a picture says a thousand words, so let them speak for themselves.























































































































































































































































































and, finally,
















and i don't have many photos, but the raggers,
my raggers,
surprised me and my roomie with a birthday cake and card and serenaded us [courtesy of hartono widijaya] and also surprised us with very sweet and albeit somewhat 可笑しい presents.
yes, i received a new 'shinai' for my birthday, complete with gold-encrypted birthday wishes and full-fledged detailings, courtesy of lau hong jin, law joon kit, malaysia.































thanks to roomie for the card, your listening to my random mumbling everyday, to sabah boy for the domokun, for tolerating my nonsense and lame jokes before and after and during training, "さすが大著ですね。"^__________^ thanks to xian and shu for the wonderful domokun surprise; i swear i ll wear it to class! thanks to km for the shinai surprise, thanks to everyone from nuskc for the birthday surprise, thanks to lihong for being one day and one year my senior :) thanks to wei and miao for the beautiful, wonderful surprise, thanks to my sis for the 40 dollar kendo and kenjitsu book [which i had no intention of buying but should very much have the intention of reading, gauging by the hefty price tag], thanks to my other sis for tolerating my nonsense for 17 years and listening to me whine and giving in to my whims and needs, thanks to everyone for the well wishes,


most of all,
thanks to my parents for bringing me to this world.
corny as that sounds.

thanks guys, because these, i will keep close to my heart.

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you can't imagine how much i like this picture, and how much i know how wrong it is, and it shouldn't be, but it's my secret, and i'll never let you know about it.