On birthdays and graduation
It's been a while since I left New Paper - truly an amazing place to work - and graduated with merit...and well..today I turn 22. Soon I'll be off on a whirlwind vacation, will thereafter be packing and re-settling and soon finding a new, decent job in a new place. Life as I know it right now, as I sit typing this 131st entry within the quaint, cool and surreal study (which belongs to my dad) shall (perhaps) never be the same again.
So I'm taking some time off on this day when I was born over two decades back, to record my feelings and mark them (perhaps for a long time to come) on cyber space.

- Last friday I attended my own graduation. The three years at Ngee Ann were good, they taught me a lot of things and I'm quite satisfied with the overall result, perhaps the vegetarian food on the graduation dinner menu could have been better...But yeah..it was closure all right and armed with the photographs (even one of me dropping the blessed empty scroll box with Kenneth Tan trying to save it) I know I have preserved some laughter and smile-worthy memories.

- Today I attended my brother's high school graduation - a seemingly low-profile ceremony - but the liveliness of the close to 80 students from myriad countries including Iran, Israel and the UAE made it much more colourful than my own.

- Today I also turn 22...but I don't feel it one bit. Indeed if my mother's words are to be marked "Congrats on turning 6!" hahaha...for parents their children are always young..I guess. Tommorrow I'm looking forward to a fun time with friends who have made my years in Singapore worth cherishing...For those who could not make it...we'll always have facebook!

Thanks all for the b'day wishes..I shall reply to each one soon..and congrats to the graduating batches of 2008..Here's some food for thought I picked up from bro's graduation today:
"Good judgements come from experience, but experience often comes from bad judgements!"

Throw your caps, feel the freedom, make your mistakes, LEARN from them and therein make your life better.