21

Would you look at that? I'm 21 already and that means - in western culture - that I am an adult. It also meant that I was barely legal enough to enter the casinos in Singapore during my vacation trip there last week!

I just wanna thank everyone involved in making my 21st birthday so so memorable. Surprises upon surprises were thrown at me and surprised I was - pleasantly so, of course. The surprises started as early as Wednesday (my birthday was on Saturday). That day started of miserable because of the torrential downpour. The rain got me bad while I was waiting for the tram to Flinders Street. My plan for that day was to visit the Disney art exhibition at ACMI at Federation Square. I think I had fun there but I was ravenous after that. My tummy started to rumble and ache while head started to spin a little. I decided to have lunch at Lygon street but had to return to my apartment first to grab something important. Before arriving at my stop, Bryan, who was with me, received a call from Jian, who was in my apartment and was apparently craving nuts. We took a detour into the supermarket to get her nuts and walked the remainder of the journey home. Arriving home, the three of us decided that we should have lunch together but Jian had to deal with something first beforehand. She was 'waiting' for a friend to come to my apartment so that she could pass him something. Being absolutely hungry I could only sit myself down on the couch patiently while waiting for her to be done with her errand. Jian finally went downstairs to 'meet her friend' and when she came back, the three of us could finally leave.

As I opened the door and prepared to step out, my long dreary face became even longer (literally this time) as my jaws dropped and my eyebrows rose. A whole crowd of people outside at the hallway started singing my birthday song while holding three cupcakes.

You guys are legendary. Thank you so much. I heard that the detour to the supermarket was to stall me so that everyone could sneak into my apartment first to surprise me when I come in but hey, your surprise was still awesome guys! Thank you as well for the stick blender, pasta maker and the inspiring Neil Perry cookbook.

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On Thursday night, I had a dinner outing with my church mates and drinks at San Churro's. That was a mad experience too. I was forced to recite a passage of the legend of Hernan Cortes on the wall... with PASSION... in front of everyone... and so I did! Using a sexy accent, a movie accent apparently, I crooned my way through everything and won the approval of my mates. Yay! Thank you for the SLOW COOKER guys!

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At near midnight on the 10th of December, Jian and Bryan came over to my place to surprise me yet again! I didn't see this coming because I thought all the surprises were over. You two are the best! To those who called me to wish me happy birthday on that night, I apologise for not picking up because I was busy downstairs with my surprise visit + cake + cherries!

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Last but not least, thank you for ALL of your warm wishes. It truly was an epic birthday experience, one that I will remember for a long long time.

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Well, that was a really quick summary of everything that mattered to me on my birthday week. Hugs and kisses to all of you who waited till today for a blog update. More will come soon! Stay tuned.