On the day after Tet Sean's 15th surprise birthday bash at Dominos, which was Wednesday, the 10th of November, it was Becca Chong's birthday. Yes, Becca, one of my very good friends.
I can't really recall what happened on that day, because it was almost a month ago, but I do recall that it was a schooling day. If I'm not mistaken, I spent the entire morning with Tet Sean, Ashlee Lim, Joohijit Kaur, and Zi Xuan, the usual.
We actually planned Becca's birthday bash for months. Planning and enquiries began quite some time ago. Knowing Becca's childish behavior, we actually wanted to celebrate her birthday in a interactive playzone, famously known as Megakidz. But things didn't work out because of the age limit. Can't be letting 15-year-olds into a 7-year-old playzone, right? They would look like humongous giants crushing ants, and the kids would probably run away, in fear. You get the idea.
So in the end, we were just happy enough to fulfill our aim, which was to throw a decent surprise birthday celebration. As we all know, there has to be a lot of detailed and serious procedures in planning a surprise party. If anything goes wrong, then you're fried. So this was ours.
Becca is told by Aileen that we all had to stay back after dismissal for debate training with our debate trainer, Ahmed, until 4 in the evening. Her other friends give her last birthday wishes and hugs, and they head for home, but instead they were actually headed for Tony Romas in MidValley to gather and settle the final preparations. The 3 of us await for our debate trainer and the other debaters to arrive, but none of them would be in sight, because there wasn't going to be any official trainings in the first place. We would wait for an hour, until Aileen is ready to disclose to Becca that the training was canceled, after receiving a phone call from Ahmed.
Since it was her birthday, we will take her to MidValley and celebrate, telling her that it would just be the 3 of us.
Plans worked our pretty fine. Becca was quite pissed after knowing that Ahmed wasn't able to make it, but her anger seemed to die down, because she didn't feel like debating on that day anyways.
We couldn't help it but to just add a "God, I hate Ahmed because he's always canceling our trainings without informing us" to kill all her suspicion of the surprise party. We took her to MidValley with the help of the bus and bumped into Yong Wailee along the way. Also, we bumped into Chia Zheng & Tat Shing and Chee Hong & Yi Wei along the way, but they refused to join us because they already had plans. So it was just the 4 of us.
Becca the birthday girl, Aileen Loo, and I, camwhoring while waiting for Ahmed's arrival.
Little did we know that the people at Tony Romas weren't quite done with their preparations yet. That's when we started to get nervous.
When we got there, we were told by Becca that she couldn't eat much for she was watching her figure. So we decided to take her down to the food court on the ground floor.
When we were nearly approaching Tony Romas, which so happened to be on the ground floor, Aileen quickly asked Becca whether she wanted to change into something more comfortable or not. She agreed. We wanted to deviate her from Tony Romas.
So we took her to the washroom on the highest floor, which was 4 floors above. We were desperate to kill time. When she came out, I told her that I had to get movie tickets for my parents, since they wanted to watch 'Hachiko' that weekend, which was 3 days later, but scrapped the idea because we told Becca that it was "getting late" to further kill her suspicion. It was 3 in the afternoon.
So we took the escalator to the level below, and told her that our feet hurt badly from all the walking. We tried to persuade her to use the elevator. We ended up waiting for the elevator for about 10 minutes, and headed to Tony Romas. There, she was surprised.
At around half past four, we decided to go for a bowl. I was leading throughout the game, until Wailee left and Audrey came along towards the end. She won.
As the day got late, everyone left. I was told by my dad that he couldn't pick me up from the mall due to the heavy rush hour traffic jam, and told me that he could only be able to make it until 7. It was 6 then.
I told him to scrap that idea and come for me later in the night. I headed for the movies.
Well, I ended up watching 'Adele : The Rise Of The Mummy' since there weren't any shows left for 'Burried' and 'Altitude' on that day, which I so badly wanted to watch. The movie was surprisingly good, even though it had illogical elements to it. They really did a great job in combining comedy with heavy adventure, especially the mummies, something which you don't normally see everyday.
The high points of that day ended there, and finally arrived home at 10.
The next morning, I played this drawing board game called the 'Pictionary' for the very first time with the usual friends. I teamed up with Joohijit on this one, and was very far behind the game, until towards the end when we finally shot up.
Our school was screening movies prior to its Form 3 students, in conjunction with the end of the major examinations.
We missed out on the first show of the day, which was 'Eclipse', something which I wanted to watch for ages but didn't had the chance to do so.
So, we only managed to catch the second show, which was 'The Cave'.
The title of the movie sounded really boring, but the movie was surprisingly wonderful, compared to 'The Last Song' and 'Aliens In The Attic' which we watched the day after.
I was seated in the same row with Joohijit, Tet Sean, Ashlee, Zi Xuan and Li Wen, and Jin Hooi with Jasmine Tan in the row in front. I would say that I was laughing throughout the time when I was in the theatre, even though it was a horror movie, not because of the movie, but because of the way Jasmine watched it.
This was her reaction when the movie was halfway through.
She was basically tilting her head sidewards, with one eye locked onto the screen, and the other, beneath the table with the rest of her body. Jin Hooi who was sitting next to her didn't give a shit because he was asleep.
