i am 21 this year.
and that is not good.

because if i am 21, almost 75% of the people i know would be 21 too. and that makes me BROKE! i have received truckloads of invitations to 21st birthdays almost on a weekly basis. it is scary how people go to great lengths for this particular age which i find almost unagreeable.

they say "you are only 21 once".

yah, you are also 17 once, 18 once or 20 once. why is 21 so special?

i have a feeling it is a singapore thing; because our nation permits 1) pornography 2) close-to-but-not-underage marriage/pregnancy whatever 3) liberation from parental guidance when you are 21. and yeah, as if you don't do all that before 21.

but well, it would be an overtly subjective manner to look at it like that. i guess being 21 is also another excuse for you to look back and reflect on your life thus far, and probably ruminate on all the friendships, relationships and kinships that has been along those 21 years of your life. it is perhaps, more reasonable to look at it like that.

so, you can probably say that a 21st birthday is like your 1mth-old celebration. like how your parents celebrates you being alive, you are celebrating that fact that you are still alive after 20 years, 11 months of educational torture, societal expectations and most of the time, trying to survive.

well, i think i will be celebrating my 21st birthday as sceptical as i am. simply because i want to celebrate my little achievement of having gotten through 21 years unscathed (i mean not dead), living and breathing. maybe it is also a testimony of how God has tide my little sampan boat through the roaring waves.

or maybe i just want a new camera, wallet and handphone.


you get the hint, right?