A Mysterious Present From A Mysterious Stranger

Last sunday after church service, Chris Goh came up to me and said:" Hey Thomas, someone asked me to pass this card to you". I was like:" Okay, thanks a lot Chris. May I know who is it from?" "The person told me not to let you know wor, said it is a surprise" he replied. I was like okay, thank you very much, looking very puzzled because I have gotten a present from someone who does no want to reveal his/her identity. very strange, I have never received a present from someone who is an unknown person to me before.

I went back after that, tore the envelope open, looked inside and found a keychain with my name on it which looks like the one below:-



Cute right? i was impressed by it and then i was so happy that I just continued reading the card that the mysterious person has written to me. I was surprised because in the card that person wrote: Sorry your present came a lil late! Just didn't have the time to pass it to you.

I was like okay, hmmmmmmmmmm, why don't you just pass it to me then? Why did you have to pass it through Chris? How am I going to find out who you are? I called Chris the next day and asked him:" Hey Chris, who is the person who passed you the card? I want to thank him/her for the wonderful gift". He was like:" I am sorry thomas but I really cannot tell you who that person is".

I was like okay lor, thank you mysterious stranger because I am not going to ask each and every person :" Hey, did you buy me a card and a keychain?" ermmmmmm, no way man! got how many people in church, not going to waste my time asking around. I really do not have a slightest of clues who that person is, I really don't.

Thank you mysterious stranger, you have made my birthday a memorable one. hhahahaha

below is the mysterious stranger's name on the birthday card:-

Old Age Is Drawing Closer To Me

25 years old, I cannot believe that I am indeed 25 years old! I just cannot! somehow on my birthday 3 days ago, when I was driving to work, I just realised that I am indeed 25 years old already. thats means I am almost halfway to 50 years old. gosh that is scary.

no matter how much I would really want to forget about my age, I cannot because i would still remain at 25 years old no matter what. I cannot be young again and I definitely do not want to grow older too, who would want to?. and the fact that some of my friends do still call me Uncle makes me feel so much older.

my birthday was alright, went out with a few of my friends at night. We just went to Fast Eddy's in Carousel. the people who went were Sarah K, Fenny, Jia Huei, Yee Fang, Darrel, Da Yong and Janica. my brother came to join us later at 11 something.

I thought it was very cute what Janica did even though she told me that she did not buy the mooncake. She put a candle on a mooncake and ask me to blow it. I found that very creative and different because you know people always celebrate their birthdays with cakes so I thought what she did was very sweet and different.

Ya, we all just chilled at Fast Eddy's, chat, talk and just fellowship with one another. Pia, Jeremy, Mojo and Brandon came to surprise me in a way at 7pm at my house. It was funny because the moment I reached home I thought there were actually people inside my house waiting to surprise me. why? because I did not see my brother's car and also the lights were all on. so i thought to myself:" hmmmmmm, something is not right here, I am sure they are all inside ready to surprise me".

However, when I opened the front door, I straight away took a step back because I really thought there were actually people inside the house ready to surprise me. gosh was I wrong! hahahhahaha, how embarrassing!

i just want to say a big thank you to all you lovely people for remembering my birthday. all your messages, phone calls, cakes, everything. I just want to say thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. you guys really made my day on Thursday.

I also celebrated my belated birthday by going out for dinner with Vincent, James, Eugene and my brother to Ciao Italia in MillPoint today. thanks guys for the treat, I really had a good time.

The people who came to surprise me (left to right): Brandon, Mojo, Jeremy and Pia

Mr Jamester looking like he is enjoying his pasta at Ciao Italia very much, yummy!

One of the dishes that we had at Ciao Italia, the famous Fettucine Ciao Italia!

Photos from My New Canon IXUS 80IS

photos, photos, photos. this time it is from my new digital camera, can you tell the difference? enjoy!

Vivien and me (my new shirt which was my first time wearing it even though i bought it a year ago)

Left to right : Cindy, Vivien and Pauline (dont their hairstyle look alike?) I think so!

Me and Jeremy aka Carebear

Cindy and me (glasses) with her birthday present that I got her, a 50 dollars spa voucher. cool!

Vivien and me at Farmosa Cafe

Finding the girl of my dreams

time really flies and as i was driving to work today, a thought suddenly came to my head. I am turning 25 years old soon! gosh, i really cannot believe it. i am actually 25 years old already! now that is scary. its funny because i never thought i would be this old. seriously! it is as if I was in college and university and suddenly I am already working and getting older.

maybe one of the reason is because I mix with a lot of younger, passionate, outgoing university students in my church. thats why it makes me feel so old considering most of them do call me Uncle thomas! argggghhhhhh, please guys, stop calling me that. really makes me feel so old. hahahhahha.

talking about getting older, people have been asking me recently the same old same old question:" Hey thomas, so how? got girlfriend already or not?". everybody keeps asking me that question from my mum, my dad, my church friends and even my elder sister whom I have not spoken to on the phone for like 6 months since I left back to Perth after taking a 2 week break back in Malaysia during Chinese New Year.

If i get a girlfriend, i will inform you guys one, don't worry. maybe not everyone, those closer to me first of course. i still do not see a reason to get a girlfriend just because it is like what the so called trend in our generation today that everybody should get a girlfriend or boyfriend because if not you would be left out or something. well, i definitely do not agree with that.

to find that special someone, it takes time. I mean not as in forever but does not come quickly as well. just because you see someone you like you just say: Hey, you want to get together and be my girlfriend?". Nah, that does not work for me mate. hahahhahaha.

anyways, wont want to continue on and on about this topic. maybe i shall talk about it when i got more things to write about it. I went for Joshua & Andrea's wedding last Saturday, it was really really nice. short, sweet and simple. enjoy the photos below.

Photos Galore

i decided to just upload photos to my blog today, just for a change. ah, photos always bring back good old memories. i really enjoy looking at photos. have fun people!

All of us celebrating Jimmy's birthday at Mexican Kitchen, Fremantle.

Jimmy and me, gosh whats with my smile man. I look so funny!

Fenny and Leon posing for the camera

Jimmy and Fenny, oh brother and sister together. how nice and sweet!

Me going ice skating with Pia's cell group at Cockburn Ice Arena, Bibra Lake

Everybody say cheese, you are on candid camera!

Left to right : Me, Da Yong and Pauline having bubble tea at Utopia, Myaree

Jessie and me, gosh look at me. super blur man!

My New Toy to Play With

finally, finally its here. my new Canon IXUS 80IS Digital Camera is here. my baby. it is kinda funny if i think about it because i see everyone using digital cameras that are at least 5 mega pixels while my old camera was the Kodak Easy Share CX6330 model which only had 3.1 mega pixels and is 6 years old.

yes, that is how long I have used the camera, for about 6 years because I bought it back in Malaysia before I came over to Perth in 2004. at least now people don't have to come up to me and say: "Hey Thomas, please lar, go change your camera and get a more advanced one meaning the latest model".

bought my baby for a cheap price also. it was already on sale in Myer for $279.00 when i went on Saturday and I got another $40.00 off the price of the camera because I got two $20.00 Myer Gift Cards to use.

I also bought my 4GB Sandisk memory card from JB Hi-Fi using my $30.00 gift card that my boss gave me a few months ago. even though the total price of the memory card came to $38.00, i still saved $30.00 and only had to pay $8.00 which was the balance. how cool is that?

it seems technology is really crazy these days, everybody seems to be either buying or upgrading their mobile phones, digital cameras or computers to the latest model. it is something like "oh, if i don't buy the latest model, I am so going to be left behind man!".

the technology generation is here. speaking on technology, i just read the news this morning that Google is going to be releasing a new web browser to compete with Microsoft and is called Chrome. wow! having dominated the search engine market also not enough, they must come in and compete with Microsoft and Mozilla in terms of web browsers.

it just comes to show how competitive it is out there in the tech world. I cant wait to play with my new toy. hmmmmmmm, maybe i should try it out in cell group tomorrow night. should be fun.

oh well i am off to bed now, did not really sleep much the night before. need enough rest or else I am going to feel sleepy at work. adios amigos!