21st Bday Celebration! November 2, 2009
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Cheers and Happy Birthday to me!
It was sure a tiring day, though it was probably not because of the celebration but prior to it.
First had to wake up real early in the morning for a weekend, showered and put on some makeup (foundation, eyeliner, eyeshadow, lip gloss, hair cream) for the big day.
The first place I visited was the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple (not like I’m a buddhist or anything, I’m anti-religion in fact, just there because my parents wanted me to go) which was real hot and smoky, considering my allergic rhinitis and my attire. Actually, I was fine with everything mostly, until I met a monk who prayed for us. His prayers include rapping of some sutra or something, but that’s the minor issue. The big part was he tend to pat on the folks head with either his hand or his pot (whatever that is). And my hair was nicely styled in the morning, ALL got terribly flattened :S
Well, after that, I traveled to the restaurant to make some arrangements of the seats and stuff. Soon after which, people came at different times, such as Melvin during dessert and Mervyn when everyone finished eating. And some didn’t come at all, Susy came out with some random thing and wasn’t coming lol and the rest were kind enough to not answer their phones.
But overall, things went fine, though I had hoped to get a larger crowd.
Amazingly though, the restaurant played the bday song thing and like the whole Bugis street heard lol, some guys downstairs cheered.
In the end, it was enjoyable, nice food (though a mite too small serving), chatted and caught up with many friends including long lost ones like Fiona, Dr Ian Chen came, but kinda had no time to take a photo with him.
Some photos I got are below.
More pictures at the facebook album:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=131508&id=668821497&l=720c51669d&subject=21st Bday @ Seafood Harvest
Other than that, received loads of presents, in fact, I have never received so many presents in my life before. And quite happy with the items (will post pictures soon I hope).
Well, I’m now 21 of age now. A wonderful world of possibilities and responsibilities lay open to me now.
As of current, I’m preparing for my exams in 2 weeks time, my Annual Medic Proficiency test in a week’s time, and maybe finish my driving course in a month or two later.
On the sidelines, I’ll be opening a brokerage account soon for my trading at the same time figure out how to open a subway in my camp :p
Wish me luck folks!
Random Updates and Rambling October 11, 2009
Posted by hiiroki in Misc.Tags: cards, Magic the gathering, Zendikar, Zinc Bag
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A week or so back, my mum suggested for me to buy a sling bag as she thinks a backpack looks too school boy for me.
And so I went around to check out sling bags, considering my backpack seemed to have somewhat limited space, and a sling bag seemed to contain more volume although
My first choice was Crumpler, but for a small one, not saying a big one costs like a 100+, the few I wanted ranged about 170 to 300, kinda out of my budget at the moment.
My dear sis kindly recommended me Zinc bags as an alternative.
However, from reviews from random forums and stuff, i keep hearing about the poor durability of the bag, so kinda decided to skip the option.
So as a frequent ebay shopper and seller, i decided to look up ebay. I saw the Black Options back below selling for 15. Got it on CoD. Looked decent, though quite soft. (The black bag below)
However, on my fourth day on using it, when I just packed one of my textbooks, lecture notes, and some misc daily items, just as I got off the bus, one side of the sling snapped! A kid with his mum, got off the bus behind me said loudly, “Mummy, the korkor bag sling fly up, i think broken already”. To have the bag break in front of everyone :S Furthermore, i’m in a rush to go home to grab my labcoat for the night classes and had to repack everything. However, thankfully, it snapped when I was near home.
The next day, coincidently, the driver on duty, who had his bag bought from Zinc and used it for a couple of years give me his opinion on the Zinc bags and what to look out for and material to buy and stuff.
So I went the day after to look for another bag in Bugis, dropped by a Zinc store and selected a bag with a friend’s opinion (as my dress sense is kinda outdated :\) And got a bag for around 46. A little high on the price but, it kinda beats the Crumpler in the budgeting. (BTW is the brown bag below).
Afterwards, I went to meet kevin at Lot 1 Mall, to open a booster box and hopefully, getting into trading again to make a couple of bucks more to have some income.
Well, there rares we got are all above there.
Anyone interested in purchasing, do drop a comment with your quotes 
Unfortunately for now though, this is limited to Singapore only, as it is CoD.
Anyway, time to go, I really, do hope the new bag DO last quite long, i’ll really be bloody pissed if it broke again.
BioNews (10 Oct 09) October 10, 2009
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BioNews (02 Oct 09) October 2, 2009
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