im sorry for the horrible lag in updates, everything has been a swirl of activities i don't know where to start..

1) the relatives arrived on monday bringing along with them a 2.5yr toddler monty. monty adores my dad, and us girls all absolutely adore him just that he doesnt care, he only cares about my dad and what he's doing. he hero-worships my dad so much so that my dad convinced him to eat veggies for the first time in his life. tonight he was happily munching raw lettuce, but only after my dad had a bite first. haha i have just said 'my dad' too many times in this sentence.

2) dad and co are here now and its fun! finally all four of us sisters+adopted sis chessy and it spells F-U-N. except when chessy is in her room hacking her lungs out and sniffing her bunged nose. yes, chessy caught the winter bug going around even though we started on vitamin C a few days before that. yes i know, a bit late, but better late then never. haha

3) monday was the first day of winter and it's absolutely freezing now i tell you. still bearable, but it would be nice to have temperatures higher than 10degC. butttt, i can't wait for it to snow!!! i rlly hope there are at least one or two days where we get snowed in and can't get to school!

4) i can smell the exams. the library is full full full now but at least we get 3 days off school for studying. but for the same number of subjects (i think), fi gets 3 weeks. hahaha

5) am getting increasingly excited to go home for the holidays. warm weather, GRANDPARENTS, good food, and friends (: but the horrid part is that turns out that despite all the effort, i still leave on the same day fi leaves england. which is a big pain because i havent seen her in ages, and i was looking forward to catching up with her and just spending time with this awesome girl.

i think that's about it. little things here and there have happened that have sort of left me tipped slightly off-balance but im all back now! and everything is great! and im a happy happy girl (: