Shanghai trip. 9 days. best days of my life this year. i will need xd and yl's posts as references to the day-to-day account yea.. cant imagine how i will forget all the small details in that trip if i dont put them down in words now..

It all started on tht very annoucement made by mr bernard low (i think). "there's this shanghai trip during the june holidays on entrepreneurship and geography..." i was half-listening, half-stoning, lookin at my diary.. (prayer no. 15..) oh well, sch's as usual until yl asked, "hey tht shanghai trip.." xd seems interested too.. suddenly tht was the topic for days to come.. but i was thinkin, it mayb too expensive for my parents.. will they let me go? alone? when this is onli my 2nd trip on the plane? i will try to ask, it mayb fun..

Nxt day came friday, mum and dad knew bout the shanghai trip, no comments from both.. i wandered around with my buddies again, tokin bout the shanghai trip, "how to get the form?" i was still disinterested.. then geog lesson, mr gregory.." guys, whoever is interested in the shanghai trip, plz write ur name on this form, i will choose 3 guys from there" my class began discussin bout it, openly.. amidst mr gregory's "wrath".. haha..

ok sure, no harm in puttin my name down, if my parents dun allow, i will not go then.. furthermore, onli 3 out of the 20+ can go.. no worries, there's a long time..

then come the point in time that changes everythin, my dad began askin me enthusiastically bout e trip..he always had an interest of China, her culture and history.. and then i got tht form, "kaichuen, haemal, xavier, i think u all deserved to go based on ur attitude towards learning in class" that was nice, i might juz be goin, with haemal, xav, yl and xd! but haemal backed off.. he didn wanna go for some reason, given to jay in the end.. >.<

and yes, my dad agreed to me going! now life's in sji suddenly went on a faster wheel, as every day passes us, we all juz got more excited..

finally the day when we are at the airport arrives.. 5.35am.. beneath my tired eyes, my body languages, my heart was pumpin like there's no tmr.. alone with my josephians, this independance given to me is yet another step to my parent's reecognition tht i am no more tht small boy in their eyes.. my mum was beside me, while she was busy repeatin and ensurin that everything's in order, i assured her tht nothin will go wrong.. my buddies will be there.... be4 long, xd arrived, yl came earlier than me, not to mention xav and kx.And gerald... our group is all ready. As i looked at my mum one last time, her expression was hard to tell, she must be happy.. tired? i hope she was glad tht i finally grown up to be goin overseas alone.. she looked at me with tht affirmed eyes and kept waving... i smiled at her, she smiled back.

a hand on my luggage, with my fave jacket tucked close to me, we 6 headed on inside.. unaware of what awaits us..

Every choices we make, no matter how insignificant, will change our life one way or another.
If we do not venture into the unknown, how can we become a better person? how can we fully enjoy our life?