:+: Fine after rain :+:

Wow what better way to celebrate my 20th b'day than to .... only have lessons in the morning haha !

Nah I'm just playing but oh man I myself can't believe that I'm officially 20 today ! Yup no more being 19 anymore so should I be more specific , I don't have a '1' in front of my age anymore . Instead it's a '2' in front now which will be permanent for the next 10 years after I turn 30 in 2017 then :) .

Before I go on further , I want to say a happy b'day shoutout to my M'sian friend June who also turned 20 today & also to Zoe Tay as well ! Yup she also shared the same b'day as me . How cool's that ?

Inital plans for today or should I say tonight was that everyone go out for dinner to celebrate my 20th b'day but unfortunately Hui Li was sick big time since Mon so plans had to be shelved & so this will be taking place instead over the weekends . Better lah cos everyone has his/her own things to do during the weekdays . Somemore I have homework to do so might as well !

I said in the beginning of my entry that I celebrated my 20th b'day in that I only had lessons in the morning . Yup that's right but in a way I was 1/2 joking . Let me narrate what I did exactly after school ended .

I went back home after school ended at noon , I put all my things down as there were really heavy for me to carry around & besides what better way to 'celebrate' my b'day with Daniel ! Well sorta . He actually asked me whether yesterday I would like to meet up with him but cos I was almost 1/2 dead when school ended yesterday afternoon , I told him today's better !

Surprisely I reached home almost 40-45 mins later which was considered quite fast . I came back , put my things down , had a shower & then read the papers . Rain was on the front cover of Life :)

I left the house at 2.15pm cos it will take a while before I reached my destination where Dan works . Haha the funny thing's that now whenever I take 75 , I always keep a lookout where Amanda stays . Her house's very nice , hopefully she will invite me to her crib someday !

I reached Dan's workplace about 1 hour later & when I got there , I SMS'd him in that I have arrived & in due time he came downstairs & yup as always it's nice to see him once again in that I can dubbed him as my older brother now :)

Before we went to get some coffee , he went to his car & took something from his car boot . Or was it inside his car ? That something turned out to be my post xmas post new year pressie from Dan woo hoo

After that , we made a beeline to the nearest coffee shop that's located around his workplace. Had to walk a fair distance though.

Sat at 1 corner inside the coffee shop . Er actually we sat quite near the roadside cos it was quite crowded eariler . I had a cup of Teh O while Dan got himself a cup of ice lemon tea & then I proceeded in telling Dan that I'm officially older today & hahaha he shot me a blank look in that he forgot in a way that today's my b'day & started swearing hee . He thought it was tomorrow though oops.

But it's ok lah , at least he wished me happy b'day not once but thrice & besides it's alright for me & no I wasn't angry with him lah . Not long after I asked him whether can I opened up my post xmas post new year pressie & I got not 1 but 2 bags from Dan aha in which he bought both of them when he was on vacation last month.

I like them , they're really nice & it's probably about time that I should change the current bag that I'm using so yup thanks a lot dude & yes Dan , a girl can never have enough bags haha . Funny though just last week or so , I just threw out so many old bags outta my room but of course I wouldn't be throwing the bags that Dan gave me !

That's not the only thing Dan gave me though . He also gave me his old band Livonia's EP & LP somemore wahaha . I just listened to Livonia's EP Zerofeel & at the midst of listening to their LP Triple Grande Skinny Latte & from what I heard so far , it's nice & haha what I saw in the CD sleeve of Zerofeel made me laughed cos his email & mailing addresses were on it . So weird , I wonder what's doing in there . I should probably ask him the next time I see him then & can distinctively heard his vocals in both albums . In Livonia , he does backing vocals & plays lead guitar . His voice's not bad lah hee & was a bit sore that Backseat Star wasn't in the tracklisting of either albums leh

Now he only plays lead guitar & leaves the task of backing vocals to Will & Des heh heh

& what else to bitch with Dan with nothing other than schoolwork ! He asked me how things are going for me so far & I told him that even though today's only my 3rd day back to school , I'm already dying haha . I did brought along my Eng 2 binded notes & let him see what exactly am I doing for Eng this semester & also sought his advice on the damn report that I have to come up with , idea , topic , details & the works .

