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23
Sep 2011

I Survived My GRE!

Stephanie @ Friday, 08:30 pm

Feeling: Relieved
Weather: Neutral
Listening To: Caravan Palace- Suzy

Yeap. The dreaded exam is finally over @_@ I’ve been busy really preparing for it after my birthday, which explains the lack of updates even though I’ve been having loads of ideas for posts… but since now the exam is over I can get to work on them :D

Anyway, the Graduate Record Exam, or GRE has only one test centre in Malaysia- at the Faber Imperial Court which is basically in the Sheraton Imperial Hotel building. Mine was scheduled on 21st September 2011 at 1.30 p.m., but apparently when you’re ready you can start before the time, which is what I did. Am very thankful to dearest Louis for taking a day off (Despite Gamer’s Hideous rushing the opening of their new branch in 1 Utama) and accompanying me throughout :) And while I’m at it I’d also like to thank everyone who had wished me well and prayed for me.

The analytical writing or essay part didn’t give me too much trouble thankfully, but the quantitative reasoning or Maths and verbal reasoning or comprehension sections did a little, though it was thankfully again, nothing too overly major. I saw my unofficial scores, and I’m quite relieved to see that I am scoring within the average for my intended course, which is a good thing! Though the official scores will come out after 10th November 2011. I just hope that I have a satisfactory score that will gain me entry into Nanyang Technological University‘s Masters in Sociology program :)

Now that the GRE is out of the way, I’ve got to settle the references and get working on my personal statement and research details… and once the results are out I can mail my application in. Fingers crossed!

Oh, and after the GRE (And also as a sort of birthday present to myself) I treated myself to a Juicy Couture wallet- the New Scottie Embroidery Wallet in Nardels. Always loved this dog logo, and the wallet looks good (Despite it being pink, seriously- the other colours aren’t even that nice in real life), so meh! Also, trust me, it’s considerably affordable compared to other high-end designer brands, too. However, it’s not going to be my primary wallet, though, but my secondary wallet mainly for my loyalty cards. Nothing can replace my classic black leather Braun Buffel bifold (And ironically the Braun Buffel costs more, too) :P

Oh, Dad will be back tomorrow until the 2nd October. It’s been quite a while since he’s been back here due to work, so there most probably won’t be updates while he is, since we’ll all be going out quite often I think! XD

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10
Sep 2011

Quarter Of A Century Old

Stephanie @ Saturday, 05:36 pm

Feeling: Contented, Loved
Weather: Rainy
Listening To: David Choi- By My Side

I recently turned 25 years old on Tuesday, 6th September 2011 :)

It was largely a quiet, lazy affair, mainly because a) it’s a weekday (So there’s no one else to celebrate with me too as everyone else would be working), b) dearest Louis was unable to take an off day on that day and c) my family and I are not big fans of huge celebrations (The aftermath and the entertaining especially) so we don’t usually celebrate on a big scale and prefer more intimate affairs.

Woke up to this on my door:

From my little brother :P He also bought me the hugest packet of mixed rice for my lunch, ever ~_~ I couldn’t finish it, of course T_T Mum also left me a sweet birthday “card” on my bed when I went to take a shower (Photo at bottom of post!) :)

Mum, little brother and I had my birthday dinner at Vin’s Restaurant And Bar that night, mainly because we had good Japanese and Korean food the week before so we couldn’t really think of anywhere else to have dinner at that was Western food :P I absolutely love their pineapple juice and was slightly craving it too >_> On hindsight, I probably should have took photos of the meal, but for some reason forgot to! :( Managed to have their lovely treacle cake pudding for dessert… it was so good- the vanilla sauce had a hint of mint that leaves a subtle minty aftertaste (I don’t generally like mint, but this is very subtle and complements it well), and their cake was perfectly balanced and not too sweet, I ordered another to go.

Photo taken from here.

Bad move! XD Turns out that little brother and dearest had secretly hatched a plan to buy me a birthday cake, which dearest would bring over when he came to see me after work. It’s a Black Forest cheesecake, from Secret Recipe, and as the photo showed, was a bit mushed up from the transit :P So now I had 2 cakes to eat for post-dessert- this and the treacle cake pudding! O_O It was a really sweet gesture, though, and I felt touched :) And all turned out well- somehow, I managed to finish both the cakes within that night @_@

As dearest was able to take off on Thursday, we spent the day together :) It was quite exciting- flitting from one mall to another- MidValley Megamall, Pavilion KL and then Suria KLCC because I had some specific things in mind that I wanted to see and buy :P And we made it in good time for dinner with my Mum, little brother and a foster sister and her husband too! :D

My birthday present from dearest this year is the gorgeous Swarovski Eros charm :) I had my eye on the Swarovski Alana charm at first, but the Swarovski outlet we went to only had the Eros one, and it looked good on me so we got it. Later we managed to hunt down the Alana charm, which was bigger (And costs more), and when I tried it on me it did not look as good as the Eros charm *Phew!* The Eros charm replaces the Thomas Sabo snowflake charm on my charm bracelet (As it tends to snag on my clothes/pants/bag)- as a 2nd year anniversary and birthday present in one :) I really really love it!

Apart from the birthday “cards” from Mum and little brother and the red packets of money from both my parents (Given to me by Mum on midnight) and from dearest’s parents, I also received a lot of wall posts on my Facebook and messages on WhatsApp as well as SMS :D Much ♥ indeed. It’s one of the warmer birthdays I’ve had :3

So who feels loved and happy? I certainly do! :D

And no, I don’t feel the least bit old :)

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