haha omg, i'm so proud of myself for actually voluntarily wanting to run/exercise/sweat.

"i'm going to run tomorrow too!"

"oh really? that's good."

"it's not just good. it's a miracle."

which is true. 

rights, so the past few days have been spent with my darlings, namely natw sze jacq av. 

thursday:

last day of work, which i talked about in a previous post already. all five of us met up at heeren to shop for school supplies for sze. she bought her vvv cute converses, which i hope will make her more excited about going to ib. i can't really remember, but then we walked over to cine to look for her bag, which wasn't that difficult to find because she already knows what she wants. found a nike bag there and she's going back today with her parents to get it. i think school supplies shopping is the highest level of shopping because 1) it's necessary, like total NEED and not WANT. okay, this is debatable but whatever. girls are girls. 2) you don't have to use your own money because school supplies should be paid by parents. yes, that's what i say. 

right, so other than the school supplies shopping (haha everything is coming back to me now!), it was the Great Eating Expedition because we walked from cine to far east, which is quite a distance but i don't mind walking nowadays because i take delight in any form of exercise, no matter how obscure it is, even standing. so we first go to far east for Ajisen Ramen but it turns out to be Ramen Ten (oops). we eat there anyway and saw ohsofickle too. she's only a year older but already has her own shop @ haji lane. way to go (i say in a non-sarcastic tone).

then it's time for a SUMMER FLING @ SLICE!!!! omg, talk about all-time favourite dessert that i will never ever get tired of! made up of milk slice and mangoes and mango syrup and the condensed milk which i guzzle over. SO NICE. omg, sze can testify. natw's parents too.

after all these food, we say byebye to avril because she was going back by mrt but we are all going back by bus. on 171, jacq natw sze and i decided suddenly to go to kap for supper/sit and talk. but then an extremely hilarious situation happened which left me laughing so hard, i cried. but i shall talk about that after this. after the ramen and the TWO mango desserts (you can never just have one), we went to kap and proceeded to gorge ourselves silly. fries and cheeseburger and macwings and coke.  

seriously, the most i have eaten in a span of, like what, three hours? yeah. no wonder i went home and like sat on the toilet bowl for the longest time.

ALRIGHT, time for The Extremely Hilarious Situation:

see, natw and jacq were sitting next to each other on the back row of the bus. then me and sze were sitting in front of them, but separated by the corridor in the middle. so it sort of formed a circle if me and sze sat with our legs facing towards the corridor instead of facing the front of the bus- makes it easier to talk. so lalala, we were happily talking when SUDDENLY, 

ah choo!

the man beside sze sneezed.

and sze JUMPED OUT OF HER SEAT IN FRIGHT, going "AH!"

omg and because i was sitting directly opposite her, i saw the look of fright on her face in the second that she jumped up and it immediately got frozen in my mind, causing me to laugh the hardest i have ever laughed in my entire life.

but i guess i felt quite bad for the uncle because his sneeze was really loud and thunderous. but sze was classic. i swear.

friday:

YAY, LA'S SURPRISE/CLAIRE&KARA'S FAREWELL PARTYYYYY.

la's surprise was awesome in the sense that we encountered so many obstacles but in the end managed to pull everything off so successfully. i'm not going to go into details, but please note that i could recount everything in a storybook-like manner if you want. i know you guys don't like reading such long posts anyway, so just short&sweet/straight to the point.

natw me jacq ahma were already in the SAC when we saw tye and fok (i don't actually know them, they're sze's church friends whom i can recognise by face because i'm awesome like that). another group of people were stuck outside of the school because the extremely anal security guard didn't allow them in and they didn't want to sneak in/climb over the back gate/run past the security guard. so we all went out, including the abovementioned tye and fok.

had a noisy and heated (because it was so freaking hot that day i hated it) discussion at the bus stop about what to do next. lots of ideas were thrown in, but because chin and claire insisted we wait for them at the school gate (or actually, they insisted we just wait for la at the school gate), natw sze jacq and i stayed back to wait for them. the others boarded a bus and went back to la's house (this is the type of surprise which i name AMBUSH).

so my secret plan was to surprise la at school with natc's cake so that the second surprise will be even better cos she wouldn't expect it at all. (you know, innocently thinking that it has been a great birthday cos we surprised her once already.) the surprise at school turned out quite nicely even though we lost la for a while and was freaking out big time: "where is she?!" but we found her in the end and thus, a group of girls standing the middle of a guy-dominated canteen sang la a birthday song with absolutely no care about people looking at us. she teared, i think. (awwwwwwww) so we hung around eating the vvv delicious cake that chin made for her. then we left after a while so that char can bring la back to her house and the second surprise can take place. i saw fb pictures and could tell that it was a huge success too. AWESHUMZ. i lovey surprises. sze's sweet sixteen still takes the cake, that one was like one entire day PLUS it was last day of o's. has to be the best day of 2008-- 13th Nov.

the farewell party was super fun too. there was guitar hero, but me and avril didn't get to play drums. oh well, next time. i played fooseball! and then there was also "who knows claire and kara best?" where some of the questions which jacq natw me predicted really did come out. for eg,

claire's in the alto section of choir

claire's favourite colour is red

claire's height is 155

and then we found out that

claire's ambition is nothing

claire's mom drives a Toyota

then we thought that everyone knew

claire's sister's name is Sara.

kara's mom drives a BMW

kara strokes her food

kara last read Kiss An Angel

kara's height is 165

kara's dad's name is Kok Ann (or something like that)

kara's siblings' names are Ariel and Ivan

i love my memory.

then there was a song session and speech. which was really touching and there were points when i was trying not to cry. esp when it reached my turn and i said stupid random stuff which couldn't fully express the love i have for claire. :( like it was all in my heart and if only i could let her feel what i was feeling. haha, "with besties, it's always personal" because jiap and denise didn't give a speech and i overheard someone saying that. it might be the self-proclaimed Ip Man, i'm not sure.

speaking of which, i finally get the "the sequel to Ip Man is Express Man" joke!! tag if you don't get it. i will take much delight in explaining it to you cos it's really quite funny. hahahahaha. i'm so slow.

me and sze went to coffee bean after that while everybody else went for cell and jacq went home. i would've tagged along for cell if it didn't end at ten. my dad doesn't like me reaching home so late. so coffee bean was great because we talked out sze's problems and sometimes, just by talking about your problems, your heart feels lighter by half even though it's not actually solved yet. i think it's just the knowledge that someone else now knows about it, and you're not the only one keeping it bottled up inside. furthermore, it's always good to confide in someone else your problems because chances are, they see things in a different light and you get new insight-- like a logical breakdown of your problem and suddenly, just suddenly, you get it. either you find a solution, or you understand why it's bothering you. epiphanies; don't you just love them?