It's hard to believe that I am now a quarter of a century old! Back when I was in primary school, I used to draw all the time and I would always draw girls. I loved depicting them from infancy, school years, getting married, having children, right up to them in their old age. It was also very important to me that I tagged each drawing with their ages. For whatever reason, the girls I drew always got married at 25! And so it was a little disappointing for the little Jacq in me that I am still nowhere near being married.
As always, I planned my own birthday celebration and it was just a quiet lunch on the day itself- but somehow I was lucky enough to have my birthday festivities stretch out over 4 days. The first day was the day before, on Friday, where I celebrated with my lab mates and finally got an ice cream cake after hankering after one since I was 11 ;)
Lunch on my birthday was at a Mongolian buffet place where you pick out raw ingredients and the chefs fry it up for you. It was really nice to get almost all of my close friends together and Rika made a surprise appearance, having happened to be in HK for the weekend. I had an interesting bouquet of broccoli from Julie and her husband, and they stuffed fish maw as the flower "stems".
I was supposed to have dinner with hall tutors that night but it got cancelled, and to be honest I was already feeling tired and enjoyed nothing more than tapao-ing some KFC and mini cakes to eat in my room, and I was happily in bed by 9pm!
On the next day we had a full day of inter-university futsal matches, *** during which I was sadly informed would be my last USF futsal match since the age limit is 25. We had more cake after though. Then we had more cake when Mika returned from...wherever she returned from.
***Due to the gross negligence on the part of the owner, this blog post (written over a year ago) has been sitting piteously in my drafts while I eventually turned 26. The previous paragraph has been finished off to the best of my memory. Anyway, here are pictures from my 26th birthday with a self-baked cake!
*atm*
