"Dear Diary, 

Here are some random thoughts.

I can't help but feel that it's so heartwarming whenever I see triplets' pictures. I don't know how it feels like to have sisters to stay through your side ever since the day you were born, I don't know how good it feels like to be able to do every single thing together, through the ups and downs of life. 

It warms my heart to know how these three sisters go through everything together, until one day they have to be seperated to further their studies. Even so, I feel they are still close as ever when I see their pictures. Each picture reveals more than just happiness and love. I can literally feel the bond here in Singapore, I felt their little hearts bursting into joy when they first met each other after months. My mind subconsciously puts myself into their shoe. From the moment they knew they were studying together in St Andrews,  to the moment when Daffy had to leave for Ireland, to the moment they finally got to meet each other for Christmas. The feeling when you just settled down in a foreign country, when classes started and the feeling's different of not having all three mugging together physically like the past, the feeling of encouraging each other to not give up because you guys chose this path and are destined to save others' lifes, the feeling of skyping each other, the feeling of being on the verge of giving up but taking a peek at your sisters and they have never given up so you chose not to quit either, the feeling of going through a hell week in school, the feeling of immerse stress and pressure, the feeling of home sick, the feeling of not having sushi and chinese food, the feeling of pulling through the last few weeks before Christmas, the feeling of packing up and preparing to head to London, the funny feeling you get into your stomach when you're on the way to London, the feeling of stepping into London and being an inch closer to your sibilings, the feeling when you strike big steps down the pathment and you can no longer contain your excitment, the feeling of home when you finally got to see/feel/hug your sibilings... All these thoughts run wild in my mind. I feel like home for you girls too 

I must say, you three are the most respected girls I've ever met, really. Forget about all the bitchings we did in secondary school days. I always wanted to be a boy because I thought guys see a bigger picture and can do much more things than girls would, but you three proved me wrong. You showed me that girls are equally capable, as long as you have the determination, movation and dispicline. You girls are unlike my other friends who only fret if their make up smudge or if their outfits make sense. Not saying they're stupid or whatsoever, just being completely honest  

To cut long story short, I really take my hat off you girls. YOU'RE my motivation. At least when I study alone at night, I know I'm not really alone <3

I just want to share my thoughts with you, since I don't blog anymore. I want to let you girls know, no matter how tough studying is, we will make it through and we should never give up! I love you girls and I hope y'all had a MERRY CHRISTMAS <3 Please come back next year for Christmas! 

With truckloads of love,

Beefang"

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I'm never good at words like this, but when I first saw this email that was sent to us last night in macdonalds. I just melted. I never knew our lives would motivate someone so much. I was always motivated by someone, but never did I thought we would be a motivation for some people. It wasn't easy to have a change in environment where everyone is at a different place, but deep down we knew that no matter how far we were, we are still as close as ever. The anticipation and count down to this trip was actually almost killing me. That sight of the doppelganger in the tube station waiting for me, amazing feeling :) Christmas was different. A few hiccups but it was still as awesome as ever. If I could turn back time again, I would repeat this. I'm bad at expressing my emotions, but thank you beefang, for making me think back on everything that has happened and letting me appreciate things a little more. I love you girls.

Merry Christmas.

It's only 2 more days and I'll get to see my doppelgangers. I'm in the worst state of homesickness now. The anxiety and excitement of going down is making me miss home even more. I wish these 2 days pass by quickly. And finally have Christmas with the people who I love. :) I'm jealous for all my friends that will be going back today or over the next few days or have already left for home. First Christmas away from home is going to be hard. :(

May you rest in peace.

Dear Ms Angeline Cheong.

I was absolutely devastated once I heard the news about you. It came too sudden, it came too soon. You were such a good teacher, that believed in all of us, the entire class that we were able to excel well in our studies. You never once did gave up on us, and constantly supported us throughout our first year of IB. I remembered the last few weeks or days that you taught us. You said you lost your voice, but you still taught us through our means, even when it was difficult and probably painful to you. Your determination brought us through our first year. And when you left, it was evidently shown that you had at our best interest unlike other "teachers".

