Happy Birthday to KOTOKO and me!
Okay, it’s one day late, but not if we go by GMT-4. 19th of January is (was) my 18th birthday! Did I ever mention that KOTOKO’s birthday is on 19 January too? Yay! Happy Birthday!

Tsubaki organized a birthday party for me yesterday and a whole bunch of guys from #SGanimebloggers (and one girl) on rizon were there.
We ate steamboat at a place in Bugis. There were 18 (or was it 19) of us and the restaurant split us into four tables. I spent the whole time moving from one table to another.
Tj han got me Nirvash.

He also baked me a (allegedly) cake! It was nothing but chocolate and tasted like brownies. It also contained enough sugar in a single crumb to kill a diabetics person. And he only brought one candle. Cheapskate! I forgive him because Nirvash is cool.
Tsubaki invited Yuki all the way from Japan to celebrate my birthday. I would have preferred Haruhi, but oh well. Okay, so it was actually umehiko. She drew a lot of stares at Bugis MRT when we were gathering. LOL. Can you imagine wearing that and eating steamboat in an under ventilated basement? 苦しそう・・・
Everyone sang a birthday song to the tune of any anime-related songs. Then the final group birthday song was replaced by COLORS (Code Geass OP1). LOL. Best birthday song ever. I made a wish (”world peace”) and blew out the only candle. (Granted its diameter was like 10cm)
Illustrations by MistaYoH from the sos-dan IRC channel.
I played Time Crisis 4 for a bit (and I do mean a bit. I died in like 4 seconds) and we all gathered to watch bj0rn, our resident pro-gamer, show off his l33t skillz at Melty Blood and DrumMania. He has no life and spend all his free time playing games instead of doing more useful things like watching anime.
We dropped by Cosafe on the way back and I met Zer0 for the first time.
All in all a really interesting birthday. Thanks guys!
P.S. Windbell, being the only guy with a DSLR, was the designated photographer and all the pictures are with him. I will probably upload some when he sends them over.



