Bintan!! A lot of photos taken. The whole trip was pretty boring at times. The most i got out of it, was that i probably talked and played with my cousins a lot more than i ever had at all the family gatherings. :) And seeing the dire conditions the bintan residents were in, made me a whole lot more thankful for the city life i'm enjoying.
Me and mom went to walk along the beach (which was well, muddy.) and we were figuring out how to cross the huge puddle of seawater before us to get to the shore. and then my eyes caught something moving. A whole mass of orange scuttling right in front of us. When our eyes focused, we realised it was a whole army of little, red crab-like creatures on the gradulating sands. VERY disgusting, but very exciting at the same time. Very discovery-channel. So we both stood rooted, as it dawned that we were totally trapped as those horrid creatures were swarming in front, left and right to us. They appeared to have tunneled out of the millions of tiny holes on the sand dunes in a mass migration move. -shivers. MILLIONS can. But either me or my mom accidentally took a step, and poof, in just one blink, all dropped back into their holes, and the orange sea was replaced almost instantaneously with a blanket of black holes. But still, me and my mom had to step across on all those holes (imagine knowing fully well that all those creatures were moving directly underneath our feet), and we did, really quickly.
This is how a tiny part of the entire colony looked like. Didnt want to get too near them, hence the blur. They're like big hairy bacteria!! EWW EWW EWWW. 
Season of giving came and went. My ten mini-boxes of goodies from my aunt in the family exchange. Anyone saw the large version of the coffee beat (third from front)? My mom's looking for it. 
then came 31st december, last day of 2006. Audrey! happy belated birthday! so sorry i couldn't be there at your 21st party, but i bet you had a superb time and your hands are probably still aching from all those presents! hee. hope you liked our home-baked cookies and piggie! :)
and FINALLY.
Diana Ngiam!!
u're nineteen already, and blossoming (dress sense, dress sense!!) like you should. :) not fully a lady yet, which is mighty fine with me! who wants to become prim and proper ladies, when we can have fun hur. you don't know how glad we are that you're back in singapore to celebrate your birthday. somehow the birthdays have become more of a us-thing, than a personal celebration. and when we get together, we just gabble, oh how we talk. if only it would help in burning calories. feeling the lesbianhood more now that we've even gotten rings! (courtesy of mab :) ) it's still amazing how we clique, and know each other's next lines and i'm sure thankful for you being here with and for me. -starts crooning "thank god i found you.." haha. im guessing my feelings towards you should be pretty darn obvious, from all these mush and the efforts in cards, gifts and all. okay that came out a little wrong. im straight! ANYWAY, you'll be heading back to london come friday. :( it all seems too fast, can't get enough of you yet!! (mab and ros nods. haha) it's alright, we'll have two months to spend when you're back in June! (i'm hoping that no one's blog-spying right now. hmmm.) hoorayy!! so let's not miss each other too much hur. but know that you'll be in my thoughts every now and then, babuseng. ilu. pre-nineteen, nineteen and post-.
"Can you imagine us when we're forty years old?"
Maybe not, but i sure hope you'll be just by my side, di.
