ok fine. so the collage was from last year's collection. I promise to get the new one up after my exams! I was bursting to write this post laaa...

My dear Jinyu,

It's been 2 years since we met during the WAT program. I'm not going to talk about our lovely and wonderful experiences in USA. It's been two years! Surely our friendship has progressed to be more than just shared experiences? So here goes your 2007 bday entry!

It's not about how you have changed my perception of the world.

It's not about how you have been such a selfless gentleman to everyone around you. (for eg, giving up ur bed for me to nap in when i appeared half asleep at your hostel door. treating us to dinner, giving up precious sleep to hear me cry out my woes on your birthday last year, just listening when i had problems).

It's not about how we can talk crap for hours and not feel bored. Or about how we can have this comfortable silence when we are just sitting together.

It's not about how we can have serious discussions where you will help me view topics from different perspective.

It's not about how much you have always been there for me, cheering me up during times of woe and doubling my joy when i have great news to share.

Because it's not about me. It's really about how truly wonderful you are, how much you mean to me and how i will always always love you.

In these two years since we have met, the times we have had hanging out will always been part of my happy memories. No outing with you is complete with your signature phrase of "so nice lor!"complete with a disbelieving look! And who can forget the tummy-aching laughter and fits of giggles that accompany every outing? I swear, you are just like a happy pill. Once you appear, people start feeling loads better!

And i really admire your patience and tolerance levels. Up to date, i have not seen you let your temper get the better of you. Every time you tell me about the unfortunate incidents that you experience (unfairly!) , i wanna jump up and down in sheer frustration for you/ beat up the people who treat you horribly! yet, you'll just look on in amusement and talk about solutions.

There are so many other stuff that i wanna cite to show you how awesome you are. Egs such as your fantastic navigation skills (remembering shortcuts we can take in NYC even though we forgot to bring the map out!), cooking skills, how you never told people that you were doing the housework, your fantastic insight into the world... if i elaborated on the whole list, this would be one hell of a long post indeed. I just wanted to let you know how awesome you are in my eyes. And if the world doesnt know it, well, it's blind la!

Heh. Can you see how much you mean to me from the above paragraphs? I love how you can go back to China and disappear for 3 months, and yet when we meet once again, we'll just slip back into the honest and comfortable zone. :) You have made my NUS school life much happier, enriched my thinking and pretty much brightened up my life with your company. If you think about it, it's pretty amazing how we have stayed close even after two years since we met (considering our different facs, spoken language and house/countries' locations!). Such a special friendship is truly what few can experience and i consider myself very very lucky to have met you and be able to maintain this friendship!

So in short, i just wanna take this special day week to tell you how much i appreciate what a great person and friend you are. I love everything you are, what made you who you are today and what you'll be in the future. Heh. I'm sure that success and happiness would follow you wherever you may go. Confirm, confirm, gurantee, chop my head for you too see ah! (sound familiar?)

It's scary how we are all growing up. With kaki and you graduating this year, it seems like our lifestyles may soon differ drastically. However, i sincerely/really hope that we will still remain good friends. Not just because i never want to lose my best guy friend. But because losing the friendship of the awesome-est guy in the whole wide world would be ............... unthinkable! *shudder* New beginnings in life do not neccessarily mean a loss of old friends. Just like you have always been such an awesome friend, i hope that i can be as good as a friend to you!

I love Jinyu forever and ever and ever! :):):)

Plucked this out from our suitcase of memories. It shall serve as the temporary birthday collage! :)