ToAnyone

Ohmy....less than one week to the end of 2014. 

Can no longer call myself 21 :(
sad coz *highpitch* my birthday was just 2 months ago TT.TT
okay enough with the whining, time to grow up!

Just wanna dedicate this post to all the people who made my 21st Birthday a memorable one.
Despite being away from home, I felt so much love. Thanks a lot. 

Never really given much thought about being 21 until I see people throwing parties to celebrate their 21st. My facebook newsfeed has this constant flow of Birthday party photos since the beginning of this year. All sorts of themes they had, Elegant, Princess, JamesBond, PJs...etc etc

I even received invitations from secondary school friends who I'd lost contact with...so you can imagine, the guest list must be long haha...Haizzz wanted to attend their parties since it would be great to catch up, but too bad I was already in Singapore. 

Anyways yea, all those party can't help to make me wonder what a great deal a 21st birthday is, even my brother threw a party back then I remember coz all his friends thought I'm his elder sister when I was only 17. Yes I do felt kinda envy to those who threw glamorous parties, with beautiful cakes, fancy balloons and decorations, guests in pretty outfits...telling the whole world that they're a grown up now. But well, I realize I'm more like those people who can be happy for a long time just because their family and friends sent them a birthday wish. Yes, to me, it's the thought that counts! Even more so ever since I studied in Singapore. 

Anyhow, despite being away from home, I still had an awesome time!! Really wanna say million thanks to all these people for putting in effort to celebrate my 21st! Why? coz I did not send any invitation, I didn't prepare any fancy cakes, I didn't decorate my room...they all did it for me! TT.TT seriously never expected to get this much love. Thanks a lot peeps!

So, the first surprise came exactly on the first hour of my birthday hehe...
Was out with the MSA excos for an event at Haji Lane. 

Didn't expect anything until two of them kept asking to go to my hall's washroom. haha...
Sorry for my attempt to ruin the plan by taking them to another washroom away from my block haha...

yeap my subconscious expected it, but my usual pessimist me told me to not expect so much. Opened the door only to find my room in darkness, and the next second they started singing the birthday song haha... "I knew it!" I thought, and the next second, joy was filling up inside me, and my cheeks were gonna burst haha. My desert gang, econs gang and msa excos..well pretty much the closest friends I have in NTU were there. 

Love all the photos that they put on (yes including my own selfie haha)

It's great that I can always have a look at these people before I go to bed every night haha...okay sounds creepy...

and thumbs up for the present, they know what to buy for a 21 girl. 

but I love the card more, it's a Pokemon themed message book

So cute.

They even brought red wine! oh ya, afterall they are all elder than me LOL
time to grow up and sip some alcohol
played the wolf-game till 3 in the morning (and one of them have quiz next morning)!
so much laughter! Really appreciate their effort TT.TT  

Had a great start of my birthday!

stayed in room for the whole day. Was suppose to go out with my dear 4-in-love, but exam was near and I had a meeting in the morning the next day, so it was called off. Had dinner with the roomie and bought a small cake for dessert, but since we had candles and lighter, why not blow another candle haha! Then I realize, none of my CP member wished me, not even my closest sister in CP. :( haha, but my worries gone away when I saw a spoiler message in our CP chat! Thanks to our noobkia VC who accidentally disclosed the surprise plan. Well I tried to act normal anyways heheh... 

with the roomie! Thanks for staying over the weekend instead of going home just to celebrate my birthday. 

Heard the doorknock, and ta-dah this bunch invaded my hall

yes invaded. coz after singing the birthday song, some started asking for wifi password, some started watching football, changed my desktop background, scribbled bday wishes on my notes, inspected my room summore, We ended up watching an episode of runningman, just to get some ideas for FOC (CP syndrome)

The present...

totally speechless haha

"Real friends care about your weight and buys you a weighing scale." -- Carmen

why not buy me a gym membership? haha just kidding :P

Next day, Earthlink's Monthly Meeting. If there was no meeting, I would have gone back home for the weekend. Haha maybe I should thank them or else I won't get to eat so many cakes haha...Anyways, just when I thought it would just be another LONG meeting which I yawned every 30 seconds, as usual, went dabao for lunch, came back, sat down. Then suddenly 2 of them stood in front of me, asking me this and that. The moment they walked away I saw a cake coming haha... Thumbs up for trying to distract me LOL 

Really didn't expect this, I'm glad that they actually remembered and slot this in the meeting.  

I bet everyone was busy, but still thanks, for spending a few minutes to sing me a song! Hope we'll have a great year ahead!

And yeap, a new week started. In fact, it's the start of the mugging month! Everyone would have entered into the Mugging Mode. But lucky enough, another 2 surprises were waiting for me. Yes I was really surprised coz I wasn't expecting people to still celebrate bday after so many days, plus it's mugging month! Celebrating birthday might be on the bottom of the to-do list. 

