2011 Thoughts

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June Thoughts

• We're already half way through the year! 
• A humongous thank you to everyone who supported me throughout my mid year exams. I appreciate every single one of your "Good Luck" messages. Without you, I wouldn't have the strength to understand that everything, including myself will be alright in the end. This is such an important belief for me. As we become closer, I feel that my friends have high expectations for me! I've never taken this as a bad thing, I've used this as a driving force to do my very best. 
• We're definitely not the same as last year. 
• Relaxing session with Stephinee & Lan today. 
• Grandma is watching a Japanese movie outside. She admits that she has no clue what is going on.
• Awaiting results day once again. 
• Semester 2 timetable can go die. 
• Scrubs is on TV. 
• I've been Tumblring everyday. 
• Sleeping pattern is ruined.
• Rethinking my career choices. 
• Catch up time! I'm going to see you, you, you and you. 
• MAX BRENNER 
• Happy one year hug virginity day is on Saturday! 
• I think I'm in need for one of those appreciate-nature-for-a-day: go to the beach during Winter, lie on the grass, watch the sky, the sunset...
• I'm hungry and itchy now. 
• Wongfu weekends is back on July 1st! 
• Damn, I was ready to submit this post when Blogspot crashed! 
• Trying to recall my thoughts now. 
• The Tumblr followers I've been getting do not exist on the internet. I click on their link and they lead me to an irrelevant page or even back to my dashboard. 
• 11:53pm: I'm going to turn off my laptop soon. 
• I sleep too much. 
• They sell oatmeal for breakfast at Maccas now. 
• 12:01am: a trip to the fridge! 
• I didn't know DBSK were curious AND dirty boys. 
• I still go crazy when I see a cute guy being fatherly. 
• Beige clothing. 
• A lot of people are starting to get sick! 
• Here is me Skyping with Lan & Steph in June 2011: 

Khuntoria

WGM Khuntoria's anticipated wedding photoshoot
Episode 52

Episode 50

"I like Nichkhun." 

"More loudly!"

"I like Nichkhun!" 

"I also like Victoria." 

"Take care in Japan. I will miss you." 

To the past

This is a response to the post: "29: Your hopes & dreams for the next 365 days" written one year and a couple of months ago.


What does present Karen have to say to past Karen? 


i want:
- to have lots of Kodak moments at athletics tomorrow 
It was a very cold day to be outdoors! nonetheless I have many photos of us with our coats and beanies. 


- to not stuff up my chemistry prac on monday 
No tears there. 


- to ace my english sac on Thursday 
English turned out to be my best subject of the year. 


- to find a nice dress for the formal 
The design was okay, I wish I could have spent money on a dress with sleeves. 


- to get into shape for the formal 
Fail. 


- to continuously do my homework 
Except for Methods. 


- to start preparing for my mid year and end of year exams 


- to find the cheapest way for printing out past exams 
Cheap? Free printing was better.  


- to not spend a lot of money 
Why did I write this? I hardly went out. 


- to be a good daughter 
I was good..most of the time! 


- to have an all nighter before we find out our enter results 
Slept for 3 hours? 


- to wear my hoodie with pride 
We didn't even get a hoodie. We got an amazing bomber jacket! 


- to find a name for my hoodie 
It says "CARROT" 


- to hug everyone 


- to take a picture with everyone at the formal and at the end of the year 
Oh, I didn't even get to see half the people from school at the formal. I hardly took any pictures either but I have a whole stash of end of year ones. 


- to cry at my enter results 
For a week. 


- to have hide and seek at ikea for my birthday
We ended up having my birthday at Maccas since I procrastinated my own birthday party. 


- to watch all my dramas and movies in the summer holidays 


- to start drawing again, especially with cartoons or dresses 


- to start learning how to play the piano 
One day.


- to catch up with old friends 


- to go to the beach 
This never happened! I am still disappointed. 


- to go to the melbourne museum 


- to go to the city for new years 
No way, couldn't be bothered. 


- to take a picture of myself on the first day of uni 
No... 


- to start finding
Finding what? 


- to start waiting 
For the food in the microwave. 


- to love? 
I've always loved, but not in love. 


- to print out pictures from year 8 to 12 and put them in one photo album 
Still have to do that. 


- to tutor my cousin with his homework 
I don't tutor my cousins, but I do tutor a class full of kids every Sunday.


- to spend time reading books again 
The idea sounded better than the action.


- to cut my hair shorter 


- to travel across the world 
Darn. Guess I'll be fulfilling that in my adulthood.  


- to catch pokemons 


- to recover from bieber fever 


- to dance to kpop across town
Dancing in Uy's house was fun enough.  


- to catch up on sleep 


- to purchase a mobile phone 
Finally, after 18 years. I recently scratched it on Thursday. 


- to sell all my highschool textbooks 


- to walk out of the exam room with relief and worry 


- to make the most of 2010 


- to hang around the cuties at uni 
They don't exist. 


- to make it into uni 


- to have movie marathons with company 


- to look back on the past with no regrets
There's always going to be the "what ifs?"  


- to laugh 


- to play on the playground 


- to reunite 
Summer was the best. 


- to knit and finish off the scarf
I started a patch but never finished it.  


- to ride my bicycle 


- to drive a car at timezone 


- to play with sparklers
A week ago. 


- to burn my chemistry work 
Chemistry is actually the best subject in uni so far. 


- to climb trees
I can't seem to find a climbable tree.


- to work hard and push myself to the limits 
I'm procrastinating by writing this to myself! 

MY METCARDS

and still collecting! 

Nurse reveals the top 5 regrets people make on their deathbed

By Bronnie Ware (who worked for years nursing the dying)

1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people have had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made. 

It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way. From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it. 
2. I wish I didn't work so hard. 

This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. Women also spoke of this regret. But as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence. 

By simplifying your lifestyle and making conscious choices along the way, it is possible to not need the income that you think you do. And by creating more space in your life, you become happier and more open to new opportunities, ones more suited to your new lifestyle. 

3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings. 

Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result. 

We cannot control the reactions of others. However, although people may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking honestly,in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and healthier level. Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship from your life. Either way, you win.

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. 

Often they would not truly realise the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved.Everyone misses their friends when they are dying. 

It is common for anyone in a busy lifestyle to let friendships slip.But when you are faced with your approaching death, the physical details of life fall away. People do want to get their financial affairs in order if possible. But it is not money or status that holds the true importance for them. They want to get things in order more for the benefit of those they love. Usually though, they are too ill and weary to ever manage this task. It is all comes down to love and relationships in the end. That is all that remains in the final weeks,love and relationships. 

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realise until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called 'comfort' of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content. When deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have sillyness in their life again. 
When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way from your mind. How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again,long before you are dying. 

Goodbye May

Hello, Hi

We're already half way through the year.

Good luck for your exams everyone!