I am sorry and i apologise for not writing for so long on this blog, but i have things to do sometimes and as you all by now know quite well, i am not really inclined to blithering on about what i ate today, what i drank today, and what i made love to today. it seems only right that i should keep this blog at least partially up to date with m life, and therefore i would like to tell of some new things in my life.

first and foremost, there is my laptop. it is a beautiful machine which can handle all the latest games and has good speakers to blast noisy music from. it also allows me to sit in the living room and type this as my parents watch television. secondly, i have a job. i get to scoop ice cream and serve customers who i must say sometimes seem to be suffering from a slight deficiency in IQ. the people i work with are... interesting... to say the least. nice enough, though a few of them have certain personality traits which make them rather unique.
the other day i went properly shopping for the first time in my life, and when i say properly shopping i mean going into a store full of ridiculously boring and distinctly design-less and picture-less clothes, trying some of them on, and purchasing one of them for an absolutely absurd sum of money, which left me slightly penniless for a few days. i have never worn the article in question, and am not sure when i shall do so.
by the end of this month i will have hopefully applied to all potential universities in australia. in september i shall be journeying to the great down under and visiting a few major cities there, inspecting universities, meeting friendly people, staying in budget accomodation and getting my belongings pilfered.

it occurred to my manager at my job that i am quite a likeable chap (which i must say i can't argue with), and that i should work a bit more for the company and make a bit more money, perhaps as a more senior ranked staff. it occurred to myself that perhaps i should do this after i return from australia for the few months before university in february. it occurred to my father that i shall be turning eighteen on the fifteenth of september whilst in australia, thereby automatically disqualifying my dependent's pass in singapore and having to be in singapore on a visitor's pass, which may not allow me to work here.

being a man of the sort that knows to get one's priorities right and knowing that the more trivial matters such as drinking legally and getting into clubs and so on are of little importance compared to more important notions that eighteen years of life on this planet brings with it, something far more important and shocking occurred to me today.

what is this shocking thought? one might ask. what could be even more important than access to unlimited (within one's budget though, of course) alcohol and entry into clubs?
could it be that he has finally taken a more serious approach to life? could it be that he is worried about the maturity and responsibilty in everything one does which people generally expect from someone at this golden age?
could it be that he is worried about making money for himself when his parents stop giving him allowance? or about the large sum of money currently held in an english bank waiting for him to hit the big one-eight?
nay, i say. what bothers me is a thought far more troubling than any of these trivial matters.
what bothers me is that on the fifteenth of september, 2006, somewhere in the city fo melbourne, australia, is that i will become an eighteen year-old virgin.