My Valentine's Day 2014

So, how are you planning to spend on your Valentine's Day since it is around the corner?

Are you single? Taken?

What do you do when you're single? Date with your girlies? Hang out with your bros? Eat and sleep?

What do you do when you're taken? Do you have a ritual? Simple, fun or romantic?

Let me tell you how I celebrate every year since grade 6. I ALWAYS buy boxes of chocolates and distribute to my classmates, schoolmates, friends, teachers and of course; my crush.

I remember I either distribute them in the morning before the lesson begun or during my lunch break. It's like an every year ritual to me since then and until back in college. It's fun and I love giving a little happiness :)

But then... Since I have a long break now, and don't really meet my friends because they are spreaded really far away from where I stay, I don't get to do this. :( </3

I guess I'll eat chocolates alone at home. TT^TT

Abby Lim

Grasshopper Hunting

What's one your favourite memories back in pre-school?

I have one, a great one actually.

I used to hunt grasshoppers with my great friend, Jess, back then when we are in primary four. I've studied in an international school back in Shanghai for two years.

It was a great experience.

So then, every recess time, we would always run to the hilly field of our school right after we had our lunch.

Let me tell you, there weren't just grasshoppers that we hunt.

There were PLENTY of different types of bugs in the field.

It was almost like a bug kingdom or some sort.

Anyways, that's not the point.

The point is that me and this really good friend of mine were used to LOVE hunting grasshoppers and set them free individually at our own home's garden.

Hey you, you despise bugs?- I wasn't. But now I do.

Now that I'm living in a landed house, there's always bound to have grasshoppers hanging out in my garden. I've even seen a ton of hatchlings/ babies on my mum's freaking potted plants.

Seriously, I'm cringing while typing these.

No thanks, I'll just 'nope' my way out of your sight.

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Abby Lim

"Play With Yourself"

Hey there!

I'm posting almost every single day yea?

Yea...

Anyways, this post is about what happened during a lecture back in college.

We all have that moment where we capture our inside jokes or just tease a little here and there. Especially when you sit right beside your really close friend during lectures.

So here's what happened.

"Play with yourself."

We are the 'best' students ever.

Can't disclose who the lecturer is. However, I think he/ she isn't teaching at the college I've studied anymore.

It's a memory to remember.

Abby Lim

Butterflies In My Stomach

You like someone, you have that tingling feeling in your guts.

No, not the pain you get when you're about to diarrhoea, silly.

"Butterflies In My Stomach."

How it feels like to me?

Let's just say it feels less like some insects flapping its wings in your gut.

That just sounds so so so unappealing.

It's more like...

trembling/ shivering,
Smile for no apparent reason even when staring blankly to nothing,

the thought of the smile that itself could lit up the day,

the thought of wanting to know more about this person,

that feeling of doubt whether or not I should just say it,

the fear of being CRUSHED instead of crushing.

Uh... Yea... He'd probably thought I'm heading off to the washroom.

Why?-"Butterflies in my stomach."

Holding your stomach/ tummy and then say you head somewhere else is just...

He'd probably think I went to poo. HAHA

I suck... TT^TT

Abby Lim

Chinese New Year- Aunties

I'm back from Chinese New Year break babeh!

I went back to my hometown and ate, slept, and repeat everything.

Gained some weight though... TT.TT

But that's completely normal though.

If you don't gain any weight on Chinese New Year, then something must be wrong here, my friend.

Three days worth of constant stuffing myself with food.

Three days worth of sniffling and sneezing because of the different environment.

I could actually sense myself getting a little sick.

Anyways, here's one scenario I got from my Chinese New Year visit to my grandmother's place.

Mother's side.

*popo = grandmother

*Aneh Chio = so pretty

My grand aunt, if I don't look like my mum I like look like who?!

And and and, WHY MARRY?!

I'm still young!

My grandmother... She was literally chopping up a pumpkin in the living room just as I got there.

All these shenanigans. It's inevitable. It comes after you every year when you visit any aunties during Chinese New Year.

"You got girlfriend/ boyfriend or not?"

"You married already or not?"

"What are you doing now? Are you duh doctor or engineer?"

"You pregnant already or not?"

Just loads of Blahs... Blah blah blah...

But got Ang Paus so... HEHEH.

Hope you have a great Chinese New Year!

Abby Lim

Year of Horse (2014)

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

It's the year of horse!

My sneaky wish though...

"More Tao Hua for me please."

And yes, I'm born in the year of rooster.

Shouldn't I be a hen...?

Anyway, I wish those who celebrates Chinese New Year a prosperous one!

龙马精神！

马到功成！

步步高升！

Oh hey, my Chinese ain't that rusty YET.

Also, I've tried drawing horses early this month.

Oh yea, I can't wait until around the middle of the month.

So enthusiastic for it.

Haha...

Failed a little here and there, but I'm pretty satisfied with this one.

Inspired by a Disney film, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002).

I LOVE that film!

That horse is so handsome.

*ehem*

Ok... What?

Here, as you can see, I used a forest green and a blue watercolour pencils on the edges of the horse.

This is how it looks like after I go over it with a wet brush.

Who needs a unicorn when our beautiful world have beautiful Stallions?

Abby Lim

Seen

Dangerous thing in messaging.

Definitely not new.

I haven't experience the pain until not long ago.

Your message seen, not replied, you know how that feels?

Yea, that uh... that.

I know how it feels now.

Well, to be more specific, it is even more painful when the 'someone' is your crush.

Seen. Few hours ago.

"What's the worst it could happen eh?"

"Just 'Hi' only what..."

Fucking hell.

Seen

Seen

SEEN

Abby Lim