Even it this sounds so stupid, because some may just say you're merely a teacher, I broke down and cried when I heard about your news. I wish I am back in Singapore now, so that I can go to your wake. I am so sorry that I can't see you off. & that I didn't visit you, even when the rest of the class did. I am sorry. Thank you for hanging in there for us. Thank you for everything that you've done for us.

You will be remembered and will be missed greatly. You'll always be the teacher who wins most fashionable award on teachers' day. Your laughter that resounds in my head, will teach me how fun learning can be. Your smile that is like a photographic memory in my head, will teach me that it is possible to smile, even the dark days. The Lord will take care of you now. I can't believe you're not here with us anymore. :(

Counting down

22 days ♥

till the feeling of home is back

Ideal Saturday Morning.

On the way back in the car, my netball team mate who called shotgun asked my another team mate who was driving, "What is your ideal Saturday morning?" She described it along the lines of:  Waking up, knowing that there is no pressure in doing any work, or even knowing that there isn't any work to clear for today. Having breakfast in bed, served by the person you love. And maybe after breakfast, taking a stroll along the beach (St Andrews' beach is said to be one of their best attraction). Then she asked the rest of us in the car, everyone agreed and said their ideal Saturday morning was along that line too.

I sat in the back seat of the car, and started wondering what is my ideal Saturday morning.

My ideal Saturday morning, is waking up at like crazily early timing for me, that I have to drag myself out of bed to get up. Or rather, some other people dragging me out of bed. Or when that particular someone shouts and it is like a signal to my body to immediately get up, or I will get into trouble. That's how I would like to wake up to on my ideal Saturday morning.

Brushing my teeth, doing my hair and using the toilet. Having to queue for the sink, the mirror, the toilet bowl, the comb/brush, the toothpaste (colgate) as I do all these simple daily routine things every morning. Weird isn't it? Having to queue up to even do the simplest things ever. But that's how I would like to get ready for my ideal Saturday morning.

Walking down that flight of stairs to see newspapers in people's hands and the television turned on. But this position doesn't last long, because I am usually the signal to keep the newspaper, turn off the lights, television and fan and head to the main door. Cupboards that stores shoes starts opening and closing with a slam, shoes are thrown on the floor with a little dog being afraid of the sound produced when the shoes touches the ground. Automatically, everyone moves into the car, as though there was some sort of seating arrangement. It was like the "silent rule". This was the "silent seating positions". Off we go, a start to my ideal Saturday morning.

Arrived at some coffee shop, that is simply walking distance from the house, but sure why not drive? Then one whole load of ordering system goes - "Carrot cake. Black or white? Add egg." "Roasted chicken rice. Add roasted pork." "Hokkien mee." And this is my favourite line on a Saturday morning, "Four iced milo, one coffee black and one can of coke (in Chinese/dialect/singlish)." When everything is placed on the table, food starts being transferred and shared around, and eaten, till everyone is well-fed.

With tummies filled, going home was the next thing. Everyone disperse into their individual rooms, but to only start preparing, for the errands that were discussed, probably days or weeks ago. I like errands that requires me to dress up. Dressing up was the fun part, taking ages to decide which clothes to wear, or what matches what. And off we go again, with the car before the afternoon and energy gotten from my wonderful morning breakfast starts to kick in.

This is my ideal Saturday morning. To be back home, leading my life with my family.

It's your freshman year and you're gonna be here for the next four years in this town.

Why can't you go here? It sounds almost exactly the same. :/

Honestly, it's horrible how we're apart. Plus the fact that I don't have an iphone YET, it is so hard to skype or talk to you. It's not that we don't put in the effort to, it's just that we have commitments that are important too. Going shopping on Saturday, was probably the weirdest feeling ever. There was no "Ew desi, that's so aunty." or "That's so you, desi." or "Come on dulcy, desi's taste is weird." from you.

What sucks even more is that I am in a netball team that doesn't have both my sisters at all. It is my first time playing without having our secret ultimate defending skills together. It is my first time playing without you guys giving me death stares on court, but smiling faces outside. It is my first time playing without you guys shouting out my name, and feeling you want to kill me for doing that wrong mistake.

