My 22nd Birthday

Ok, I better write this down before I forget and spoil the whole post. >.<

My birthday past 2 weeks back. But celebration was all around the date that I almost couldn’t pinpoint my exact birthdate. xD

Two days before:

 I was suppose to start my degree theses. (Degree? Yes, it’s an extended thing from my current course.) So I was planning to meet my mentor in the morning but I postponed it just for San Francisco Coffee’s breakfast. <.<>.> Went with mom. It was a good morning. ^^ xD

One day before:

I went out with mom early in the morning. Went to the temple and fed some fishes. Whee~ xD Then, it was KARAOKE time!! xD But too bad my mom was having a sorethroat so she couldn’t really sing. >.<

Then met up with Owen. Had dinner and watched movie, “Knight and Day”. A simple movie really but nice. The feeling was like...sitting at home on the couch relaxing while watching a movie. ^^ (At home cannot la since no couch in front of the tv. xD Only got dining table and food. Otherwise it’ll be a bed in front of the computer. xD)

ACTUAL DAY:

Hehe I “pre-ordered” home made lunch. xD From Yin Khuan. Her home-cooked-spaghetti. Yums! Went to get June and headed over to lunch. Lotsa hotdogs! Awww~ xD It was rather quiet since there was only 4 of us. Me, June, Yin Khuan and Yin Yi. So after lunch, we had a frenzy over board games. LOADS of them. xD Battleship (love it! =p =p ), Cluedo (watch YY keep accusing herself. And she’s RIGHT about it! xD xD) and Congkak (boring after awhile unless you watch your opponent get pressurized. xD Sorry, YK.). Hey, it’s healthier than Mahjong. xD

For dinner, I had it at Tony Romas with dad. The food ain’t worth the wait. >.< I only ate appetizers for dinner and I couldn’t finish!! X.x Oddly, they were expensive nuggets that tasted like Honey Spare Ribs. Oo

Two days after:

Family took me out for dim sum dinner where the menu had to be checked by ourselves personally (mom and aunt had bad prior experience. xD). Got a few free tong sui from the restaurant’s boss and we acted as food tasters too, if not menu corrector (is there such a word?). xD

More days after:

Well...it’s only happening next week. So I’ll leave it ‘til then. xD

Gifts:

Apart from the CASH~~ Hahaha Below are the few items I got. =)

A costume jewellery from my sister. This picture is large to emphasize her fat bird. xD

(Note: The stuff from Trinxx is really neat. They are all hand-made by my sister's friend. =) )

A nice pair of flower earrings from Owen.

A funny cup from Ainul.

Ah yes..I had a blast of wishes on Facebook too but there were just too many to state who and how many. xD Thanks everyone!! ^^

Memory of the Year (2010) with Special Casts

I’m definitely not letting this one pass. It’s just a terribly frustrating yet too hilarious an event to not note down albeit it happened 3 weeks back. Haha

The main cast? Me, Owen and Philip. Supporting cast are Edgar and James. xD Poor fellas, but they get that category since impact is not so strong. By the way, they are all Sunway coursemates.

So what exactly happened..?

See before exams ended, me and Owen were slaving day in, day out at the foyer preparing for our dreaded exams. Philip always walks around, so we see him often.

That one particular day, all four of us were sitting together with another coursemate as well, James. Philip is very kind-hearted. He does social work such as providing food to the poor. Of course, he does this under an organization. So he told us about it and asked if we were interested to help out. I for one was very keen. We tentatively set an implied agreement.

Exams are over. Philip approaches us again with a more detailed invitation. So me and Owen decided to join in and have a look. We made plans on how to meet Philip since neither of us were familiar with the area until I googled it out. (Yes! Google Map rules!! >D)

So the original plan was this:

We were to meet Philip at Centrepoint around 7.45pm before he show us the way to Aman Suria. To be honest, it’s quite way off. Up ‘til today, we have totally no idea why he picked Centrepoint. So since I was working that day, me and Owen decided that we individually drive to Centrepoint. From here, this is where the whole story twists. xD

My boss was a little over the top since we finished off some work before deadline; so being “high”, he let us off early. xD I got home at the time I should have left work on an average day, 6pm. Then I found out that Owen doesn’t really know his way to Centrepoint so I suggested he pick me up from my house and we go together; and since we have time, go for dinner as well. This was the reason I didn’t eat anything. (Ok, I had a piece of bread only.)

Here is where Edgar comes in. xD Owen tells me he’s still home since he’s waiting to pick up Edgar, which was really sudden since we had no idea he was coming to begin with. Wait wait wait...then we decided that Owen doesn’t have enough time to get me and go meet Philip in time  since the traffic around here is superb. So what should we do next? Call Philip to just meet at Aman Suria of course, since I already figured out the place.

We tried....we seriously tried...but we just couldn’t get to Philip!! *thunder background, in shock* Now....SOLUTION! Owen picks up Edgar and head to Aman Suria straight while I drive out to meet Philip and drag him to the centre we are heading to.

I was driving halfway, stuck in traffic not too far from home when Owen called. He finally got Philip. Philip is feeling very frustrated and guilty now. He thought we didn’t know the place. Well, can’t blame him. We did NOT know earlier. ^^’

So I managed to divert and head straight to Aman Suria BUT before I reach I decided to stay somewhere close to the main road where Owen can spot me when he drove pass, so I can lead him into Aman Suria. I waited....for I dunno how long...in the car singing to myself and watching to cars pass, making sure I don’t block anyone since I illegally parked at the side.

Owen calls. He says he has followed my verbal directions but he doesn’t see me. Landmarks? Totally different. Great..where is he? I drove straight to Aman Suria looking for landmarks similar to his. I couldn’t figure his location, neither can he figure mine. But here was a mistake I made. I wasn’t observant enough on his landmarks or else I could have easily pinpoint where he was already.

Frustrated, he tells me to go to the centre first. I found it and was about to get down the car but I called again to make sure where he was. His new landmark.....AMCORP MALL.

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I’ll try my best to describe what I felt but it’s more significant feeling it at that point. Holding the phone, my senses were totally annoyed, irritated, or probably to a boiling point that if he was there I could just have smacked him.  I remembered shouting earlier when I was frustrated but at that point, I was just plain speechless for awhile. I wanted to just rage at him yet I wanted to laugh out so bad.

I’d not met someone with such horrible sense of direction....well, maybe I do know a few but they normally don’t do this much harm. Yet, thank goodness for his horrible sense of direction that I get to think back and have a good laugh every now and then. xD Thank you!!

Anyway, let’s get to the conclusion of the story. I never went to the centre; drove to Amcorp to meet the lost men and went for dinner instead (it was close to 10pm by then I think). I think we left Philip disappointed since none of us turned up and he still felt bad. Oh well. Sorry, Philip. ^^’

*reads post again* ... *chuckles*

[Note: I know this post is really long. So here’s a fun fact. xD This post is almost 2 full pages on MSWord. Hope you enjoyed the thrill. xD]