William Chong

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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Hello! Trying this out, the full version of “Birthday Wish”. I uploaded a 10-second clip on my site’s previous incarnation, but yeah. That went away, and now a full uncut version is in its place! I tend to work this song on Easters, it seems – wrote it a few Easters ago, performed it for the first time some birthdays ago, and remixed it during the most recent Easter weekend (2007).

If you’re keen on more music, I’m working on it – in the meantime I’ve got http://williamchong.com/music-collection/ up.

Anyways, have a listen and comments and constructive crit would be much appreciated!

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Birthday Wish – WILLIAM CHONG
Lyrics

You were selfless when you had Your will be done
Graceful when they didn’t know what they were doing
and perfect at “Father into Your hands You commit Your spirit”
I wish I could be as selfless as You
I wish I could be as graceful as You
I wish I could be as perfect as You
For a start I’ll praise You and wish You

Happy birthday dear Jesus
Born to take our sins away
Happy birthday to You Lord

You were helpless when you entered the world
Punished for our iniquities
Yet you loved us so much
You raised Your hands on top of a hill to give up Your spirit
Oh I will try really hard to be as loving as You
It’s the least I can do to show how grateful I am
And thank You for giving me the greatest birthday gift
to spend forever with You and wish You

Happy birthday dear Jesus
born to take our sins away
Happy birthday to You Lord