and the food was good..Cindy and Ammeliney didnt like the some of the appetizers(mussels and jellyfish) so guess who had extra helpings?[grin]by the time we reached the fried rice course i was stuffed to the gills...so FULL!!!ok...how come i can seem to remember what I wanted to say?oh YEAH!!!Creature of Darkness a.k.a Gladys, Ammeliney and I were laughing like mental hospital runaways sometime near the middle of the whole occasion..its the kind of laughter that when you are normal and sane, you dn't think its that funny..but at the time..it is HILARIOUS...I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe...It started with my sis and Ammeline saying lame jokes..like the one that goes..'there are two buns in an oven..a big bun and a small bun...the big bun turned to the small bun and said ''its hot in here'' and the smallbun went ''oooh, a talking bun!!'' '....T.T...i was like.LAME!!! ToT...and yes..in a way..its darn funny..and it set Ammeline off..she said herself that she laughs easily..then my sis said another one..slightly racist sounding..'What do you call two black ppl under a red blanket?'..answer..'KIT KAT'...i tell you..that one was so lame that I couldnt even laugh...and since im so sleepy..i shall continue this post tomorrow...and pretend that its still the 27th..ok?nights for now~
I'M BAAACK!!!and now I shall proceed to upload pictures of my bday prezzies!!here's Yieng's!!!I was sooo happy man...I ate Excapade coz Misato wasnt open..darn restaurant just HAD to have renovations on my birthday..so next best is Excapade..then Yieng called to ask where I was..and then later she drove all the way from home to Excapade just to give me my prezzie(this is what my sis told me..she said that Theng told her)..Its hard to describe how i felt..i was just sooo happy to see her..she's returning to UK...
I'M BAAACK!!!and now I shall proceed to upload pictures of my bday prezzies!!here's Yieng's!!!I was sooo happy man...I ate Excapade coz Misato wasnt open..darn restaurant just HAD to have renovations on my birthday..so next best is Excapade..then Yieng called to ask where I was..and then later she drove all the way from home to Excapade just to give me my prezzie(this is what my sis told me..she said that Theng told her)..Its hard to describe how i felt..i was just sooo happy to see her..she's returning to UK...
A horsie~(i think) with chocos inside..im gonna get fatter!!NOOOOO
Naptime for two ppl who ignored me..hmph..guess who they are?
Not yet eaten..but i was sorely tempted
A different angle..i was mentally drooling
The first bite~oh HEAVEN~the STRAWBERRIES!!!
After one minute(i couldn wait any longer)..i took the second bite...and AGAIN i saw stars..~yumyumyumyum
the third bite was taken within a very short period of time too..i just HAD to have more of those strawberries
the FOURTH bite!!!by this time..i was sadly thinking that it was going to finish soon
fifth bite..it was diminishing in size before my eyes....but my tastebuds were in the seventh heaven of delight
I called this photo 'The Last Stand'...see?its standing bravely eventhough its about to meet its end...
Do I have to comment on this one?^^
oh..and this ones's ferrero rocher~lalalala
there's also a present I got from Aunty Tong Ching..a Mary Kay watch..but since I havent photographed it, I
can't show it yet..maybe later...this post is gonna take a long time..coz i'm doing work at the same time..
its now the 2nd of oct..and i havent even finished this post...hahah..ooh..uploading the pics of my bday pressies so far..
this is the watch aunty tongching gave me~my mum thanks God coz she says she's been trying to get me to wear a watch since form 1..and i hav only started wearing one now..this one
my watch~lalalala..
from a different angle..but someow..i just cant capture the shiny-ness(not a real word)off the wrist band
my mom bought this belt for me.^^..she said it was expensive..and wont tell m the price
my belt~~
this bracelet's a present from auntie Doreen..my mom says when she heard it was my bday, she told my mom to give it to me..i was very surprised..and very happy~THANK YOU AUNTIE DOREEN!!
BRACELET!!BRACELET!!!
