Friends Or Foes?

Sometimes it only take so little to distinguish between friends and acquaintances.

Someone whom you regard as friend can be so alien and self absorbed. And you do wonder why? Are they aware of their behaviour or is it just me for having too high expectations of them and of our relations?

Strange feeling but hey C'est la vie!

What If

I know it has been a long while but have always wondered how he's doing. Wanting to know and yet not at the same time. But here he is again. Like a ghost hiding behind doors, jumping at you when you least expected it.

His smiley face still the same, his eyes looking at me through this picture in a magazine. He seems happy.

Time to move on. No more what if.

Facets Of Life

No more nagging. No more getting myself so involved and upset. Its your Life and you make your own choices. I can only be your uncle and nothing more. Just don't waste your Life away. Cherish every minute of it and make something out of it.

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Hand on my heart, after all these time... I can say that I trust you. No doubts and no pretence. Just you and me. I believe in us and have total confident in us. We are both mature adults and are both realists. Just remember I'm not young nor am I innocent.

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I do enjoy what I do and have to say that I'm good at what I do. But what else is there?! Both good people and difficult people I work with. It pays decent money but there's always room for wanting more. There are other roles and companies you can move to but won't this just be sweeping the dust under the carpet and when the dust re-surface again... what happen next?

By Appointment

I've done it. I've taken my Oath of allegiance to the Queen and take the pledge of loyalty to United Kingdom. I'm a bona fide British citizen now. Regardless of where I decide to move next in the future, I can always come back here. London is my home now.

It all happened so quickly. The whole ceremony didn't take more than 40mins. The Lord Mayor of Westminster was present and conducted the ceremony. We even have a picture of the Queen in the room!

I don't feel any difference to be fair. I'm still who I am and nothing is going to change that. I'm still proud to be a Singaporean regardless of what my travel document states otherwise. I still have the Singaporean in me and no one can take that away. Like the saying goes... you can take the boy out of Singapore but you can't take Singapore out from a boy.

I promise that I'll still hold dearly to my true Singaporean self and will still get teary when watching National Day Parade;-)

Lady In Waiting - At Her Majesty's Pleasure

It's finally here! They have approved my application for British citizenship and the letter of invitation to the citizenship ceremony have just arrived in the post today. Wasn't expecting it to arrive till before Christmas, so I'm really pleased.

I have within three months to attend the ceremony to take the Oath of allegiance to the Crown and a Pledge of loyalty to the United Kingdom. As stated in the letter, this is a formal promise to Her Majesty the Queen and the United Kingdom.

With this means I'm also eligible to apply for the British passport and by doing so, I would have to renounce my Singapore citizenship.

I've been waiting for this for so long. Wanting this more than anything else. Seven years in the waiting. But now...