My 21st Birthday Bash Part 1 - Having a party

Celebrated my 21st Birthday by opening a chalet at Costa Sands, Pasir Ris on 3rd March :) So.. how do you go about creating a party?

Create a poster (Courtesy of Pokzai)

 Create a facebook page and invite your friends.

Create a guestbook (Sunny and I created this from scratch!) and prepare party supplies and book a venue.

Okay remembered when I said I get a lot of photos where I have my eyes closed? I think you can see some here cos I only uploaded some.

So on that day, my mom bought my sisters, derald, cherelle and candy to the chalet to decorate first. Thanks all~ The room was U11 which was great because my birthday is on 11 March~~

Had some fun with the balloons by tying them all on Derald's slipper and walking around with it

I think everyone had some minutes taken off their life span trying to blow up and tie these helium balloons! Had a hard time as the balloons keep bursting randomly and scared the shit out of everyone. It looked lovely though~

Azlin and Wenkai came in earlier bringing bubble teas for everyone~ and everyone slack and chill and basically lazed around till evening!

Time to start BBQing~ And everyone sucked at starting the fire so it took some time~

Anyway when night fell and guests started coming, it got much more fun! Mom and bicky reached around evening bringing some food

Lol remembered ricky's disappointed face for not bring ketchup.. HAHAHA.

Pretty soon it was time to cut cake~ Cake was Rive Gauche's Guanaja. I always loved chocolate cakes so after reading some reviews on it and consulting some people, I decided to have it as a birthday cake. Major thanks for Azlin and Candy for bringing the cake over from tampines~ And apparantly it was good because cheeming and jim ate so much. Especially jim cos he shitted 4x! I didn't get to eat anything because I was quite sick that day and didn't have any appetite at all!

Sunny smiling in the background :)

Look at my closed eyes~

With Cheng Siong, Tingwen and Rebacca

 With mom and dad. Mom's eyes were closed in most of the photos so I guess I inherited this trait from her LOL

 Poly clique! Miss them loads - Hassay, Lilin and Nadirah! Couldn't recognise Has when she began wearing the tudong~

 Sunny and me~

Sunny and me again~ I have to thank sunny for putting his best effort to help me out even though he couldn't help plan for it because of his NS duties. He accompanied me eveywhere, running errands and telling me which shop to go to etc. Even on that day he was busily walking around, BBQ-ing food and even brought his PS3 here. And he didn't even sleep after coming here straight after bookout <3

Eric and me. Friends since 1994~

The boys~ I have to thank Benson that day, for helping me deflate the balloons and got scared out of his wits cos the balloons kept bursting and confetti exploded in his face!! (yes my sisters and I stuffed those confetti in the balloons ONE BY ONE)

With Azlin, Cherelle, Jiawen and Candy~ Secondary school girls!

Auntie Sally and Mom. Got quite a lot of feedback saying they look alike! But no they are not related they are friends~ :)

Bicky! Thanks for buying food and drinks and cooking~

I have my sisters to thank for the MOST because they helped me out through the whole damn thing from scratch!! From thinking of ideas to googling for concepts to accompanying me in mustafa and buying party supplies~ <33333333  I have to thank derald for helping with the BBQ and driving us around~

 Thanks cherelle for helping out with the decorations~

Yes this is why he is my bf. Closed eyes FTW

Reb and me~ I was so damn happy to see her cos it's been a while and I really missed her a lot!!!!!

 Who's that at the back? My best guess is eric or wenkai

Candy~ Thanks for decorating and bring me icebox~ and also delivering the cake~

And thanks yvonne for my nails~ 

And my dad took a 20 second video of people milling around. So here you go:

 LOL cant see shit in this video cos most the people (the guys) were posing and taking photos~ You can see cherelle with her hands on her hips and candy inside looking a bit confused and donno where to go, my sisters, derald and bicky BBQ-ing, and reb talking to tingwen and chengsiong!

 I actually didn't expect anyone to stay.. but the guys ended up staying over together with Azlin and candy! Guys stayed up all night playing FIFA PS3 which sunny bought zzz my sisters were rolling around in bed while the rest went out and chit chat till next morning!

Didnt catch any sleep at all so when i reached home i immediately plonked onto my bed.

Presents from all my dear friends!

