the O's are finally over!

haha i feel like there's something different, yet there isn't anything different. i woke up really late (by my standards) today, at the divine time of eleven. my brother was already in my room, watching some anime on youtube while eating jellybeans and crunching chips (my favourite potato chips!). i could've slept a little while more but i remembered that i should really wake up to bathe and wash my hair. i didn't wash my hair yesterday morning because i don't wash my hair on mornings of school days. and i didn't wash my hair yesterday night even though my fringe was super duper oily because i was so tired. so i forced myself out of bed this morning to have my long-awaited shower.

wait, there's something funny from Chuck which i want to quote!

Morgan: Are you ready, guys?
Patel: I was born ready.
Jeff: I was born premature.

HAHAHAHAHA, don't you find that hilarious too?? i laughed out loud. it's so sad that Chuck Season 2 is ending but it's only starting to make me laugh out loud. my favourite is still Season 1. just because it's funny and retarded and made me laugh aplenty. :)

okay, being the OCD that i am, i am going to recall and recount every single detail of yesterday for you people. it's regarding the last paper of o's AND sze's super sweet sixteen.

here goes:

okay, first of all, i had great plans for sze's birthday. like great great. you should ask jacq. she went through all of my OH I JUST HAD ANOTHER IDEA FOR SZE'S BDAY, JACQ smses. and i would call her even though there's a paper the next day and we would discuss it together. when there're screw-ups, i would also call jacq and complain to her. haha basically, jacq had to put up with me because i couldn't very well call sze anc complain to her.

i prayed for super long for this day to go smoothly and successfully. i thank God for answering my prayers. :)

right, so after the paper, we all went back home and agreed to meet at raffles city at 1230. jacq came back home with me because she wanted to borrow clothes from me. so she came along and took a long time trying to decide on something to wear. laughed alot at my on-screen keyboard because my actual 3d keyboard can't be used. finally chose two tops and went back home because she wasn't wearing the right bra. we agreed to meet at the her house's bus stop so we can bus over to raffles city.

it started raining.

and i didn't have my umbrella with me.

so i reached jacq's bus stop and promptly got stranded.

it was so horrible! there wasn't a spot in the entire bus stop which provided full protection from the evil clutches of the rain! and jacq refused to come down until the rain lessened because she was wearing flats and her flats get wet easily. so i waited there patiently for the rain to lessen while receiving smses about where i am and why i was going to be so late.

i became impatient and decided that i might as well take a cab there. so i called jacq and told her that i will try to hail a cab, then turn into her house to get her then we can make our way to raffles city. but i couldn't hail an effing cab because they were all already taken. so i was a very frustrated girl. i stomped my feet once and regretted it because i splashed water all over myself again.

jacq called me and told me to walk over to some street sign but i didn't know where that was and i couldn't have walked over anyway because it was still raining and i didn't have an umbrella. so she said that she'll get the taxi driver to u-turn to the bus stop, where i'll get into the cab, and then we can make our way to raffles city.

i got into the cab at 1230.

the uncle asked us which route we wanted to take to raffles city and gave us two choices.
1) the faster route, but we have to pay for 2 ERPs.
2) the slower route, but we don't have to pay for 2 ERPs.
we took option 1.

we reached raffles city and grace called me, so we agreed to meet up before walking over to New York New York together. met them at the mrt and then walked to NYNY, where av, natw, sze was already at. we introduced grace and maisie to sze and she was pleasantly surprised. haha i think she thought that was the surprise but that was considered small in comparison to what she'll get later! melin came late but she was part of the surprise, in sze's eyes. so we had lunch together, happily.

after lunch, we went to walk around. sze, me, jacq went to shop at hula&co, renamed hulo&ca by sze. there were pretty dresses. one caught my eye but it was 39.90. nope, too ex. and i wasn't planning on buying dresses anyway. after that, we walked into MPH to look at all the books. natw picked up one called the Skinny Bitch. hahaha. and then there were all these Books for Dummies. hilarious.

sze then wanted to get her manicure FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, so i accompanied her. i don't mind a manicure. :) we went to Fave Nails, and it was a good choice. sze got a lovely shade of lightish pink while i got evillish dark plummish purple. she got round cut while i got my square cut as always. the manicure took quite long so the others went off to entertain themselves, but came back to the manicure place towards the end to rest and talk. when our nails were finally done, me and sze were so careful with our nails. everybody had to help us get our wallets, etc. i got jacq to help me top up my ez-link card.
"where is it? are you sure you brought it?"
"yes! it's in my purse. just look for the bent card with an ugly face of mine."
"oh! here. let's laugh at it together."
and she proceeded to laugh at my p6 face with natw and melin. how lovely.

we took the mrt to somerset and walked to cine. ARCADE! haha i haven't stepped into an arcade for the longest time. after they got the arcade credit card thing, they went straight to the DDR. hahaha, it was so funny. there were ParaPara, basketball games (to which i chanted "sixteen, sixteen!" and caused sze to laugh hysterically), shooting games, some tapping buttons game i played with sann. fun fun. :)

dinner at six at shokudo. we left melin, av, sann and maisie still at the arcade while we walked towards our dinner. alas! dresses caught our eyes and we hesitated for a moment before stepping into the shop because it was a lingerie shop. but the beauty of the dresses triumped and we trooped inside to find one which we would like enough to buy. cheap cheap, okay! 2 for $30. sze and jacq bought one each. so i bought 2! haha. what, pretty AND cheap.

