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21....24 where did 22 and 23 go???

I expected it to be a quiet and uneventful but meaningful commemoration of my 23 years on earth.

Having definitely matured over the past 2 years, I didn't have the usual secret wish of having friends jumping out at me from nowhere.

I hinted constantly to my close friends that all I really wanted this year was for a simple celebration with my close friends and family.

But I definitely got more than that....

At year 24 the 1st day, I woke up late to a drizzly afternoon, had a yummy lunch at aston's with Carrie and then proceeded to plan the day heading to a ulu Changi area to capture planes flying overhead with my new Diana mini.

Ended up at the Lam'bs place and spent the entire afternoon 纳凉-ing and roughing it out with the little ones.

I loved every moment of today. I loved it. Although i was sticky and sweaty and ugly with shapeless hair and having the shapeless hair plant patterns all over my sticky face, I was secretly counting my blessings and absorbing the pure joy the little kids were emitting constantly...

And then it was followed by dinner with my parents, brother and Suz and the fats and the Bees at Waraku... A simple dinner where everyone screams their orders over the huge japanese menus while trying to get a conversation going and trying to get Fat Gav to stop eating so fast(and drinking up Yan's Sprite.) and Bjorn to sit down and stop asking to be brought to Suntec this instant.

Watching my mum work up such a good appetite at this year's birthday might be the biggest present for me. My mum never used to have such a good appetite before that fateful operation!

The dinner went by in no hurry and we even had time to relax on the tatami mats in the private room before finally deciding to head home to cut the precious cake I received from a very respectable, admired and loved someone.

Back home, I was asked to head to the room to bring the video camera down while Carrie would go get the cake out(since it wouldn't be right for the birthday girl to bring out her own cake right?)

In front of my room door I wondered for a split second why the door was closed, when I opened the door, I wondered for another split second why I left the air-con on, and another quarter of the second my eye spied balloons covering my bedroom floor, and at the very next split second the air was filled with screams of "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!" while the lights in the my room were flicked on by scholar Ethan who was hiding on the top deck of my double decker bed!

I never expected a 24 year old to have such a birthday surprise. I felt like I was 18.

It was all. So. Heart. Warming.

Warmed the cockles of my heart so that you can't possible have hepatitis B from eating Dee's heart cockles; cuz they're so warmed up that all the evil viruses like discontentment, unhappiness, loneliness are killed in the process.

I love you guys. you you and you!

Never fail to show me the unconditional, eternal, CREATIVE love you guys have!!!!

Yizhen! *hip hop* and Ro-nana... Honestly, you've left a mark on my birthdays.... I'm not taking the "happy birthday" words off my curtains. I want them to remind me of my 24th, just like how the silver stars still remind me of the 21st. I don't ever wanna forget!

But as I was sitting on the sofa with Et and Cici, we talked about the 21st and the recent 24th and we asked ourselves out loud "where did 22 and 23 go?????"

Time goes by so fast.

So so fast!

And well, of course... the lovely wine session with 3 baskets of "Singapore's best chicken wings" and the kinky + 2(mono and carrie) + 1(waiyin) - 1(Linhui).

And the lovely hotel room at New boutique Hotel Klapsons with Aunty Lucy and friends....

Did i miss out anything?

What an eventful start to my 24th year on the Universe!

A big shout out to my bestie/partner-in-crime/bunker/punchbag Carrie Yeo Chia Ying for being the anchor girl in my celebrations(constantly SMS-ing for 3 days, and fending off my stupid "I know you're planning my birthday surprise" nonsense and "oh, so esther and helena are coming?" questions so calmly haha! .) and for taking the great photos!

I'll leave it to the pictures now... they put a smile to my face, I hope they'll put a smile on yours too!