Dear Sharon,

I / We hope you had a great salmon lunch @ home today! <3

We @ Sushi King's in Mid Valley, after Ethics lecture.

because this (above pic) looks a bit... weird,

... better??

I agreed to 'no Facebook' but I don't think there was a 'no blogging' warning!
Because posing is fun and taking photographs of posers is fun!

Sharon, hope your salmon turned out good! I/ We do love you!!

Rant

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

My room is impossible.

I am impossible.

This whole thing is impossible.

What was I thinking again?!

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Damnit.

Conversation!

Over dinner:

Aunt and grandpa asking me about 'So what are you going to do upon graduation?'...

Then somehow, out of the blue, the dad said:

She'll no longer be a Bachelor when she gets married!

So I followed by saying, "Yeah, I'll be a Master then!"

He replied, "Hmmm, let's see how long that'll take".

I don't know. But I think it was funny.

Surprise!

Okay, I know I did say I will blog about it, but Sharon has already beaten me to it. Go here.

And what she has written pretty much covers everything, so instead of writing a similar post, I'll just put in additional comments, so make sure you read her post before reading any further!

Surprise!*click*

Additional comments:

1. When it hit 12am on the 5th, I was already smiling like an idiot despite still having a paper to sit for at 8am the same morning, simultaneously receiving messages on msn, phone, Facebook and also had a couple of phone calls, 3 to be exact, that night.
   
   
2. I wasn't expecting much for the day considering I already had an earlier surprise @ Betsopia but still, I was thinking 'maybe there's still something..'. All the way, I figured the movie was a distractor, and that lunch was going to be the other surprise. So when the trio (Sharon, Boon Woei and Mike) agreed to makan @ Alexis in The Gardens, I figured, Ah! So that's where everyone is going to be waiting! I have to say, I was UPSET when no one was there, almost to the extend of crying, note: almost. But, 3 good friends are better than none. So, content was what I felt.
   
   
3. At 2 o'clock, Betz called with her uber gila impromptu plan of going down to PD which she had mentioned to me over MSN the night before. I was tired but I agreed and the trio so reluctantly agreed to come along. Mr Chuah even called his mom saying '... going to PD, will be back before dinner'. ZzzZz, big ass liar!
   
   
4. By the time we paid the bill to leave Alexis, I was totally convinced that there was nothing left to expect for the day. Honest.
   
   
5. The trio + Betsy came up with the idea of telling me, "Hey, show us your life when you lived here lah''. How creative and totally convincing! I was so touched that they were willing to go all the way to PD to celebrate with me that I told them (when on the beach) with a pretty solemn tone saying "Hey, really, thanks for coming all the way to celebrate with me''. They must have been laughing in their hearts all along!
   
   
6. When I heard someone (who sounded really like Sam) scream "Oiii, come up lah, we wait damn long already", I still wasn't sure if that was for me to hear until I saw the reactions of the four, smiling ever so broadly. A trace to where the voice came from, I saw many human figures but they were all too tiny for me to distinguish who they were, nevertheless, a surprise it was to see who made it.

That's really probably the end of it. I've said thank you more than I can recall and I have said this will be the last thank you I'd be saying but I guess it just never ends. I am probably going to be thanking people at my 22nd for my 21st surprise. Seriously.

So, thank you once again!

The tone of this post may not reflect the real actual level of happiness I felt then but that's because we are in the midst of completing our position paper except that I am now taking a breather. So yeap. Was definitely hundred times happier then!

Cheers!

Happy being a year older!

I will DEFINITELY blog about how I got punk'd turning 21 because it is too good a memory, so much so I want to share it with the w.w.w, literally, the whole wide world. But that'll have to wait till I get pass this week, because, we've got 2 due dates to meet this week, so be patient and tune in for more over the weekend.

But for now..

This conversation took place just a few minutes ago, within our Cross Culture online group discussion:

(... done with talking about serious stuff)

ai. says:
xD
ai. says:
YAY, ASSIGNMENT PERIOD
kevinS - says:
first time aili so excited
Michael says:
lol
kevinS - says:
dai gor lui jor
Michael says:
whoa
Michael says:
someone dah mature
kevinS - says:
ya lo...
ai. says:
mmg mmg
ai. says:
ivy fast say something to puji me
ai. says:
i wanna blog
kevinS - says:
aili got check see got 3 white strands of hair not
Poison Ivy says:
-no comment?-
Michael says:
HAHAHAHA
ai. says:
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Poison Ivy says:
to me hor.. aili is ALWAYS serious bout her work..
Poison Ivy says:
probably sometimes not motivated but everyone also like tat wat
Poison Ivy says:
so nothing for me..
Poison Ivy says:
for as long as she is committed and finish on time

Kawan kawan aku mmg aku love sgt!

Lagi lagi seorang ni,

.. I love gila!

Out of the ordinary, perhaps.

Or maybe I should just go with "not within my norm".

So yes, tomorrow is my big day, the day I turn 21! So please bare with me while I get a little sentimental before I ''become all grown up and matured'' lah kay?!

It's already June, five months have gone by 2009, we're now in the 6th month! Gosh thesis! Thesis!! Thesis!!! Sorry for bringing that up but living in denial just ain't gonna work. <- more of talking to myself than anything else..

What have you done? What have I done??

Time flies, so much has happened yet so little seemed to have taken place. Age doesn't really change much, does it? Some things confuses me so badly, I wish I never had to think. Some things I am so very afraid of that I just keep doubting myself. Some things are so foreign to me that I convince myself 'it'll never happen to me'. Some things, I just don't know how I will ever EVER manage, without you people..

in my life!

Hence.. thank you, each and everyone of you, for being part of my life!

For helping me iron out my confusions - understanding, for constantly telling me that 'you can do it' and for giving me the extra push in life - support & assurance, for staying with me through thick and thin and for walking with me - learning together, for making my life as beautiful as it is!

Without you people, seriously, I don't know if I'd make it this far, if I'd be smiling right now and thanking God for today and for everything that has happened.

So, if you have not gotten me any present(s), don't worry about it! A hug tomorrow will be more than enough. I mean it. That's why lah I said from the beginning this is out of the ordinary, get it?

Thank you lots, again!

The real date is not until the 5th!

Lesson of the day:

Cake makes good hair mask, it leaves your hair feeling ultra soft and silky (although I can't quite tell if it's the effect of over shampooing) but the 'scent', I tell you, will definitely last you a long way!

BETTY SAN I JUST GOT YOUR CARD IN THE PINK ENVELOPE! <3>

So yes, I guess I have to start from Saturday onwards because *ahem*

Saturday was volleyball day at UM and I was more or less, happily basking in reflected glory but there was this one person who seemed really happy the entire day because every time he came to speak to me, he was smiling from ear to ear.

(given his usual facial expression, him smiling so much was really odd, but I thought, maybe it's just the happy feeling from the bronze medal they won at football)

Yes, the person I am talking about is Ben (previously named Ben the goalie). Speaking of which, Jeff was also smiling a lot, so it now makes full sense!

Then later at night, Ivy pm-ed me saying :Hey, let's dress nice nice after sailing tomorrow okay? So I thought to myself, okay lah, no big deal, I have in previous cases asked her to dress up for no particular occasion either.

Then came Sunday, woke up to some commotion back home and then headed out for breakfast with the dad.

Got home, packed bag for sailing NOT SUSPECTING ANYTHING as yet.

Then Ivy came into the room, random chat while I continued packing. Then Mike came and knocked on the door and said "Ey, today Kevin driving, need to pass something to his friend".

SUSPICION BEGIN HERE!

But still, never mind. Then when I was about to step out of the house, the dad asked : What time are you coming home tonight?

(whoah, major giveaway cause he normally doesn't ask at all!)

So when I got into the car, I almost immediately said "Eh, today I got party is it?"
The reply "No lah, you suspect what? U think too much already lah!"

Thus started the trio's ( Mike, Kevin and Ivy) lying series all the way to the club, all the while sailing, and all the way 'home'.

I even asked when sailing "Eh, so tonight I really got no party ah?" Someone, I cannot remember who, replied saying "Sail lah you, racing also think so much!''

Side note: Sailing really sucked yesterday! I was furious, 'why couldn't we perform'. But I am sorry for the foul language and the screaming. That aside, I pushed Kevin into the water yesterday. Sorry for that too! After all the 'hard work'!

So yeah. If it wasn't for the final LIE by the dear beloved Sharon Kong, I would have suspected all the way home. But no, her very real yet totally fake lie killed my suspicion almost totally.

Then also the phone call from the mom just as we were leaving the club, "You joining us for dinner?"
I said "No", thinking about Sharon Kong's FAKE problem.

So after stopping at Mc D for ice cream in Port Klang and after overhearing the phone call conversation between Mike and a particular someone who got lost in Cheras and mentioned Carrefour - which I later found out was Ed (and girlfriend, Veen), I slept all the way 'home'.

When I woke up next, I asked Ivy, "Where are we ah?"
She blankly told me "Orh, having dinner at Kev's mom's place."

So, Kevin turned into the back lane, remind you, no more suspicion already here, all thanks to the liar, ah Kong. Got off the car, then saw a Secret Recipe cake box in the kitchen, still did not raise any suspicion at all because Kevin so spontaneously said "Which customer got birthday today?"

I even happily said Hi! to his mom who also obviously already knew what was going on.

When I entered, wah lahh! Surprise surprise. The rest is history lah! The whole 'cake on hair and then floor story' I will skip.

But yes, it sure was a surprise and thank you all for making it a great one, love muchie! Not going to list down names lah, but those who came, those who couldn't make it, those who didn't know about it but wished you were there too while reading this, all the same, thank you!

Then again, the real date is the 5th of June which is.. 3 and a 1/2 days from now! :)