char and la came to join us halfway at Buttons. (yeah, a second surprise in the eyes of choi sze wing) after our purchases, we walked over to shokudo and asked for a table for 8. we sat down and waited for melin and av to come over. when everybody was present, dinner finally started.

we all took our orders. dinner was really quite hilarious! they were discussing the bio paper and so many random things happened. like how the waffles jacq and melin shared was too burnt so they wanted it changed. and after they got the new waffles, melin insisted on checking the underside to check if it was burnt or if there was a bubble of spit. hahahaha. char almost wanted to change her pasta because she thought that it was too oily and went round the table touching everybody's plates before concluding that hers was indeed oily. but after the waffles drama, she decided not to change it and said that it was probably the oily hands of the waiter. melin then said, "eh so mean! he just walked past!" haha.

after dinner, THE REAL SURPRISES WERE ALL ABOUT TO HAPPEN!
how exciting.

so av, natw, char and la said their goodbyes while me jacq melin and sze went over to paragon for dessert. IN ACTUAL FACT, av natw char la are making their way back to sze's house first! and sze wasn't actually having dessert with me jacq and melin, but walter and sulyn! her church friend and rmun friend. but walter was late so we had to stall sze. this is what we did.

1) took pictures with christmas trees. "omg! so pretty, let's take pictures!"
2) enter a supermarket. "i wonder if people will buy their groceries here! everything looks so expensive."
3) buy jellybeans. "OOH! let's buy! everybody choose one flavour and pull it yourself."
4) go into That CD Shop. "wow sze, look, the jonas brothers!"
even when we finally stepped into Canele,
5) jacq and melin went to the toilet.
6) i can't decide on what to eat. "hmm, macarons or cake?"

in the meantime, i got/made multiple phonecalls from/to walter. i excused myself by telling sze that my mom was mad that it was so late and i still wasn't home. building up tension and atmosphere! at the last phonecall (where i went out of Canele because walter and sulyn was already there), i went back in and told sze that i really had to go home because my mom was very angry with me. at that moment, the food came. you could see the distress so clearly on sze's face because melin and jacq were saying how they had to go too. haha i kinda pitied sze so i was all, "oh actually i can stay for a little while more to eat."
and sze, being the extremely kind soul that she is, "oh, no it's okay. you're already in trouble with your parents, right?"
while i edged towards the door, "yeah, but... are you sure?"
i signalled frantically to sulyn and walter and they started walking towards the cafe, so i went back to sze to like hug her byebye and how i was very sorry.
walter and sulyn at door, so i said "haha, but we won't leave you here alone, so i brought better company!" i pointed at the entrance and she saw them!

how perfect. :)
hahahaha and sze's classic "i am so surprised!". hahaha.

the moment that jacq melin and i left the cafe, we started running for the escalator and congratulating each other for how successful that was. decided to take a cab back to sze's place and reached before av/natw/char/la. melin stayed by the pool where grace and tricia was. jacq and i was at sze's house, where we first placed all the shoes at the balcony and then hurried around for a bit. jacq went down to get av/natw/char/la up. melin/grace/tricia/liz came up together with them and we were all so excited. we sat around in the living room and started planning how we wanted to carry out the surprise. and after talking about it for a few moments, we trooped back into sze's room and decided to rehearse. but then me and jacq had to go down and get walter and sulyn up.

by the time we got back, i opened the door and they surprised me instead. haha it was really quite scary in the surprising way. so, walter and sulyn came into the room and we all waited for sze together.

took some pictures and decided on our final plan. then her mom informed us that sze is in the carpark and she'll be coming up in fifteen minutes.

ohh, it was so nerve-wrecking when we heard sze in the house and we all tried to stay as quiet as we can so we won't give ourselves away. but she took forever to come in! haha like where is she? and we all hoped that she wouldn't start stripping or something. but then, she finally turned the doorknob and pushed it open and...

"SURPRISE!"

sze proceeded to scream and jump a foot in the air.

hahaha we all laughed at her while people went up to her to give her birthday hugs. it was so awesome and classic.

okay, so we got her to look for her birthday present and she found it and i think she liked it. :) we took a picture of 4+4 with her new polaroid and she cut her cake and then i had to leave because my parents were already at sze's house. so, it was a really great and wonderful birthday for sze.

i love you, sze! i know you enjoyed your birthday and hope that whenever you feel down or insecure, you'll just have to think back to 13/11/2008 and know that you have so many friends that love you! don't ever have to worry about being alone or being forgotten because that's like impossible! smile and stay happy always, okay!

(haha i'm like rushing cos the laptop is running out of battery. update soon again!)

PS, oh, thanks ahma and jong! those tags made me smile and go AWWW. you guys are awesome!
PPS, emily! haha i miss you too. see you online at 8 today. :)

til the next time,
xoxo,
audreyyyyyyyy.