Graduation Photoshoot

THE MOMENT IS HERE!!!!!! ^^ Finally got our hands on our graduation shoot photographs hehe. We were eagerly awaiting their arrival and when we finally got them the other night, I think we were too excited to sleep ^^ They're so awesome!!!!! I was literally laughing to myself as I looked through all the photos, all 241 of them (wow, did we really take that many photos? :O). And all the exhaustion that day was TOTALLY worth it. They were funny, candid, pretty, happy - just amazing :) It was such a great time looking through all of them, and I kept laughing as I remembered our antics that day. Yet another memory that we have together :') And we all wanted to change our Facebook cover photos, but there were so many photos to choose from!!!! And we could only pick one. Gahh. Soooo I'm gonna share more here, just because I love this set of photos so much :)) I look so unglam in some of them (idk why I kept talking when everyone else was smiling so nicely -.-"')

We started bright and early in the morning at 8.30am. Gosh I had to wake up at 6plus in the morning for this!!! Hehh, but like I said, it was worth it :) Practised strutting around trying to look natural before putting on the gowns.

The "flying away" photo hahaha. Had so many re-takes for this one :P Our surprise when we realised we did actually have to jump for this photo...!!!

So happy we had our photos taken with my favourite place as the backdrop ^^

And just because it was World Cup season... ;)

Girls :))))

And guys ;) Looking like draculas.

Had the most hilarious antics at the bridge trying to laugh and look natural :p When we burst out in fake laughter, I think everyone turned around and stared at us hahaha :P

Too cute ^^

Heehee <3<3

The mandatory hat-throwing shot ;) With tonnes of hilarious incidents.

And of course, we had to take photos with our beloved SMUUUU :') So many memories of this place <3 one of my best school experiences that I'll treasure forever :)

It was terrifying getting up there. It's actually really high when you're standing up there!!! :O Look at the lengths we had to go through for these few shots :O

WE DID IT!!!!!! 

And favourite place in school.....the library haha. Especially for the library buddies.

Our table! 

And we thought it would be cool to be Lord Voldemort.

Photo Day after that!!! :) We were completely shagged out by then. We could barely move ourselves after lunch! x.x Only Rachel & SK were still full of energy to take photos haha. Have to say the set-up was pretty cool though! 

Finally a graduate :') I already miss school and this bunch of people!! Can't turn back time...but I'm sure we'll make the most of what we've got, and I'm excited at what is to come next!

Anyway! Speaking of photos, PoppinPrints sent me a set of square postcards and square stickers from their new collection! :) If you remember a post I did sometime back about Pixaroll, it's under the same company. Previously I received a set of magnets from Pixaroll and I used them as graduation presents for my superheroes ^^ This time, I printed a copy of photos for myself to keep! :) Can't wait to pin up these photos at my desk at work :) Like the magnets, these stickers/postcards are fully customisable, and you can upload your photos to www.poppinprints.com to get them printed. The webstore is actually created to provide a platform for artists, designers and photographers to sell their artwork and you can check out all the art prints available for sale! 

*PoppinPrints is offering a 15% discount to my readers for all products in the webstore! :) Just key in the coupon code "KELKEL" and this is valid till 15/08/14. 

**There is also a special promotion for the Chop Blocks (fancy your selfie on a stamp?) where they're going at 40% off with the coupon code "CHOPCHOP40"

Happy shopping! :) 

One Last Chance

Aaaaand, it's a wrap! It's been a whirlwind of events since the start of this month surrounding this biggie - GRADUATION. Honestly, I wasn't really thinking about the graduation itself but rather looking forward to all the activities that would give us a chance to meet up a couple more times. I sure hope the 'one last chance' doesn't really mean it is the last chance, haha :P But I'm sure we'll do fine ^^

Lots of photos to post for this period, but shall start with Grad Night first! (: I hope we get our photoshoot pictures sooooon ^^ I was totally dragging my feet to grad night initially. It just feels like we're kinda too old for prom! Haha. Didn't know a lot of people going either. But it turned out to be quite fun! :) Big love to my favourite people in smuuuuu ^^ So glad we did this together! 

