Im clearing out our drafts, and posting up posts that I think are safe enough to post...=p so this is Rachels new years post :


Let me just sum up 2006: It was a very very interesting year, with an unexpected twist at the end. It was full of ups and downs, but it was definitely one of the best years in my life, rivaled only by that of Form 3 2003. Meeting new people in college from a variety of backgrounds, finding new friends who have proceeded on to best friends and confidantes and partner, messed up friendships-people I was really close to in the earlier part of the year but don’t talk to anymore due to irreconcilable differences (ooh :p), healing a broken heart, botched confessions (thanks to a certain Ruwan), playing with fire and getting burnt in the end, visits to a charity home meeting orphans, and seeing the state of which they were living in… I’ll return there one day (amazing kids, to still be so lively despite all that they have gone through. Although there was a language barrier, they have really touched my heart in so many ways), meeting fantastic new people during my attachment at the law firm, university applications, super screwed up examinations ie. LNAT, forgetting, no, wrong word... ACCEPTING the past and embracing the future for all the opportunities it holds. I am glad and thankful I was given another chance at life. But more importantly, I am glad I gave myself another chance at leading a normal life.

2006 was a year of many firsts: traveling to a foreign land on my own, ice skating, receiving my first ever red rose, celebrating Christmas with the one person who makes everything right, amazing public examination results-which epitomizes my academic achievements to date, having a citation read in my honor amongst other top achievers, having first hand experience of the legal profession, proms and annual balls (didn’t have one in secondary school), new subjects which I still have yet to understand and have definitely screwed up in the recent exam (#2006 was a year of many firsts: traveling to a foreign land on my own, ice skating, receiving my first ever red rose, celebrating Christmas with the one person who makes everything right, amazing public examination results-which epitomizes my academic achievements to date, having a citation read in my honor amongst other top achievers, having first hand experience of the legal profession, proms and annual balls (didn’t have one in secondary school), new subjects which I still have yet to understand and have definitely screwed up in the recent exam (#2006 was a year of many firsts: traveling to a foreign land on my own, ice skating, receiving my first ever red rose, celebrating Christmas with the one person who makes everything right, amazing public examination results-which epitomizes my academic achievements to date, having a citation read in my honor amongst other top achievers, having first hand experience of the legal profession, proms and annual balls (didn’t have one in secondary school), new subjects which I still have yet to understand and have definitely screwed up in the recent exam (#2006 was a year of many firsts: traveling to a foreign land on my own, ice skating, receiving my first ever red rose, celebrating Christmas with the one person who makes everything right, amazing public examination results-which epitomizes my academic achievements to date, having a citation read in my honor amongst other top achievers, having first hand experience of the legal profession, proms and annual balls (didn’t have one in secondary school), new subjects which I still have yet to understand and have definitely screwed up in the recent exam (#$&^#@%&^ Accounting), getting carried by someone, smearing Oreo cream onto someone’s calculator and stapling her Biology notes together (sorry Fatin :p), having my shelf break cos of the load of books I put in there, standing up to people who honestly don’t deserve my attention anymore. DRIVING! :D and….. cheating in exams and receiving letters from lecturers for skipping too many classes and getting barred from taking exams……. Lalalalala! And so many other things that are too explicit to be put on the blog ;p
amp;^#@%&^ Accounting), getting carried by someone, smearing Oreo cream onto someone’s calculator and stapling her Biology notes together (sorry Fatin :p), having my shelf break cos of the load of books I put in there, standing up to people who honestly don’t deserve my attention anymore. DRIVING! :D and….. cheating in exams and receiving letters from lecturers for skipping too many classes and getting barred from taking exams……. Lalalalala! And so many other things that are too explicit to be put on the blog ;p
amp;^#@%&^ Accounting), getting carried by someone, smearing Oreo cream onto someone’s calculator and stapling her Biology notes together (sorry Fatin :p), having my shelf break cos of the load of books I put in there, standing up to people who honestly don’t deserve my attention anymore. DRIVING! :D and….. cheating in exams and receiving letters from lecturers for skipping too many classes and getting barred from taking exams……. Lalalalala! And so many other things that are too explicit to be put on the blog ;p

Memories from the past will live on… or rather the memories I choose to remember will remain… So what if December 10 2005 happened to be the day I was asked to die and got dumped? December 10 2006 was the best night of my life, and I really felt like I belonged to someone and nothing can beat that feeling. Two complete opposites, in a span of 365 days. Why should I put my past on hold because of one mistake made in the past… I have lived through it: one year can make all the difference.

Thanks to all of you who have made my 2006 the bomb! :)