So far I don't have any further details as to expectations of the report that I have to do for Eng but I'm sure & hopefully by tomorrow my lecturer will let me know & I will definitely tell Dan all these by email . I never done a major big report before . In fact the compositions that I did in Pri/Sec school were terrible , I always getting barely passed or failed grades so yeah a bit intimidating & scared but Dan said that he can help me & can give me his 2nd sense worth on it .

I swopped another copy that I bought of Hip City yesterday at That CD Shop with him eariler with the last pre autographed copy that he got in his hands & was telling him that it was the last copy in the shop & that it cost me S$22.90 , even more expensive than what HMV's selling man ! Nuts , even the 1st album was selling the same price at That CD Shop too sheesh . Jokingly said that another big hole of my pocket has been burnt but that's ok , it's all for a good cause :)

I did asked him what exactly he did when he went on vacation last month & I know that he complained about the budget terminal & the budget airline that he took . For a moment I thought he took S'pore Airlines leh but he didn't but oh man he was telling me so many terrible things about Budget Terminal . Surprisely he didn't bitch that much about the budget airline that he took but he said that it's the 1st & last time he's taking it whee

Dan asked me how did Lunarin's gig went at Stasis9 & I said it was great even though the sound went off key . Linda , cheer up & don't be so depressed about it . You guys put up a great show & I mean it !

He was saying that he actually came early to check out other bands whom were playing in the afternoon & he came around 3pm++ in which unfortunately by the time he came , I was at Raffles City I remembered . He commented some bands were good while others were just plain bad . He did told me who yeah but I'm not gonna review the names that he said & that a lucky new band might probably open for Electrico in their upcoming Live In New Wave concert ! Wow that sounds neat & more details will definitely be posted up in due time.

Was weird cos way back then , Livonia among many other bands such as Fuzzbox , graced the very 1st Stasis1 so sorta like deja vu for Dan & hahaha he was narrating to me that the most rock star thing he ever did was that on the actual day that Stasis1 was held , Livonia was supposed to perform but for some reason , he was in Aust for holiday I think & when he came back , it was just hours away before he was due to play at Stasis1 , his flight was delayed & what he did ?

He called his parents , asked them to come & fetch him at the airport together with his gear in his parents's car & even better , called the organisers of Stasis1 to delay their performance & that to buy some time hahaha . Wah I didn't know rock stars can do such things at all but must have feel shiok to able to do such a thing . Well duh Dan's a rock star in the 1st place mah !

& yup I did told him that I requested for Hello yesterday on 987FM saying that I SMS'd in my request in dedicating the song to myself cos I think no 1 would even bothered to celebrate my b'day & yes my request was read out on air yesterday yay

We also talked about the whole S$11.90 CD issue going on . I was wondering why some CDs that Universal Music S'pore is selling for S$11.90 instead of of a usual & more normal price you would pay for a CD . The weird thing's that most of the CDs are manfactured in S'pore so yeah was asking Dan how come it's like that . Even though I did read an article about this which was published last month in ST , I just skimmed though didn't paid much attention to the main details.

Around this time , I saw a parking summon auntie walking towards my direction & I told Dan that he better go back to his car & put a parking coupon & check cos I don't want him to get summoned again . He got kena a few times so for today I don't want him to be suai & get caught once again . Phew when he came back , he said that the parking coupon was about to expire so heng ah , no need to get fined again ... for now !

I know he's gonna see Muse next Tue & aww he's so sweet . He said that should he's able to get a free & spare ticket , he asked me whether will I want it or not :) I thought it's damn nice for him to do such a thing for me but unfortunately I'm not familiar with Muse's music but I like Starlight from their latest album.

I told him see how cos next Tue I will finish school at 4.30pm so at the moment I'm not very sure whether would I want to attend Muse's gig . Dan said that Muse are damn good live & that I should not missed this opportunity to catch them live in performance as it's like a once in a lifetime chance for Muse to stop by S'pore for a concert . I'm still deciding but both of us will confirm about this when the date draws nearer.

But then I asked him how am I gonna make my way to Fort Canning Park haha so probably best decision's to take a cab . Should he managed to snag the spare ticket for me & I told him that I want to go , he better send me back home after that ahaha

You know at the rate that Dan's raving about Muse , I should ask him to shut up but nah I'm just joking !

