Name: Louise

13 April 1992

You can only call me Lulu if you don’t think the name’s funny.

I am a member of the Smiley Conspiracy and a proud ex-CHS-ian, graduating class of 2009. Now doing A-Levels at HELP University College. Is proudly Malaysian, but doesn’t look like it and is proud of that too.

This is the 7th time I am editing this about section of the blog this year; I have sort of accepted that my personality is ever-evolving, ever-changing, therefore rendering my moods as volatile as the weather. But just as there are some things that have stood untouched across the centuries by harsh weather, so there are some things with me that remain ever the same: a belief that to live is to learn, and the ability to bounce back from setbacks.

What I love also remains constant. I love good food, dancing, fresh experiences, open minds and friendly people, all of which can be found in the wonderful wonderful city that is Istanbul. I love musicals, plays, good books, stickers, owls, colourful wrapping paper, hugs and kisses, chocolates, almost any music from the 17th to the 21st century, intense debates and post-it notes.

Fictional characters I have been compared to (in terms of personality) are Piglet from Winnie The Pooh and Kelsi from High School Musical.

I dream of finishing this list [29/8/2010: list is undergoing revamp!], and my secret ambition is to become a hairdresser or bartender. Unfortunately I’m also incredibly kiasu, so I’m going to go to university just to show everyone that I can. But want to go to uni also because I love learning lah!

Words that describe me are impulsive, impetuous, quixotic, sanguine, quirky, bewildered, kiasu and hodgepodge. The last one also refers to my sense of fashion.

*GRINS* :D

Yeah, congratulations over the Ole BRATs today, fellow BRATs. Sandra, Kelvin, Dhinesh, Kah Mun, Kah Yan, Adrian. Did I miss anyone? Congrats, I can't wait to see my name in the papers next month.

But but the happiness of the Ole BRATs was cut short by a message from Kian Seong telling me that Teoh Yee Sook had passed on that morning.

Which was utterly STUPID. Because I had just prayed for him during mass yesterday. I was thinking about it because they were talking about sick people. And of course I thought bout him. Though I never knew him or talked to him before but when someone in the school is sick with a bad illness everyone tends to rally around him or her; it just gets passed on you know? That family semangat of standing behind our schoolmates whatever.

Yeah so it was STUPID because I'd just prayed for him yesterday evening. And the next morning, he was gone.

Apparently he was a really nice person to know. I'm sorry I never got to know him.

It SUCKS that he died TODAY, just before the reunion dinner tonight. I was so emotional, I went to the top of Kek Lok Si and shouted happy chinese new year, yee sook.

That makes the 3rd death for the year before us, I just realized.

CHOY.

So when you're having your dinner tonight, let's think of someone who'll never again get to share that special once-a-year dinner with his family; think of a family, that will forever leave a seat at the table empty, never to be filled again.

Think of how short life is, and even if you're sad let's just enjoy Chinese New Year anyway. Because as we just found out, we never know which will be our last.