SO LET'S GET RIGHT DOWN TO IT (:

hello there khanna! :D (and all who may be reading this please excuse my upcoming embarassing-ness, no we are not lesbians although yes i do love her very much in a heterosexual and totally not inappropriate way.)

so on this wonderful day 19 years ago a little indian was born by the name of Ashima Khanna! (well okay, after your parents got over the funny other name which i can't quite rmb right now. i think it was something like papadam but yknow, i'd still love you if you were named Papadam Khanna. er okay, straying again. these brackets are dangerous.)

and i am so very very very grateful that you came into this world cuz if you hadn't, then i wouldn't have been able to have such a perfect bff like YOU :D i know i say this practically every year but i can't stress enough how incredibly grateful i am to have you around to listen to my silly rants about the weirdest things, bitchy moments, incredibly lame jokes, random hyper moments and yet knowing all these mistakes that i've made and weird quirks i have you still love me all the same (: hahaha and what a huge relief it is to always have someone who knows EXACTLY what you're talking about even when all you can say is "yknow?! like as in, oh idk how to say it YOU KNOWWWW...?!" hahaha you're always there and you always know when to give me sagely advise, calm me down, cheer me up or just listen when i need it. i'm just really happy that i've finally found a sister who practically shares a brain with me, has the same sense of humour and is just such a sincerely warm, kind and easy to talk to person. so, (going against our policy hehe but i still maintain that a thankyou in this situation is totally ok) THANKYOU so much for being such an amazing friend khanna, you know how much i love ya and there's never a dull moment when we spend time together. i really can't wait for college in the US now that we both at least have ucla together!!! we're gonna continue having so much fun till we're both old ladies and our grandkids are all friends and everything. they'll gather around us totally-cool-hipster-grandmas and i'll tell your grandkids about how you used to trip over absolutely everything, including flat surfaces  --and you can tell mine about how incredibly charming, witty, clever and PERFECT i was as a teenager. HAHA. -flipshair

OK BUT IN ESSENCE, i lubdub you vvvvvvv much and i'm so happy you're my bffl (: i hope you had a wonderful birthday and i'm sorry i couldn't be there, but you know i'm always with you in spirit (IN YOUR WALLET A LA A&F PHOTO HAHAHA). so yes! TIS ALL. now here are a bunch of random pictures of us being awesome as usual:

^ the aforementioned A&F photo HAHA :D

^ equalizing of eye sizes lolololol :D

 really, need i say more? HAHA epic bolly night where we both shamelessly cried our eyes out BECAUSE HE DIED, LOUSY HAPPY ENDING, HE DIED HE DIED HE DIED #megaspoiler

"NERDY!" "Kick-a-boy" TWO PHRASES THAT WILL TRIGGER YOUR MEMORY, I THINK :D

^ only the best halloween ever :D

hahahaha why hello there pre-vegetarian ashima, THE QUEEN OF THE CRAB CLAW (:

^ because this picture is both flattering and hilarious 

and of course, this. you got me through study stress, heartbreaks, family stuff, general jc madness and everything in between :')

happy 19th birthday ashi! love you for life 

so recently i received an email that made me really really really really really happy :D no it wasn't from a university or anything--don't freak out, results are not out yet for US schools ppl--BUT IT WAS SOMETHING EXTREMELY EXCITING and ohgosh i really wanna say it but i can't, because nothing is truly confirmed and telling people would just be presumptuous and annoying of me. ): THEREFORE, we shall all have to wait for about 13 more days before anything can really be confirmed. but hopefully, good news is on the way! :D till then, i shall just remain extremely excited and hopeful and grateful and humbled and keep praying hard and if you have some spare capacity, maybe you can keep me in your prayers too :D THIS WAITING SUCKS I KNOW & ALL THE BEST TO EVERYBODY OUT THERE WHO IS IN THE SAME STATE OF AGONIZING ANXIOUSNESS & WAITING LIKE I AM. was that sentence grammatically correct? grah.

in short: i feel your pain. #high5

AND SORRY FOR ALL THE CAPS. i'm not screaming at you, i promise. am just a bit energy-filled atm.

