Happy 25th Birthday, Ian!

In the end, I still didn't manage to find my autograph book. No autograph book means no address. That effectively also means there's no way I can send my birthday greetings, since that's the only mode of contact I have too.

Whatever it is.. and wherever you are, since I've no way of sending you this, I'll just type it here:

Happy 25th birthday, the senior I look up to most!

Theoretically, you can't exactly count as a senior either. But yet, in my 2 years of JC, you're probably the senior who left the greatest impact. I still have that note you wrote and whenever I feel like shying away even though circumstances say that I shouldn't, I'll remind myself of that note and feel a tiny bit less scared. Just like how your optimism is infectious. Jut like last year, the day before I was to start pupillage at some place, I turned cold and ended up emailing you to get some comfort. I didn't expect you to reply, but you did. And it soothe my nerves, even if I left that firm within a few weeks.

Ian, thanks for making that effort to be a really really great senior, even though you didn't have to. Especially since you weren't from my senior class, nor my CCA, and even if it's just being a senior in school, that was merely for a month only. Seriously, all these years, I just want to say a huge THANK YOU personally, though I'll probably still be too shy to say that.

And of course, Happy Birthday, Ian!