I mentioned in my last post that I was gonna spend my birthday catching up with sleep and reading. That was half true. I did catch up with sleep, as I usually do on Saturdays. But I ended up catching up on watching movies on the computer rather than reading. Did I ever mention that I’m a procrastinating lazy bum?

On my playlist for the day were Ice Age 1 & 2, and Madagascar 1 & 2. Of the 2 animated series, I prefer Ice Age. Madagascar was a little too over the top for me. I mean, wild African animals that have become full-fledged New Yorkers (no offense)? That’s just too wierd.

I’ve got one less person to get birthday presents now, so I decided to double-pamper myself. Although it was a day late, I did enjoy a sumptuous fusion Japanese meal with Mom at Ministry of Food. Mom had the Unagi (sea eel) Hot Stone Rice, I had the Salmon Bibimbap (hot stone rice + bean sprouts + raw egg), and we ordered an Ebi (prawn) Toji (some sort of egg stew) to share. We also ordered a Chawanmushi (steamed egg) each. Sounds delicious right? It sure was! So delicious in fact, that we started attacking the food, the moment it was set on our table. So no photos this time, sorry!

After the meal, Mom & I decided to do a little “exercise” to aid digestion. We went shopping!   Actually, I had some birthday privileges that had to be redeemed within a week of my birthday. So we decided to make good use of the special member + birthday discounts available.

As the title of this post suggests, this is just part 1. I’m taking the day off tomorrow to watch Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and to run some general errands, and perhaps visit the dentist (though I wouldn’t classify that as part of “celebrations” proper). Why Tuesdays of all days? Ha ha.. another member privilege of course! I have a membership to a certain cinema group in Singapore which entitles me to $6.50 tickets on Tuesdays, before 5pm. That’s $3.50 cheaper than weekends! It’s also less crowded, especially since the kids are in school. Which means I won’t have to put up with screaming children. That’s always a plus.

So watch out for my movie review, as well as the sequel to my little “Belated Celebrations” series. Meanwhile, here’s a nice trailer to set the mood.

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This is the day where I add 1 to my age again. Whoa! Has it been 31 years of existence already?! Does time fly or what?

And what better way to usher in my 31st birthday than to perform CHKDSK on my laptop harddisk and 2 USB external harddisks, followed by defragmenting everything in sight. All that coupled with multiple restarts in between. Getting organized is always a good thing right?

The past year has been rather eventful. My “twin” brother finally got hitched and has now been happily married for almost 8 months. My best guy-friend also recently got married, although I wasn’t able to attend his wedding. And just when everyone thought I would be the next one to start ringing wedding bells, I broke up with my bf of more than 4 years.

Continuing the theme of “broken”, I sprained my left ankle badly to leave it swollen for the next 2 months. It’s very much healed now. Except that I just got stepped upon by a rather “burly” young man in a crowded train on the way home. And he *had* to step on my left ankle (yes, ANKLE.. not foot), of all places. Luckily, nothing broke.

On the work front, it’s been a busy year. Lots of meetings, discussions, deadline rushes, etc. My product leader has also been kind enough to trust me with heavier responsibilities and opportunities to get my hands dirty with new and exciting project design and development. We’re all currently studying lots of new technologies and stuff in preparation for future projects. That’s always fun!

No special celebrations in the works. I probably will be spending the rest of this glorious day catching up with sleep, and lots of work-related reading.

It’s 4:40am now, and this newly 31-year old needs to get some sleep. Bye y’all!

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Again, I was unable to make it to the 2nd annual Catholic New Media Celebration (CNMC)  in San Antonio, Texas, last weekend. Thankfully, Father Roderick and gang have it all covered and recorded on uStream, so I was able to catch up with most of the talks. But somehow, the “super-hilarious” opening  by Mac Barron of Catholic in a Small Town fame was nowhere to be found among the recorded uStream videos. Here it is now, on YouTube. *Scandalous*, if you ask me!

Greg Willits, co-host of The Catholics Next Door program on Sirius/XM‘s The Catholic Channel cameos as the “Yoda” of CNMC hosting.

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Hurray! Another Pixar movie! I really wanna watch this, especially after reading the positive review by Steven Greydanus. But it seems that I’ll only get a chance to do so in September (according to Yahoo! Movies Singapore). Ugh!

Guess I’ll just have to settle for the movie trailers for now.

Official website

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This is just absolutely, hilariously cute! Thanks to @Makemeaspark for sharing this on Plurk.

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