I know the week's not officially over, but honestly, I've had a very happy week so far. It's been a busy letters week- I've gotten 1st letters from 2 new pen-pals (one came on Monday and another just this afternoon), both of whom I thought were never going to reply me so I'd given up on them already, Qiaowei's letter came on Thursday (together with an uber cute panda sticker and a lovely origami cat!), and I got both Junior's and Jonathan's letters on Tuesday. That's the 2nd time BOTH their letters have synced in their arrivals haha. I was really surprised to receive the letters on Tuesday, because I was estimating a Wed, Thursday latest arrival, so it really made me so happy when I got home from school on Tuesday evening and found both their letters lying on the floor, waiting for me. Jonathan sent me a lovely picture of his son, Lattrell. I really appreciated that; it was his son's graduation photo from kindergarten, and to give it to someone like that is really very touching, and showed me that I meant enough to him for him to give up something as precious as that to me. I won't say anything about Junior's letters, cause really, the contents cannot be talked about now. AND THEN- and this is what really made this a very happy week- I got mail from Junior today again. I wasn't expecting it, so you can imagine my surprise and happiness when I saw it. I was so, so overjoyed. But it wasn't so much the mail that made me happy as its CONTENTS. Its contents made me so touched, I really can't describe that feeling without sounding crazy. All I know is that it cleared away some of the doubts that I've been having about us. And I'm not going to reveal what it was that made me so touched, not now anyway. Replies have been sent on Thursday, and I intend to send my replies on Monday to the new pen-pal letter I just received, and to Qiaowei.

4 pen-pals now, I think I've had enough already. I'll just concentrate on these 4, but especially on Junior. I really, really focus all my energy and effort on that one guy, thank God he appreciates it haha. Really, one day, I'll explain everything that's been happening. When I reread my blog posts about all these, I get very confused myself, and I sound like a lunatic even to myself. But when the time is right, I will write out a longass blog post and explain everything out.

Labels: letters, pen-pals

I got the sweetest text:


Haha! I was so happy when I got this! The cake in question? This chocolate cake:



I'd made the cake for a friend's birthday! And the text was from her housemate haha. It's a super rich chocolate cake, and the frosting is very "truffle-y" in nature, as my friend kept gushing that night. It's a new technique I'm trying out- I hate chocolate frosting that's more butter than chocolate, and I've found this frosting that's more chocolate and the richness comes from double cream rather than butter. So the end result is a super chocolatey, "truffle-y" chocolate cake! Guess what, there's around 600g of chocolate in this whole cake alone:) I would be mad shocked if the cake didn't taste chocolatey haha.

I've got yet another long weekend, I've got today (Friday) off. Tomorrow I'm going to eat pies in Salthill with the gang! Still undecided if I should jog there (i.e. burn off some calories before indulging in pie-eating). I haven't exercised the whole week (save for Pilates lesson on Wed) because I came my period haha. I'll start again next week!

Junior and Jonathan's letters came on Monday, and I spent the whole night writing them back. Or rather, writing Junior's letter. I think I spent only about 2 hours on Jonathan's letter, but like about 9 on Junior's??? I slept only at 6am that night:X Had to wake up early somemore cause school on Tuesday was at 9am. I detoured to the cafe in the hospital on my way to school to grab a cup of mocha haha, or else I wouldn't be able to stay awake for the whole day. AND school that day was a full day from 9am- 5pm. I rushed off halfway through school cause bac practical ended early to post my letters off, I wanted to send them off ASAP. So yeah, I was like a walking zombie on V-Day because I'd only slept for 2 hours the night before. I went to school in specs and no make-up lol.

My mom's parcel still hasn't arrived:( She posted it off last Thursday, and yet till today it hasn't arrived yet. I'm eager to see what stuffs she had put inside- she refuses to tell me! She mailed it via registered mail though, and I hope I'll be around to get it because if not, I'll have to go to some post office in Tuam or something just to collect it.

Anyway, I got Dilyso's letter today! It came in the morning but because I didn't go out of the house, I didn't get it till Geraldine came back in the evening and passed it to me. Haha, she wrote it on one of the letter sets she bought when we went shopping in Daiso together earlier this year while I was back in Singapore.



I love the stickers omggg. Here in Ireland you cannot find such cute stuffs anywhere, and in the event that you do, they'll confirm burn a hole in your pocket one.

Labels: chocolate cake, letters, mail, parcels, pies, salthill

I got back all of my results officially. The school is SUPER slow in releasing results lol! Anyway, my grades are as follows:

Central Nervous System: A
Endocrinology: A
Genetics: A
Molecular Medicine: C (*#^!*!^&~@^#!)
Reproduction and Development: A

Please look at my MM marks. I'm sadded to the max. But I can't bitch about it- I didn't like the subject at all and only studied for it twice: once about a week before the exam, and once more the night before the exam. So in all reality I asked for that mark, and I deserved it.

I haven't really studied since school started- for some reason I keep getting distracted by loads of things always. Like how last night, I was on WAP's forums the entire night. And today, I wanted to study but I ended up spending the whole morning changing blogskins. Changing blogskins also mean that I've been tinkering around my dashboard and template and all, and reading through my past blog entries, I realised that I used to be able to write pretty good! Like some of the stuffs I wrote, I don't think I'll be able to write them now. I was quite articulate back then hehe, but sadly my writing skills have deteriorated. That's why I'm trying to pick blogging back up in the hopes that I can get back my writing abilities lol. The quality of my recent entries have fallen far short of what I used to be able to produce.

Anyways, I'm quite excited for next week though- it's letters week!:))) my mother told me today on Skype that she had sent me something via registered mail! And since mail from Singapore normally takes a week to reach, I'm guessing I should receive it middle of next week?? And I mailed Dilyso something last week and a few days ago she FB PMed me to ask me to "expect (her) reply"! OH OH and also, if Junior's on task, I should get a letter from him soooon:)And from Jonathan as well!

Respi failure notes are beckoning me now, and my guilt-ridden heart (from having hardly studied for many weeks now) has decided it's finally time to answer.

Labels: letters, pen-pals, results, WAP

Hello, I'm Mylene.

I love God, my family, my close friends, chocolate, Nutella, Nugatti, yam paste, Nonya kueh, baking, desserts, crunchy peanut butter, trying out new food places, books, travelling, airplane food, snail mail, vintage anything, medicine, wearing blood-red clothes, The Desiderata, stickers, hearts, making cards and origami, watching comedies, reading mystery/detective novels, playing mystery/detective games, mocha, yoghurt with fruits and muesli, dogs, quirky bags, soft & fluffy towels, pretty lingerie, Christmas, heels I cannot walk in, polka dots, smiles.

I try not to hate on anyone or anything because it's a waste of my time and energy. If I don't like it, I'll either try to change it or just ignore it.

I'm trying to live my life to the fullest, and be the best person that I can be.