CHEERS TO OUR FUTURE :') 

And what an epic night for us. Details shall be kept as memories for us and no one else ;) But I have to say that MBS needs to improve it's service... -.-

And we managed to take a photo with the President of SMU!! So funny how he happened to walk by our table just as we were getting up to go to the photobooth (oops), and he was so sporting to join us! ^^

I was totally stunned when I arrived at MBS seeing everyone dressed to the nines :O Everyone looked like they were brides/going to Star Awards or something! Kinda underdressed in our short dresses :P But thank goodness I took the effort to do my hair for the event! Big thanks to James & the team at J7 image for dolling me up! :))) I loved the hairstyle they gave me! Though I'd initially planned for another hairstyle, I left it to James' artistic direction and he gave me a completely different style which I never imagined I could carry off! :) Loved it!!

Here's how the intricate braids looked from the back (: 

J7 Image is having a promotion for their service services now! It's ending really soon, so grab the chance while you can!! (: And I can't wait to go back again soon!

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Moments

Officially graduated! :)

It's such a surreal feeling, honestly. Donning the graduation gown & mortar board, limbing the stairs up to the stage (taking care not to trip and fall), shaking hands with the dean and receiving my scroll (or rather a blank folder haha) ... it's really the end of student life! A bittersweet feeling, thinking back at how much I've grown in these last four years. I'm really gonna miss school though! Although I'm really not a sentimental person when it comes to institutions (as in the school itself), but already, I miss the life, and the friends. The thought of not being able to see them as often as we get swept up into the world of working life, sigh :'(

Really thankful that I made such incredible friendships throughout my university life though! :') Some of the BEST friendships of my life, and I'm so sure that we can keep this up for the rest of our lives, which is such a wonderful thing to know :')

So much love! <3<3<3 Missing thad from the picture, but I'm so excited to receive our photoshoot pictures!! :) So so so many memories with this bunch. I'm so glad that we stuck together even though none of us made it through ballare haha. Never thought I would have ever made such close friends in a CCA, since it never was the case for me in the past. But we somehow just clicked, and I'm so thankful for a friend in every single one of these people. Almost every major (or minor) moment in university involves this bunch, and these were the happiest memories of my university life ^^ It's incredible how much we went through together! Studying together, pouring our hearts out to each other, chatting about anything&everything under the sun, catching the world cup together, travelling together (we must do that more!!), and now, graduating together :) So many things I treasure about the friendships with these people <3

Missing Dom & Shan! But hehh, these friends have seen me through the most shitty and unglamorous moments of university - OCSP and Nepal (the thought of it just kills me hahaha) - and still love me for it :) So happy that we've all finally found jobs just before officially graduating! <3 Having gone through some of the most challenging times together, I'm sure we'll go a long, long way :)

BFF :))))))) It was so unexpected that we ended up in the same university and same course together, and bidded for ALL our modules together #notkidding. Hehe so thankful for this girl <3 How we are so similar in personality and can understand each other so well because of that! (: Every time I chat with her reminds me why we're best friends, even if we haven't talked for a long time. Photo with our families together because we're almost like family to each other (: Love!!

To my biggest love, I'm so glad we're graduating together! :') You've been the BEST BEST BEST thing that has happened to me in the whole of my university life :) I'm so blessed to have you, and thank you for your being my greatest pillar of support in the past 2 years. Looking forward to creating even more memories with you as we move on to our next phase of life <3 I love you!!!!!!

Couldn't have done this without the most important people in my life :'))) Despite all the ups and downs, they've been the constant in my life, keeping me sane & happy hehe ^^ Wouldn't trade them for the world <3 Missing yi :( Come back soon!!!