The funniest part is when I tried to frighten her by laying my hands on her shoulders from behind during the gory scenes, for about 5 times. At every attempt, she would jump and scream in complete shock, and the whole theatre would send her with "Shh"s, and I would be laughing my ass off.
It was the last day for classes on the 16th of November, Tuesday, and it was also Ashlee's last day at Catholic High School. We spent our last moments with her, and sang Katy Perry's 'Firework' together in the end. Everything was perfect until fucking gay face crashed in. Big hint there.
Anyway, Ashlee, you will be missed. I will surely appreciate, and recall the times we had together, on the countless outings, Editorial Board projects and graphic designing assignments, 'The Ashlgabr' and songwriting. You will dearly be missed. Why is it that every single year, at least someone whom I'm close to leaves? Oh well, enjoy your life in Alice Smith! May the odds be with you.
On the morning of 20th of November, Saturday, I was at SMK (P) Sri Aman setting up stalls for the ICC Carnival. Yes, the one which banner I was supposed to design.
I went there even though I was sick, like I've mentioned in my previous entry, I was dying to go.
Our stall was called the 'Comp-Eat', a food eating competition, known as 'The Food Showdown'.
The preparation work involved were mad, I tell you, mad. We prepared hundreds of hotdogs, including those with mustard and wasabi paste, jellies, ice cream potongs and bananas, prior to the event.
It wasn't really of a success, for the carnival was already dead by 1 in the afternoon, but I've definitely bonded with my debate juniors, who are also Interactors of the Interact Club of Catholic High School.
Later in the night, I attended Lance's party. A party which I have been dying to go for ages.
Things really didn't turn out well when you totally don't know anyone from the party, at all. I felt really isolated and left out. Well, I tried doing what the others were doing, which was what I claimed, dirty dancing, but it was just, it was just wrong.
The others were basically fucking each other with their clothes on.
I can't do that on a stranger.
Everyone there knew each other, and I was like the odd one out. If it were my friends, or any of my friends were there, I would definitely be fifty times more comfortable.
The party ended at 3 in the morning, and I left at 10 in the evening. That was how left out I was. Hopefully the next time Lance tries another party, I'm definitely going to bring at least 10 people I know. You'll have my word for it.
2 days later, a Monday morning, I was back at school training my debate juniors, Chelsea Ho and Lydia Gan, with Kuok Ren, my teammate. We were training for the UiTM Inter Varsity Debate Tournament 2010, which ran from the 26th to the 28th of November, last Sunday. In my next blog entry, I will be writing about the experience.
We spent the entire morning discussing about issues relating about nuclear proliferators, Detroit, Aung San Suu Kyi and the Love Canal tragedy.
Later in the noon, we went over to Nicholas Choo's to celebrate his 15th birthday. The surprise started at 10 in the morning, but we could only be there at 1. The others, mainly Sue Ann, Yan Hui, Melissa Pok and Jaclyn Wong were there early to wake him up from bed.
When we got there, 'The Orphan' was playing on his DVD player.
It's about this psycho 9-year-old named Esther who gets adopted by this unfortunate family and wants to seduce the father. Turns out that she's actually a 33-year-old woman who has hypopituitarism, a condition that stunted her physical growth. After knowing that the dad doesn't love her, as a woman, not a child, she tries to kill every single member of the family, including the father.
5 stars for this thriller film. The first half was crap, but the second half of the movie sprung to life. Jaclyn insisted on keeping the spoilers to herself until the very end. Memorable lines include this one, "When grownups love each other, very, very much, they want to show each other that love. They want to express it." "I know, they fuck."
I really liked it, even though Esther was being such a bitch.
We spent the rest of the day playing Twister and meddling with his musical instruments. I wonder why Jaclyn hasn't uploaded any of the photographs shot during Twister.
Nicholas Choo's surprise birthday crash.
Last Thursday, which was the 25th of November, I attended Deanna's themed birthday bash at her family mansion, which was her second home. The theme was 'Blue & Pink', and I think I was the only few who really lived by that dress code.
Her mansion was pretty huge, with 4 levels above ground, and another 4 below. That's 8 stories. I wouldn't mind taking up an entire floor, all by myself, since no one even lives there. We spent about an hour touring every storey of the mansion. Deanna claims the reason why nobody lives there anymore is because she thinks that the place is haunted. It has been around since the 1950s. The basement looked really like a torture chamber and a slaughter house, mashed into one. The place used to be a factory. Yes, but manufacturing what? Thinking about it sends shivers down my spine. Wonder what history lurks behind that evil mansion?
I'm starting to make this all sound so wrong. Back to the celebration.
The most memorable part of the day was the water fight we had. It was like the Burmese Water Festival, but better. Everyone was drenched, except for Rachel Ng, who had a DSLR in her hands. Before I could even know it, the night went by really quick, and ended with a traditional, birthday cake slicing ceremony.
The past month of my life has begun to roar back to life. I'm just looking forward to living my holidays, as if the world would end tomorrow. Peace, part two's coming soon, badass extensions.
Deanna Song's birthday bash.
It's the end of November, but it looks like mid-April, the month of birthdays and surprises.
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