It's VERY looong, prob take 5-10 mins to go thru if you dont skip sections, so sit back relax and enjoy :0)
Mmm, i think i'm getting old. I still remember several years ago when someone asked me when my birthday was i'd tell when and then hinthint then i wanted a present. Cos.. i really did want (and loved) presents.
This year when people asked me sometimes i just didnt tell, i told them to find out themselves =X I didnt even -hinthint- when it was approaching.. i figured if my birthday really mattered to them they'll go find out themselves. :)
and ive also learnt not to value presents too much - and adhere to the cliche warning - it's the thought that counts.
But why i'm adopting that mentality was because of an incident with becky tan several years back.
I was msging her and i was worrying if she'll like the present i got for her. Then she said something which is probably one of the most significant things ever said to me in life:
"Dont worry, i will love the gift, because i love the giver =) "
Awww. pretty true isn't it? If our enemy gives us like.. a diamond bracelet. we'll be thinking.. 'hmm what is this idiot up to. is this stolen. hmm.'
but if our best friend gives us the 1dollar toy bracelet we'll be like 'THANKS BESTIE!'
Well ok that was kinda extreme but.. it's relatively true and if we all have that mentality, life will be alot better =D
anywaaay. things kicked off on 4th Oct when my family ordered in pizza =) (it's like, tradition)
(well ok actually got a bday treat the previous saturday, but that's a private story =) )
wooottt. delicious food waiting to be opened.
pizzA!!! no idea what flavour my mom ordered. some chicken one i think.
wooooo
can someone tell me what those black thingies are? it's like sweet and.. i dunon. looks scary but when you eat it it tastes ok.
CHEEEESY DIPS. damn shiok la the melted cheese. i can just drink the whole tupperware of cheese if not for other people wanting to dip =X
meatballs!!! they're huge la and they cost like only 50cents each.(8 for $4) surprisingly cheap for Pizza Hut right! They're seriously quite biggg.
and a rather unglam picture of me =X i'm eating the drumlets thing. very nice =)
ok that's it for that day.
and the next day.. was my birthday!! 5th oct! woohoo. i stayed up till midnight cos i was doing amanda's present and was waiting to msg her. oh yea, amanda's this girl in my school whose birthday is on 5th oct too =D
super freaky ok! yknow we were born on the same day in the same hospital! She was born 12 hours earlier (so kinda 'same time' too cos both of us born at 12oclock. just one AM one PM la)
Anyway, i'm gonna thank all those who msged me like just past midnight and also in the morning. those that msg later.. must be your HP reminder tell you one so i dont wanna thank you. HA. ok la thanks also but your name wont appear here :p
ok i dont know who's the first, amanda or becky, cos becky CALLED me to wish me but i didn't pick up (i went to sleep at 12.02~ and offed my phone), and according to SMS, amanda was first. So.. aiya thanks both of you!
cheryl was next =)
and bestie! no idea why she was still awake at 12:45 but that was the time she sent. pretty amusing long msg, i like the last line: 'happy birthday my bestie, may we remain friends until we're old and wrinkly!'
hahahah =D
Then timo, winsome, hazel.
and weiling! who totally malued herself by misreading my msg. ok i dont think she reads my blog so ill just tell you all.
basically i always call her 'dinosaur khoo', just a nickname i have for her cos she's older (one year older) and she doesnt know alot of .. modern stuff like computer stuff and alot of modern lingo.
Then she said "eh dont call me dinosaur k ill get angry'
which i replied "no lor you wont get angry, you're a nice and kind girl, not petty one."
to which she replied -
"Excuse me! Got ppl want me shows that i'm pretty k........"
LMAO ROFL LOL HAHAHHA. i almost dropped my phone in laughter when i read that. hahahah. super hilarious. she quite malu after that. haha.
mmm, and jesslyn called me during math lecture to wish me. she's full of nonsense too. our conversation went something like that:
"happy birthday!!"
'ha thanks'
"see i'm so NICE right, call you leh"
'issit. but why call so late'
"aiya my HP reminder now then ring ma"
(diao -_- still dare to say nicce when it's the HP reminder remind you one. =X ha.)
'how come you no school. you having recess ah'
"No la, exam over ma. so going home le. eh since i'm so nice right, sunday you must give me present"
'?!?!? HUHHH. hello xiao jie MY birthday and i give you present?'
