Fancy A Cup Of Tea? : Best of 2012

Since Amelia did a post recapping the whole of 2012, I thought I'd do something similar.

So.

Here's the best memories of 2012 in pictures.

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Chinese New Year [Family photo shoot]

My 姨妈, 小姨, 小舅 and 干爸 came back with their families and we stayed a couple of nights at Park Royal to celebrate.

All the nephews and nieces with the favourite uncle - My God father

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I flew back to Melbourne via Singapore Airlines Business Class. It made it to the best memory list because it was the only time i've ever flown Business Class. I delayed telling daddy my return dates so most flights were booked, and this was the only way for me to get back in time. Cheeky me.

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The first time I went to Curran's house (land, actually).

I was out of my comfort zone, but it was an 'experience'.

JimJam & Al. Such strange animals, alpacas....

One of the first pictures we took together and he sketched it up. We had won the cutest couple in Year11!

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My seventeenth birthday.

My brother and Andreas flew down to Melbourne to celebrate with me. Daddy got us the Tower Suite! (It took a lot of begging and a lot of 'test-acing')

Of course Sonia (my mke) came along for the weekend getaway. We saw a Bentley, hence the O-face.

Yes, you can't see anything but look at Sonia in the hotel slippers! She was so excited she started opening/using everything she touched!

My birthday crew - Baz, Sonia, ME, Curran.

We had dinner at Rockpool. This has become a tradition for my birthday celebrations in Melbourne.

I sometimes make believe that I'm a unicorn.

Sonia has graduated and is currently back in Tanzania. Baz has changed schools.

What am I going to do without these 2 wonderful people in my daily life?

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* My boyfriend in Malaysia. *

This was definitely the best memory of 2012.

Nandos! - His first trip to Gurney Plaza.

That's us!

JUSTIN BIEBER @ MTV WORLD STAGE 2012.

Amelia and I went to MTV World Stage but Curran refused to join us so he stayed home. I will never be attending a concert without allocated seating EVER again. I nearly suffocated ~~and died~~.

Ignore the ugly face.

We met daddy in Singapore and stayed at Marina Bay Sands. We got VIP passes at Universal Studios and we had a blast. I forced Curran to get on the roller coasters. He thanked me afterwards.

Curran was in Malaysia for about 3 weeks. He did everything local style and picked up the 'lah' slang (but he doesn't know how to put it into context).

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WHO IS SONIA?
I've mentioned her a few times in this post already.

Sonia is was my 2011 and 2012 roommate in boarding. We are the same age but she graduated a year earlier than me. She is infused with African roots and is the most gorgeous/adorable/funny/hardworking girl ever.

I call her my MKE (pronounced as 'mm-kay'), which means wife in Swahili.

Without her I wouldn't have survived 2012.

Once or twice a term we would head to Chadstone to do some shopping, where we would meet her brother Bill.
We rarely ever spent time in Melbourne city, we were chaddy-obsesed.

Our attire in the picture above is what we wear when we're out of uniform. And I can guarantee you that 9 out of 10 times you see us we are in that outfit exactly - leggings, a hoodie and Vans.

Nakupenda.

This picture (above) was taken on the day Sonia finished her final art exam. She was really happy and it was wonderful so see her let go of such a heavy weight from her shoulders. It was one of those special days where even though nothing BIG happened but you just feel so joyful and light-hearted.

Not the best picture, but the only one I had with Eric.

Eric is the 2012 school genius. Because of Sonia, I spent a lot of time in the art room with all the year12 art students so I got to know them fairly well. Eric and Zoe are absolute darlings and they never fail to make me laugh when i'm around them. School is going to be oh so very lonely without them! I wish them best of luck with university and may their university life be better than their high school one.

The memories I made with Sonia through all the time I spent with her last year, are and will be memories that I will hold on to forever.

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Annual trip to Europe (Holland & Germany).

My Oma wasn't feeling very well so we made a 2 week trip to visit her during my half-semester break. I SKIPPED CAMP (muahahahahahaaha)!

Mussels. Oh my gawd. Mussels.

We ate mussels almost everyday.