Netball was our thing. Our thing that we enjoyed for the past 10 years of our lives. It is so hard to appreciate it right now.

I wish all of you guys were here. It really makes the whole of us. It brings out the best in us. It doesn't make us feel like there's a damn hole that can't be mended till you're here. I miss random times where you guys just come snuggling into my bed, and somehow we all just fall asleep on one bed, fighting for space.

Maybe I haven't thought this through enough, that maybe I just can't live without you guys. I want us. Not just one person, the whole package. The whole package.

When they say three is a crowd. I say that a crowd of three of us is pretty much damn right awesome.

Lights will guide you home

So near yet so far.
This week is reading week but we still have classes. Today is super super cold with fog and I was wearing the thinnest leggings I've got. Smart move? We just got our reading week's timetable yesterday and we found out that we had Friday off and I end school at 3pm on Thursday! I was really prepared to fly to dublin to find the missing triplet, but the air tickets are really expensive! :(

Oh well! We will leave it till next year when we finished our exams! :):) Or maybe she can come down! Hehehe :D:D Anyway, SKYPE SCREENSHOTS :D Sorry, I know, I don't have quality posts. I can't wait for December to come because we have booked our flights/trains down to London to spend White Christmas together :):) Love you girls.

Love ya bitch face :D

White Christmas it shall be.

2nd November 2011, 10am

I woke up to my mum's skype call telling me to read her facebook status. "Dad's original plan to get-together in London/St Andrews in December for Xmas/New Year changed. You all can get your respective return tickets there to COME HOME during your winter break! Coordinate the return dates and let me know. :)" I can never be any happier this morning. Instead I was overly excited and was making plans of what to eat and who to meet when I'm back. My parents were so nice of letting us go back home for the 2 weeks Christmas break because they felt we were too homesick. I can never ask for any better parents.

2nd November 2011, 2pm

As the time ticks by, our heads were clearing up. We are seeing the situation more clearly. More contemplations, more questions on whether it is actually worth it to go back home. 4 children, costing approximately 12k SGD, just to go back for 2 weeks. In addition, exams are right after Christmas break. Four of us decided to break away from the group conversation and reflect on ourselves and come back after dinner to give a firm answer..

2nd November 2011, 10.35pm

We just hung up on a group conversation over Skype with my mum and my siblings. And our decision is to save that 12k SGD and not go home. No matter how homesick we are, we are out here, in a new environment because we want to. And it is because we want to, we'll face it and pull this tide over ourselves. My mum was crying over Skype and I could hear my heart breaking. But pulling a strong front, we all smiled and shouted "I love you mummy".

This represents the 3 of us and my brother. :) Hang in there everyone.

It has been an emotional turmoil today for everyone. Nevertheless, I love you all so much. I miss you guys so much. Time will pass quickly and we'll all be what we want, and soon, we'll be back home hugging each other again. Guys, hang in there. ♥

Close enough to touch

Miss us. Together. Cheering each other up. Love you girls the best.

Baby you light up my world like nobody else.

It has been ages since I blogged here! I went through my blog, for no reason and found this collage. :) These photos are ages, but I still love times like those. School has been crazy, but I guess that's how everyone describes school. We're in university now, and no matter how far apart we are, we all have the same goal - that is to become great doctors in future. I don't care how much we whine, I don't care how much we feel tired, I know that we, The Yens, will put in all we have to get what we truly want.

Not only about futures, but also to save and double the money (if possible), to fly to each other to give hugs and comfort. I miss you guys.

Homesickness or sistersickness?

So I have 2 upcoming exams, one called card signing (CS) on Friday and a semester quiz on Tuesday. I'm not freaking out that badly. Well, I never did. But I know I have to be studying all for these. Plus the amount of things I have to study it's horrible.

I guess it's when to these kind of situations, I get so upset and depressed. I miss my sisters a lot. I remember the times we all just studied together for certain tests or exams. The times we totally conquered the whole dining room area just to ourselves. How we put stupid animals into the door hole and paste up signs of "Do not disturb or ___ (the animal) will be angry." And how we are constantly hungry in the midst of study and hunting food together. The times where we are only 2 stories apart, we still have to skype each other. I miss these times.