YES~its what u think it is...ITS A MOBILE PHONE!!!!MY DAD BOUGHT ME A MOBILE PHONE!!!YAY!!!!I WAS SO HAPPIE!!!!!with one exception..I love it..but i love my previous phone more..this one has no mirrored surface to look at urself...when i asked my dad how come he didn buy the same one..he said there was no more.....i never knew that phones run out so fast..even less popular models..at least I THINK my 7310 had been a less popular model..who know if its actually super popular....mobile phone!lalalala~mobile phoneee...
well..that's all d presents i've received till now..my dear joycey and huibooie owe me..muahahahha...and so does grace and char..n amos..n gab,..and and and and..hehehe..what am i saying....
our choir singing for the fortieth anniversary went better than i expected..and I realised one thing...many parents would die for the chance to stand next to their child while singing together..lemme explain..my mom and I ended up standing next to each other in the place arrangements for the choir this time...neither of us planned it..its coz I'm singing first soprano..(and with the exception of Cindy,..none of my other friends did..T.T..abandonment~)and so is my mom...and I'm taller than her..while the other person next to my mom is shorter than her..so there you go..neither of us thought anything of it either..but then on the day of the performance..after the service..my mom told me one uncle told her he was so envious of us both..he said that by the time his daughter gets to the age where she can sing in the choir, he would be old and unable to sing..I was very surprised..what I said was..'HUH?is it such a big deal when mother and daughter stand together and sing?'...my mum had a similar response...that uncle also said that throughout the whole song he was looking at me and my mom, the only mother-daughter pair in the choir that stood next to each other, and he looked at no one else...wow..I really didn't know it was such a big deal for parents...even later when we were eating lunch at Curry House..Grace's parents and the others were commenting..how envious they were..and are we sure we didn't plan to stand together and the such..so I came to the conclusion that most parents long to have such chances together with their children.....APPRECIATE YOUR TIME WITH YOUR PARENTS...but i can say honestly that I was glad to stand next to my mom...throughout all the practices, she was the recipient of all the little complaints and comments I had..like when I was complaining that my feet were sore..and they were VERY SORE....seriously..i could feel my legs aching..i kept shifting from foot to foot..or when I heard some out-of-tune..or when i was wondering why our conductor gave us the wrong key to start on..or when i heard amos making weird noises somewhere behind me...realy weird noises..OH YEAH!!I REMEMBER SOMETHING!!!on Friday, two days prior to Sunday, the 27th, we were at Manggis Mall rehearsing...and both Amos and I hadn't had our dinner, me having rushed to be on time(blaming my siblings here)..and amos, i dunno lar...well,yes as i was saying, neither of us had had dinner...so after rehearsal, we went to eat Sugarbun while our parents rehearsed..with Renwei and Siang Thai...he and I both had curry...and he ate DOUBLE portion...okay..thats not the main point..he had mentioned that he hd a bit of a sore throat..i advised him against eating curry but he said he didn't care, he had a craving for it...then on Sat, he told me that his voice was vanishing..and i told him 'Who told you to eat curry that day?...you MUST sing tomorrow ah..'...and then he 'exercised' his voice by letting out some noises that can't be described...but if i had to say, it sounds rather like a cat that got its tail stamped on..well..then on the day itself...his voice was in even worse condition..he then told me that he woke up every hour the night before to drink water and use the bathroom..and I was laughing and laughing....oh, and he let out even more of those weird noises to test his voice...and THEN just before we were going to go on the stage, we were all standing up...my mom and I heard even weirder noises behind us..i knew immediately who made them but my mom didnt know...and she turned around in surprise..whee..it was amos..and he ws making bullfrog-ish sounds in an attempt to make sure he could still sing at that pitch...i was hard-pressed not to laugh out loud..HARHARHAR!!!and then~after the service..amos lost most of his voice..he couldn't even call out loud enough to summon Gabriel over..ok..after the service, they gave me a surprise..its d day of my bday...and I didn't even see it coming.evryone vanished after the service..everyone as in my friends, except for huibooie...I had noticed them all gathering together near the stairs but didn't notice anything suspicious about it as all us teens like to gather together after service...then Grace reappeared with Gabriel to exhort me to go eat downstairs...