私の誕生日

what can get better than this? XD
十二国記公式アニメガイド！
this ranks 1st. (thanks ling! thanks jonasan!)
next is my erhu, which is my 2001 birthday present from mum and ah ma and cost $290.

i got "ella enchanted" (from a book by Gail Carson Levine)(not sure about the order) from yume, and "Helen the baby fox" (子ぎつねヘレン) from my imouto. like cool! 've been wanting to watch them. xoule gave me the usual: a bar of toblerone. tradition, he says. mail from uncle gerd: a beautiful butterfly card with €30 tucked neatly inside a mini envelope on the cover. had a pink shirt from junie and a cute card with the grey bear (whatsitcalled?), there even a sticker on the envelope that reads "がんばったね" (ganbatta ne).
みんなさん、本当にありがとう！　(minna san, hontouni arigatou!)

been slacking the whole day. after leaving school, i popped down to bras brasah to get 千斤 for my 二胡. the inner string broke a few days ago, and the 千斤 has certainly seen better days. alighted at bugis, took a gander around bugis street(?) for hair accessories, and detoured to the library, before actually stepping through the doors of karl heng enterprise. i didn't know which to get; the softer one or the more durable 千斤, the person recommended the hardier one (which cost $2 more) and i erm, obliged. [soft=$1, hard=$3]
downstairs, at the ground floor of bras basah complex, i was accosted by this young lady trying to get me to donate to a certain "New Hope Community Services", and while she was babbling away in rapid mandarin why i should hand $10 to her, i was looking at the green card, eyes scanning it for all the information i need. oh well, when i walked away from bras basah, i was one ($10) note lighter, suddenly regreting my decision to part with my cash and hoping fervently that it wasn't just some bogus charity organisation.

父と母 started their char kway teow business downstairs that afternoon. it was totally weird seeing my parents inside the stall, tending to customers. just downright weird.

overall, it was a good day. but i forgot to make a wish. wonder if it's still valid. hm... world peace?