Wednesday, April 14, 2010
actually i'm still kinda lost for words as to the birthday celebrations.
so, unlike most of my other posts, i'll just do a chronology of the day (13th April 2010)
first and let's see what interesting thoughts pop into my mind as I blog.
well, i woke up. no surprises there eh. brushed my teeth. the mirror didn't wish me happy birthday; neither did the shower. i was quite upset.
after changing and mouse-hunting at 0630 (as all
normal people do), ate breakfast which was leftover chocolate cake from my birthday. this chocolate cake would soon come to be an important and integral part of my birthday celebrations as I would later find out.
P.S: For all you non-litterateurs out there, this is foreshadowing.
Reached school and got a birthday hug from WeiYeat which was win. Great way to start the school morning =) Other councillors came and wished me happy birthday. A grin lay fixed on my face for about 10 minutes as a stream of fans and well-wishers proclaimed their joy at my birth 18 years ago.
Timo and IvanNgKittyKittyMooMoo (henceforth referred to as Ivan) gave me a chocolate cake and a seal stuff toy which I promptly named Snubbles. the chocolate cake was lovely and i ate two bites before deciding that I really couldn't eat another bite of cake or else I'd die from chocolate poisoning. Soooo, I shared it with the Councillors.
Which is not to say that I didn't like the cake! But for me, I just felt that sharing the cake was really a way for me to share my birthday with all the people I love =) Cause the cake is kinda representative of all my happiness and joy and elation and what not and sharing it is just like sharing the luv. Note that it's nothing like holy communion, please don't accuse me of heresy. Being hunted down by an angry mob with pitchforks and torches isn't on my to-do list now.
Sat together with XinEr, Dori, Melissa, Wee Chong and ChindeeBear during Econs. Cause we do exciting and revolutionary things like that. Ms Quek sat down a row from us but she didn't wish me happy birthday, perhaps still miffed from the 2.6% A-rate from the MBTs.
Turns out that Snubbles (For those with STM, scroll up) came it pretty useful. Due perhaps to my excitement and anticipation of the day, I had very little sleep the night before. Halfway during most of the days' tutorials, I used Snubbles as a pillow. He was deliciously soft, if a bit furry and nose-tickling. I sneezed a fair bit.
Math Lecture held a mind-blowing surprise. Jem's exclamation of "Wei Yeat' (in a voice slightly softer than that of a Boeing747) made me look up as we entered the depths of LT4. Seeing my own face leering back at me was quite a shock. Learning that Hadi and Hannah were walking around with similar pictures and sorta-different captions was a HUGE surprise. My face was red for the entire Maths lecture.
Jongolia wished me happy birthday during lunch. miracles do happen.
by lunch, i also experienced the joys of facial cramps from smiling too much.
Councillors gathered in the Parade Square in an "L" formation to sing me happy birthday (after singing twice in the morning). Even though I kinda 'found out' about it because the 'secret message' was typed out on Microsoft Word on my laptop, it was still just a pleasant a surprise as it would have been. Mr Hon surprised me with a leap onto my back from behind as I was on the couch grinning loonily at the councillors below. My spine is now undergoing therapy.
I locked the councillors out from the room, allowing Mr Hon to begin his bag-inverting rampage. ZombieLand/Left 4 Dead (2) and their zombies have NOTHING on a horde of panicked councillors hammering on the council room door to retrieve their bags before Honzilla attacked. Opening the door taught me that crowds can be quite hazardous to one's health, particularly if said crowd swarms over you in a mad attempt to protect their barang-barang. There was also a (failed) taupok attempt which was basically just Kenneth attempting to violently sexually-violate me with his legs.
Dinner'ed at Manhattan Fish Market with them three siblings. they put the card in placards and honestly, just reading the cards they wrote would have dissolved a lesser man to tears.
Hadi gave me his present. I damn near teared.
Dinner was my treat. Not in the sense that I treated them, but because dinner, with my 3 siblings, was a treat for me.
Looking back at my birthday this year, I still feel that I'm at a loss of words to sum it up.
Because really, some things just can't be summed up in a few words.
Today,
someone asked me how I know God exists.
I answered: "Because I know love."
He asked: "How do you know what is love?"
I think of Wei Yeat, Hannah and Hadi.
...
and yes, I know God sent me them because He loves me.
Lino squeezed Panda at 11:14 PM