It's a wrap! Thanks for the beautiful flowers, mummy & Sam's mummy :):) 

School's out!

hello!!!

gosh this space has been so dead recently because life's been boring. nothing but studying studying...haha okay not really :p actually it's been pretty unproductive mugging lately :p guess it's the last semester syndrome! in just four days, i'll be done with my SMU life and i'm gonna be on a plane to taiwan in just a week's time!!! (wheeeee ^^ i'm so absolutely excited - though apparently it's gonna be rainy, which i'm still hoping does not happen :x)

i can't believe my SMU life is almost over :( well, it's really almost the end now, just one more exam to go. i'm going to miss school so much! so happy that we spent the last 2 weeks #makingyear4count though! check out our instagram hashtag for all the pics ;) it was really so much fun with the superheroes the last few weeks of school. we literally SPAMMED all the must-do activities haha and i'm so glad for all the memories (and pictures!) that we're going to take away. SMU wouldn't have been the same without all these lovelies :') and especially my favourite boy hehe. who has finished his only exam??!!!! (whuttttt. i'm so jealous. but this is actually quite a refreshing experience for him to be more free than me haha. we are both relishing that feeling :p)

^^^ taken on the (first and) last day of his exams ^^^ 

super love how we always unintentionally come in colour-coordinated outfits :)

okie where shall i start, we did so many things! haha. all photos courtesy of SK's nice camera ;)

April fool's day was the last day of class together for us :) so glad that we had some similar mods, makes studying a lot less torturous when we're all in it together! took a photos around the library (second home...for them haha) and with the sweet cleaning auntie who always says hi to us at the toilet. i was so amazed last semester when i realised she actually recognised me? i always thought it was just a hi-bye sort of thing, but one day she started chatting with me and i was like 'whoa, she actually remembers me'. it's incredible, how she recognises all of us who spend time in the library. it's such a joy bumping into her whenever i visit the washroom :) 

last official day of school, and i didn't have class! but came to school specially for our campus green picnic x starry nite :))) haha so happy that we managed to have our picnic!! <3 thankful for the skies which held up while we had our picnic. the weather was simply perfect, and we even had a slight breeze! it only started drizzling towards the end and we managed to scramble and finish up all our food (Y) yummy sushi and chicken! always love these cold storage staples ^^

this year's starry nite was a HUGE eye-opening experience for me!!! haha this was like my third time at starry night, but the first time i actually ventured out of the big steps area. it was like WOW. hahaha let's just say that now i know why the big steps area feels pretty dead during starry nite :P

the very next day, i travelled down to school for an even more absurd reason!! haha okay not absurd la :P it was to support my funny darling in his 'closing time' video :P shall not put it up here bcos he'll be mortified. haha but it was an epic-ly funny experience. LOL :P finally met up with thad as well! who has been MIA-ing since who-knows-when. and sam brought a yummy bottle of sweet wine which we polished off over a good time catching up :) went to each rochor beancurd as well!!! okay i only koped a bit, but gosh, i've really missed it! haha kinda craving it again now that I'm typing this...

the next week was the study week, but when you're in the last semester...you kinda don't really feel like studying. I'M SO HAPPY THAT I HAVE NO ACCOUNTING MODS THIS SEM. wheeeee. it feels awesome haha. though having to study is still quite a sian feeling, but no accounting mods? seeing jiayee & rach study (oops sorry girls xP), makes me so relieved that i pushed everything to the previous semester. that was badddd. but now, it's totally worth it haha. went to eat lunch at The Basement Cafe in school, and for the first time in a long while, we had full attendance!!!!!! :) :) :) super duper happy!! gosh i was searching through our past 4 years of photos, and i realised this photo and a couple more photos we took on this day are the ONLY photos that we have of the 7 of us. unbelievable!!!! O.O we obviously need to have more full-attendence gatherings. i'm so gonna miss them when we start work :'( we must really arrange more dinners/gatherings please. i'm so used to seeing them once every few days, or at least weeks. so much love for them <3 :) 

hehe and we went for Ben & Jerry's free cone day too!! yippee ^^ no idea whether we can do such things anymore when work starts (probably not...), so really glad that we managed to catch it this time! ate my favourite NEW YORK SUPER FUDGE CHUNK ;) haha think i order that at every free cone day (boring...haha but i like). the queue was way too long to go a second round though...and we were also too full from lunch.

^^^ last welfare drive^^^ 

it's so awesome that SMU always has such things going on. can't say no to free food! ;) this time the welfare was not thaaaat good, sadly. but glad that we got it anyway! plus there was a PhotoBooth for us to commemorate our last welfare ;) and a free movie ticket haha. 

still have one last photo from Loof! haha sk if you see this, upload to dropbox please? ^^ hehe. i'll update again when i've gotten the photo. four more days to goooo!