Right now, I'm here, stuck, alone and sad. Only they can tolerate my stupidness. Only they are able to answer my stupid questions and make sure I really understand it. Only they are the ones that actually are willing to spend the time and effort to slowly explain it to me, no matter how simple the question was. Only they are the ones that will say "Go have your 5 mins nap, I'll wake you up after." or shouting at me "Stop sleeping daffy! Get up and study now!" They are the only ones I listen to.

I'm afraid I won't do well. Or at least to what I am capable of. :( All the best to me. I'm always completely lost in lectures, and I'm probably too afraid to ask people the simplest questions ever. They all judge. They all think I'm dumb. I'm like the shadows of everyone here, in terms of everything. Brain wise and financial wise. They won't understand why I'm constantly so cheapskate, but my sisters do. In fact, they will join along to. In a whole group of people, I'll just space out, hoping to find someone's eyes and having the same kind of understanding that I have with my sisters and the non-communication talks going "What the heck are they talking about?!". It feels quite tiring to be hopping from one shadow to another..

I miss you two very much. ♥ Homesickness or sistersickness?

You're insecure, don't know what for

No matter how far or near, our promise to stay as close as possible, right?

Yay! Finally I'm going to update this blog! Hahaha. So it's about 4 weeks out of Singapore already! Home sick yet? I'm not, but I'm sick of the people here. Hahaha! Hopefully we can meet up more often! I really wouldn't mind chipping in monehhh! :):) After 3 weeks of spending massive loads of money because of all the sports stuffs and clothings, I've finally managed to break even! :):) So from now, I'm going to try to save up and maybe buy a ticket to London to see my brother or a ticket to Dublin to see Daffy! :):) Wheeee!

Quite excited! :):) My brother is coming up to see us this weekend! And we can skype call with daffy and have steamboat on Saturday! Can't wait! :):) Love you girls :):) Study hard and do mummy and daddy proud! :):) Love you girls :)

All the way from Dublin.

Hi guys! No one have been regularly updating this blog, so I'll be the one that breaks the little silence from here.

So anyways, I'm in Dublin, Ireland now. It was a last minute change and panic, or else I'll be with my other two sisters too! I miss them so much though. It has only been on the second week of school and work are already piling up fast. On a brighter side, there are only about 10 weeks left before I can go meet and join the rest of my siblings in the UK! :) Okay, 10 weeks seems very long, but I'm pretty sure it will pass really quickly.

So here's a quick picture of me. Ignore the ugly hair, face, smile, environment. Concentrate on the heart because I love you guys!

With love from Dublin! :)

Happy birthday!

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Happy 21st you this silly big boy!

We love you! :)

Asian delights: One

So we are finally leaving Singapore in exactly a week now! :) Honestly, I'm pretty excited although there's so much here to give up.. JUST LIKE ASIAN DELIGHTS! So my siblings (including my brother) and I came up with this list in which contains places and food to eat before we leave. So we are currently fulfilling it in this week by having breakfast, lunch and dinner. Trust me, I'm feeling such a fatty.

So first thing on the list which have been strike out: MELLBEN SEAFOOD

If you haven't tried this yet, you're totally missing out in life. A definitely must-eat-food in Singapore. Let the photos speak before words do..

P.S: Pardon the stupid captions below the pictures. I've no idea why blogger is doing this to me. :(

Where Mellbone Seafood is.

The exact location and address. GPS it! :) 

Look at the damn queue! :( 

The amount of food we ordered for 8 people and 1 baby! :) Obviously we are a fatty family that can gobble down any food that comes in our way

Look at the amount of people that were already eating dinner! This is taken at 6pm. Typical Singaporeans trying to avoid the dinner crowd. :D

My little niece all excited for her favourite crabs. :)

Bamboo clams! 

Their all-time favourite and best thing ever crabs. I honestly can't remember what's the name of it, but trust me it's the biggest picture on their menu, so it's very easy to spot. :D 

Ordered 2 bowls! Woohoo.

The girl who was taking our order recommend this - Strawberry prawns, or something like that. It's super weird, but I guess it's an acquired taste. I feel the prawns itself it good without the strawberry thing. :D 

Salted egg coated pork ribs! This is not too bad. 

