34

Life is busy sometimes... I find myself writing this missive at a little past one in the morning. I've missed posting this on my birthday (fortunately, through the wonders of backdating, noone will ever know! Muahahahaha! ... wait... (but then again, I was born at 2:22am on August 20th, so technically this post could still be within the required timeframe if I stop wasting time with silly asides in nested parentheses)).

I went to Penang over Hari Raya holidays almost two weeks ago, so we had early birthday celebrations at a restaurant and at home. Unlike last year, we opted for a store-bought cake. It was a pretty good cake :)

The 'card' is smaller than it looks :P

Back in KL, over the weekend, I had my traditional steak lunch. This year, I had a lovely fillet mignon at Tony Roma's.

Mmmm... meat....

Now that the food's out of the way, as usual at this time of year, I find myself looking through the 'events' that were interesting enough to overcome my laziness and make onto this neglected blog. I finally bade farewell to my first car which I had for 10 years and said hello to a spanking new Toyota Vios. I tried making many new foods (with a fair degree of success, if I do say so myself). The end of the year marked my stage debut at my company annual dinner talent competition where I surprised everyone, including myself, by singing in front of the entire company. Christmas and New Year passed with the usual celebrations. April brought the sad news of the passing of Roger Ebert, a film critic and pop-culture icon whose writing always had my highest respect. Oh and though I didn't blog it, I got a very nice Panasonic Lumix LX7 camera which I think has vastly improved the quality of pictures you see here and on my G+. Also I finally bought a Blu-Ray player (welcome to 2009).

I guess it was a fairly good year for me, although I still didn't blog as much as I hoped I would, but I guess that's what new year resolutions are for ;)

As for 34 itself, it doesn't seem very interesting:

• It's the atomic number for Selenium, often used in glass and solar cell production. That's erm.. nice I guess.
• It's a semiprime... occuring in a cluster of three semiprimes. Interesting but I'm sure it's still jealous of the real primes.
• It's a Fibonacci number. Fun.
• It is a nontotient. Uh huh...
• It's the magic constant of a 4x4 normal magic square. Whee...
• It's a numbered 'Rule' of Internet meme fame that if you don't know, erm... don't Google it (seriously, don't)

That's all folks!

Until next time, Gentle Reader, goodbye and good night.

(Number facts from Wikipedia)

(Ooh looky, I made it in time before 2:22am... yay)