"Yea cos i so nice wish you ma"
'i also wish you on your birthday so where's my present'
"i give you already.. erm.. it's my wonderful love. loveee as a friend. ok i copyright that present you cannot use also"
'...'
and of course john melchizedek the high priest who sent me an MMS from the ZOO. He pon school to go zoo with his gf (from SA also ) -_- champion
the picture was some picture of him posing in front of some .. sloths or something. bats. dunno what. Then i replied : "oh nice, i can see erm.. sloths.. bats.. and a big ugly monkey in the front blocking the rest of the view"
^^
ok i uploaded the pic too. i didn't bother to censor it, too many other pics to post:
stupid john =X ha.
and.. i cant thank all those who smsed later, cos they came like at random times so scouring through my inbox is too time-consuming and im lazy to do that. thanks anyway =)
Then after school i waited for amanda to finish school too cos wanted to pass her her present. got her a book on Singlish. :) cos she always speak with sophisticated language and her English vocab quite good. so i always suan her say she angmoh. hence the book =)
wheee birthday kids :)
ohohoh she got me this nice shirt from Esprit! ex lehh. i felt quite bad cos the prez so ex. ah.
it's nicer than it looks! it's like slightly formfitting one. and very comfy =) i wore it when i went out with chris.. on saturday..
which is what this next part is about!
i met chris at City Hall for my birthday treat! she was gonna treat me lunch! yayeee. we went to New York New York at Citylink Mall (keep walking from City Hall MRT, you cant miss it, it's after that short underground tunnel, opposite Flash and Splash.)
Mmm, and apparently she had a heavy breakfast (she was too greedy and piggy to resist the toast her mom made so she kept eating . and eating. -_- )
so she ordered sth small.
buffalo wings! this was her meal. and she couldnt finish and gave me 2. That dip thing is cheese, and the wings themselves seem to be marinated in some cheese-smelling thing so .. it's damn shiok! Slightly spicy, very tasty.. NICE!
My meal! It's BBQ Steak , supposedly some award winning recipe thing by NewYorkNewYork. Comes with some potato wedges. It's superrr nice la! Took really long to eat cos the portion is giganormous. The BBQ sauce is just.. mouth-watering =)
ah.. and for dessert we had -
MUDPIE! Some brownie-like thing with crust around it so it's like a pie, some wicked-sick chocolate syrup and a scoop of vanilla icecream =)
yknow initially we both never eat mudpie before. so i suggested mudpie.. then she didnt really want cos .. i duno i think she scared of the name. i mean, MUD sounds pretty sick. haha. but i insisted it should be nice, so we ordered. IM SO GLAD WE DID
COS ITS THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD. waaa.. the moment i placed a small small teeny bit of the mudpie (a little chocolate syrup on it too) in my mouth.. i'm telling you all my salivary glands burst open. I momentarily went to cloud nine; the taste really damn shiok!!
chris initially said she'll just eat a teeny bit (before tasting it) and i can have the rest. she ended up eating and eating without stopping :p only until the last piece then she politely said i could have it =) WHICH OF COURSE I TOOK MUAHHAHAA. damn shiok.
ok must take picture to capture this moment:
alan: eh nub look at the camera la!
ah, better. <3>
dont ask me what the hell she's doing. maybe still got mudpie taste on her finger. lol.
ah okkk.. sunday ! church church.
i didn't really expect any presents, only know brigidteowaiting giving me and .. maybe joanne i think. i think she mentioned something about givin gme prez on sunday. (she didnt come in the end, her parents dont allow anyway)
but i got more than i thought!!
okkk first when i reached church i saw teeemo getting out of cab with his mom in front of me. so ok hi hi walk into church.. then he reached into his bag and took out a box and gave me. happy birthday!
oooh adidas. at first i thought deordorant (ok dunno how to spell it) but then found out it was..
fragrance!
haven't tried it but looks nice. hehe. can go on date and smell nice le :p
timo is really damn nice la. i think he gets birthday presents personally for almost EVERYONE.
yvonne wrote me a letter! she still holds the record for getting me something EVERY YEAR without fail!! i feel damn terrible i think i only got her something once ? twice? dang i feel bad.
(ok wait i think cheryl also has that record. gee Lees are nice. timo is lee too)
ok then later sunday school! my class combined with j1 class cos uncle ronald was in hospital =X hope he's ok.
oh it's cherie's birthday today! (7th oct) happy birthday!! i folded her a rose during class. ha.
cherie's the girl next to me, ignore that extra ghost in the background. :p
cheryljie came in and crashed our class (cos we were probably making alot of noise ha. got birthdaycake and all, singing song, blabla)
so i grabbed her for a pic.