We missed out 2 photos of tofus. One tofu is their signature dish which is like, probably, handmade tofu with some gravy and there are pork floss on top. We didn't really like it, so I guess you can not try it. And there's another which is some deep fried tofu thing. It's rectangular in shape and you can find it on the menu of the top right of the 2nd page? I think I'm pretty creepy by memorizing their menu.

Anyhow, if you haven't tried this, YOU MUST!

We started queueing from 6pm, and as you can see from the photo, the queue is horribly long. But trust me, it's worth the wait. We waited for about an hour plus before we can finally have a table, but 45 minutes more for the food to be cooked. The bad thing about this place is that you cannot call up and reserve tables. It's a must to queue. You can only call up to order take aways (if I'm not wrong).

We ate on Sunday night thus the waiting time is so long but obviously the queues for weekends are far worst than weekdays, but you still have to queue no matter what. Let me tell you a secret though! If you intend to eat there, go in big groups roughly about 6-8 people. Because they have more big tables than small ones. People who comes in twos or fours have a higher chance of waiting for a table than to groups. :D

You can follow our Asian delights for this whole week! :) I've placed a tag on the right borders!

Puzzle

Hey! I haven't been contributing to the blog for quite some time! So I will be posting today's post! Anyway, we have been dying to do a jigsaw puzzle for quite some time now. And finally daffy bought it  when she went out last week! :) Buying a jigsaw puzzle is PRETTY expensive!! $60+ for the jigsaw puzzle and $70+ for the frame! Wow!

Okay so here's the picture that we are suppose to get to at the end! You think it looks simple? It's one of the craziest puzzle to do. The borders are all white. The clouds looks exactly the same. The grass and flowers looks exactly the same too. :(

Close up on the 4 characters! BABY WINNIE THE POOH CHARACTERS! :):) Baby tigger, baby piglet, baby pooh and baby eeyore! :):) The actually represent the 4 of us. Hehehe! Pretty cute eh? :D

Okay so let's go! Step 1 to solving a jigsaw puzzle: POUR THE PIECES OUT!! :):)

Step 2: do the borders first! This jigsaw puzzle's borders is super crazy because it's totally white, so we literally just tried every piece to each other, hoping they will fit perfectly!

Step 3: Do the obvious pieces first. For this jigsaw, it's definitely the 4 cartoon characters! For your information, the 2 pictures below were fixed within less than 24hours since the unwrapping of the jigsaw! Aren't we fast? :D:D Hehehe.

Okay, so we finished everything but the clouds. Seriously, the clouds is INSANE. We gave up doing for afew days but finally we took time to sit down and stress over the clouds. And we managed to fix all within a week! That's pretty impressive by the fact that we had our own lives and we didn't do much for the first few days. Hahaha :):)

TADAAAAA!! We finally finished the entire jigsaw puzzle! WOOHOO! Oh by the way, it's 1000 pieces! I'm so happy!! :D:D So step 4: Take the glue that they gave in the jigsaw puzzle box and cover all over it! Make sure that you cover the ends too! :):) REMEMBER to put something underneath it or else it will get stuck to the floor or table.

Step 6 (Last and final step): After waiting for the glue to dry! Take the whole jigsaw puzzle and put it in a nice frame! :):) And ta-da! Our masterpiece! :):)

So there's something we can tick off the list now - doing a 1000jigsaw puzzle! :):) Good bye and sorry for the crappy posting :P

I would give it all to not be sleeping alone.

This photo was taken on daffy's mac photobooth like a week or two ago, when daffy was giving tuition to her tuition kid, and me and dulcy just sat on the floor, watching Big Bang Theory in the room. I know, it is awkward that we're interrupting her tuition, but it is cool!

Honestly, this photo gave me a scare. Haha! I know how many people think that we look super alike and all, and I disagree with people saying no we don't really and all sorts of nonsense on how we look totally different, or how we do not feel each other pain when someone whacks one of us physically, or the different face shapes we have, or even to the most detailed points on our face - the moles.

