happy birthday to me

mingyang called and sang happy birthday 4 times. chengs came to my doorstep with 2 small cakes, each with baby tweety/taz/bugs on them, and a skirt she sewed herself and a pink clutch from topshop i still have no idea what i'm supposed to do with.

acbc surprised me at kbox with a cake and balloons strewn all over that they huffed and puffed themselves an hour prior to my arrival. and shorts and a top from cotton on that i mentioned i wanted but was contemplating whether i should spend on them. and a photo frame, pseudo ring binder style, with snapshots of us and me with each of them and individual messages.

boyboy got me a kimono top, purple chiffon and small pink&yellow flowers all over. in a shimmery midnight blue box from prints and a card that stipulates the 25 signs that u are ageing. i guessed its price spot on, $10.30. he was stunned. the message in the card stated with "my beloved sister!" and ended with "bye. boyboy". i teared as he predicted. the emo elder sister indeed

grace texted, as did steppy and michelle and cassie and weilong and chengs and xue ling and xiao jun and yen ling and daryk whose text read exactly: "AAARGGH! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAH!!! 22 ALREADY DAMN BIG LA!!! DU LAN AH!!!". i kid you not.and his premise - "So common for ppl to wish happy bdae wif a happy or congratulatory note. So to be different i used an angry one instead." rocks socks is the jc crush. hahaha

at midnight, i was bleary-eyed at my door to open it for chengs and missed wei long's call. he texted instead, and called again on birthday morning: "i know i alr texted u but just wanted to wish u happy birthday again."

mingyang called and sang happy birthday another 2 times. twice each in english and mandarin.

today, 2 days after my birthday, sarah, picking up my call to notify her of another lit assignment, was extremely worked up in her apology. apparently she thought it was 3 may cause her watch said may had 31 days but it doesn't. i don't exactly know how that works? but yea. she is hilariously hilarious.

papa, hui min, and boy boy sang me a birthday song on the evening of my birthday. the best, best way to spend my birthday.

i'm 22. it's been official for 2 days alr. haha. if i had to say 1 way in which i have truly changed in the days since my 21st birthday, it would be that honesty comes slightly easier now. not always, not for everything nor everyone, but slowly. and slowly surely means surely?

i truly wish you well. health, happiness, and your luxury for relaxed laughter and habitual eccentricity and coy relationships and all that jazz. but always, health and happiness most of all.