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last day of study week at Loof! (: to celebrate the end of our week of (not-so-productive) mugging. time really flew past that week :P hahaha. almost full attendance except for jiayee who was not feeling well :(

Loof has a SUPER good happy hour btw!!! for those who need some convincing to scurry off work early... (just kidding). from 5pm-5.59pm, house pours, selected beer and spirits go for $5++ only!!! that is a really awesome deal! definitely one of the cheapest i've seen so far. and subsequently
$6++ from 6pm-6.59pm
$7++ from 7pm-7.59pm

so of course, early bird gets the worm ;)

the best part? you've gotta order these orgasmic Chilli Crab Cheese Fries ($14). these were THE BOMB. love cheese fries? check. love Chilli Crab (sauce)? check. the combination was simply fantastic! it had a delicious punchy flavour, with the melt-in-your-mouth cheese and luscious chilli crab sauce complementing the crisp fries to great effect.

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Almost there

it's crazy, how fast time flies. there is only about a couple of weeks left to the end of school, and about a month till the end of my final semester in SMU. :O where has all the time gone! the four years in university, all the memories that i've had along the way :') really really glad for the important friendships i've formed in these four years. so many unexpected things! in a good way of course (: celebrated ngan's birthday recently with our two best groups of friends in SMU <3 the ones who've made my university life so much more colourful and memorable.

happy birthday bestie! (: stay pretty (and look like zoe tay) forever ^^ 

celebrated her birthday with the Hopers at Concetto! the new italian restaurant by Saveur. will blog about that in a bit! this is a photo with our ever-growing family :'))) so happy to see everyone like this! <3<3 wish liying & ngan's boyfriends were here tooooo. and huishan is missing from this photo. but so much love for these friends who went through thick and thin together while we were slogging away on OCSP hehh :) 

and my favourite SMU girls! :))) shall not post the one with the guys because i look so unglam there (sigh). we look so colour-coordinated in white/black in this pic!! 

went to watch Non-Stop after that and IT WAS SO EXCITING!!!!! i was totally gonna jump out of my seat any moment during the movie haha! really felt like i was on the plane :O and the sound effects O.M.G. gosh but i think if i was in a situation like that i would die of fear even before the plane crashes x.x so scary when such things happen >.< 

and we went for the Senior Dis-ornetation event together too! <3 haha what a funny name right :P and it was a SUPER EPIC day as well, which i'm so tempted to post a really swoon-worthy photo teehee, but it is too embarrassing. hehe ^^ so it shall remain exclusive to us ;) and we're going for grad night together!!!! wheeeeeee i'm so excited! haha it's gonna be like prom all over again, but with such awesome company ^^ i can't wait!! hopefully we'll be lucky enough (haha *cross fingers and toes*) to win that hotel stay at MBS. my happy place <3 

so many memories for us in SMU i'll never forget :') thanks for the wonderful 21 months so far and counting! :)) haha so funny, that day during Ngan's birthday with the superheroes, Nic asked all the girls whether it's still worth it to have a boyfriend when it heightens all our emotions - both happy and sad. the answer? yes yes yes yes YES. i love you darling, to the moon and back and till the stars stop shining :) thank you for always loving me the way you do, with your amazing patience and biggest heart <3

prepared a lil something for my dearies in SMU! (: hope they like it ^^ and big thanks to PixaRoll as well! they sent me this gorgeous set of magnets which are the perfect gift for my superheroes! (: so many memories we've had captured in #makingyear4count (credits to Sam for the hashtag ^^) and being able to print them out just makes it even better! plus the fact that Pixaroll does magnets which is pretty innovative - something i've never seen so far! and you're not just limited to instagram photos. PixaRoll allows you to develop normal photos into 4R or 6R prints as well! get it on Android or iPhone and start printing your magnets now ^^

*for a little sweetener, PixaRoll is offering a special discount for my readers - use the coupon code 'KELW' when you check out your order for a 15% discount. it's only valid till 31/3/2014 so get yours soon if you want to (: