Andu|Blog

*plays some awesome dramatic music*

I, Andrew, have finally turned 18~! so bring on all the hard liqueur and  hard core porn!!!

no, i’m kidding, i’m not like that, even if i’m 18.

What can I say, 18 years have passed, just like that. Through out the 18 years, there were tears, laughter, and a whole lot of other emotions which i can’t put a word to (yea man, i’m ESL, live with it).  Yes, i’ve changed dramatically through out the years, for good or bad? who knows.

Appearance wise, I’ve changed from a nerdy looking chubby kid, to a nerdy looking chubby kid with long dyed hair.

Knowledge wise, I’ve changed from thinking babies fall from the sky to knowing a lot more than I should.

Name wise, I’ve changed from Ruoyu to Andrew to An-Da-ru to Andu, and somewhere in there fits Darkprawn and Darkshrimp.

Relationship wise, I’ve made so much new friends whom will stay with me for ever and ever.

Something happened that I remember clearly to make me realize I’ve changed is when I met this primary school friend from china, whom I haven’t seen for 6 years. The first thing she said, when she realised i am one of her old class mate was:”你不是很老实吗?”

Looking back on the 18 years of my life (of which 6 years spent sleeping). What have I accomplished? Truthfully? Nothing much haha. But hey, I’m not a super hardworking genius, so I guess there’s nothing much I can accomplish…

I was born a baby with a lot of sicknesses, not because I’m a mutant, but somehow I get sick really easily when I was young. So medicine and needles were like second nature to me. (well, maybe that often, but yea)

At age of 3, started to go to pri-primary, and I can remember clearly, I was such a bright and good kid I was always top of the class for most things, and the teachers loved me! *well i don’t remember this, but I heard from my parents* haha. That three years of my life was great, a little kid without troubles or worries, go to this place everyday where you don’t learn much and all you do is play, sleep and get fed.

At the age of 6.5, I started primary school, I was suppose to go to this school for 1 year before primary, but my parents thought it was a waste of time, and shoved me into a class of 80+ people whom all older than me by one year. It was quite weird, as all my pri-primary friends went to this other school together, and I was alone in a strange place. I stil remember my first day of primary school clearly, it was my mum sending me to school early in the morning, and before going into the class, she asked me repeatly if I wanted to go to the toilet haha.

6 Years of primary school was great too, had heaps of friends, most of which i still keep in contact with now.

And by year 5, I realised i need to move to a place that doesn’t speak chinese…Australia.

That is an adventure, going to a place, speaking a whole new language, something I never thought about in my life at all. Before I know it, I was going to an all English school not even knowing the alphabet… (It was bentley primary). Many people have asked me, how did i survive, how could I do such thing? Truthfully? I have no idea, I guess the environment just forced me to learn the language and the culture. (and i remember there was this guy, who also came from China, whom help me quite a bit).

Time passes, primary school goes on. And again, before I know it, I was apart of the aussie culture, apart of this community.

School life goes on, the 5 years at rossmoyne was the best years of school life i’ve spent in Australia.

Another flash, and i’m sitting in the lecture room of University of Western Australia. Time does go fast, when your having fun. *i just skiped a whole bit, as I thought it’s quite boring, and i shouldn’t be ranting on about my life story on my birthday*

18 whole years. I don’t know what to think, all of these things have happened, in such a short (long?) time. When I finally reach this stage, crossed the line from teenager to adulthood. Should I feel any different? Should I act any different? well, do I feel any different? no I don’t. I just feel like the same old me, with a lot of alcohol in my stomach that’s all. haha.

The celebration for my birthday start on Friday(28th of April) night. It was at irene’s place It wasn’t anything big, irene kinda called a few of us over, and just chilled out for the night, with a cake hehe.

On Sunday Night, went to the CS committee party, and when they found out it was my birthday in a few hours, all the guys started buying me drinks in effort to get me drunk. Since I’m a good boy, I’ve never drink much before, most I’ve had in my life before last night was two shots of barleys…and compare to last night, that’s just water.. >.< But I guess it was fun to experience such feeling, well, last night was fun, the day after is quite bad

And today, went to uni, where I was flooded with happy birthdays and songs. Great to see there’s people who remember great feeling.

On This great day, I would like to thank a few people.

Firstly, to my parents. For bringing me to this interesting world, for taking care of me, and for being the best parents I’ve ever had, honest! (well, the only parents I’ve ever had, but I’m sure I won’t find anyone better)

Thanks to Ken for buying me the cake, and having it at irene’s place

Thanks to Irene for cooking me roti prata! It’s thoughtful of you to catch the time when I told you I loved that thing. I guess you do actually listen to me, that’s good

Thanks to Shan for buying me that awesome t-shirt, I love it!

Thanks to Liyin and Lisan for buying me my first drink (Squashed frog), which started the whole getting me drunk thing, but hey thanks.

Thanks to Liyin for singing me that funky Happy Birthday Song which I’ve never heard of.

Thanks to Dee for making me such an awesome present, and sending it over! too bad it was 2 days too early, but it’s all good. It’s greatly appreciated to see that someone actually spent time on me

Thanks to Andy, Kevin, Jesse, Chung and James for buying me all the funky drinks which made my night fun, but nxt day horrible, but hey.
Thanks to Peanut, Julie and Elizabeth for buying me that awesome girly bracelet.

Thanks to Frank for giving me that awesome Olympics Pen!

Thanks to Jason for buying me lotto, I won $2! yay.

And Thank you all for wishing me a happy birthday, it all mean heaps to me! thanks all!

Right now, I need to go check out the casino

I’m no longer a boy, becoming a man that I want to be.

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