Went pei lin's place for dinner and to celebrate my birthday on that deepavali holiday. A little bit different this year because my usual birthday partner gabriel is not around, so that means i had all the girls to myself haha. Anyway, pei lin made some fantastic pizzas for the night, home made dough and stuff and it was fun helping out with the cheese and the oven. The more fun part was when we got to talk about jing xian's new job as a sia trainee, sounds almost like being in the army for girls, really been a long time since we could get everyone together (left gab) to chit chat like old times. enjoyed myself.


Was pretty much stuck in school for the majority of my birthday, had lessons from 10 to 6, no breaks to add. Forgot to charge my phone the day before so was had to set my phone to silent to conserve batt. Many thanks to those who sent me well wishes during the day, apologise if i didn't reply fast enough because of my phone situation. JR, tootsie, and Jiakee came into my last lesson with a bunch of balloons and cake for me, very cute because they had written messages on the balloons.Feel a bit bad also because JR had to skip a few lessons to get the balloons.

Came back home and received a mail from sherbs for a card nightmare before christmas pouch, haha you always know what i like. shuyi dropped by later for the f1 photos i still owed him and he also gave me a cute little wrx remote controlled car! i think we're going to have a race soon so i spent some time practising before heading to bed.

I think the overall theme for this year's celebrations is flour-less cake, having received three different chocolate variations which were really nice. A big thank you to everyone, I had a lovely day :)

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sometimes parents keep things from their children in order to shield them from the "hard" truth. For the most part of my life i had been living in my own little world, at times upset or frustrated about how things are carried out around the place. But as i got older and find out more things, i dunno whether is it better for me to know the truth in the first place or find it out only so late. But as they say, better late than never. Growing older means more responsibility. I knew that, but it didn't really hit me until recently. I also read in books and watched in movies that things are never quite what they seem. Now i know it applies to real life too haha.

Naive or gullible? A bit of both for believing everyone else but not some. Better late than never ya?

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how do you tell the difference between a happy haha and a cynical haha when all my hahas sound and look the same?
If anything, i can only blame myself for being such a whore to others.
my eyes are droopy, the horse is hungry, and i need to study
oh please don't let me be nice when i'm not

haha.

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"Gravity
is working against me
And gravity
wants to bring me down
Oh gravity
stay the hell away from me
oooooh gravity
has taken better men than me
just keep me where the light is" - john mayer

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when should a kid learn about birds and the bees? i for one would totally suck as a parent i think. I could work for government doing coverups.

kid "babies come from eggs right?"
me feigning ignorance "what you mean?"

kid "i mean the babies all come from small eggs right?" Proceeds to show how small the egg should be.
me "i don't know about you, but i came from a volcano."

kid "where got volcano? how come you're not hot"
me "because i lived in singapore for very long time, only when i go back.".. "say.. isn't that your friend.... "

danger averted.

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Had another Southeast Asia lecture this morning, by far one of the most interesting ones as the topic was on Sex and Gender in SEA. For starters, the lecturer sent out an email yesterday for guys to wear pink and girls to wear blue, which made for interesting comparison.

Anyway, found out that the traditional notion of masculinity and femininity in SEA is vastly different from today's portrayal. It seems that we came from a culture of gender ambiguity and there was no such concept as beef cakes and jocks back then.

At the end of the lesson, we got to watch this Ms Alcazhar show or something which is actually a transvestite beauty pageant! I heard so much stories about these "women" but seeing is believing! The only giveaway was the voice though, so beware!

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