목요일, 2월 05, 2004
right now, ladies and germs, i'm supposed to be doing the reading for my eu tutorial tomorrow, but alas and alack, here i am blogging away about my birthday, which was one of the best that i've had ever since i was young enough to still have a macdonald's party. (what am i talking about, obviously no one is ever too old to have a macdonald's birthday party. look at lex! just kidding lex)

the day started out good, what with it being a wednesday and all, and the text messages that came through from the early hours of the morning wishing the 'ah soh' happy birthday would have been more than enough to put a smile on my face. my parents and kz rang up to say hi and many happy returns of the day, which was really wonderful, hearing their voices again. to be honest, whispering a birthday song to me in lecture (thanks renu) was a pushing the packet a little, but it was sweet all the same.

dinner at medici's was nice; i never knew that sitting at the head of the table could be so fun. there was a surprise birthday cake from faiza, and lots of presents from everyone, all of which were absolutely wonderful, words fail to describe them. (the absinthe was... nice, george. it's got trophy space on my shelf) the time when i spent undoing the various wrapping paper was the time when my heart really started to ache because i didn't want to undo the hours of wrapping that everyone went to. *sniffle* the cleaning lady just came in brusequely today to take out the trash, and that was the end of the unfortunate wrapping paper. i really didn't want to say bye to it, but i had made such a mess of it it would only serve to remind me of the lousy present-unwrapper that i am.

we went to hatfield's bar, which in my opinion looked a little bit like pat's schoolhouse, but martin didn't take offence, i hope. stayed there till it was time to go to the dsu. it was one kind of a mad crush when we did get there, but heck. the music was good, and the company was great. i enjoyed that.

to cut a long story short, it was one of the best times that i've had in a long time, and being queen for a day wasn't too bad. heck, i didn't even mind not being a teen anymore. (sorry you guys if you didn't want me to mention you. i just love you all too much!) having deep and meaningfuls with martin, telling jem what a great guy he is, walking home with george, reading yuta's message, watching adaeze shake her groove thang on stage (you should have won!), cordelia and her great moves, seeing faiza let down her hair (figuratively) and grooving to the music, upping my social rep just by standing next to renu, dancing with arvin (although teasing me today wasn't too nice!), playing the game with christine, spying on ivan (haha, riverside cafe remember?), watching carmen shine, seeing natalie in her gorgeous outfit, having neche over at the last minute, having nick around, witnessing anthony's multi-linguistic abilities and mary's beautiful personality, everything was perfect to the last detail. i can't thank everyone enough for making the night so beautiful.

well, that's it then. the first day of being 20. i dreamt of nothing much, but i guess there's lots more to look forward to.