January 20th, 2007 at 11:24 am
19/1 is also Utada Hikaru’s birthday, but who cares D:
Good thing yours is the same as KOTOKO tho… easy to remember, and I can’t remember birthdays most of the time (I even can’t remember my ex’s or Otaru’s…)
So if I haven’t said it, happy belated birthday~ I wonder why you’re a lot more mature than me despite being born 4 years younger.
January 20th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Happy Birthday again dude. :-)
January 20th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Most of his pics turned out blur actually.
Anyway, we were wondering what happened to the rest after that… so Bjorn was the one who was glued to the arcade screens. Bah.
But I thought the Colours birthday song rocked. Despite it sounding like more of a chant than a song.
January 20th, 2007 at 11:40 am
i remember someone has the kanchou vid
there was like 1 camera on it which DM grabbed soon after
but there was another hidden camera
January 20th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
I believe ch has it…. zomg DM getting analed ._.
Paper, i rather get you another TBC. Mine is too important >_>
January 20th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Happy (late) bday DM!
January 20th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Happy Birthday! =)
January 20th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
lol dm i’m too lazy to head down today…next outing i pass it to u :P
January 20th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Hey man, happy belated b-day! Looks like it was a good one! I miss 18, that was a fun year for me. :)
January 20th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Hey, I saw the Yuki cosplayer at Bugis! I was like, WTH, cosplayer at arcade for random reasons?? until I read this post…
January 20th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Why, a happy 18th birthday to you, DarkMirage.
January 20th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU.
January 20th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Your wish won’t come true because you told us!
Happy Birthday ^___^
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[...] It was an intense game and we’re totally oblivious to our environment - even my favourite meido couldn’t make my attention waver (she almost did). I didn’t notice that the Singapore anime blogger community was camping one table away from us, until I saw Tsubaki. It was his hairstyle and cheeky grin that gave him away. The members of the 1st Otaku Battalion and prominent members of the local anime-blogging community had rendezvoused at Cosafé after celebrating DarkMirage’s birthday. They’re really young - some of them are pre-NS. DarkMirage had just entered JC. [...]
January 20th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Ew. My other friend just turned 18 on the 18th. I wont be 18 till May though. : (
But Happy Birthday!
January 20th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
May Haruhi-sama bless u on your 18th birthday.
HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY!! oh and also to KOTOKO too.
January 20th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Happy 18th Birthday
Congradulations now you can…
Actually what can you do now in Singapore?
Smoke? Drink? Drive? or were you legally able to do those before?
January 20th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
you met zer0 ?? wheres the order of the black knights then ?
January 20th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
anyway happy belated birthday sorry for double post. may haruhi bless you
January 20th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Happy Birthday ~
May “The God” Bless You ~ ^^
January 20th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Happy Birthday DM!
お誕生日おめでとう!
January 20th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Happy Birthday DM! Don’t need to worry about “underage drinking” no more lol.
Looks like you had quite a bash man - umehiko in full Yuki gear - We need group pics! XD
@Faust721 - yup, he can do all 3 - so the 18th b’day is quite a big thing for us ;) Now…if only they could lower the age for “restricted” rating shows…(Things like Borat and Jackass 2 are R21, wtf)
January 20th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Happy Birthday dude!~
1 more year filled with anime goodness. :)
January 20th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Belated happy birthday to yeuuuuu
January 20th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Who cares about drinking and driving: playing h-games is now legal! Happy birthday!
January 20th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
ah happie birthday to ya
January 20th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
LOL, consider it a birthday favour ;D
Happy birthday (again XD). And the 10cm candle + the brownie cake was win !
January 20th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Yay~ Happy New Yea… birthday!
May this new year be marked by abundant inventiveness and productivity. For our greatest pleasure ^^
*checks the wishlist*
/me points to the fact that all the items have a medium priority >_>
January 20th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Belated Happy Birthday. Was going to say this earlier, but got distracted. Next time I thought of it, it was 1:43 AM.
January 20th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Nice…Happy Birthday? or…happy belated birthday? You are 18 but in JC1? how does that work out? you got retained for 2 years?
January 20th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
A bit late, but happy belated birthday! Well, I met you today so I guess its all fine, lol.
May Haruhi-sama bless you with good luck in this year!
January 20th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Happy belated birthday!
Now you can enjoy eroges legally.
And world peace always rules!
January 20th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
happy burfdaii!
January 21st, 2007 at 12:17 am
It’s 12.11am (21st) now.
I got home at 2am last night morning.
I slept at 4am and woke up at 10am.
After writing the above blog entry, I went out at 11.15am.
I just home 10 minutes ago, nearly 13 hours later.
Me am need a lots of sleep. Stat.
I miss hikikomori lifestyle. Those were simpler days.
P.S. I saw bj0rn with his vict… uh… friend at KKnM at around 5.30pm.
January 21st, 2007 at 12:36 am
looked like you had fun ^^
hehehe happy bday again!
so jealous T_T
January 21st, 2007 at 12:47 am
LOL COLORS for a birthday song.
I’d sure like that.
January 21st, 2007 at 12:52 am
to typical singaporeans, you hack the law and play h-games at the age of 15….you start drinking even before you reach the age due to work stress and influences from working adults who pull you into ktvs and you get tempted to try a mouth and drinks on forever(HE DRANK!!! b4..but who cares..) and start smoking at the age of 16………….disturbing but true……..anw, its great to see kallen and haruhi-sama celebrating bdae wif you. here’s to you: happy 18 birthday!! you can happily start to post more NSFW things onlinE!!!! XD
January 21st, 2007 at 12:54 am
the cake was quite win but very dry. umehiko drank my whole bottle of water because of the cake.
January 21st, 2007 at 3:50 am
DM, you’re 18 (but you look like you’re 12) but you just changed schools?
Anyway, happy birthday!
January 21st, 2007 at 4:58 am
I could shown you my l33t TC4 kills too. And I don’t waste time on games. You fapping to eroge is.
January 21st, 2007 at 9:05 am
Happay Birthday! :D
January 21st, 2007 at 9:17 am
Happy late birthday! Thats great that your 18 and I will be too on the 26th of February.
January 21st, 2007 at 9:44 am
belated happy birthday man!
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[...] While I should be at home, eating grass (i.e. saving $) for a new computer, 17 (or 18?) people from #SGAnimeBloggers on Rizon were in the process of celebrating DarkMirage’s birthday. Instead, I found myself driving in the rain to pick up HSK at Clementi (it stopped raining when I reached, grr). Then I proceeded to Ngee Ann and rendezvoused with another friend of ours, and we proceeded to visit the School of InfoComm Technology. Well, it’s been such a long time that I have been there - the eGarage has changed alot, and the IT support personnel have been relocated elsewhere which I don’t know. Saw Ng Poh Oon at the eGarage, and he told us to check out the 4th floor, as there are more interesting stuff to see then the eGarage. When we took the lift (still unchanged, besides the walls of the elevator being changed) up to the 4th floor, we found that the entire floor of block 27 has changed drastically - the MMTC on the 6th floor has been dismissed, and the furniture and other stuff in the room has been separated. There were 2 computer labs, a few tutorial rooms, a sound recording room, a photography room with green screen, a “classical” animation studio (as in, real-life models), and a few other smaller rooms for students to work in. THEY HAVE MACS NOW. Well, what can we do? Time moves, and changes are made. Oh, we ran into Melvin Tan and Jim Ang there, as they are managing the whole floor. After visiting the 4th floor, we proceeded to the Convention Centre, where the “main bulk” of our past tutors and lecturers were. [...]
January 21st, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Happy ‘late’ Birthday man. Although I came here with nothing more than wishes that you would survive another year (yes I say that to everyone so kill me if you’d like). Also I wish I had 1337 skillz at Melty Blood and Drum-Mania orz…being Asian and sucking at games is hard in a society where everyone looks at your stereotypes…DAMN AMERICA >
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[...] The party was a blast! For more coverage please check out from either DarkMirage’s or Tsubaki’s site. [...]
January 21st, 2007 at 3:27 pm
darn, happy belated DM (thought i’m VERY later)! Have fun in RJC…
January 21st, 2007 at 3:56 pm
“I miss hikikomori lifestyle. Those were simpler days.”
So you hikoed for 2 years at home which is why you are 18 but in JC 1?
If these questions are too much for you to answer, just say so.
January 21st, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Happy birthday to you. Sorry I missed it. Enjoy your new life with M18 status, lol~
January 21st, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Happy Birthday!
January 21st, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Happy 18th birthday man! how i envy you with having so many friends there for ur birthday ;)
January 21st, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Haha… Belated birthday, hm… to bad I’m not as sociable so I don’t have many friends… oh well my 18th birthday won’t be till 2010 haha not to mention signing up for NS haha… But you really seemed to have fun…
January 22nd, 2007 at 11:09 am
Happy belated birthday! lol sorrie cant be there till the end to sing the song and sorrie i spelled your name Dark(space) Mirage instead of DarkMirage lol
January 22nd, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Happy belated birthday DM! lol, well, Makino Yui got the same birthday too =)
January 22nd, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Cool people have their birthdays on 19th Jan. (Except Maaya.)
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:04 am
Happy birthday to you!