i went to pick up my cousin, her husband and their kids (my nephews) from the airport on tuesday night. they flew down from austalia to attend my cousin's wedding which is taking place tomorrow. i keep thinking about those kids...jesse, joash and josiah. they're so lovable and adorable and so full of colour and character! i wish i could spend some time with them...

i was thinking about photographs last night. i don't know why. and then it occured to me my account online was going to be deleted soon and i had better save all my photos. and i started thinking about the ones that i really cherished, which made me think about the photos i took at the childcare centre. i started thinking about those photos and each of the little kids there. i realised that it's been more than a year but i still miss them. each of them was so unique and crazy and i just loved them! and i started thinking about jade. the way she said hi to me in the mornings, the long lunches (i loved those lunches), her smallness, her imagination, the way she put the stickers on her forehead, the way she skipped, her big eyes, her dreaminess, her sensitivity, the way she hugged me on the last day after i put on her shoes for her and just before she ran off to her schoolbus...

i also thought about eden. the seemingly uncontrollable crazy lil boy whom i later found out could be calmed down by reading him storybooks. it all happened when i told jade to promise me she would finish her lunch quickly if i read her a storybook. and little eden started bringing me books from the shelf to read to him as well. and he would actually sit still and watch me and listen to me, his eyes all lit up, as i sat there and read stories. more and more kids started bringing books to me to read to them. it got a bit tiring. but it was nice. what's funny is they never got bored of the stories and always brought the same ones and would react as excitedly to them each time. it was amazing!

i thought about keefe and daniel, the two most difficult kids, who ended up being each other's companion. always fighting, and always playing together, and always fighting because of it. one was overfed, the other just had to get his way all the time. but they were sweet in their own ways.

i thought about sarah and her "o"-shaped mouth and her loudness and missing teeth. the poor girl, she never really meant to hurt anyone but she always got into trouble, like a little miss calamity jane. her grandpa would come and fetch her and her brother home everyday.

little danette was quiet but sweet. she always listened to me and did her work well. we loved fixing puzzles together after everyone had left and her brother liked to come in and show off but he was cute too.

josita was dreamy and blur and did crazy, random things which sometimes resulted in a mess.

there was also tristan, the mini big boss with the really cute, crackling voice. he had a very shy smile but he was like one of the regulars and the leader of the pack.

there was weiling, the quiet, shy and scared little girl. i remember her smile because it was so rare and it really brightened up her face and mine.

zylia was sometimes like a grown-up woman and sometimes like her 3-year-old self. when she cried, it was really quite deafening but other than that, she was really sweet and dependable.

ryan and his sister looked alike. when they smiled, their eyes disappeared. all the teachers loved ryan because he was so sweet and loony and his voice was one of a kind.

i remember the rides i got from eileen (my godma) to work each morning and how i'd run to the busstop every morning because i always woke up at the last minute. and the walk out to the gardens busstop after work, bumping into occasional friends or going to ntuc or something like that. i can't remember what i did for the rest of the day each day though.

i think i must've used "cute" a bajillion times in this post. don't know whether i missed out any kids. but these were mostly the kids i taught and worked with.

i still haven't started my revision for tomorrow's exam! research methods in social science. god bless me!

leaving for india in a few days. i hope merrill remembers to pass me his slr. i want to take my own pictures when i'm there. i don't really like being the video cam girl, it's so stressful! haha. i only like being the video cam girl when i make people do crazy things so i can film short crazy clips and laugh at them later. photos are different. there's just something magical about a photograph.

i spent some time talking to god last night (thanks for the contact, jeevan) and i found him really annoying. but addictive. haha. talk to him at your own risk. he can be quite sarcastic.

must. focus. FOCUS! (not the slr, my revision lar, haha.)