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Note: I blurred the license plate of the car on purpose.

I took those photos around one month ago when it was Chinese New Year.

We were in the car going somewhere (I forgot where..) when I caught sight of the mashimaro on the white car which was parked there. So cute! :love: I love Mashimaro! (Des gave me a mashimaro soft toy on my 21st birthday in Shanghai. He brought it from Singapore. I was surprised but very happy. ah.. this brings back many memories.. The good old days.)
I excitedly took out my camera but only managed to snap this photo as we drove by. I couldn’t tell his dad to stop the car so that I take a better photo. :faint:

Minutes later we were stuck in a traffic jam and suddenly, I saw the mashimaro car again. It was in the car lane next to us. Lucky me! More pics! hehe :cloud9:
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I know that it should be ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’ but I was thinking about hugs early yesterday morning after he said a simple goodbye to his parents and me at the airport. He said something like “Okay, I’m going now. Bye.” He turned to wave at us and then he left. I didn’t have time to react. It was too fast and unexpected. I was surprised because he went straight through the door without lingering, without giving his parents a chance to say a proper goodbye, without hugging anyone, without hugging me. Maybe he just wanted to avoid an awkward goodbye scene with his parents. Also, many Asian people(the more traditional families) don’t hug. I reckon that he should have made the first move and hugged them. His parents will never say it out loud but I’m sure that they would have been pleased.
If his parents weren’t there, I’m sure that he would have at least hugged me. (He’d better!!! Grrrr)

What I’m used to: longer goodbyes. I remember when I went back to Mauritius in 2005 & 2007 and when it was time to leave and go to Shanghai, mum was talking to me at the airport, telling me to take care of myself, to be a good girl,etc . Then I hugged all the persons who came to see me off and went in, turning back to look at them through the door,waving at them and maybe even trying to hold back tears. I was expecting to see something similar this morning. The first time I ever hugged my mum was in 2004. My mum and I didn’t get along very well during my teenage years. In 2004, I applied for the scholarship to go to China to study and upon receiving news that I got it, I hugged my mum. She was surprised but my hug kinda broke the ice. We get along much better now.

A hug doesn’t sound like much but to me, it is just what I need to prevent myself from collapsing on a particularly bad day. Hugs do wonders for my mental health. And of course, not just any hug but a hug from him. I’ll miss that.
Till we meet again……

I just updated my blog yesterday but I’m very bored at home today so I started to resize my photos. ta-daa! Another update.
I’m in an updating mood now and will probably be for the next few days. Then maybe I’ll probably disappear for a while (as usual) and then come back again.
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I’m still without a desktop or laptop here in Singapore (I left my computer in Shanghai) and I’ve been using Liz’s laptop since I came here. I don’t have a laptop (yet) but I brought a laptop cooler pad from Shanghai. I bought it online when Desmond was buying one for his sis and one for himself. What attracted me to this cooler pad was the wide range of colors available. If I still remember correctly, it was available in hot pink, black, white, bright blue and fluorescent green. :laughing: Resisting the urge to buy the hot pink one, I finally settled for the white one. I had never seen this brand (C-Pad) before but it was very cheap, works fine and I figured that I’ll get to use the cooler pad sooner or later. I wanted to get a Cooler Master but the ones sold online on the Chinese website where I usually buy things were too cheap, i.e obviously fake ones. The few models I saw at a computer shop in Shanghai were bulky-looking and ugly. I prefer simple models.

I had put the cooler pad and Liz’s laptop on the floor to use many times and the fans stopped turning one day because of my hair. A few strands of hair which were on the floor got caught in the fans. I tried to use a toothpick at first but it was difficult and I finally had to open up the cooler pad to remove the hair.

What I learned from this: Do not put the cooler pad on the floor. :faint:

I really want to buy my own laptop but right now, I have other priorities.

By the time I finish writing this entry and hit the Publish button, it will probably be past midnight. He seems to hate it when I write about my feelings but I like writing. I need to write.

I was going through all the recent photos taken on my digital camera earlier today and I’ve realized that we don’t have any photos of us taken during his one month back in Singapore. Just the two of us. Nopes. No photos. He’s leaving on Monday morning. I don’t know if I’ll see him before he leaves because he never mentioned anything about it.
I’m not sure if I should even mention anything. Around one hour ago, when Liz and Colas were telling him to have a nice trip back, I was wondering if I should wish him the same thing too, today itself.

Something I’ve always wanted to do: have our photo taken at one of those photo stickers machines. I took photos at one such machine once in Shanghai with two gal friends. Never with him. I asked him before. I think he said that he didn’t want to. He has 2 (or 3) photo stickers in his wallet but they are old ones that he took with other people. It doesn’t take a genius to guess how I feel.

Lisa showed me a package and told me to open it. ‘Me to you’ Forever Friends keyrings, one for me, one for her. I chose the one on the left. I like pink.

Liz wasn’t aware of it but I was going through a bad time. The past few days were horrible. Thanks liz. :flowers: