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wow they had a surprise birthday mini-celebration for me! haha.

so embarrassing. anyway thanks for planning it. albeit it was really belated, but it was so shocking. made me feel really embarrassed. and got even more gifts!haha. my birthday this year is so happening. i really wonder why.

so i just bought this new lcd monitor. it's real huge to me! although only 19 inches but it's huge, and damn bright. haha i jus spent $334 in cash just like that on the table and walked away with this LG lcd monitor. the father's money, of course. haha. looks quite nice though, the screen. so i'm left with changing that old modem, and of course getting that new laptop. but the lappie shall arrive earliest, next year. so still a long way to go.

and silat training yesterday while fasting was really refreshing. i felt fine. of course more tired than ever, but i wasn't feeling faint or anything. felt good actually, although compared to what i've been through in army, that pales in comparison. then again i'm not as fit as i was in army, so it evens out. haha. but it was okay. i feel i've improved quite abit so far. but there's still along way to go. i've only just started out, but things are fine. the seniors are willing to guide and that's very heartening.

so yesterday we broke fast at the grandparents' place. ah it's been awhile since i last saw my noisy cousins. haha they are really a noisy lot. but they were so funny. they were playing in 1 of the rooms. when i walked past music was blaring from that room, and i peeked inside,they were all grooving to the music! haha. and it's those hip hop rnb kind! haha so funny. it was like a mini-club out there. then they were just jumping around and having fun with the music in the background. didn't know the handphone could blast the music out at such a volume.

haha but you see the joy the kids had. then you wish you could just go back to being a kid once more. to just do nothing but have fun all day long, and not worry about anything the big adults have to worry themselves with. with work, children, bills, the wife, the car, the house and all. things were so happy-go-lucky, and so much simpler. all you could do was just run and jump around, then cry and suddenly the whole world would just rush to you and calm you down and pamper you. haha. no homework, project work, essays, readings, notes or even fieldtrips to fret about. the carefree-ness of adolescence. haha.

on another note.

the new project is called project coldplay. might achieve my goals through the blitzkrieg method. we'll see how.

watch this space man. haha.

21st

so yesterday i reached the milestone that is the age of 21.

21 years ago, my mum gave birth to me at the now-defunct toa payoh hospital. apparently i came out at 0949 hours. in case you don't know what time u arrived to this world, kindly check your birth certificate. it is SURE to be stated somwhere there.

and so 21 years on, so much things have changed. i've vome a long way, and so have everyone else. so apparently i'm now permitted to do more things that i previously couldn't. ah but age is just a number, as they say. it's got no real bearing over how one can be mature or immature.

but my birthday turned out to be fine. the mum forgot all about it, but sadly my family is like that. birthdays aren't celebrated at all in the family, but it's really okay by me. but the day turned out well. messages flooded in incessantly. alot of people actually wished me this year, for some reason or another! haha. and i've got presents! haha i hardly ever get presents, so i totally have no idea what's the thrill like of opening presents.

the day was spent in school, and the night was spent at amirah's grill at bugis with the primary school friends. thanks to nurul, i believe! she got the whole thing all planned out nicely! haha and the various surprises i got along the way was cool. played games and ate great food, and had a blast of a time! special thanks to the primary school friends for the fun! and the presents too!

haha seriously, i've never gotten so many presents before. i got 4 on the day itself. i think i'm supposed to get 4 more next week. wow, that totals up to 8 already. not too bad for some freak like me. haha. so i shall wait, it's okay. it's really nice at least when someone actually bothers to do up something or get something for you. this must be the most meaningful birthday ever. unlike in 2004, when i actually came to school during the september holidays to mug away. then in 2005, i was in camp, running 7km as part of training, and never dared to tell anyone it was my birthday in case i got sabotaged! haha. thn last year, 2006, was spent fixing up the new computer components on a rainy day at home! at least this year it was properly celebrated i guess?haha.

so special thanks to these people - ayu, kent, shahidah, clare, fabian, liz, izy, sahibah, my political science tutorial class!, nura, yenlin, jj, na'im, zuraimi, hanan, chong, shahril, rahman and juliana, vineson, jimmy, jihan, nurul, noriza, faizal, rushdy, hatta, yanny, ali, millah, haryati, joeann, taiwei, syamim, nasrul, and sarah - did i miss out anyone? i hope not. so long the list!!! and even more many thanks to the people who gave me gifts! so nice of you all to actually think of buying something for pathetic old yusri! haha.

truly a day actually worth remembering.