My 21st Birthday... Thanks All!

I have finally crossed over to adult-hood. I am officially 21 yrs old now. Beginning a new chapter in life. :) I didn't have a big party for my 21st birthday, but all was memorable. :) I had about 5 celebrations. 1st was with my relatives at my place, 2nd with some peeps from church @ Seoul Garden, 3rd a surprise mini-celebration @ Echo :), 4th dinner with my family and 5th steamboat with 'evofus' at my cozy place. 3 birthday cakes :) and some nice presents :) I thank everyone for all the well-wishes and blessings :) Pics and details below...


My first birthday 'cake' or rather, cookie-biscuit. My aunt suggested something different so we got this from Famous Amos. :)


My first birthday wish...


Family Picture...


Celebration at Seoul Garden...


Chinny-chin chin (one of the few photos taken that day)


Group photo... (Roanna, Rochelle, Lebby, Chinny, Jonnie Wongie, Isaac and his beloved Geraldine)

For the mini suprise celebration, sadly I didn't take any pictures. I had really wanted to do so, but it was all too quick. Still, it was a really pleasant surprise! WendyMAMA came down to echo with the cake and they sang me a birthday song after my keyboard lesson. Thanks Simon, Wangdajie, Simin, Wendy, Denis and my students, Adeline and Weelin. :) The cake was rich!

Following that I had to leave almost immediately to meet my family for dinner at Spaggedies. A sumptuous dinner and after... I went for supper. Crab and drinks with the Echo Family again... Ha... We just eat and eat and eat :) It was great companionship and I am really glad and thankful to have known this bunch of people. :) Thank you and thank God! I hope these friendships stay for life. Minhui sent me a birthday sms that day and it was long! And meaningful :) I am looking forward to the HongKong trip!

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Steamboat at my place! We had quite a spread... Thanks Syl-vyn for the beef :)


Steamboat, steamboat...


Group pic at 8.20pm when 2 people arrived 1hr and 20mins late... :P


My 3rd cake! They were shocked at how the cake looked... Its a durian cake from 'Angie the Choice'. Real nice! (Apparently Xuan said that the cake can't be too cheapo cause I wouldn't like... Ha! Good things come in expensive prices...) The cake was a great choice!


My 3rd birthday cake! I wonder what is it supposed to signify? Maturity? An old 'ang-moh'?


Whats a party without PARTY HATS and BALLOONS? Singing the birthday song... :)


Group PARTY pic...


A more 'BALANCED' pic...


With my MAMA...


Blowing the candles...


Cake cutting :)


Poor old man...


They were up to another 'surprise'...


The 'surprise' revealed! They made a photo album for me! :) Thanks... (Its a tradition for all the 21st birthday peeps to have a big card or something memorable)

A sneak preview of the album :) (Grammatical Mistake! Not 'Birthdays Gathering' but 'Birthday Gatherings') Must have been done my Jiarong...

The picture of the year! (Whats spider-man doing there? Answer the million-dollar question!)

Group pic with my presents :) :) :)

My brother was the camera boy... And the 4 flowers wanted to take a pic with the, now grown-up boy...

Final Group Pic for the day! Thanks Evofus and 2 hunkies for everything :)

To: Xuan, Aloy, Jiarong, Kelvin, Wanping & Jasmine... You all have been such a part of my life. Ever since the JC days... I felt so lonely(*shy*) at first in JJC 'cause the class has so many girls and no one else I knew. I was the only person from my secondary school to go JJC. Thinking of it, its kinda crazy. Staying at Braddell and travelling to Boon Lay to study. Still, I don't regret this decision... God must have had a purpose for everything that happened. And I am glad to have met all of you. The days of craziness, of recordings and performances, of 'trying' to mug together, getting our butts smacked by Xuan Xuan... etc etc. Thanks for all these years of friendship and many more to come. I am also glad that Kelvin and Aloy is already a part of us! :) Kelvin especially... so integrated into the group. Ha! Friends for life!

My pressies... !

A gift from a friend of 1month plus! I am really happy and surprised. Thanks for the effort... :) Thanks Cindy, although you are a 'new' friend, what you did is really WOW! The words on the card, together with the piano background and lamination really touched me! Thanks for the CD too!

Ang Paos and a Teletubbies card from my relatives and Cousins...

A T-shirt from Rochelle (Ro-Share-La as my younger brother pronounces her name)...

Another surprise I got when receiving this present. Last friday was my badminton session with Minhui and Wendy... I don't really have my own badminton racket so I would borrow from Minhui. And this week, she passed this racket to me to use. I just took it and used without suspecting ANYTHING! I thought its some 'power' racket that she has kept and would only use it for special purposes. How dumb of me... Whats more, the plastic was still unwrapped. Then halfway through the game, Minhui said I can remove the plastic, the racket is mine anyway! Ha! Then my jaws dropped. Came as a real surprise! Yonex Musclepower... Haha... Thanks! The gift is really handy :) Thanks to (Simon, Minhui, Edmund, Simin and Wendy)

A quote I got: 朋友是我一生最大的一笔财富，永远不会放弃!

Gift from Roanna, Yizhen and Sharon... Pedro Voucher! I can get my white shoes already!

3/4 of the gift from EVOFUS... 1/4 still in the making. Aiming to be a tennis pro! :) Thanks!

-LeB-