This, is a historical photograph. In more ways anyone (outside the industry) can ever imagine.

Dasmond and Chongqing came to my 21st birthday party right after Singapore Hit Awards 2000. I knew them since I was in my teens so it was only appropriate that they were among the hundred-odd guests to watch me transform into an adult.

Many memories flooded back the evening I flipped through the dusty albums containing those 3R and 4R images.

Things were much simpler then.

And I realised later with a heavier sigh, that these emotions only hit you when you’re not that young anymore.