All in all I'm truly thankful to those who came. And for those who tried but couldn't make it - thank you for at least trying to come. I couldn't understand the hype about opening parties and if you asked me about the idea of opening one back in jan, I would definitely say no. But I get it now. It's not the presents, not about the attention (in fact not a big fan of it), but it's just comforting, the fact that all these people came for you. It made me feel warm in the heart and while I cannot deny that I had second thoughts about cancelling it while I was preparing, I was glad I didnt. I am so indescribably happy! I really want to thank everyone for making it to my 21th mark in life and thanks for celebrating with me. I love you guys. Cheers to friends and family.

PS: I'll blog about part 2 soon~

Turning 21

Im turning 21.... in about 2 hours.

I dont know what to feel really, or what to say. But I felt a need to sit and blog about it.

What was I expecting really? There's not gonna be a difference between 11.59pm to 12am.. right?

Except the fact that Im 21? Im so ironic..

Anyway, now that Im turning 21, which is a symbol to adulthood ( i guess), I hope to see things... a little bit more clearer. Not literally duh, but i want to be more focused, or to able to see clearer for my future. That way I can find out what I truly want and go for it.

Now, I feel like I am focused in terms of my education, but i dont exactly feel sure or know what I want or where I should be in the future. I feel like im just in the midst of everything that is about to come later. Yes I am confused too. Things make sense now.. but not exactly.

I don't like this feeling although I must admit it is easy to sink into something like that. Call it a limbo, perhaps? It's like a feeling of nothingness. I want to do something about it. I wanna make plans.. get busy, plan for this future that everyone seems to already be there. But aren't I getting ready for future right now? So at the end of the day... where am I exactly?

I look at the people around me and sometimes I think to myself 'What am I doing now?' but then what shouldn't I be doing that I am already doing now? I wanna work as hard as they are, to fight for something. A goal, a future. To have that spark which ignites you to do all that. I feel that my fire's dying..

Maybe these are all symptoms of being unproductive. Haven't exactly been quite keen on what I am supposed to do. But my self-discipline in me is gonna get cracking soon. Im gonna start what I should have been doing next week.. after Im done celebrating tomorrow.

Or maybe this is the feeling you get when you are not motivated. Ah I hate it.

I guess it's something I must find out for myself. Not even the fact that you are growing older can do something about it. And I think I like it that way.

Highlights of Candy's 21st

Candy turned 21 and held a birthday party at a chalet, Aloha Loyang! The theme was bright colours so you could see shades of yellow, orange, pink here and there. I went early and helped out with the decorations. Guests started coming when the sky turned darker, and pretty soon the house was filled with laughter and chatting sounds! Candy ordered a catering booth so everyone was well fed. There was also BBQ at night and I was so darn full.

LOL look at me. I tend to do this 'closed eye' thing so darn often. Watch out in future posts. Oh and look at the myriad of colours! So darn colourful makes the photos look so damn vibrant! And oh my shirt I borrowed from Eric. Couldn't find anything brighter than his shirt.

We were the early birds!

With Chloe. She is so cute she was helping out, blowing balloons and all.

See. Dammit my eyes 又来了!

Chilling in one of the rooms with friends. Candy's younger relatives would pop by and climb the top bunk. Which scares me because the handle bars are loose and i was so afraid they would fall off!

 

Ricky chilling with the granny

Pretty soon it was time to cut the cake~ The cake was gorgeous, a two tier custom made cake with a lovely shade of pink with stars~ It was accompanied by pretty cupcakes which candy baked on her own! The cake also had a rainbow interior!

All of candy's presents behind her all her photos, from her being a toddler to a 21 year old adult :)

I had a blast that day. From helping out with her decorations, to hanging out with friends, eating, and the thought of just getting people together for a celebration just makes me happy and erases any negativity. I must say, the party turned out to be very successful! I left that day at 1am plus, but came back the next day with Ricky for late night talks, watching running man before waking up next day for check out.

Happy birthday dear girl :)

Happy 4th Year!

 

(Taken 3-4 years ago)

Time flies, and we've reached our 4th year mark. It's truly a blessing to have someone like him go through 4 years with me. Glad to say that I am truly truly happy. I guess being in a relationship means falling in love with the same person over and over again, often finding different reasons to love the same person, being happy all the same. It has been for 4 years, but I feel like we are a happy young couple who just got together. Really grateful for someone like him to give me 4 years of 'Sunny' days. I hope this continues all the way.