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.