30 things that you shouldn't be doing in your 30s

Happy Birthday to Me! Yes I'm 30 as of today but I still feel like I'm the same guy I've always been.

You know when you were younger and you watch TV and guys as "working adult" has so much in common? They go to work, they make money, wear suit, get in love, get married, get into trouble and that's about it. They are "cool" people and they do adult things and that's what I thought it meant to be an adult. You talk about stock market, properties and maybe baby making.

It's all about the MONEY! 

So below are 30 things that I am still doing as an adult and very honestly didn't expect to be doing and.. fine, I am not proud of all 30 of them. (P.S. I really hate doing listing blogpost but hey, it's a special occasion.)


1. Wearing T-shirt and Berms to work

Any given day without important meeting... This is how I look.

Apparently through out my whole career, I only had 1 job which was pretty strict with my dress code and without a doubt I left the place within a year. And to be honest, my mum has no idea what I do for a living. I work at Oven Baked Ideas and our main project now is www.MeGuideU.com and we are an online travel agency.

2. Watching Cartoon and still loving it

Let's get serious. We all have our childhood favourite cartoon but it's kinda weird that my childhood favourite are still my favourite.

3. Going to Club and get drunk 

I can't even remember which year was this. Was it even my birthday?

It's always awesome to get a drink or two but some nights we just go a little too far and being 30 sucks. I used to be able to club till 4am and reach work at 9am without a wink and now? After a night of drinks it's going to take me like 2 days to recover but it's all good fun that I like! #ImTooOldForThisShit

4. Cracking silly jokes that I heard from my high school days 

Despite the fact that even I can't laugh at my own jokes. Thank you guys for always laughing at my lousy jokes.

Example:

At a restaurant:

"你叫什么？“
”鸡饭lor"
"eh, hello 鸡饭 , 我叫Smith. "

#ThisShitNeverGetsOld

5. Celebrating "Not-a-father's day". Yes, it is a thing

While many of my peers are already parents, some are even parents to 2 or 3, I am still having fun running around, drinking, working, having fun and not ready to settle down. I know I would 1 day, (maybe) but I really don't know when I will be really ready for this. I thought I should be ready by 30 but... nope.

6. Quoting TV Shows

Self explanatory, see point 5.

7. Enjoy eating Ice Cream

You guys remember Eye Scream

Working adult man on TV only drinks XO, go for expensive posh restaurant and Ice cream is not like one of those things but to me, Ice Cream is almost like staple!

8. Buying Toys

And it's not even adult toys. LOL

9. Playing Toys

I mean I finally suited up but I'm still holding a bear and toy gun.. so.. erm..

I don't just buy and collect dust, I actually play with them quite often. Besides lego, action figures, also toy guns! Phew phew. Bish Bish.. Bang Wham~ Proof!

10. Sleeping with Toys (still not sex type.)

Every night we also threesome de leh. LOL.

11. Buying a happy meal at Macdonald's

I'm loving it!

12. Spending too much time online

Like my banker-wanker friends, or lawyer or whoever, they really don't have much time to spare less say be on the internet. That makes them feel kinda adult-ish but I really spend so much time online and it makes me feel really really young.

13. Spending too much time on online games

Just look at that.

14. Spending too much time on video games

How good is a smart phone when you don't have Pokemon on it. Right?

15. Spending too much time with my mum like a baby boy

Your friendly neighbourhood no.1 mummy's boy. The big guy that every knows at the market because I have to visit my mum when she was working there because I was too bored home alone. LOL.

16. LASER TAG

Because LASER TAG! YA YA YA YA YA!!

17. Blogging. It's a thing for teenage girls right? 

Not going to offend anyone here so let google do the job. Anyone familiar?

I mean who cares about what a 30 year old man eats, does, shit, OOTD, Selfie or what shit? Which grown man has time to be sitting in front of the computer writing shit like this? It's something like all the young pretty girl do right? Can you imagine how much more popular if I've tits or wears a push up bra like them? BOOMYA!

18. Halloween Parties (or any form of silly costumes) 

My Bro Barney only has 1 rule and that is to suit up only in expensive suits unless the girl you are costume suiting up for is hot.