It was a Thursday. My usual routine would been having brunch, then go to lecture all the way till evening. But on that very day, I skipped all my lectures to get SU's goodie bag at noon, and supposedly have 5 hour breaks before my compulsory korean class. My usual self would have gone home, but then, a very fun game booth captured my attention and I stayed in uni until 3 something, while I should have gone back at around 1pm. Funny enough, my phone battery died and I was pretty much OFFLINE from everyone. What I didn't know was, all these were going to ruin a surprise waiting for me at my room LOL. 

I was so addicted to the game booth and didn't want to leave, but I guess thanks to the fact that my battery died, I had to go back to hall. Opened the door, and these people were waiting for me haha....Epic surprise! The first thing I asked was "You guys waited for so long?" 

Yes they waited and were struggling with the fact that they couldn't find me at all and not knowing what time I will be back. After calling many friends of mine, they managed to track down my location at the very last minute. I was already walking back to hall LOL. haha seriously didn't see that coming. 

Wanna say a big big thanks to these girls for insisting to celebrate my birthday despite it has passed. As i mentioned, we were suppose to have dinner but I changed the date coz I had meeting on the next day. And a bigger thanks to the cakes, gifts, food and also the super thoughtful card with many photos and sincere wishes  

Yeap, not just cake, but drinks and Chawanmushi as well.
They really are trying to throw a party. 

Sorry girls, If I had came back earlier, we could have more time to party!

The cake that looks fabulous!

Those who read my blog or knows me would definitely heard of this 3 girls. They are my closest friends in NTU, I like to consider them as family. Coz as much as I hate the things they do (okay there's nothing I really hate), I still love them heheh...They just bring so much joy to me, and are super kind people who always help me out. Can't imagine the next semester without them TT.TT

Oh there's one thing I hate, they need to stop saying they are bad luck for me. Seriously, how?
These girls just don't know how precious they are. 

真的从来没有遇见像你们酱好玩又真挚的朋友。

我们四个，各有各的缺点和让人受不了的地方。可是，很感恩我们已经是到那种可以理解和接受大家的缺点，和珍惜大家的优点的友情。喜欢可以在你们面前不爽就说出口。虽然将来可能会聚少离多，但是还是希望我们能成为大家的靠山。

To many years of sisterhood to come!

Love the handmade card!! They even made a section for my future boyfriend to fill in wtf lol

Killed the films with them hehe...

At the same night, had my last subcomm meeting for the semester. Was doing review and debrief. I did everything asap coz I know it's mugging month and I want to let them go home early. Some of them even had quiz on the next day! But what I didn't know was, they weren't gonna let the night end early LOL

My meetings always have sharing session. It was mugging period, so I thought there's no need for sharing session until Gary suddenly informed me that my subcomm have prepared one. 

Clueless, I wondered what the topic was about. Smelled something fishy when the topic was related to some picture-guessing, with clues like Car, Door, Happy...
and yea the final message was...Carmen Happy Birthday wtf!

Sounds like nonsense but it's a creative surprise! wished I know better words to describe it haha

Thanks a lot to them! For willing to sacrifice their mugging time to celebrate my birthday with me. Had snacks and drinks, and a small sharing session as well. Btw, they even brought their own containers to eat the cake (instead of using disposables)!! Yeap, my subcomms are awesome!!

Then one week later, 2 weeks before exam. Had dinner with my mother OG-mates! Just a small gathering, but I loved meetings with them, coz it will remind me all the goodtimes we had in FOC. As usual, our best but bullied GL yaoyao went out to buy dinner for us!! Gamdong die me! He had to carry so many things, but he's like stick thin :( 

anyways, had a nice dinner, chatting with the bunch. Then suddenly a cake came out and I thought it was for Joash whose birthday is coming haha

Really gamdong coz, the fact that they still bought a small cake, and still sang the bday song to me (eventhough it's already so long time ago) is already enough to make me feel so happy. 

We still shared the cake despite it's size! Mother OG love LOL

Throwback to the early celebration with the October babies of FOC Maincomm

we were all wearing blue shirts! what a coincidence haha

I'm not trying to show off here, but really just wanna remind myself, how lucky I am, to have people who care about you despite being away from home. I don't know if we'll still be as close as we are right now in 10 years time, but I know the memories you guys gave me will always be treasured for the rest of my life. I'm just grateful, for all the things that you guys did, no matter how small it is. Yes I'm also saying this to all the people who wished me, bought me presents, it's really the thought that counts. Thank you guys! 

Now I think I really should make a list of birthdays of my friends. I have bad memory, I hope they forgive me if i'd forgotten their bday. Will try my best to rmb hehe...

haha....one of the best parts...so many cakes!!

Presents from NTU family

owh yea...Young Hearts lol

The cute lil bear is from CM, haizzz really thank all of them for spending all the time and also money for my birthday. Really appreciate it. 

21 - ToAnyone
I'm a lucky girl.
And will do my best, to love life and be a nice person to others' life.