Truth to be told, i held great importance on birthdays. Yes, especially my own one. Yes, the obvious will be because i love myself. But more importantly, it's because it marks the day my mummy went through all the labour pain just to get me out into this beautiful world. (; i really appreciate this, even tho i still ask for presents on my bday. I should be saying thankyou to mum. Not forgetting others. My daddy for waiting outside e operating theatre, my grandparents waiting at home for my arrival. (In case you do not know, im borned in e middle of the night. Like 1:08am)
My mum told me tt im such a imp to be choosing such a timing to be born. Haha.
When the sun rise, my relatives came over to look at ME and my mum. Im receiving way more attention than others because im the first child, first grandchild. Aiya, just know tt i seem "fresh". Needless to say, other than attention, im practically e emperor until my brother is born. I shared te attention and all. But i secured the place as number one. This is not impt because he is my brother. We are related by blood and blood is thicker than water. I love my brother tho he can be really annoying.
Back to the topic, my birthday. Back when im 18 years old, my mum asked how i wanted to celebrate my 21st. I brushed her off since there is still 3 years to think. Without a warning, im turning 21. And i have attended 4 bday parties. All the 21st. Thr is a mixture of hotels and chalets. These are the norm. My mum asked if i wanted a function room to invite friends and relatives over. I tot it was cool back then. But now, it's seems really normal to me.
Please dont get me wrong. Having parties in chalet and hotels are fun too. It's just person preference.
I just wanted to be unqiue.
So, i opt to go overseas. (Mum said im here to collect my debts from previous life. Hahaha). But she know my temper. She says tt if she didnt say yes to my idea, i will not be smiling on my 21st and i will be grumpy for life. My mum knows me best. Im spoilt like this but i really want to be different. Im ok with not having a big group of friends singing happy birthday song to me, just my family and a foreign country is good.
My original plan was to do bungee jump over in cains. But my grandmother learnt tt i will need to sign those exclusion clause saying tt they will nt be responsible for my death should anything happens. She objected strongly. She was so worried when i say i wanted to donate blood. It feels good to be someone's precious.
I gave up on tt idea after deciding nt to make my grandma worry. She is my favorite person. <3 so i choose to go on the hotair balloon fly on my 1st july. I even emailed them asking abt e reservation and prices. Then there was some politics gg on over in turkey so fml. I choose australia. Then the news abt the hotair balloon collapse and killed 19 ppl, my grandmother objected again. :(
So i just thought, no adventorous stuffs, then a shopping trip will be a good one! As i have combed most countries in asia, i really have no idea whr to go. Like japan, osaka, korea, jeju, hokkaido, hongkong, thailand. I have been to these shopping paradise morethan 1 times. I hav no idea wad made me choose korea over tokyo. Im more of a tokyo person. Because i really really love japan. But i had been to japan for about 3 times. But i have only been to korea twice. So i chose korea.
You may wonder why wont i go to places over in UK or US or maybe Paris. It's because im still not into bags like LV or chanel. Im still at samantha thavasa stage. Young puaysee will forever be young and girly! :p
I did my calculations and i totally dont deserve to be studying accounting. Because even if my calculations shows staying in singapore is cheaper, i chose to go korea. Say i choose a function room celebration:
Function room in MBS for a day : ~$1000
Buffet style food catering from the hotel (50pax) : ~$1200
Decoration : ~$150
Cake : ~$300
Not including doorgifts and other misc. this adds up to $2650. Hmm. I will be happy to be surround by my friends and getting all the attention. But there is only one puaysee. I really hate to neglect any friends. I want them to have 100% of my attention.
Korea trip: air tix, hotels, shopping :~$5000
Plus if i post on fb, people might think "oh hotel lor.." Or "why nvt invitr me.." Let me escape to a kimchi land happily. Give me yr blessing. Please dont say things like "because u rich mah.." No, im not rich. I just want to be different. And just so happen tt my parents can afford this luxury trip for my 21st.
Not everyone can comprehen my logic behind this post, but what i wanted to say is that, thankyou for making my wish come true.
Thankyou for not saying no to my request.
I will be flying off on the 29th June to 4th July. I will be spending my 1st july in HELLO KITTY CAFE!