Gerri is now 21.... yippee. ^_^

Was quite surprised when the few people who were still at Rag till late last night bought me a small cake and sang "Happy Birthday" for me... thankew thankew. :)

Ivan, James, kor, Beatrice, Chong Han, jie and Pam, thanks for your birthday wishes via SMS... :D Beatrice especially; considering we haven't seen each other ever since we left secondary school, I'm honoured, flattered, gladdened and ever so appreciative of the fact that you remember and still wish me happy birthday every year. :)

Kor, sorry I couldn't have lunch with you today... another day, yep? Maybe when we go to Ikea to buy my hall furniture, we'll have a Swedish meatball lunch, haha. :D (Oh, and Yuimin tells me that there's an Ikea sale going on now! Or something like that. :P)

Henry, thank you for all the trouble that you went to to arrange dinner (Weiquan told me you were jio-ing people haha); however, I have to celebrate with family, so maybe another day? :) Thank you so much for the thought, though... :)

And all the archery people, thank you for the whole blog of 21st birthday wishes!! :D


An overview of presents I've recieved:

There's my lovely baby, my IBM T60 laptop which is a present from my parents...

My aunts gave me a necklace with a key pendant:




Pam gave me a lovely seal and wax set (the kind you use for sealing letters) and two Kinokuniya book vouchers:




My little sister got me a lovely blue pair of Surfer's Paradise shorts (I find I quite like Surfer's Paradise's shorts... I've accumulated three pairs in the space of about one and a half months, haha.)





And this is the present I got from the new archery exco...


More Kino vouchers!! :D

$50 worth of them this time! $70 worth of vouchers altogether... Gerri is so gonna go on a book-shopping spree. XD


And then there's this pretty little thing Weiquan made for me, haha:


It's a pen made with the shaft of one of my damaged carbon arrows. :) May not look like much to most people, I guess, but I think it's pretty cool. :D This one's too short, so I couldn't have fletches on it, otherwise I wouldn't be able to write with it. Next time I think we'll make a longer one. Then I can put fletches on it. :D


If you haven't seen my 21st birthday wishlist blog yet...

Here's what's on it. The original idea was to have 21 items on the wishlist, but even till today, there're still 3 empty spaces. But a friend told me that apparently 21st birthday wishes are still good for about a week after the date of the birthday, and I accept belated birthday presents! :D (I get a little more thick-skinned everyday, I think. :P)


1. A sling bag (preferably something that can double up as a school bag during semester time)

2. Running shoes; the ones I'm eyeing are a pair of Asics Gel-DS Trainers. I'm hoping to go running once a week once I move into hall; it's something I've always wanted to do, and hopefully I'll actually get to doing it and not be lazy, haha. :P

3. Deutschland jacket

4. Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" (I realise that this story usually comes packaged with others, so it's all right if you get me something like "Metamorphosis and other stories". As long as there's "Metamophosis" in it.)

5. Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita"

6. Vladimir Nabokov's "Pale Fire"

7. Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children"

8. Bertrand Russell's "In Praise of Idleness" (Routledge has a nice compilation of this and his other essays; that cover is actually the one I'm eyeing. :P)

9. One volume (of ten) of Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman" series. (If you're feeling generous, you could buy me all ten. XD)

10. A laptop soft carry-case. (((I've got this one already. :D)))

11. Earphones; the kind which really "plug" into your ears and block out all sound.

12. Jewellery; a choker, maybe? I'd like one of those wide ones made of cloth and sparkly beads...

13. A new pair of Havaianas! :D

14. A new pair of jeans, and this time, maybe one with some pattern on them. :)

15. A nice blouse I can use for formal or semi-formal occasions.

16. A pair of shoes! A pair of ballet flats would be nice; practical for semi-formal occasions.

17. Since I'll need a new set of arrows after the NJC shoot.... XD Anyone wants to pool money to get Gerri a new set of Carbon Flash arrows? Spine weight 750-14, fletches are blue spin-vanes, nocks are green outset nocks. XD

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21. As an inside joke between kor and me, number 21 is a wish for a boyfriend. Haha... :P


I wish Life were full of days like these. ^_^...