having a birthday so early in the year has its pros and cons.

pros can be like start to learn to drive earlier, start drinking alcohol earlier, start watching restricted movies earlier, which is pretty much doing stuff that is restricted earlier than the others.

cons would be paying adult fees at polyclinics earlier than the others and well, being older earlier than the others.

not celebrating a birthday in school feels weird. which makes me go kinda subtle about celebrating one.

went out early to go swissotel, wanting to get the forms so that can start work immediately, but well, met the boss at the HR department and rules will have to be enforced. then it was off to meet the asjab people and ate at Waruku. guess what. i realised there is no cake! :(

then went walking around to bugis and to liangseah street for dessert. me pj celine jq were contemplating to walk all the way to orchard cuz of rising cost of living but the rain dashed all our hopes. instead went to sasa and watson where i got my first 2way foundation.

initially planned to have dinner with my family but because of indecisiveness (we cant decide where to go for dinner with me being lazy to decide) and because i'm in town with shiyun waikuan and i wanna meet up with the bwg guys (in e end only 3: dean zhikai weide) so i ate out. kinda funny that i hafta buy my own cake home. but well, it's from Secret Recipe! <3

well just now before i typed this part down i was still feeling kinda pissed off with some stuff that happened at home (well you cant really do much when you have 3 brothers who are obsessedly obsessed with DOTA and were in a midst of playing when you reached home and shld have taken some sort of initiative) and then my mum and eldest brother came with an hongbao and the DVD that i had been wanting for so long (cuz my dad initially refused to buy cuz it's so damn expensive in singapore and the pirated version is so damn cheap in malaysia)

i really hafta say that people really do mature when we grow up. in the past if you tell me that i would buy christmas presents for my family i would have think that you're totally out of your mind. and look what i did for last christmas. even though i have some kind of love-hate relationship with my family (which actually become more balanced out over the years), i would say that i do love them after all (not that i would admit in their face).

and regarding birthday. it got me thinking after i heard about bwg's no-present policy and the guys offering to pay for my dinner tonight. what mattered is not the presents or the cakes, it's the effort of remembering your birthday, which would indicate that to a certain extent, you do play a role in these people's lives. if not they wouldnt have remembered your birthday. was quite surprised when some very old friends like roger (i was really surprised to receive his birthday e-greetings because i can't remember the last time i've talked to him) and jieying (since i met her in 2005 she had been wishing me happy birthday, even though the last time we met is like in june 2006). and the friends at the Just Jam forum.

ohyes. thanks for the presents. like the puzzle which took me damn long trying to figure out which goes where without turning to the back to look at the numbers. the rose, the Incredibles balloon and the slippers. love you all. (:

at least i'm ending my birthday on a happy note. have a good night! (: (and off to champagne i go!)
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