SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED IN THE LAST WEEK!

♥ ;)

and thats all I'm saying for now. :P

OMG exams are looming. November will come very very very soon, I can just sense it. ARGH nervousness. I study everyday yet I feel terrified, whats wrong with me ah? :P

I miss home, too. Here I'm honestly beginning to treat Cindy and Yuen Quan like my family. ;) I think honestly I'd go crazy without them. :( Cindy's my mum and YQ's my older sister. :) I'm a baby, as always.

OH and now I insist everyone call me Li Shan. I'm tired of being Karen. Time to embrace my Chinese-ness and be proud of it. *winks.

I'm finally beginning to feel like I fit in here. :) I go jogging all the time now, it makes me feel really happy. I can finally comfortably (without screaming or fainting, lol) prick my fingertips during hematology practicals, and blood will flow. And my classmates are being super nice to me! AND plus my waist got another inch smaller. WOOTS! ;)

Life is good at the moment despite me being busy studying ALL THE TIME. But somehow, even if I don't know it yet, I think God will find a way to pull me through it. I have nothing to worry about, I just have to have faith and trust in His plans for me.

Current picture of me. no edits or anything, I just grabbed my camera and took the picture right here. :P hahaha. Yeap I look tired. Long long day. :|

xoxo!

Time for my usual sunday morning blogpost. ;D Yeap I switch on my laptop and blog only once a week, see how good i am? ;)

Anyways, we had freshers night like.. 2 nights ago? Kinda like an orientation night (at least, I think thats what we'd call it in malaysia.) I was abiiiiiit shy cos I was the only chinese girl wearing a saree. :p but my local friends kept asking me to wear one so I did. Its the one I already own, from malaysia. I keep wearing it to functions, i know, but I do love the color. :)

 Shruti, who's a big baby. Or at least, acts like one. ;) she's from Bahrain.

 Malaysians ;) only some of us though. Actually got many more. LOL :P

And last night we went to the senior guys' house to celebrate mooncake festival which is supposed to be this coming tuesday. It was so AWESOME. There were probably like.. 50? of us? (sorry, excuse my sucky estimation skills lol) ALL chinese and ALL the seniors were extremely friendly and cool people. AND this is the house we went to! ♥

And oh the senior girls are AMAZING cooks, I kid you not. My stomach was super happy yesterday. The sambal was like OMAIGOD delish. I literally could not stop eating. :O

 Prawn sambal. DAMN I miss home.

 MOONCAKE ♥

 And we juniors made dumplings! :D

 The senior girls even MADE mooncake. Yes, MADE. Is there NO end to their talents? :P (it was green tea flavored and delicious, btw. :P)

Crowding round the table taking food. teehee. :)

I am in such a good mood. ;p 

Anyway. I woke up at 7am today, on my ONE free day with no class, to squeeze in a jogging and exercise sesh with Phoebe and Cindy. It was AWESOME and I feel so good about myself! This, coming from a girl who used to NEVER exercise and HATE sweating. Now I have to go gym everyday or else I feel weird and fat. :P haha, its so weird how I'm changing. :| 

I got a high fever few days ago, totally outta nowhere. I don't even know why I keep getting sick. :| I slept a full 10 or 11 hours and took rehydration salts and only then the fever went away. I think I'm dehydrated. :P

Also, everyone tells me I'm shrinking. :( 

Okay beginning to ramble. Bye bye now! ♥

the SDM-ians visit ♥

Morning darlings! :) Its sunday morning already. My favourite day. Anyway, this week was super relaxing cos cossss we had two days holiday! :) It was one of the gods' birthday or something like that, so we get holiday. :D And it was so meriah. I saw people dancing on the streets, LOL.  Yeap, only in India. :P

AND it was extra special for us BECAUSE...... our SDM friends came from Dharwad to visit! :) I can't even fully express how excited I was. hehe. :) First time having visitors mah. Excuse our patheticness. LOL. Brought them around to Maruti Galli for shopping and of course, FOOD FEST! X)

Dinner with the girls. :) I've missed Sasa and Nana SO MUCH omg.

 I super love this picture! IDK who took it though. :p

 GROUP PIC! From belgaum with love. ;P

Went to cake walk, its like an indian version of secret recipe. They make very cheap and quite yummy cakes la :) FRUIT TART! didn't eat this though. Bailey's cake was calling out my name. ;)

Lunch at Adarsha (its a hotel.) extremely yummy lamb pie thingy. Cheap also! I think less than rm12. :)

 Christine has a habit of randomly taking pictures of me. -.- My addiction to my phone is captured here. :O

Saw a cow at the roadside. Its so tame! And cute too, don't you think? :D LOL. 

The guys. Mark has a beard now. Or the beginnings of one, anyway. MINDBLOWN. :O

 :) ♥

 The BFFs. ;) I like this pic, I used my Vignette app (on my phone) to take it. I LOVE THAT APP, the pictures turn out all vintage and gorgeous. ;)

 Checking out saris. Very cheap here, compared to the cut-throat prices we had to pay in malaysia. =.=

And I bought a peacock feather from a guy selling them on the street. 

Oh and happy Eid Mubarak to my muslim friends! ♥

I miss home very much right now. I've been here for a month but it feels more like 10. :P