19. Taking fucking selfies and any other stupid photos

Selfie - Checked. Stupid - Checked.

20. Talking about sex

Base on the fact that 1 starts to have sex at a legal age of 18 and doing it as minimum as once a week there are 52 weeks and after 12 years - that is 624 times of sex. Are we mature enough to just do it and not talk about it like it's even funny? Nope, i guess not. It is still funny. *sniggle*

21. Watching Porn 

The discovery of internet and porn cums hand in hand and we all know that goes way back and by now I believe I've watch more porn than Korean Drama and Japan Drama combined but... ok.. BRB.

22. Scolding Vulgar 

Can you imagine your primary school teacher scolding vulgar when they ask you not to do it because it's bad? So that's the idea I get. Adults are mature enough to express themselves and knn ccb ain't what they do. I was wrong, because that is exactly what they do and we too, still do. Fact is that all the rich ass business man I've met? We curse like sailor. To be honest, I haven't really met a sailor. HAHA.

23. Listening to the same record from the same band from years ago


We always imagined what will new music be like when we were young but the fact is the older stuff are always better isn't it.

24. Have no idea what is the red wine I just drank

Off a mug. WADDUP!

25. Have a online Hater

To be honest, I didn't see this coming. I thought I was too old for it but it happened. I guess that's the price to pay when you put yourself on the internet and people just ain't too happy about you. I guess I just can't satisfy everyone. This incident however did make me feel 14 again.

26. Pulling off the centre parting hair 

Pulling it off.

27. Being really cocky

One of my biggest problem. The one which is both my strength and weakness. Full of confidence and full of myself and I am so okay with it. People always say you will mellow down a little as age comes but I guess 30 is still young to me. That explains why I got a hater maybe?

28. Still overweight 

I fucking WAS Skinny. 9 yrs ago

I have always been a fat boy and the saying is always "aiya go army will slim down liao" but nobody ever told me anything about the weight you will put them back or even twice as much. So I always imagine that at 30 I am suppose to be at my peak, looking good and all but apparently not so.

29. Getting out of the house with a unpresentable hair and think it's fine

Aiya... 随便啦！！！ Also not say like if I comb my hair I will become yandao right?

30. Still thinking about "the future" 

The hard truth... The truth that time is running up. Remember how we like to say "When I grow up.. I want to blah blah blah" but the fact is at the age of 30, your future is NOW. Nothing is going to happen if you ain't gonna do anything about it now. You are no longer a teen and the age between 20 - 30 where you encounter a quater life crisis and cry out loud about how unfair life has been to you is over. At age of 30 you need to stop thinking about the future and should already be executing part of "the future" plan. If you are not even near, I guess you have to be ready to make some changes to your life. That's a bad habit. Every night before I sleep, I still think about my alternate future. Becoming a super hero because I walk pass an antique shop that sells me a weird item out of no where. Going overseas and falling down the cliff and meet a long lost kungfu master or even striking TOTO and how my life changed overnight. Wake up Smith. Those dreams ain't gonna bring you anywhere.

But...

That is what makes me special. The kid in me never dies. That's why I am crazy, that's why I am fun (or at least to me) and that's why I am so candid. I wouldn't say I have got everything under my feet but I would say my life ain't at a dead-end either. I have a good career and family. Regardless of what age you are, I guess the most important is to be able to do things you can answer. Every action has consequences and what matters the most is that you are ready for it. Live life without regret regardless of age, make sure you only get wiser every year and not make the same mistake. I am no saint, I make mistakes, some I learnt some I don't and like I always say, I believe I am a very blessed and lucky person because some of the 2nd chances I was given would never happened to others. I guess I did get the longer side of the stick more often than not.

Thank you everyone for your wishes, thank you everyone for allowing me to be who I am, to be the comfortable and candid Smith. Allows me to say the shit I said and stupid things I do. Your tolerance and patience is definitely appreciated.

Thank you and have a Happy Smith Day. Trust me, it is a thing.  

P.S. Last year, I dedicated my birthday wish to my friend Ming Hao who was fighting cancer and this year he is all well! So this year I shall use the wish for my career and hope that everything will be smooth sailing for MeGuideU.com!