

A huge part of me that still belongs with these people | TP Band/Tubists

Annual affair | Night Festival

Polaroids: The 4+1 "last" dinner | 16 Aug, Arina's 20th | Raya/Aug babies | Night Festival

Hairspray Musical with Tassha, Aisyah, Sab and Perri!

1 on 1 dates ♥

And lastly, good food with good company.

XO till the next time.

Howdy

How's that for starters? Hehe. Currently writing notes #actguai and listening to band music (o m g yes after so long, still a band geek undoubtedly). Fyi I don't listen to my morning jam anymore cause I am busy catching up on my sleep in the bus. Sleep > anything else. So yea, this feels really good, somehow. Maybe it's the caffeine but I kinda enjoy this. Feels like poly days.... Why do I speak as if it had been years? Anyways, last week was a super duper awesome week. Got to catch up with quite a few friends whom I've not seen in a while. Break fast with friends from that Wednesday onwards in Geylang which was awfully disappointing cause there wasn't any Turkish ice cream. Funny how that had always been the highlight for us when we visit the bazaar.Settled for some takoyaki and other bazaar usuals. Well great company beats the unenthusiastic atmosphere at Geylang which brought me, Bai and Arina to Swensens for some sweet treats. Spent Thursday at Tampines with Saufi and Arra! Friday was finally some good middle eastern yum at Cafe Le Claire at Arab Street. We had the windows wound down and music blasting, with wind in our hair and tudung hehe #coolkids (AND OF COURSE JO, YOU ALL ARE IMPORTANT TO ME! DON'T ELIMINATE ME HA HA HA)

I guess it had been a fruitful week and I loved it. Slept in Saturday was just as lovely too. My dad questioned my presence at home hahahahaha sigh. Still adapting to the working life! I'm wishing that I'd quickly adapt so I can fully enjoy my time here and not be too much of a lost sheep LOL. I do feel a little jittery along with my awkwardness sometimes for no reason maybe cause I'm a newbie??? Need to step up my game HAHAHAHAH, so F O C U S is the key. Ok I must quickly adapt please. Here's to a great week ahead, much misses x

Graduation post where art thou?

All that glitters isn't that pretty

First rest day of the week (in a looooooong while) omg I swear this is the first time I've actually felt the TGIF feeling! Already begun a new chapter of my life and it still feels so surreal... What an odd feeling. It did cross my mind a few times, but never did it occur to me that it really could happen. I'm thankful nevertheless. Things didn't exactly go as planned. Plan B didn't work out for me hahahaha siiiigh but hey, maybe I've been opting for the "safer" alternatives so I decided to be a wee bit braver with my decisions. Nothing daredevil-like but I must say this isn't what I had in mind!

So yup the picture above pretty much sums up what I have been doing within the span of my "hiatus". Working half shifts with Eva, my super duper awesome colleague had been nothing but memorable. Crazy girl makes my day with the little awfully sweet surprises she leaves me with when I open the store (like the one she did my name with the namecards!!!) I caught a few movies - Monsters University, Now You See Me, Hangover Part III (that was mildly disappointing....), The Heat and Miracle in Cell No.7 which was simply the best out of them all. Sobbing in the theatre and came home looking like a mess with smudged eyeliner. Celebrated Iffa's and Winnie's birthday too with the TK gang and 4+1 respectively. Hmmm what else did I do huh huh huh. LOL I can't remember already. 

So the only thing I haven't mentioned with regards to the picture above is... MY WORK DESK! But some of the pictures up are cut off. Meh. Anyways, I'm barely halfway through the decoration so not everyone's photos (important ones) are up yet like pictures of Syaf, Arina, Bai and me :( 4 + 1 also!!! Did I mention how sweet Eva is? She printed photos of us (omg damn pretty ok!) so I need to find a good spot to put it all up. Gonna put up many more photos so to keep me motivated and look forward to work errrrrrrday. 

I'd really love to blog about graduation (how late is it) but....... I'm not exactly done yet hehe. Ok goodnight xx.

Hehehehello

Pretty much what I do at work... LOL I KID (pic credit: E, my crazy fun colleague)

Just wanna update this space with my face. So there you go. Ok why am I so shameless? Oh dear god. Hehe. Anyways, pretty caught up with work (I work everyday......) and honestly, I have been putting away all the decision making cause I am just too exhausted to think. Or probably avoiding the fact that I have to. The start to adulthood has been somewhat interesting with new people, the old ones that I am blessed with and a new addition, along with an unofficial departure that caused me a severe heartache lolwhut. But seriously. HAHAHAHAHAHA SO VAGUE BUT YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE OK? 

Seeing things in a different perspective and taking chances on the go. Like they say, "Go jer, don't scared" LOLWTF OK BYE.

I really, really, really need to get my shit together. I need to convince myself that things will NEVER be the same. 

Baking therapy.

Let the pictures do the talking. Omg I am so happy after baking. It's so fucking therapeutic. Am I weird? 

Home/Work

And that's me. Babysitting my favourite boy, who calls everyone "Mama" cause that's the clearest word he can say. Along with other baby talk that is really adorable. Especially when he camps outside my bedroom and screams "Woo woo". His attempt at calling me Nurul. Cute right? 

That's how life is ever since I'm done with the other contract that ended earlier than it should have. I'm glad it did cause I was getting sick of the job. Was working with a great bunch of people at this telesurveying job and we all got pretty comfortable with each other. I must say I really enjoyed the company. There's Alvin, yes met yet another Alvin... HAHA and he's from TP too. He's hilarious, plus his "The Rock" antics. And Syafiqah, who is my "bring home packed lunch cause there's no halal food" buddy. Friends at work really brightened up my day cause work can get dull and demoralising when you can't hit the damn numbers zz. Friendly competitions between one another, imitating each other introduction over the phone. Not forgetting our whatsapps when we're on call. #badass

Previously, I was working as a Liasion Officer (first job after being a free bird for quite some time...). An event job at MBS. I must say it was such a great experience cause I was liaising with Koreans! Really honoured to be working with such high ranking people!!! I swear they are damn polite and you can't even get angry at them..... It's a long story but I'm glad I was assigned a Korean delegate. Despite the language barrier, we really bonded over the short span of time. He knew he was giving me such a hard time... But he made up for it along with his apologies :') When we couldn't understand one another, we communicated through the translator app on his phone LOL. From the first awkward bus ride to the time we enjoyed the scenery, talking about life and lastly, the part when he did a heart shape once he got into the departure hall. That almost made me cry. Good times. The sweetest thing he did, other than the heart shape thingy was that he promised me to learn English again. Awww. We even did some sight seeing! Meanwhile at Merlion Park....

 On one of the nights we brought them around to eat and enjoy the night scenery!

Last night with the lovely Koreans :(

And now I'm just glued to my bed. Watching Suits. Omg Suits is so awesome. Why did I only watch it now... Finishing Season 2 pretty soon!! Well, this is a life of a girl who is still waiting for her graduation. About a month away actually. Yay or nay? Not exactly psyched... happy to graduate, most definitely but after this, it's just a whole new chapter to adulthood. Adulthood seems like a pretty intimidating thing. Pfffft, can I please be a teenager till forever, please?

But before you go, here's one of the awesome songs I've come across while watching Suits! XX