lest he accuse me, as he did last year, (o tempora! o mores!) of having forgotten his birthday, i haven't:

happy 26th birthday, yeen teck, and welcome to the twilight twenties. thirteen years is a long time to have been friends; it's all a matter of yuanfen isn't it? and here is your obligatory 'boo!' and you may now choose your own colour scheme, and tell it me when you return the 'yargh.' when i get home we will go driving on empty expressways at three in the morning and have roti prata and curry rice by the roadside.