But in this photo, I shocked myself. I thought I was dulcy, and dulcy was me! Well, the first time I looked at it I guess. But I burst out laughing and started sharing this fascinating (well to me) photo to my brother and mother. Well, as usual, the more I look at it, the less I think I look like dulcy. But then again, this fascinates me! :D

I'd cross the world for someone like you.

All my life, my room has been a pretty big room. Or rather, I shall rephrase "re-sentence/re-structure" that sentence. All our lives, our room has been a pretty big room. Yes, we have been sharing a room all the time! And obviously, putting three beds into a room is not joke. But since our both parents are engineers, they always found a way of fixing up the room such that even a small room looks huge and spacious. Honestly, they are awesome engineers. :)

I don't really have photos of our previous two room concepts/layouts, or even the current one. But honestly, if you take a look at our room, you will be freaking amazed, and I am proud to call it our room! Hanging beds from the ceiling and no-legs-with-swinging-extension-tables. It is going to be pretty weird, that once we enter university, we will be having our own single rooms!

But nevertheless, I am pretty amazed by these two room concepts that I have seen on the internet. Well, by internet, I mean tumblr. Haha! It is really nice! :) Have a look. All three-bedder rooms! :)

I always want the top bed. :)

Flea as vendors!

We are crazy over fleas, since we started blogging because fleas have the cheapest things ever! Everything is on clearance sales, and everything is cheap! But this time, we turned things around - we were the vendors! We had our first flea market yesterday, Sunday at Scape park from 2pm to 8pm! Yes, we decided to sell some of our clothes, because we can't bring them to Scotland either. It is too cold up there! Pretty sad, I am going to miss all my summer dresses.

But back to the flea! We took one day to clear up our wardrobe and decide what we would want to sell! Our wardrobes are pretty empty now, which is quite sad. The whole room was in a big mess, no joke. So daffy was appointed to do the hanging of price tags, dul was appointed to hang the clothes, and I was appointed to write the price tag! Yes, division of labour applies in this family. :D

My little niece who entered my room and saw the shoes. She just put them on and started walking around.

All tidied up! We were pretty much looking forward to this day and was excited! So after our weekly Sunday morning marketing at Chinatown, we packed everything and headed down to Scape around 1pm plus! Thank goodness we had the big car at home to use to transport everything down! :)

How the back of the car looks like. Hahahaha.

Dulcy, our driver there! :)

Our supporter, Brina aka dulcy's boyfriend! :)

My rice krispies box that I used for these signs! :(

Thank goodness for a guy like Brina! Strong guys here is an advantage to us! :)

daffy with the luggage! :)

Setting up the store! Super warm!

My pink penguin, our only source of wind there!

So we spent like 7 hours at Scape, that humid place. We literally perspire for 7 hours there. It was an experience I guess! Thank goodness we had friends there who set up their own stores also, so we hopped to each other stall, caught up a little and all! Dulcy and Brina were our logistics/welfare people! :D They bought food and drinks for us - 2 bottles of mineral water, a box of honey stars and 2 bottles of pringles! They got french fries later! Daffy was the one who kept organizing the clothes each time some one looks through the clothes and messes them up! Well I was the one promoting the stall.

So this was my standard phrase that I repeated for 6 hours. "Hello, everything in the luggage is $5. If you buy 3, it'll be $12 only. All the pairs of shoes are at $10. And everything at our stall is below $20. So please have a look through the rack and everything. Thank you." It was a really long promotion that I had to keep doing, and hardly anyone stopped to look anyway. I think we are the horrible stall promoters. Haha! We kept pushing clothes to them, asking them if they think it looks good on them! Hahaha!

So we didn't sell much clothes, and mostly our customers were all from the Philippines. I can't believe one of them did the China method on me - the walking away if you don't meet my bargain price. What a bitch. & hardly only one bought things that are above $15. Sigh. It is pretty disappointing, but I guess it is okay!

Packing up!

Drove home and we were seriously pretty exhausted from everything! But I guess it was quite an experience! Not sure if we're going to do another to try to clear again, but honestly it is not cheap renting the stall and trying to break even is really hard. :(

So that was our experience with Fleas! :D