Try 1- FAIL! damn blur! think my hand shooke.
hahah her smile looks awkward now. oh well at least it's clear
my class got me a nice wallet!! well actually i think it's just abel and joelquek went to get it, but perhaps the rest chipped in loh. yayyy dont have to use my torn wallet anymore
(my previous wallet the coin compartment was torn for quite awhile.. coins kept dropping out. but the wallet had sentimental value. so. didn't replace it .. until now =X )
Preeetty wiiinsome foooo!!! she got me a present in a nice pink box.
hmmm. i wonder what's inside??
awww it's a cute little frog photoframe.. WITH MY PHOTO INSIDE!! HOW SHE GET ONE!? got a shock when i opened the box why got my face inside haha.
ok... the next present has to be THE BEST ever, but i feel terribly guilty cos she must have put in alot alot alot of effort into it and
1) i didn't her anything for her birthday
2) she has exams
:S
it was from brigid teo weiting!! my cute little mei. ( i bent down alot for this picture she's alot shorter actually. ha)
ok first, everything was placed in this nice black bag. littlematchgirl. classy.
when she said she wasn't finished entirely with the present, i told her nvm just give me what's finished (so she can study) and she gave me this bucket of stars. =o
alot inside leh! at least 100-200?
(read on.)
a cute hand-drawn card. =)
The inside of the card
i shrank it alot so you can't read it :p
and.. there was this mysterious looking box.
A nice looking box (with an ugly paper cover =X ha) .. i shook it abit no idea what it is.
when i opened it i was really choked up.
SO MANY STARS!!!
!!!!!
!!!
i was literally stunned ok!!!
just to give you an idea of how many stars there are:
I placed my fingers there to show you how DEEP the box is. and it was FULL almost to the brim with stars!
i think she mentioned it was supposed to be 1000 stars.. but she couldnt finish.
!!!
like 91287321542 hours spent on it?!?!
zomg laaa. brigid if you do badly for your science paper ill never forgive myself.
but wow thanks!!!
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ahh im sucha happy boy. so many presents, so nice somemore. yknow i kinda expected that ivin would give me shoes or something, cos 2 weeks ago he asked me for my shoe size. but he didnt even wish me :( bleahz false hope.
but it's ok!! i'm quite contented with all that i got. thankew all you amazing, kind generous friends. =) you made a 18yrold boy very happy =D
sigh. i never really stopped to think about what it meant to be 18 until now. I mean, i KNOW that i was going to go to NS next year.. but what are the implications?
-no school for 2 years.
that'll be kinda weird yknow. given i've been in school for 6+4+2 = 12 years!
-byebye JC friends
zomg! i cant bear to! ahh!! -sniffff-
it's weird why i spent 2 years in JC and 4 years in sec school (and 6 in pri) but my best friends from school are made in JC. maybe we make better friends when we're mature. -shrugs-
-little contact with the outside world for 2 years!
besides weekends and.. hopefully i get some vocation where i can go home everyday. slack ! but not clerk i cant imagine being a clerk . eek hope i dont downgrade.
-i can buy beeeer/vodka!
when i went out with chris on sat she kept asking me to buy some alcoholic drink for her =X of course i refused. but i do wanna try soon. like buy it legally =) (yes ive drank alcohol before when i was underage. BUT. it's not a crime to CONSUME alcohol you know! it's just illegal to PURCHASE when you're under 18. so there. :) )
-i have to decide what i wanna work as soon. (or at least what i wanna study in uni ) (if i make it to uni)
psychology or sociology? or even these 2 at all? what are my job prospects. ugh, the responsibilties of growing up. =X
I HAVE TO FIRST CLEAR A LEVELS. yes. 30th oct is my first paper, ends on 20th nov (yes sucks it's like 4 weeks )
i drew up a study plan already! study all the way.
green boxes are the exam dates!
here, a closer view.
top right highlighted words is the paper for the day! and the word written in the middle of the box is what i'm studying.
so hardworking right!!! haha.
okkk once again thanks all who made me happy one way or another for my 18th birthday, really appreciate it!!! gotta start mugging tmr leeeee ahhhh.
bye all! thanks for reading this long entry! confirm longest ever blog ha. chowz.