(later she told me that she had been given the task to get me downstairs but didn't know how to do it without arousing my suspicion..so she dragged Gabriel along...she needn't have worried however as I didnt suspect a thing)...I ate..then I was going to wash my hands in the kitchen and Grace seemed really anxious..she tried to stop me, calling me..but then she calmed down(she told me later that she was afraid that they were all still at the back lighting candles..and then I would see it and the surprise would be spoilt..can u believe that I still didn't even suspect at that point?)..then she told me to go outside to talk...and let me tell u..thats something we do all the time so it wasnt suspicious...and I noticed Isaac hovering around,following behind me with a camera..BUT i didnt suspect anything again..i shouldve guessed however..the minute I stepped out and looked left, i saw them all and they burst into a chorus of 'Happy birthday to yoouuu..'I was seriously surprised..like..for real..my first instinct was to flee back inside but i stopped myself..then Grace dragged me over..a lot of them were holding a small cupcake with a lighted candle embedded in it..and all were half-yelling,'blow mine!!blow mine!!'...and Isaac was hovering around with the camera...i had fun~hehehe..and I didnt get to blow Gladys' one coz it fell..and RW's coz the wind decided to help me...then they all piled the cakes into my hands like a cupcake pyramid..and proceeded to take pics..i thin they were enjoying seeing me try to balance the very unbalanced tower of cupcakes,,HAHA!!!took many many pics...and I look so fat in all of them..ergh..i was sooo happy!!!and vry touched...especially becoz of Aunty TongChing..it was her apparently who organised it...haha!!
Yieng left two days ago...and im still depressed over it..it happened so fast..i didnt get to say goodbye properly..and it was so hard to smile when its the last thing i felt like doing..im happy that Yieng can go back to study..and all..but I really really didnt want her to leave..it felt even more like a goodbye than the last time..i was so happy to see her again and spend time with her..great,,now i feel like crying again..i felt like I didn't spend enough time with her, didn't get to talk to her enough, didn't get to hug her enough..I just felt like something was gone..i realised over again how important it was to me to be able to have her in brunei..where i could see her face-to-face..and to also realise that to hear her voice talking to me was so important..i know that as long as we both are in this world, I'll be able to see her again..but each parting, no matter who, is significant in its own way and painful in its own way...its not like its a mere holiday...everyone seemed so happy, shouting goodbye to her..i knew in my heart that they were all sad to see her go..and that there were no tears yet coz it was so fast..coz she was late and hd to run and that they would probably feel it later.but for me...I felt it really acutely when i watched her go in...its painful and horrible..i was rather glad that i ended up at the back of the crowd of my friends..at least they couldnt see my expression..and I just watched when some of them gave her final hugs and she went in...then I turned away and told my father to go now...I really wanted to cry, and if I stayed any longer, I would..i was just that close to tears-pouring-down-cheeks...i guess words are insufficient to express much..as far as i saw(like i said..as far as i saw..and i couldnt see really clearly then.)no one else was close to tears..(i dont know abt huibooie..and i know her mom n sis were also that close to crying)..was i the only one at that time that felt that I couldn't bear it?that if i opened my mouth to say something, i would cry?...it didnt help that I hadn been able to ask her if she had been a leetle mad at me on monday..coz i couldn help but be a little paranoid..and maybe not even paranoid..what if it's true?..i just want to know,guess i'll have to somehow dare to ask her..like now..
Well...suffice it to say that im going to be depressed for the better part of this week..Renwei says he had been trying to cheer me up that day.,..I hadn't known that my mood was so obvious..buts its seriously hard to smile when your chest feels tight...sigh...there're still things i want to write about that day, but they have eluded me for the time being..so nevermind..
