Friday, February 05, 2010 // 2:27 PM
so there you go. it's my birthday today and i'm 17. which is supposedly a big deal. coz i get my ID and i'm legally an adult. i suppose. i didn't wake up with some revelation though, i woke up because my grandmother called me and only then i realised i just grew another year older.
can't believe another year went down the drain.
*sigh*
so anyways my mom's convince i'm "all grown up now". meh, i snide at the commentary, i don't feel so grown up just yet. sorry mom :/ i love you though :)
but hey here's an interesting thing, few days ago in english class we were supposed to finish a sentence: "growing up is..."
truly at that moment everything pop up in my head simultaneously i don't know how to finish that sentence. but amongst them is a line to the ataris' in this diary:
being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up.
so i guess that says it all. growing up has been fun. and i couldn't have done it without my friends.
and i think now i know what growing up is all about, it's about
not doing crazy epic shit(s)...
alone.
you see, those crazy epic shit(s) can be basically anything. it can be
getting lost in the streets of singapore, dancing to the beat of a metronome, spending (literally) 10 hours straight in dufan, getting into an angkot with 13 people and spend 2 hours circling bogor in it, missing a bus stop and ended up at the changi airport, get a picture taken with that cute guy from one of your favorite bands, dance till dawn in bali, spend an amazing 3 weeks in another land with people you barely knew at the beginning but turn out to be the most amazing people ever (and being detached from technology in the process :D ), going out to the same mall in the same week just to get together, spending hours stalking bands on youtube, throwing surprises on birthdays, playing pool even when you know full well you suck at it but you do it anyways, finishing 30 polaroid films in one night, going to that awesome concert, even......... getting through IB.
yes, i do consider getting through IB as crazy epic shit.
you know what all, it comes down to is doing it with your friends.
because it won't be epic at all without them by your side.
so i guess i'll end this post here :)
thank you for the birthday wishes on twitter, facebook, txt msgs etc. i feel so loved and blessed :)
i love you all <3