Much had passed during the last few days and I'll just be giving the highlights.

My 22nd Birthday (Sept 10)
It has been just an ordinary day for me at the start of the day. I no longer feel the uplifted spirit and much enthusiasm on my natal day, as opposed to what I used to feel during my birthdays and the holiday season. Many of my peers suggested me that it was just part of my maturation process into adulthood since that feeling is only for children.

At lunchtime, Flint had a birthday surprise for me. We were all in Landmark foodcourt where we shared cake and ice cream. Later in the afternoon, our big team had the birthday snack for us three celebrants-Grace, Myrene and me. My manager gave me a nice gift-a book, "Your Roadmap to Success."

Later that night, I even played badminton with JP and friends. Also, I met Joanne, Rey and Roselle for a late night dinner. We played at Timezone and separated at about 1 am. Rey and I were still together til Monumento where we had a chance to see the biggest moon up in the sky in the occasion of the Chinese moonckae festival which for this year feel exactly on my birthday.

Ouch it hurts!(Sept 11)
As I woke up in the morning I felt pain in my right big toe. There was a wound because of the engroin-very sharp toenail growing on the deep curved part of my big toe piercing it causing pain. The big toe has already swollen and it was very hard for me to wear shoes. I had to meet the neighborhood pedicurist to have the engroin removed. It was already afternoon when I got in the office.

The Event (Sept 13)
Flint invited me to go with him to watch the F4's concert. I had Joanne with me and Flint also invited Edward. We fell in line 5 pm and were able to enter the venue at about 8 pm. There I felt the fear of being caught in a stampede. However, I put in mind tghat being in that concert is analogous to my trials in life. To cut the long story short, although we had the cheapest ticket in the show, we were there at the very front, seeing Dee, Barbie Xu, Vanness Wu and Kne Zhu in full flesh-so close. :)

Warfreak(Sept 15)
I dropped by the school first to get a copy of my school readings needed for the next day's homework. I got in the office two hours later. I already informed my officemate regarding this. My manager was asking if the person I informed knows my reason. Having just arrived at my desk, I personally asnwered the e-mail. But to my wonder, my manager was a bit hot-tempered that day. She e-mailed back, copy-furninshing my two team leads informing me that she've noticed that I always come late to the office. I answered the e-mail by saying that although I come in late, I am conscious of my number of hours at work and I honestly offset them. I don't know what she got from my reply but it seemed that there was going on already. Later in the afternoon, my manager approached me and scolded me even my other officemates were there. I don't know why, but I didn't care even if she scolded me. What's important for me is that I was able to voice out my side.

Sick leave (Sept 16)
My tummy ached once more so I decided to take an off from the office. Indeed, I need to give more time to my homework due at that night. I don't know but tghe department has already closed when I arrived so I had my homework submitted the very morning of the following day.

She got my point! (Sept 17)
At lunchtime, my manager approached me and asked for apology with what happened last Monday. I never expected it but the feeling is nice-now I am sure that she got my point in the e-mail. She gave me a bon-bon candy and left me with a pat in the shoulder.