不远处有一片土 站了一棵枯的树

过了好几天，我想也该想到过后了。

转了又转，也总会有到站的一天。

因为有了适当的结论，所以想重新开始，却不知道可以重新开始到个舍麽样的程度。

开始走吧。

About the 21st

I had my 21st Birthday gathering yesterday!
I never used the word party cause it wasn’t one and I didn’t want to give the impression that it will be a real happening exciting bash-of-the-yr kind of thing. So it was a gathering and not a party.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who managed to come down and I hoped all of you enjoyed the gathering! =)

I suppose everything went quite smoothly and I am super happy that it didn’t rained and no other disaster of significant proportion occurred during the event. Still, I must admit there were some screw-ups and less-than-satisfactory results here and there haha.

I started receiving notices of people not-being-able-to-make-it ever since morning and it was quite worrying to see how the numbers seem to be climbing so quickly as the day went on. It seems like so many people are feeling sick at the same time and I suppose 10 over people didn’t turn up in the end.

To be honest, I probably spent the most amount of time on doing the playlist. It was really really tedious trying to cut down the number of songs to keep within the time frame of 5h and I spent like how many days and weeks (intermittently) sieving through the songs and timing and retiming it haha. In the end, it was a little messed up on the actual day due to some delays and all that. Oh well, I don’t really suppose anyone really listened to it properly anyway haha. Did anyone notice the segment with “晴天 - 一颗苹果 – Journey - 如烟 - 红豆”? That was supposed to be one of the most significant and my favourite segment of the entire playlist haha.

The guestbook went well I suppose, although i think some people didn’t manage to sign on it haha. I wonder how many people noticed the ferris wheel on it and ever wondered why its there (same for my guestbook event page) =)

Personally, I thought the food and cake were a little over but that’s that haha. I didn’t really touch much of the food and cake at all during my birthday gathering.

Decor didn’t work out very well in the end but that’s what you get for deciding to try something out-of-the-norm. It would have been better if I have gotten more lightsticks but I didn’t really want to spend that much haha. I think some people didn’t even notice I had pictures pasted on the 4 pillars near the gates haha.

I was hoping my guests would bring along their cameras and snap lots of photos among themselves cause I know I wouldn’t have enough time to hang around and interact with everyone. I probably should have brought my camera with me and take some pics at the same time but that would be really quite cumbersome and tedious for me. I decided I am probably going to look really unglam in lots of photos but yeah, its abit too late to change anything now.

I am SUPER happy with my presents =) Thanks everyone for the excellent presents! (I admit that I mixed up all the presents subsequently and forgot who gave me what haha)

Right now, I’m feeling quite lazy to deal with the aftermath of my 21st birthday gathering. I haven’t gotten my photos yet and I don’t really feel like doing anything much.

Its actually still my birthday right now but I don’t feel anything about it. To be honest, I don’t really think much of turning 21 and its more of just an excuse to have a meet-up with everyone and do something relatively unforgettable. After the “uproar” yesterday, I just wanted to have a peaceful time by myself to do random meaningless stuff today. Not-happening is my trait and I love to indulge in it, even if its only for a while.

Once more, Happy 21st Birthday to myself!

EQ

I can’t say that I hate, but I must admit I do find it extremely annoying when I come across people with horrible EQ or tact. I secretly hope that I’m not perceived to be one of those kind by the people around me. There are instances when things should go unsaid and deeds should go undone. Granted, there are some instances when things aren’t really that clear cut but then I believe a little common-sense and alertness can do wonders at preventing those awkward situations. Sometimes, you really should try to pre-empt and imagine the inconvenience and embarrassment others may feel due to your inappropriate words/actions. This is like becoming one of those moral ed lectures so I think I should just stop here haha.

Anyway, for my case, I always pick and choose my words carefully (especially when I’m typing/writing) And 75% of the time, the usage or non-usage of my words, tend to have certain implications behind them. Somehow, it works like those disclaimer in fine print you can find almost everywhere. And I really do appreciate those who are able to read their way through my words and work out the implications behind them.  Though I must admit sometimes, its really more for my own understanding and in my own context such that outsiders wouldn’t be able to grasp anything at all.

It was really annoying when I was forced to change my plans abruptly due to some accidental blunders by other people, even though I chose and picked my words carefully and even hinted it beforehand. But still, I guess some people just couldn’t get it and yeah I suppose I can’t blame them for not being careful enough. Its abit like trying to accuse someone of being dense, which is really kinda lame and unreasonable.

I can sense that I’m starting to ramble so I better stop here haha.