Happy Birthday to...

Meeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhh

Yes Yes Yes (trying hard to sound excited =p)...I was born on this very exact day 23 years ago...on a starry starry nite...underneath the gynae's watchful sight...pulling myself out with all my might...there i was suddenly thrown into this world of big bright lights...yes that fateful day that marked the start of my life's journey...23 years ago...

according to mummy i was really one hard nut to come out...by right my birthday should be yesterday instead...but somehow dunno wad maybe simply contented with life in a womb or juz simply too afraid to step into this world fraught with nothing but sorrows, pains, dangers and traps (wad a pessimistic world i have painted even before i am born =p) ...in the end the doc needed to operate a cesarean to snuggle me out...haha...everytime juz hear her say i very hard to "seng" since young...so when i naughty or what she will always use back this on me to ask me to "kuai ah...mummy heng nan sheng ni...ni yao kuai hor...ting mummy de hua"...lol

wah lau 23 liao...ok i know this sounds very cliched...but i really can't help it but feel seriously old and i do mean it this time...i dun understand why such a big gap exists when i say i 22 and now i say i 23?? it really makes one hell of a diff between 2 and 3...i can't remem who once told me that a guy reaches his peak at the age of 23...if that's really the case...dun tell me this is the furthest i can go liao...haha...but i really beg to differ...a guy appreciates juz like wine (no offence to ladies out der)...the older the indeed better...financial capability increase...responsiblity higher...maturity also one notch upper...at the same time not forgetting stress levels aka blood pressure aka cholesterol (no wonder men die earlier) also bound to shoot up...i don't know why...but i tink it is juz all part of the package turning the BIG 23...i do feel more wisen up in my thinking...like everything i used to do now will like think twice lah...be it the things i say or the things i do...i will tink ahead...i muz stress it's not an overnite thingy...not suddenly i become like that when the clock strikes at 12 midnite...i guess it has been like these since i came back from US...haha...but judging from the style of my blog...it seems to contradict yah...still the same "everything can talk...no OB markers (not in my blogosphere at least)" style i am writing...lol

ok enough of my birthday thoughts and reflections...time to share on how i celebrate my big 23rd...basically half the day already taken up by school...too bad my birthday had to fall on a wednesday...sad lah!! wednesdays are my long days u know....betta check next year's calendar and plan my timetable to be a free day....or NUS can give all bday guys and gals an OFF day lah...plus some vouchers like $10 techno edge or Coop discount card...haha...some welfare mah...

nevertheless after school went off to Holland V with ken and genie...both my bros treated me to crystal jade...yeah!! so nice of them...went back home eat somemore...as usual mummy will whip up a feast for any of our bday or either that we will go out to eat...i suggest we stay home this time rd since ying's As are round the corner and besides it's a weekday...eat until damn full lah...basically my whole bday is plainly juz about eat and eat and eat...chicken chop for brunch...crystal jade for dinch...steamed crab, chicken wings, fried bee hoon, sotong ball, fried oysters for dinner...in the end still have to find space for my bday cake...at the end of the day saying i am full is really an understatement...wheeewwww...*belch*

ken showing off his fav toothpick trick at crystal jade

genie and me at holland V crystal jade (shaky shaky hands =p...nonono not ken took the pic...haha)

my fav crystal jade la mian...stewed beef!!

and of coz the muz have gastronomical xiao long bao!!!

birthday captures this year...$20 Times voucher from hong & ZX...novel & vodka mini from ying...and ang pow from Pa and mummy...hee

another bottle to add to my grand collection of 2 mini bottles!! jia you!!

oh yes received an offer from sembcorp yesterday...called me while on my way to sch...they offering me an internship this december...ok sounds good since december really too short to get a decent stint...somemore if perform well the big hols in june can still go back since that one is the compulsory one and need to write report one...but den hor...they only giving me 500bucks!! wah lao...like a bit little rite considering the market offering like standard 600 at least to uni students...but i also dun wanna give impression like i hard up for the $$ since they still considering my scholarship application...so i tink try to negotiate lah if really cannot tink i will still take it up since minus away all the public hols...only like an effective 3 weeks...

got back my physics test too...not exactly the kind of bday present i wish for...when results like not here not there also sian...i would say it is not fantastic neither is it very bad...average in short...muz work harder for the essays and the next test liao...

received mail from morey's when i came back...tot so nice send me bday card...wah kaoz it's the irritaing bills from christiana care again...i tink that's it...gonna settle it for once and for all...gonna mail CIEE and do something abt it...i dun wanna go back US get arrested at the airport for some hospital bills i have not paid like 10 years ago when i go back next time...that will be i am 33 rite...wad???!!?? i am 23 already!!! u gotta be joking man...hahaha

footnote: another bday has come and passed...the hospital bills juz gave me a timely reminder that i should be thankful i made it to my 23....celebrating in the warmth of my home....basking in the love of my family...Happy Birthday Leon...