Okay this year, during my birthday period, i seemed really really blur. guess i got too worn out after the weeks of running around. but hey! im still glad that im blessed with such an awesome cell group :D best of all is that i received this really really cool card!! even though it wasnt supposed to be a record-looking birthday card, the shape and the size turned out so well that BING hahahahahahhahahah. okay am i the only one who likes records here? i personally think record-looking birthday cards are awesomely cool. can you imagine if they include a poster inside, just like those good old record folders? hoooo orgasmic. and over time as the birthdays go by, the "records" keep increasing and you can file em up? omg omg omg double orgasmiccccccccc!! lol my chrome offered to change that orgasmicccccc to micro-organisms. -.- thanks nerd. 

so here are the birthday presents that they presented to me on my birthday!! 

personally, i thought i was going to die of boredom for the upcoming training in camp as well as the bus trip home as i forgot to bring my earpiece and for training, listening to music is....kinda too boring. (high expectations me) oh yeah, that bus ride that i previously mentioned, became a car ride. drove myself home in the end when dad came by in my car. -___-

so what did i do on my birthday? well i bought a new paper wallet!! well the old one is getting really too worn out, some people claim it to be disgusting. okay to some extent it is but its just so cooooool D: i mean like who else has their friends vandalising on their wallets. and it becomes such a sentimental piece to you :D i definitely prefer this wallet than to all those standard prada wallets or whatever branded wallets. 

i opted for a close-to-heart 21st birthday celebration because there is a group of people who always stood by me during rain or shine, bad times or good times. and especially those stormy seasons, these people who are always there to encourage me really touches my heart man :D especially bernice! so bernice, if you are reading this, HI! of course i doubt you have the time to since you too are getting increasingly busy~! but really, with so many things to settle, this that this that these days, my birthday wish is just to be able to be a much happier person! :) somehow, its a really simple wish but yet hard to fulfil and was taken granted by me years ago.

so coming back to the topic, my birthday was pretty simply spent, had a brunch with my parents at where is that place called..........since bro had school

(too lazy to upload photo of this dim sum stall at plaza singapura that has this immensly long queue) 

after that, i managed to pop by cathay, and all thanks to kai jie, my fellow signaller in camp, i found a shop that sells the MIGHTY WALLETTTTTT. really all i wanted to do this 21st, was to buy a new paper wallet and lets see who is going to be kind enough to vandalise it. :D 

some people may say like whattttt that's all?!?!?! yeah thats all. 

oh guess who was the first to wish my happy birthday! it was kai jie. why? he was inside the 5-tonner truck with me, on the way back from heli training. so at exactly 0000Hrs, he wished me happy birthday :P

sorry i know my photo shots seem really bad. reason being i was using these photos as instagram pics, so they get cut up into squares and with filter..... #IDONTBOTHERTAKINGAPROPERSHOT

okay so after being so weary and worn out, after shopping like in one shop. (like wow huh) i fell extremely ill. i mean first it was flu, really bad flu, that became sinus, and after my body became so weak, i finally got a bloody fever. -_- i really really hate this combination. sinus + fever. hooooooo next thing i did the moment i got home was rest in bed. tried sleeping but it felt so bad, i just couldnt fall asleep! (what a birthday) aaaaaaand after being all so sickly and about-to-die, mum actually DRAGGED me out of bed, saying that im wasting my birthday! OK yes technically im wasting my birthday oh yummy pears!! sorry but i really really needed the sleep. where did she drag me to?

Gardens by the Bay. To see tulips.


feeling like a pile of shit although i didnt smell like one (i think), i grabbed my camera and tried to do some artistic shots! sorry for the phail shots :( im still trying kays.



Oh yes, its my brother's first time being to Gardens by the Bay. Well for me, it isnt the first, but still impressing.

When i reached there, the sky was really really gloomy, but im using all the aperture and shutter speed stuffs to make up for the loss of light for some photo shots! though i would prefer to keep the dark dark skies look. :) SORRY IN ADVANCE IF MY PHOTOGRAPHY SUCKS.

somehow, everytime, EVERYTIME i come here, i do this miniature shot as always.


NEW SIGN. says much about people aye?



somehow it just doesnt seem focused right?



Le Petit Prince, Baobab tree. go read the book!


penis penis penis! now whats wrong with me.




i ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SHOT. as usual, its the miniature effect, im using the Canon SX40HS, it has all these "lenses" built in. toy camera effect, fisheye, etc etc so fun!

same shot, zoomed out, without effect.





i seldom see singaporean kids doing this. let alone the whole family o.o just saying. its a good thing!


hooooo its storming pretty much right after i put this photo in!



annoying trains...move so fast! no matter how i set my shutter speed, i just dont seem able to catch em. i still cant quite balance shutter speed and whats that thing called....aperture. Although im getting really good at the aperture thingy. ah speaking of which, cameras!! i previously wanted to get a lomo for my birthday :P or rather wait for someone to get it.
















SHIT I LOOK FAT. okay maybe i am.






oh yeah i forgot to mention that thats my mum!


BING! no idea.




the one in quicksilver shirt is my bro. :) he is...camera shy...?






ah i never seem to be able to pull this shot off. :( sadly.


BATMAN.



AH sorry for making you guys  scroll through those photos, hehe im pretty noob at photography. Never went for any proper lessons although i wish i can, i am way too lazy.


erm finally the birthday cake? the cake usually pops out around 11pm in the night. :) its a family thing i guess.



OH YES, i would like to give special thanks to those who AMBUSHED me when i was eating at AMBUSH. yeah ikr the similarity. special thanks to DEANNA, VIVIAN, BERNICE, AUDREY, JAEL, ESTHER, STEFANIE. Many of you girls have always been around by my side, especially bernice, jael and esther, your names appear in EVERY one of my cards! whether is it birthday cards, army POP card, baptism card, etc etc, your names have always been there, thank you soooo much for always being around!! i am truly blessed to have such awesome friends around me :D the AMBUSH was a total success man, even though there were many fails that you girls pointed out to me later on, i never knew about it! i guess i was too tired to even think :P thank you soooo much for always constantly changing the ambush plan so that no matter how i wouldnt find out about it!! i seriously thought i somehow bumped into everyone coincidentally man. KUDOS KUDOS, thank you sooo much for making my 21st birthday celebration such a success!!! also, i heard its vivian who planned it, so extra extra thank you to you!! :D LOVE YOU GUYSSSSS. mmmm i will upload the group photo after i am able to get my hands on it!
thank you girls for the 'faith' and balloons! booking into camp was kinda epic :)


21 years of age. damn those eyebags.

the video i was watching whilst halfway blogging this.