4th August
0000 (midnight): Ten! Nine! Eight! Seven! Six! Five! Four! Three! Two! One! (Fireworks) HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Of course that did not happen. I was sleeping. Nobody, not even fireworks, could wake me up, so I wouldn't know if that had happened.
0500 (estimated time): Woke up suddenly, but still lying in bed. Seeing it's not bright yet, I said happy birthday to myself and slept again.
0745: Woke up.
0900: Started my last minute piano practice for two hours. Kept playing scales and arpeggios until I got it right. Bang bang bang bang bang BANG BANG BANG. ♪
1100: Chow time. Ate 3 drumsticks as my birthday lunch.
1200: Mum called the taxi and asked the driver to come at 12.30-1.00.
1205: The taxi came. So damn early. My exam time was 3.04. We left the house a few minutes later after it came anyway.
1220: Reached Oriental Crystal Hotel. Went to register. After that went to toilet. Quite scared while entering the toilet because no one's inside and my friend told me that the hotel was haunted. Kept saying prayers while urinating. How silly of me.
1230: Ended up having 2 hours plus to kill. Luckily there's a Metro shopping mall nearby, so we went shopping. Mum wanted to shop for a new pair of jeans, I just needed time to calm myself down.
1430: Went back to the hotel. Metro wasn't that good for a shopping center. There's a lot of narrow hallways and it looked like a maze.
My piano teacher came and talked to my mum for a while. She said my piano skills were okay. I thought I was going to fail. She said Yan Yi was also okay. (Yan Yi, tell me your marks please~)
1504: Received a birthday greeting from Shio Kee. Kinda amused me. Haha.
1505: It's my turn. OMG. I was so nervous.
The examiner was a young English man. It's not him that made me nervous. I could hear my heart thumping furiously.
I screwed up some scales. I was not used to the heavy sound of the piano. It sounded so different from mine. The keys were slippery that I didn't dare to exert too much force. Screwed up a lot in the first piece too, as well as the sight-reading. Sang off tune in the first aural test. Didn't know if I got the rest correct. All I wanted to do was to get out of that freaking place.
1520: Finally he said, "That's it. You're done," and I sighed with relief when we shook hands.
Had to control myself from running. The first thing they asked was certainly "ok ah?" I shook my head at them. I thought I failed my exam. I couldn't be sure, because grade 1 I thought I failed too, but I got distinction. The same goes for grade 3, I got a pass but failed my sight-reading.
If I failed this time, served me right because I did not practice regularly.
1600: Home sweet home. Felt so exhausted after a day of nervousness and tension.
1700: Sleep time.
1850: Woke up. Since it's my birthday, we ordered pizza. Yum.
Halfway through demolishing the pizzas, my mother realized that we forgot to put candles on the pizza and sing happy birthday song. We didn't order a birthday cake because I hate it.
2100: Received birthday messages from my friends one by one. Kinda happy actually, to think someone had still remembered that it's my birthday. Watched tv, just like any other days.
Life's slowly returning to normal.
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5th August
Logged on to my Facebook account because my friends said they had left some comments yesterday. I rarely checked my Facebook because I thought it was boring, except for poker.
I wasn't expecting so many people to wish me happy birthday. Needed a few minutes to reply all the greetings with "thx~:)" "thx bro" "thx~^^" "thx~xD". Haha. Thanks for all your greetings! Muackzz~
Conclusion: Birthday is just an ordinary day, the only thing is you get a hell lot of birthday greetings from your family and friends. :)
