Birthday Surplize

My very 'self-important' 21st wish list;

1. Film Camera; FUJI Natura Classica, Canon A-E1, Contax T3 or Yashica Fx 3.

2. Camera lens; Canon EF 50mm f18 autofocus lens.

3. A decent pair of earphones, and I mean decent above $79.90 earphones. No shoddy $19.90 ones please. Better do your research. (Oh my,I sound like a demanding arse.LOL)

4. A bicycle.

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I hate having to have a 21st. Or to be more exact, the expectations that comes with it. Ah well, best to get it over and done with.

Hellllooo Februaryyyyyy;



My CNY was spent mostly at Kluang with my mom's side of the family. The gambling, partying, firecrackering lot of old hip people. I went to sleep with a tummy full of beer for 2 nights straight so I guess it could have been worse.


Firecrackers! The kids got traumatized while the men(&I) had the time of our lives lighting stuff up and seeing them explode while running for our lives. One firecracker that cost $300 sounded like a tank going off and made the fire alarm in the house go off cause it was that loud.



After consecutive meals of restaurant food, this meal become everyone's salvation. 2 pots of bakut metamorphosized into 4 pots and we would have ordered more but the restaurant had actually ran out of meat.





Back in SG;
Horse-racing day!
The set-up. We take gambling seriously.


& the players!



I was walking on some special cloud that day and everyone was jealous. The memory of all that money won still makes me smile up till now. If only everyday could be like that. Hah.

From a letter of Lewis Carroll's (he who wrote Alice in Wonderland) to a young admirer;

I am so sorry, and so ashamed! Do you know, I didn't even know of your existence! And it was such a surprise to hear that you had sent me your love! I felt just as if Nobody had suddenly run into the room, and given me a kiss! (That's the thing which happens to me, most days, just now.) If I only I had known you were existing, I would have sent you heaps of love, long ago. And, now I come to think about it, I ought to have sent you the love without being so particular about whether you existed or not. In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people who do. For instance, people that don't exist are never cross: and they never contradict you: and they never tread on your toes! Oh, they're so much nicer than people who do exist! However, never mind; you can't help existing, you know....

(22 May 1891)

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To Wenyan & Joey who laughed at me over the phone just now. (inside joke) EH EH EH, no birthday better, not stupid hor. Ok, end of uncouth moment. Isn't he just so marvelously whimsy though? Rambling and wondering on like that. People should learn to not take themselves so seriously.