William Chong

All I can say is LOL at Yuen in the 2nd-to-last pic!  Looks like someone kicked him up his yup!

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Hello everyone!

There’s lots more pics coming up, I’m gettin’ them as they come through. At the moment they’re mostly from Nyonya… but what a fantastic meal! Thanks to everyone that made the effort, I was so glad to see heaps of costumes and faces! Thanks to Cheryl for the guestbook, decorations and balloons, and Hayden for swallowing up most of the helium! Hah, and Rainbow made that cake, check out the pictures. It was totally amazing, and used up a 2/3 cup of raspberry liqueur too, if anyone noticed. Thanks to Kim for decorating the photo album, and all of you photo-takers as well. Thanks to my parents, who put me where I am today. And also to God – when you’ve got the Alpha and the Omega on your side, you wonder how you could have survived without…!

Anyways, I’ll stop sounding like I won an Oscar or something.

So if you hadn’t guessed, it was my 21st party last night. After dinner at Nyonya, where we ran out of drink (sorry, was thinking further ahead) and we got a karaoke version of “Happy Birthday”, we went to NYNY. And it was dead! Pretty much, except for the random barfight outside. Man, it had to be the one night I *wasn’t* working that something interesting happens huh. Turns out a guy hit a woman for calling him racist names, and it all blew up from there.  It think Harley went over to mediate, but I remember it being quite a flashpoint so I’m glad he didn’t get hurt.  The manager of the place copped a good knock in the jaw though – ouch!

Some costuming highlights, check out the heaps of pics:

• Ben in his kendo outfit
• Arron with a Naruto headband
• Ninjas
• Matching Asian clothes from Raymond and Natasha
• Richard being the Asian doctor (they’re takin’ over med school, yes)
• Jared and Sarah being made in China
• Jared again – it takes guts to wear nappies to your friends’ 21st, lol….

Yes, I drank more than I have ever drunk before.

I don’t remember some bits between 1 and 2:30 in the morning, but Cheryl and Richard have been filling in on how funny I was being! ><”

Cheryl: “You try to become more responsible.”

Richard: “You were so wasted last night man!”

I think the consensus was that I acted like a little boy, which totally flies in the face of all the kind words people were saying about maturity and organisation and things like that. In any case, I’m fairly adamant that adventure will be a one-off – don’t worry, I love all your presents!

The next morning I woke up at 9, which was pretty good considering I had no idea how I got my contacts off, brushed my teeth and got into bed properly in my state of ethanol saturation. At church they sang “happy birthday” once more, and got another cake out! And we had yum-char afterwards to boot.

William: “I forgot my violin.”

Pastor John: “Haha, after last night I’m surprised you didn’t forget what day it was!”

Anyways, hope you enjoy the photos!

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its gonna rain tomorrow….

I can’t wait till my 21st.  I hope it goes well…  It’d be a great opportunity to see all the people in New Zealand that have been a part of my life.  Of course, not everyone can make it.  Some have moved on, some are in different countries, different worlds.

Anyways, this isn’t meant to be a long post.  Got class tomorrow, so there’s some sleeping to do.

 RB, Cheryl, Laurence and I bundled ourselves into town last night.  A bit of Float, and a touch of Deschler’s – I don’t get the chance to go out too often, so it was a refreshing outing.

I’ve nearly finished my 307 Lit Review – it’s not a particularly long one, so I’m leaving the rest till Monday night to complete.  My final exam timetable also came out this week: I’ve pretty much got the worst timetable ever!  The last Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and the last Monday of the exam period.  What a way to reduce the midyear holidays…

Anyways.  Preparations for 21st?  Haven’t done too much of it.  I’m not a particularly balloon-and-streamers sort of guy, but I’m pretty sure it’ll be an excellent night.