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Friday, June 24, 2005

oh shucks. what's wrong with me? it's the second time in this month that i'm insomniac! and i suppose it's worse this time. i didn't even get to sleep at all. and the whole night i thought i was gonna like fall asleep or something, and i realised i forgot how to. i think it's something to do with the cutting down of coke consumption and indirectly the caffeine dosage, so it's kinda hard to adapt to sudden increased intake of caffeine last night again with a can of coke and another can of iced lemon tea.

so anyway yesterday was daryl's birthday. t'was fun and retardly crazy i'd say. lixian and i were out to embarrass him and at the same time, have the most fun we've ever had for the past few months by being plain old silly us.

was supposed to go for math make-up test and gp make-up lecture. but i was dying in pain the night before and early the morning 'cause of menses cramps, so had to give both a miss. haiyah whatever. i guess i'll have to reallyreally buck up next term with sucha screwed first semester. can't be bothered anymore i suppose it's better to start afresh next semester instead of brooding over the past semester and trying to save it when it's highly impossible.

mummy was like commenting how daddy shouldn't drive me to school, or how they must wear masks should they ever need to get near the school within a certain range. 'cause they won't want to be caught red-handed by teachers or whoever for aiding me in ponning school and tests, and after that, allowing me to get out of the house and have fun with friends.

so met lixian at around 12 and we went to get like balloons and party hats for bobby and ah-boy. we had the most perfect plan and image in our minds, but everything just screwed up i guess. we were both thinking of getting a big box like those that can contain a fridge and we'll get a huge ribbon and decorate it, sneak underneath it and surprise him from the top. and we were thinking of having a huge banner saying "happy birthday daryl!" or "daryl we love you!" and a lotsa balloons and stuff to decorate the front gate. then bobby and ah-boy will run out with party hats on their heads and one of them will have a message/card from us.

but we decided to not get the banner and got him like three helium balloons which say something like "you're HOW old?!" "it's a boy!" and "happy birthday!" they seriously looked dammmn sweet and hilarious together. and we found a hairband which has like funny fake candles with happy birthday written on it, so we bought that for daryl too.

ooo. met zing and terence too.

anyway, we got a bit hysterical sitting outside the market after we kinda sensed that we couldn't get the big box to fit one or both of us in time after walking all over holland village and the surrounding areas. so we decided to call for help but myron decided not to pick up at the most critical moment, and jiaying couldn't find anything taller than 50 cm. lixian and i totally went nuts after that so we decided to give it another try at clementi. we were in a very delirious state by then. but the balloons [or the helium in the balloons] just so had to shock us with its stunning trick of compressing act! they became all flimsy and soft in the train! but they turned out to be alright after we alighted. that was a huge relief.

and when we reached the post office, to our horror, the biggest box sold there was nothing bigger than 60 cm. so we decided to wander around for 3 whole solid hours with no air-conditioners 'cause we feared that "the air-con will suck out the helium". that was the most hilarious shit we've done please. so lixian and i went to this coffeeshop and we had this heart-to-heart talk while perspiring like crazy until around 4 something when i decided that i should write a note to daryl so we shifted to macs. oh at the same time we're trying to contact myron who was probably sleeping then. we called jiaying and she was in her mum's car going somewhere so we asked her to fetch us to myron's house to get the box and then to daryl's.

i think it must've been a silly sight how i tried to fit into the box in front of all the construction workers at myron's house.

after we've gotten almost everything we could, we went to daryl's house, half the time worrying whether he'd spot us on jiaying's mum's car. and to double-check that he's actually left the house, we were thinking of all sorts of funny scenarios if we call him on the housephone or the handphone. like if he's still at home and we call the house, the sis picks up and calls for "KOR!" and we'll just hang up or something. it was crazy right there and then. but he wasn't at home already. so we went in and started blowing the balloons. which was actually more of his mum and sis and jiaying doing so. lixian and i tied the balloons on the strings and hung them on the gate.

while we were discussing about the surprise jac-in-the-box, kiat appeared and we were how distraught! then jo came. it was just as scary we thought they [with daryl] reached earlier than expected. kiat came up with the last-minute idea of using the papers in the box to make the ribbon. and while we're doing it, lixian called and exclaimed that they're reaching in 7 minutes' time. it was madness, i swear. everyone got a bit frantic but it was all well in the end. ahboy didn't cooperate with us by taking off the party hat we put on him though. daryl didn't seem as shocked as he should be. and he wasn't in front of the box so when i "BOO!" i didn't exactly see his reactions. and he kicked the box like how expected.

yeah and we forced him to wear the happy birthday hairband. prettyprettylilthang~

i was literally wet with sweat already. and i was really amazed at how flexible i could get. the right-hand-cross-under-left-leg-and-take-out-handphone feat in a box less than a metre high.

oh and i actually had a fan with me in the box too.

so dinner was the usual get-together with old SB8, lah. fun, entertaining and exciting. like always. just a tad more thrilling for me and lixian i guess. (:

heaven by your side;
x 8:49 am