Was moaning to him that I'm officially old & that it still haven't sunk into my head that I'm no longer 19 anymore & that I'm already 20 . He's very bad man , asked me whether I want to switch places with him & see whether if it's better or not .

Of course it's not lah dude so yeah I should probably stop complaining to him about the whole age issue . At least I can say that I'm 20 & not early 20s as what he put hee hee . For him it's worst , cannot put 30 , must put early 30s now ahaha but he did said that it wouldn't be long before I hit 21 & that I can enter Genting's casinos legally in no time haha

I said that my mum might be heading to Genting once again this month & he was giving me the face in that he asked me I'm not sian of going to Genting time & time again ?! Actually it's my family that's always going almost practically like a monthly basis . For me I can't or else I will go insane . He even said that I should suggest to my mum to go elsewhere for a change , next time if we want to plan for vacation . Sounds like a good idea to me !

But yeah at the end of the day I'm still grateful to all the great sound advice he dished out to me all this while . At 1st it was weird communicating with him but now it's 2nd nature & eariler I said that this new 2nd semester will be tougher . He just told me not to worry so much & just continue to do my best in whichever way I can :) cos as time goes by , each semester will be more & more tougher.

I was surprised when he told me in future when I come out to work , my future employees will look at my grades & not just the degree that I obtained so gee I better buckle up now if that's the case.

My inital plan after meeting up with Dan , I wanted to go home but who knew that the bracelet that I bought last Sat from Perlini broke this morning ! Well actually a heart piece from my bracelet came off so I went back to Raffles City to get it fixed at the end.

After I left his workplace , was on the MRT , SMS'ing him here & there & haha he told me that I will be getting a belated b'day pressie the next time I see him wahaha so techincally he still owe me something hurrah & aww some of the things he said to me were really sweet & made my day big time so once again thanks bro !

When I got back home Dan even bothered to leave me a message on MySpace too ! I saw it eariler & aww love what he wrote , thanks thanks thanks . Wah how many thanks have I said to him already man ?

Compared to last year , this year my b'day celebrations of sorts is a hell lot better that's for sure . At least I get more pressies & well wishes from people haha & yup I did managed to do up my new year resolution list after all . Only thing's that I will not be posting it up but I see whether is it possible to accomplish them.

So what exactly did I got for my b'day ? let me see whether I can recap everything or not :

- S$30 from my mum , S$20 each from my maternal grandma , uncle , aunt , paternal grandparents

- Box of Godiva chocolates from the kind good folks of Lunarin . Already polished almost 1/2 the box with help from my mum & Hui Lin . Godiva's fucking awesome , love it . I eat 1 or 2 or 30 , can go to heaven man haha & yes ET everyone has to try Godiva at least once in their lifetime man

- Ayumi Hamasaki's Secret that my mum bought for me

- CDs that I bought for myself in the form of Utada Hikaru's Exodus & Ultra Blue , The Observatory's Blank Walls , Dwight's Sleeptalking , Ayumi Hamasaki's Duty , Muse's Blackholes & Relevations

- More jewellery from Perlini Silver . Bought 1 gorgeous hearts bracelet , a pair of stardust hearts earrings , a hearts pendant

- Livonia's Zerofeel & Triple Grande Skinny Latte CDs with thanks to Dan , my bro ! You rock dude & the bags that you got for me during vacation are not counted unfortunately ahaha

- B'day wishes from Jenny , Jiha , Weng Yew , Miss Tong , Dila , Leonard , Dan/Electrico , Tim , Linda/Lunarin , Maggie , Marika , Suzy , Dila , Su-H (love the card , thanks a lot ! ) , Sor Lay , Serene , Angeline , Rachel

- a S$100 Nike Voucher that I won from *scape

- a scented candle from Dila

- I bought tickets to Electrico's Live In New Wave & The Observatory's gig in which both are taking place in March as part of NUS's Arts Festival . Looking forward to both gigs big time !

- a belated b'day card & mini jewellery box from Jenny . Thanks I really like it :)

- a mug that Jiha gave

- a set of Kiehl's tolietries from Dan

I will definitely add more in time to come seeing that I can predict I will be getting somemore belated b'day pressies from people in days to come haha

There you go , once again a huge & big happy 20th b'day to me me me !

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