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Well. A quarter of a century plus one. Kind of hard to believe it but I guess everyone has to grow up. (:

I was actually recounting the past years on my way back home yesterday evening... how each year I would always have a bunch of people "making it my day", how I would always spoil their surprise plan... Haha. Then as I pondered I realise it's a challenge for myself personally to know that such moments won't come every year. We all grow up... and especially for this year - Have been taking a break off youth ministry and thus have not been with the people there regularly... and then it happens so that we're having the sabbatical week in school where many of the boys aren't exactly around. So yeah. Mentally prepared myself to know that it'll be a pretty quiet affair. Dear dear had actually treated me to TCC the day before. (:

I remembered on the way home on the bus that I had to buy toilet paper home... and so I went to the mall before heading home, bought the stuff and walked home pretty slowly, still recounting the past (haha)...

Walked to the traffic light junction just below my block. It was quite funny actually. Saw dear dear with Joe, Gid and Jerrold and said hi to them.

THEY LOOKED SO DISAPPOINTED.

I asked the three of them where they're headed. They said they're going on a date.

Seriously. I didn't plot to bump into them. It was really amusing... but I guess they never knew that my heart sprung with much joy the moment I saw them. (:

And so we went up home together. Went into my room... and realised that my corkboard has been decorated and filled with cards with notes. Yes. My dear dear knows my love language and went around getting people to write notes... 8)

I froze though, when 5 & 6 popped into my room with a cake. That meant a whole lot, much more that they could imagine. Not the cake, not the cake. Haha... man.

Thank you dear dear... and to Joe, Jerrold, Gid, 5 & 6: thanks for making my 26th birthday eve a really, very memorable one. :)

12am struck and I received an sms from gpp. He never fails to be the first one for the past years. :) Thank you for all that you are and for all that you've done in my life. :)

Dear dear sent the first msn msg. Hur hur. Thank you Eunice mei, Matty flower and Wee Shuen for the well wishes as well online! :)

Thank you to the following for your smses: Denis, Zhun Song, Timtam, Shaun, Dommi, Kenneth Tan, Nigel, Tim Seow, Alex, Willie, third aunt, Polodudeo, Si Heng, Paxton, Nicodemus, KelKoh... yup.

Apparently some people have been circulating smses in school... I wonder who. :| Haha...

Thank you dad for the well wish and the offer to have dinner - am stuck in evening lesson. Bleah bleah. Haha.

Rushed to my office room in the morning... wanted to send an urgent email before heading back for my ongoing course in school. It was unlocked as I didn't have the chance to lock it the day before. Rushed up the stairs, opened the door, and there I saw Leonard acting suspiciously in the room with the lights switched off. He hurriedly left the room without saying much.

Turned around and got a shock. The boys did up a board for me with messages written by some of them.

What to do. Heart f[m]elt man. (don't aww me)

Ended up spending some time to read the messages... 37 of them in all, around the number to make up slightly more than a class. The interesting thing is that the make up of those who wrote are pretty random... but yeah. You guys made my day.. thank you so much for the effort and the time! :) Shall take some shots of the board tomorrow and thank the individuals accordingly. :)

Typing all these at Plaza Sing's Starbucks before heading down for evening lesson... if not I'll never have the time. Yep... Thanking God for all of you. :) It's been a busy and weary period... but I know I'm never going through all these by myself. ;)