Yay finally finished my film and sent it for developing. Decided against printing the pictures, and merely got them developed and saved in a CD. 

Taken with my Olympus TRIP 100R, but idk, I'm not really loving the pictures this time round, as compared to when I used the camera for our Taiwan trip. Sigh. Quite disappointing.

That's the problem with film. It's always either a hit or miss. 

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~ Location ~

If you follow me on Dayre too, you would have seen that we were having a staycay at Parc Sovereign Hotel @ Tyrwhitt. He initially kept telling me that it was a free staycay from his aunt because her company liaises with the hotel so she always has these staycays that go to waste. 

AND I BELIEVED HIM 'TIL THE VERY END SIA.

So anyway, yeah, we checked-in around 4pm and Amos said we die die needed to leave the hotel for dinner by 7pm. I was feeling slightly suspicious but I didn't press him too much lah. I kept pretending to grab his phone, and that would get him extremely flustered. His excuse for leaving by 7pm was that he made a reservation for dinner and that if he didn't set a time for me, I'd take forever to get ready. So, of course I was pissed because I absolutely hate it when people rush me. But I wasn't so cb lah, I got ready by 6:50pm so we left before the targeted time.

Walked to Kilo @ Kallang for dinz because I've always wanted to go there. 

By the time we finished eating, chilling, and talking, and walking back to the hotel, it was close to 9-ish I think?

~ The Proposal ~

While unlocking our room door, Amos shot me a sideways glance with a smile, and I thought I vaguely heard a familiar song (The Night We Met - Lord Huron) but I just brushed it aside and thought nothing of it, and just assumed it was coming from another room because there was another room near the hall that kept listening to music loudly since the time we checked-in.

Then, when we entered the room, he didn't even on the light, which was lowkey weird, and my suspicions grew but I was like, ah fk it, so I turned on the lights and sat on the bed because I was pretty tired by then (we'd walked to AND from Kilo), and kinda cranky (I've no idea why). 

THEN. . . 

still smiling to himself, he opened the safe and took out a small box, opened the balcony door and pulled me along to the balcony doorway. 

ANDDDDD. . . 

I looked out and saw people standing on the lawn, and I guess it hit me then that it was really, and finally, happening.

But my mind went blank and a voice in my head went, 

He then got down on one knee, and honestly, I've no idea if he even said anything sweet but I KNOW he did ask, "Will you marry me?" and by then, I was just choking up with tears and feels. I couldn't even get any words out, but "okay" and nodded. 

Lol damn weak. But in my defence, I think I was pretty emotional because my time of the month was due okay. Even after everything, Amos told me he was shocked that I cried because he thought I was already expecting it, and I'm generally an expressionless cold-stone bij.

Wah it was really all a blur lah. My mind just wasn't processing anything fast enough properly.

Maybe after a good 5 minutes, did I realise who was actually there - Nat, Iris, San, Dav, Devar, Uthayan, and Geena.

~ Thoughts ~

Honestly, yes, I'm extremely happy Amos finally popped the question. But I also knew it was going to happen sooner or later, because throughout the past year, I've bugged him countless time and annoyed him so much with my constant questions of when he was going to propose and marry me, that he promised me he'd propose by this year.

Initially I thought he would propose during his birthday staycay
(Actually he planned to, but I kind of spoilt his plan because I was planning a surprise for him too but he didn't know it at the time. Long story short, kinda, he kept asking if we could go to the Projector on his birthday, but I kept saying no because I had to study for my test which was the next day. I really did have a test the next day, but I mainly kept denying his requests because I was getting his friends to surprise him in our hotel room. However, little did I know, he had actually contacted the Projector people about his proposal plans, but he ended up cancelling those plans because I kept complaining about how I needed to study, and this resulted in a mini fight because he was lowkey angry at me, lol). I also thought he would propose during dinner before this, at Kilo, because he said he made dinner reservations, plus the fact that he kept telling me we HAD TO leave by 7pm.

I'm really glad that he called our closest friends too (they're supposed to be our future bridesmaids and groomsmen, btw), and that he even bothered with decor (because he's generally a no-frills kind of guy). 

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I'm pretty excited about the future, and stressed at the same time (because of the money we'll have to save up for our flat and wedding), but I'm thankful it's with Amos, because he's someone who always manages to reassure me that everything will be fine, and he basically always covers my ass and deals with the nitty-gritty stuff which I don't understand (like how much we should save a month, how much the downpayment is, reading up about grants and schemes, etc).

So just a rough plan, our wedding will prolly be in 2019, during a non-rainy month because I really want my garden wedding. And if I'm not wrong, our BTO will prolly be ready by 2021 (by my 28th birthday, according to Amos's calculations), or before that.

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~ Behind the Scenes ~

So today marks the last day of my university life.

No more travelling 17km to Clementi. 1.5 hours by bus. 30 mins by car. 

(I hate the commute back home even more because of the horrible jam at Dunearn and Lornie)

After today, the only time I'll have to go back there would be for my convocation next year, and probably my other friends' convocations the year after.

It was fun taking mods like Sex Comms, Political Comms, Non Verbal Comms, Advertising, . . .  ok basically majority of the COM400+ mods. 

I'll also hold close to me the friendships I've forged, especially that with the #UBæs (Alicia, Sam, Venn, and Grac).

We were in this together since Day 1, when we all sat together in Kirti's 8:30am ESL407 class.

(ok all this was funnier in my head because I could hear it in her voice and accent)

I won't miss. . .
 The crazy rush to complete our assignments and projects. Suffering from severe lack of sleep due to our procrastination. (Sam and I used to not sleep on Sundays because we we were always rushing to complete our ESL407 assignments which had to be submitted by Monday 8:30am) Having useless 5 hr breaks. Suffering 1.5 hrs of torture with profs who just could NOT teach. Rushing for a table at Food Clique. Exiting Food Clique and going for class with smelly clothes. Hearing drama about the juniors. 

Anyway, let's take a walk down memory lane, LOL.

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