Finally 18. Just got back from another 6h outing, but it was not mainly to celebrate my bday, but to attend the wake of one of the 6her's father, who passed away recently. Shall decline to name tt person but I think some of the TCHS ppl already know who it is. Anyway shall start from yesterday first. On friday the 6hers met n went jiahui's hse to celebrate her bday. Shan't go into the detail, all I wanna say is... nice house! I have a weakness for nice houses. Anyway this morning went math tution... so sad bday still gotta mug... but I finished one tutorial in tt session! Then went turf city to eat the delicious dim sum for lunch with my mum. dad was overseas visiting my brother who was studying in london. After tt I went home n naped till 3 plus before heading to meet the 6hers again. This year's bday sure is diff for me. Not much celebration, and even the irony of confronting death on the day I was supposedly born. Anyway doing the same thing every year isn't exaclty very meaningful so I guess having something diff is good and helps broaden your horizons. After reachin the place where the wake was held, we handed over a sum of money tt the 6hers had contributed to and gave it to the mother. Shan't say the amount but it is pretty big and everyone contributed a same amount tt more than 20 each. Anyway just sat there and ate peanuts and talked, and talked about alot of lame stuff tt I shan't elab. Later had dinner and then attended the service which I have abit to talk about.

postnote: I edited abit of the post due to the sensitivity of the issue, but you can refer to teng's blog, http://dingz.diaryland.com for I kinda agree with him to a great extent.

The sing-song part was ok, but it is the preaching part tt puts me off. I admit it was abit boring but besides that, the preacher(or wadever u call him) started talking all sorts of irrelavent stuff. He started saying why we should belive in god, blah blah, and worse of all... started talking about his own life. Great. Who wants to hear your life story. He started talking about how he was in the gangs, how he killed ppl but was nvr convicted cuz of lack of evidence or something(then wats he doing here? arrest him!), and how he in jail n got to know christainity... I mean pls loh, this is NOT a sermon, it is a wake. We are here to remember someone else tt is not you, so cut the crap about your life story. This kind of things always happens. Alot of this Christain wakes always end up with the preacher talking about something totallly irrelavant and also pushing Christianity. It is so insensitive lah... to me it is as good as an insurance agent selling policies at a wake. I cannot stand this kind of people. Actually I have nothing against christainity, only all this people who talk as if they bear the message of god. Christianity, I believe has been so twisted and manipulated by man tt most of its original meaning is lost. Ok so anyway I listened to about nearly an hour of crap by the preacher before we toured the coffin, shaked hands with the family n left. By the time we left it was lyk, 9.30. We had been there lyk, from 4.30, so tt makes it 5 hrs. Hmm spent my bday at a wake... definately something new. I wouldn't call it a waste fo time definately. After all, tt 6her is my friend and I guess we should just be there to give him support. Hope he remains strong.

Yah happy bday to me anyway. here are ppl I know tt are born on this day:
1) Samuel Ong's younger brother... called ming zhen
2) Sheena, another 6her currently in joseph's class
3) Arnold Palmer... some fashion guy rite?
4) Kirsten Dunst... the gal from spiderman!
and ppl hu died today... Adolf Hitler! Cool... but I have seen a documentry tt suggests he might not actually have died but escaped to Argentina.

In conclusion, today was not what I would call a normal birthday... but let's hope I dun have too many more of such bdays... u noe wad I mean.

Oh no almost forgot to thank ppl. To my 04s75 classmates who got me presents... my other friends (lyk the wushu ppl esp eunice for the choker) who wished me happy bday... and in order of thosed hu smsed me(i copy jiahui) ... jiahui, teng, carine, samuel, liyu, rich(yurs was the bday cake u drew on my notes), stacy, weilin, joyce, yaqi. Also to aloyteo, jian an, matt, herbert, weidi, shiwei, elaine, serene and not forgetting 6hers! thanks to teng, jiahui(again!), xinyi, huixian, andy, yisheng, yichao, weiling, suying, xinhui, kim, shiwei and kellie! thanks alot ppl! you all made this year's birthday such a great one! And sorrie to anyone tt I might have missed out... do tell me if I happen to forget to mentioned anyone. now tt I am one year older, I wonder what this will bring... wadever it is, let's hope it's good. =)