twwennyy!

this is belated cos i've been writing up my lab (as usual).
20... interesting. now my mom can't call me 'teen' in cantonese anymore... (it sounds like the word for 'crazy' btw.)

so my birthday in london was amazing.(with me realising that gosh. me - living - matters. and that i've been alive for 8 more years at that.)

and so this is a thank you... to all of you who were involved =) and a recount... so that i more or less get to mention everyone lol.

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birthday began a day early. lol. with a call from home at 12 midnight singapore time! (which happened to coincide with the EEG experiment so it was a little strange to talk -.-)

then after tt with joseph and a posh restaurant =D!

starter: fried chicken wings £5.50, sotong bakar £8.00
main: kangkong £6.50, curry ikan £15.00, beef rendang £14.00
dessert: teh tarik £3.50 (craving fulfilled!), roti tissue £6.50 *drool*

okay there was a discount. but omg ex! (for the sporeans reading this... multiply the prices by 3 to get the dollar equivalent...) anyhow cherie was v. happy & filled with good food.

and so we went back pretty late... 11ish... where i was wondering why he was in such a hurry ..
and then.
i got my door pounded upon at 1145pm 0_o
and was greeted by a cake! (cool!! haha none of the planned surprises worked before..)
thank you: xni, weiqi, soph, mel, chrissie, elsie, faith, ame, junli, eugene, last but not least joseph (duh.)the knife sticking out of the cake kinda looks like a giraffe no?

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then birthday day really came... and it was kinda spent... going for lectures, rushing out the poster due the next day, doing lab, and rehearsal for easter outreach. lol. how normal. (so far my birthdays tend to be on test days or av rehearsal days -.-)

not so normal. was getting jioed & treated to lunch by wenling and rosemary! yay. gbk rocks... burgers with 1 inch thick patties =) *drool*
and being wished 'happy birthday' by quite a lot of people from psyc. (probably cos of the fbook notifications. but still.)... sorry cannot list... haha i can't rmb who already =P

and after the rehearsal and all was dinner with joseph... which wasn't planned... but nice anyway. time's always good no? =)

thanks guys!

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and the day after the birthday:

treated to lunch again! at a korean place... which serves you in huuge bowls as you can see.
thanks to: xni, disong, mel, soph, meif, angus taking the pic... and gordon who zaoed cos he was guai and didn't pon lecture =P

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presents for the year:

from soph & mel:

from chrissie & inez: (most useful!)

from angus, kenneth, minshin, jason, gordon: (coolness! didn't know angus was gathering information when he was asking man.)

and this HUUGE paper star from christine my coursemate... who cut foolscap longitudinally and stuck them together to make a long strip... then folded a star. gosh. (i was floored when she threw it at me in lecture)
the early stuff from jon when he came over...
ruth-panz... who sent a card and a book from the US... with blobbies!! ruth is a blobby genius. that she is.

best present would be joseph's tho... little book of... memories. i'd say =)

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even so. presence is better than presents. =)

so thank you all for remembering...

via msn: kenneth, angus, jon kong, mat, kelly, andrea, francis
via sms:jason, gordon, wenling, joyce, evelyn (psyc), wei chao, inez, evelyn (taiwan)
email: charlotte, michael
facebook: all 59 of you... you know who you are lol. it took close to 2 hrs to reply everyone

it's been. waaaaaay more exciting that it would have been in spore.
surprising, amusing, filling (a lot of food man.)...
still.
a tad bittersweet.
cos for once there wasn't a - heidi, andrea, izzy, hweifen.
or a arrow video ministry...
or a caregroup...
or the parents (with a big sloppy kiss from daddy).

i'll live for the here and now tho. and the now is pretty awesome =)