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Three weeks have passed since my 22nd birthday last month! Now only blogging about it… =)

As we grow older, a lot of people say, we don’t celebrate our birthdays as much anymore. Especially guys.

It is a sad fact that indeed as you grow older, you find less and less friends who are ‘free’, or think that celebrating a birthday is important enough to take up their precious time! As opposed to more ‘important’ things like doing assignments, clubbing, shopping, watching PPStream at home etc.

But I still count myself lucky enough to have a group of friends who are willing to do just such an unimportant thing! Celebrate with me! Yay!

It was more or less supposed to be a ‘surprise party’, but unfortunately the hidden agenda was pretty much obvious when they asked for a friends’ gathering on a sudden Monday night…

And also when I asked them what we were going to do (movie, dinner, karaoke or something), one of them replied: “Aiya, later when you reach then you will know lor…!”

LOL, didn’t even bother to make up some fake events!

But I am absolutely not complaining, I can’t express how much I appreciate their time and effort. In fact, I was so happy that I could not stop smiling.

That’s just Hanif experimenting with my camera’s smile shutter function.

After the dinner, a few people had to leave, but the remainder of us went to Alamanda.

Originally, we had wanted to go for bowling… but unfortunately there was some kind of bowling competition (10PM at night!) going on and so we changed plan and went for a movie instead!

We happily bought the tickets for the movie ‘Legion’  (which would later prove to be a ridiculously bad movie) and while waiting for the movie to start an hour later, we went to the arcade to kill time.

We spent most of our tokens playing race cars, as they were the only machines that the many of us could play together. Although that was just for killing time, but we had a really great time in the arcade!

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The night before, on the eve of my birthday, my dear had already celebrated with me on a very different scale: just the two of us in a quiet corner in a TGI Fridays, The Gardens.

And she also gave me a wonderful present to celebrate me having roamed the Earth for 22 long years!

… A wonderfully packaged CK Eternity Summer eau de toilette with a very delightful scent! It’s really no secret that guys do not (or utterly rarely) buy perfumes for themselves, and if they happen to have a bottle a two, the fragrances are usually given to them by girls!

I dunno why that seems to always be the case but the only reason that I can imagine is that fragrances are historically feminine and perhaps it strips certain men of their ‘manliness’ to shop for them along the aisles of some beautycare shop.

Anyway, who cares? Happy 22nd birthday to myself!!

Just hope I don’t get old too soon… =)

So shiny!

Just received it several weeks ago! The black one is mine, and the red one is my Dear’s.

In the beginning, it was only the Apple notebooks that were shiny and all, but now Dell laptops have managed to gloss up their covers too!

Actually it is so shiny that I feel that even with extra care, it will probably be full of scratches by the end of the year!

LOL I don’t have pictures of my own laptop so I’ll have to use my dear’s. And I can’t take new pictures of it either! My Sony USB cable is lost so all pictures taken lately using my Sony camera are stuck inside and irretrievable!

That, of course, is one of the reasons I have not been blogging for quite some time (besides being lazy).

Now one of the reasons that I chose a Dell as my second laptop is that Dell is DELL. Unlike my previous dear Acer, Dell doesn’t seem to have the notorious reputation of breaking down once the warranty period is over!

Everyone knows that there seems to be some ‘breakdown time-bomb’ installed in Acer laptops. It works this way:

If your warranty period is 1 year, the timer is set to 1 year and 3 months; and if you have extended warranty, say, 3 years, then the bomb is mercilessly set to detonate in 3 years + 1 hour or so.

Once your warranty is over, *click*… booooom~~

All the problems come flooding in. And they have no obligation to repair it for you… without cost.

Anyway, this laptop really not bad leh… For my casual use – Core 2 Duo, Windows 7 and slotted with Graphics Card… What more to ask for?

Met up with old-time mates – David, Glen and Steven a few days ago.

(Although this photo was taken ages ago… )

Now all of them, except Steven, are working. And it has been years since we have hung out together.

They may look all good and nerdy on the outside, but believe me, they are some of the craziest people and fun friends I’ve ever met!

Being old-time clubbing kakis, we went to MoS last Saturday night.

With this being a catch-up gathering, I can’t believe that my camera decided to forsake me and refused to be switched on!

Out of battery on this special day where the four of us finally had the chance to go out together once again!

Especially when the venue is a place with extreme low light conditions, where camera phones simply don’t function well!

Anyway, still tried to take photos using camera phone…

I can still remember the first time I came to MoS, I wasn’t even 21 yet, and I was lucky enough to be let in… But this time around, especially weekends, identification checks were all in place, and Steven who totally looked like an under-aged kid was I think being checked twice!

With a stroke of luck, my housemate Alvin and some of friends, including foundation studies friend Soo Wai, were there as well!

Yeah I know can’t see a thing in the picture, but Alvin’s the one next to me and Soo Wai’s the one next to Alvin.

Alvin did something naughty that night! Kekeke… *keeps quiet*

Anyway, Steven, the super insane heavy drinker, totally drank like almost half of all the liquor that we had; and for the record, our experience of drinking with Steven had given us really crazy memories!

Memories like him lying drunk beside a drain while we had supper, confessing to a girl that we didn’t even know too well, as well as throwing an entire guitar from his apartment window all the way down into the public swimming pool on the ground floor while he was drunk!

Not crazy enough? Check this (unrelated) video out. Steven being smacked-down by Jon!