So the 20th was my brother, Nathan's, 8th birthday. I know I'm 3 days late but for the last 3 days I didn't really had the chance to type down all the details. Anyways, here goes. First of all, on that day I woke up in a bad mood, pissed at many things, how a friend ignored me, and in particular how my parents made me go to sleep earlier and not stay up. I mean for crying out loud, I'm on summer holiday and it's almost over and I didn't get all of my things sorted out so I wanted to spend more time with it. Just cause they're tired from work and such, doesn't mean I am. If I'm tired, I'll know I need to rest. I don't need them to tell me how much rest I need. I hate it when adults always look down on us and thing we know no better and that they're always right. That makes them no better than us. So I ended up being in a terrible start of the day. Didn't do much in the morning, other than writting letters to certain people (felt like writting when I was down there), going to church, etc.

 

Enough with the rant, back to the birthday topic. My stepdad took the kids to Toy'R'Us and got my brother a toy gun-rifle sorta thing. I already bought Nathan this Batman-motorcycle toy a few days ago at a very good price at a supermarket. But it turns out that you can't take the Batman out of his motorcycle *cough*rip-off*cough*. My mom got some cards sorta thing. Overall, Nathan seem to quite enjoy it all, it did went quite well. I also made him a birthday card (i used to always make handmade cards for birthdays, using origami to fold something niffty and put it at the front) which was this 8-pointed star thing. But to make that, I had to use 8 different pieces of papar, fold it, then stick it together. I used 8 different colours (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, black, white, pink) to fold the 8 different points of the star. Once i got it altogether, I stick the whole thing onto a special white piece of paper and put the message inside. I used a multi-colour 8-pointed star to represent life bing being more colourful and enlightening as we grow and 8 refering to the age. I think it was good and my mom said it was wonderful...EXCEPT she didn't like how one of the points was black. She says that black isn't good for birthdays and that i should replace it. Of course, i found it simply ridiculous. BUt in the end, she just ripped that part out and then I threw the origami book on the table and told her that if she wants to replace it with something else, then she should fold it herself. Obviously up to there I was definitely pissed cause i spent all the effort and time to make that and she just had to ruin everything because of some stupid asian chinese supersition that black isn't good for birthdays. it's like taking a masterpiece painting and adding an extra stroke to it for no reason other than to make it look bad. That's how i felt. I had to use black because, one, black would make the colourful rainbow effect better, better ascortment of colours. Two, those 8 colours are the only 8 colours i have in my set of construction paper.  IN the end, my mom folded a crappy untidy point using a random piece of yellow paper. Good thing I took a picture of the card before it was "ruinned". Somehow back there, I had a feeling that I won't be seeing the card in the same way I did it and simply took a picture of it. It's posted right below.

 

As for other pictures of birthday such as cake, etc, i've already posted it in the photo albums. Take a look there in the "Family" album. Well that's all for now. See ya.