After seven years of companionship, the phone could not take the stress of being jabbed at continuously, shouted loudly in ear and flung across the floor countless times. It went berserk one day and simply fell apart....

Oh well, it's hello to my spanking new Nokia 2680 Slide. While it doesn't have as many functions as the E51 (Can you hear my heart cracking up into a million and one pieces?) and isn't as user friendly, for instance I can't mass sms like it is in my habit to, nor can I upload pictures and videos as easily as I could with the E51, which only needed a usb cable - the 2680 can't connect directly to the computer and pictures have to be sent abeit small and compressed via email, it is nonetheless, a useful phone that actually stores my contacts by alphabetical order. Whoo hoo! I will have to recoup my contacts though. Many went missing when I switched. :( Maybe one day, I'll get the E51 again... but for now, this is good enough.

September has been a busy month so far. While I have settled in to the vomit inducing routine of teaching unruly beasties and screwed the lesson of which the HOD sat in to observe me today badly, the first weeks of September have been days to remember. Fel coordinated this massive dinner/singapore flyer surprise for Steph and I honestly haven't had so much fun in a while. 165m above the ground and cam-whoring with 22 helium balloons and the CSS peeps... now that was literally a top of the world experience! The 1101 gang took a different slant to mile-high entertainment when we celebrated Wai Wai's birthday in Changi airport. For some strange reason, I really love the airport-the strange liminal space of comings and goings... I am privileged indeed to be in the company of great friends and to have been able to witness the most beautiful sunset I've seen in a long time!

And yes! I baked! Vanilla-cocoa cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and fondant butterflies and piggies. That was a mouthful, a very delicious one indeed! I am so going to bake some more these few days!