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24 years on earth

Two Saturdays ago, I celebrated my 24th birthday. As always, birthdays aren’t all that significant to me because I never grew up with celebrations surrounding my special date. How different should it be, this year?

As I sat down with a bunch of friends at mamak, they asked me if I had changed or grown the past year. So, a logical place to start was to date one year back and reflect on how I was then. However, I couldn’t remember what happened my 23rd birthday. Maybe I’ve grown forgetful. Hmm…

All I could do was to look forward to the coming year, not that the year that passed was bad that I couldn’t remember anything. I suppose, what’s ahead excites me more than what’s behind.

But … it’s always good to reflect. So here’s a list:

  • Wasn’t working yet, August last year. Work’s been such a blessing. I love my job.
  • Financially independant from my parents. I love my job.
  • Figured that account managing was not my forte, so switched to pre-sales. I love my job.
  • Got a raise, switched from my brother’s Kelisa, and driving a Perdana V6 now. I love my job.
  • Was single, but now I’m not! I love my .. whoops. :)

Of course, the cell threw Alvin (who’s birthday is one day after mine) and I a cell-ebration .. in which I took full advantage of. I brought ah-girl there, and took most of them by surprise. So .. for my birthday, I surprised them instead.

This year, the celebration’s a little different. Karen Lau put it in a very nice manner, saying …

Doesn’t it feel different, celebrating it with someone special alongside?

It was, and it does.

I’ve never had a private celebration before, so I was like a boy, all over again. Over and over again.

A birthday I will always remember.

21st birthday

Friday, 6th August 2004, 0130 hours.

Gosh, I wish that this week would never end. I had my third birthday cake today.

First was this, on Monday:


My “tiramisu-with-a-candle-on-the-side” cake!
It was nice, nonetheless. Took them quite a bit to get the candle to stick on the side of the bowl where the cake was in.

From left to right : JessicaTan, JacqualineYap, ElisaDass, myself, ChinTeck, WeiMei, and Bernard. Kirk later joined us. Oh, the waitress took the picture for us. Ehehe.
Second was… not recorded on any digital or hard media. So sorry. It was AmyFong’s super heavy-rich-sour-cheese-chocolatey. Boy was it tough to swallow or what! Not that it was bad, but she made the cake so heavy and rich that it was so tough! Good experience nonetheless! Muahahaha. This was on Tuesday.Third one’s from my CellGroup, Friday:

My Cell Group members. Oh, so touched!


From left to right : Jason, Anita [ standing ], TinTin [ kneeling ], Emilia, myself, Peggy and JuYee. My cell leader, VictorNg was the one who took the picture for us.Gifts I’ve received so far [ whoa, I want more! Aha..! *kidding. ]:

The BT Key from Chet
 


Inflatable travel pillow from WengOnn and a book - “The Heavenly Man” from Jessica.
 
My Wednesday [ 4th August ] started like this:
With lotsa…
 
Thanks again, to all those who SMSed and called me. Appreciate you for sharing in my joy. I’m 21!David[woohoo!]