this morning yeen teck messaged me Very Meaningfully accusing me of forgetting his birthday (whatever happened to subtlety and delicacy?) and extorting the promise of an entry in his honour to compensate my neglect of his long and esteemed friendship. so here it is. gong jin bu ru cong ming, as the chinese say.

tink tink tonk! ahem ahem.

"Happy 25th, Yeen Teck. We have now known each other for 12 years (and counting.) and let's try to get through the next 25 moderately mentis compos so that you can still say, traditionally, yaaaargh! to my boo! through whatever state-of-the-art internet protocol we might be using then.


P.S. Note the capitalisation, which is a special effort for you, as I am generally regarded as one who has never grasped the concept of punctuation.