so anw today i felt quite gung-ho because i ate street vendor food hehe! and for fear of sounding like some spoiled person who lives in an ivory tower, in my defense, street vendors here are NOT like those in singaporean hawker centres. if the sg food-place-grading ppl came down to the indo stalls then they wouldn't get that 'A' or 'B' sign it would just be like 'E' 'S' 'U' hahaha. BUT today we braved it and were craving for martabak so my family drove around till we found these two martabak stalls and we ordered one egg martabak + one sweet one! it was super interesting cuz i've never seen ppl actually make the martabak before--they're like these ultimate pro mixers and they know exactly how to adjust the fires so that the pancake part turns out like spongy and soft and just like, amazing. 

okay and for those of you who don't know what martabak is:

martabak telor :D

martabak manis!

Credit: Google Images (?)

and as you can see, they are completely ehem, made of only the finest and healthiest ingredients & are therefore extremely yummy to eat :D next time if anybody feels like visiting jakarta, you must must must try these out. and go see how the street vendors make it. its q cool :D

haha and i'm not really sure whether this is the same thing as the indian/arabian murtabak--but if they are the same thing, then as a completely unbaised, objective 3rd party observer i maintain that...

THE INDONESIANS CAME UP WITH IT FIRST.

hehehehe. #thingsiloveaboutindonesia

anyways, we all haven't had any stomachaches or anything (yet) so maybe those stalls really were legit :D heh. small pleasures in life~

so i know i put this on my tumblr already, but i might as well shift it here since tumblr is now officially a pictures-blog (: was shuffling through some old computer files while attempting to gain inspiration for scholarship essays and i came across this! which i quite like idek why but whatever. YOU MAY THINK IT IS HORRIBLE AND JUDGE ME BUT IN MY DEFENSE, THIS WAS MY MUCH YOUNGER SELF WRITING AND THEREFORE NOT ER, THE MUCH COOLER 'NOW' ME. 

ehem. anyways:

We walked hand-in-hand, strolling casually, savoring the morning air and just enjoying each other’s company. His hand engulfed mine; always warm and comforting. He never failed to make me feel carefree and best of all, safe. In his company I had no worries, no qualms and no fears because I knew he would always take care of me. He was my best friend, my guardian angel, and by some divine other-worldly blessing, my boyfriend. Our love was sweet, a secret to be cherished; and the first of its kind for the both of us.

“Oh gosh, it’s so hot out today hmm.”

“Mmm, yea. Its usually cooler in the morning.” We were walking along the beach.

“Sorry, must be my fault then.” I smiled up at him.

“Haha, is that so baby?” He dazzled me with his boyish grin.

“Mmhmm. And I’ve heard that opposites attract y’know.”

“Well then, we must be lucky then cause I’m like pfft, so cool.” He said, putting his arm around my waist.

“Oh someone’s living in denial!” I laughed, “Okay then what does that make us? Like, lukewarm?”

“Yea. Lukewarm,” he said softly, gently squeezing my hand. “Cause it means we’re just right for each other. Perfect.”

God, I loved this boy.

Lol don't worry i'm not reminiscing in an emo manner and this doesn't Mean Anything (omg please, no.) i pinkypromise! I just thought it sounded like one of those things teenybopper fanfic writers might write and i thought it was quite cute, younger Steffi #deservesahighfive and all that HAHA :D damn i bet i'm being so biased right now. apologies for putting you through this, friends.

on other news, SOME of my friends (you know who you are) think that picnik is tres uncool and only worthy of p5 kids that have nothing better to do in life :'( BUT i still maintain that colour-filtered-photos-with-incredibly-cheesy-quotes-on-them are still in vogue (hurhur) so i am going to shamelessly post some picnik-ed photos here anyway. 

TURN AWAY NOW IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE PICNIK-IFIED.

  

  

as you can see, i love lomo lol. (alliteration, por favor? #randomspanishphrase)

haha anyway today i am supposed to be doing my scholarship essay (last one, yay!) but i'm getting quite terribly distracted. the internet can be an evil evil thing ): okay! i will be Extremely Productive from here on! byebyee for now~