264; early birthday celebration
Saturday, May 26, 2007

HOLIDAYS ARE HERE! ((:

am i happy? nooooo. beyond that! extreme euphoria and am totally ecstatic about the fact that holidays are here. the wait is finally over!

yes! yes! yes! (:

i managed to right my wrong sleeping cycle! i woke up at eleven. it's so nice to have a nice lie in after all those endless days of waking up early even on weekends to finish some bloody goddamn assignments! yucks. but now, holiday's are here. no fret!

oooooh. something great happened yesterday! some of my classmates and i went to celebrate my birthday at causeway point's sakae sushi. only yiyao, wenson, huilong, benjamin, huiqun and me went. the rest couldnt make it cause of camps and stuff. but later, yijia happened to drop by too! (:

let's see. we were super early since we wanted to eat buffet and the next buffet was dinner promotional buffet and that started at six thirty. so we slacked at this little spot beside sakae. pretty pathetic, i know! but hell, we were having fun!

(:

yiyao was doing this relationship-friendship-bond-prediction thing where you shuffle a pack of cards and think of someone and let him sort it out. he'll tell you the state of the friendship or relationship between you and the particular someone.

i was hell doubtful, being the natural cynic that i am. so i shuffled and thought of a certain crush i have. he got it superrrrr right! shocking.

i didnt believe. did it again with my good friend, terence. he got the prediction spot-on! goddddd! i did it again, with zihao. CORRECT AGAIN!

yiyao is a psychic. i'm still reeling from his words of prediction really. i mean, okay, maybe if he got fifty percent of it right, fineeee. but it was super spot on! like, literally a perfect prediction!

yiyao! you're good! (:

though i'm somewhat still cynical about it.

after that, wenson wanted to try it and yiyao was badness-personified!

'sorry, the card method doesnt work for hippos!' said yiyao.

so mean can! wenson was like hitting yiyao over and over again. i couldnt help laughing cause i was uber drained and hungry!

then after that, wenson asked which card represents him.

'you're the king,' said yiyao impatiently.

i cut in.

'that means that wenson has to be promoted from being a hippo to a lion, since lion is the king of the jungle,' i said, without thinking.

wenson got so angry. but he was still laughing like mad.

yiyao interjected angrily. 'azri, wenson is the king. a hippo is the king of the swamp!'

we all burst into laughter, including wenson. but sorry yeah wenson! no offense meant. just had to distract our heads from our respective grumbling stomachs.

after about an hour waiting, i couldnt take it cause i felt butt cramps coming on. i remembered that i need to get something from popular, so i asked huiqun and wenson to accompany me there.

in the end, we went over to woodlands civic centre cause i wanted to borrow books. been so long since the last time i set foot into woodlands regional library. it's sooooo cool!

(:

i mentioned this to wenson and huiqun. then wenson said that he once dropped his o level ten-year-series assessment book into the fountain during his secondary school days. makes fountains quite a dangerous thing after all doesnt it?

i borrowed two books, 'the yoga mamas' and '4th of july' by katherine stewart and james patterson respectively. ((:

went back to realise we've gotten seats. waited before we could start enjoying the sushi. the moment we could, i grabbed three plates at once off the conveyor belt. (:

wenson also. huiqun initially didnt buy buffet, but we manged to convince her. oh, please note that due to lack of seats, we were broken into two tables back to back. yiyao, huilong and benjamin at one. me, huiqun and wenson at another.

(:

wenson didnt start eating. he was more preoccupied and engrossed with helping huiqun taking all the vegetarian style sushi and with helping in serving the wasabe and soy sauce.

laughs. when i pointed this out, he started eating and huiqun started laughing! ((:

at this point, i just remembered that the waitress that served us at the beginning was A TOTAL MOTHER FUCKING BITCH WHO THOUGHT SHE'S ONE BLOODY GODDAMN STANDARD ABOVE OTHERS. she said she's a student and i guess she thought that gave her a chance to be a total conniving slut. not to mention an annoying asshole. what a pathetic excuse of a staff. would've certainly RELISH the chance of telling her to fuck off and sic the manager on her, had not for the fact i was clad in andersonjc uniform.

but, steam eventually cools and condenses into steam. so i bit my tongue to keep all obscenities at bay and focused on my rocking besties. yeapps, with the laughter and all, i did cool and forgot my initial stigma that i had for that lowly vermin.

not long after, yijia came over. she also ordered the buffet and man, could she eat. laughs. she was eating at a shocking velocity! (:

go yijia!

then we started taking pictures. at one point of time, yiyao looked like an octopus in the picture and i couldn't help but launch my hysterical laughter. a lot of people stared. but hell do i care!

((:

laughed some more at benjamin's constipated face when he was eating sushi. at everything under the sun, really! so happy!

then all of them came over and went into a happy birthday chorus! laughs. sooooo sweet. yiyao volunteered to sing the french version, but he didnt even know 'happy' in french. laughs.

gave me cards. five. huilong's was most unique, a piece of cardboard from the backing of foolscap paper, wrapped using a piece of foolscap paper.

a perfect example of mdm jean lee's idea of economising! (:

but it was really nice still.

benjamin's card, representing terkming, melvrick and jon also read:

'congrats! you are now 17! sadly, you've one year more to unlocking life's best of m18 movies, pubs and almost everything! hee-hee-hee, now grow taller, handsome-er and wish all your pimples would go *poof*!'

found that a tad mean since i'm not good-looking and have pimples. but laughs, yijia made a joke and i just laughed it off.

huiqun's read:

' you're older by one year! heehee. you're the light of my life since the time i knew you, laughing and laughing non-stop like there's no end. being indifferent towards everthing else around us regardless of the seriousness of the issues around. you have re-enlightened me of what life's all about. enjoyment! and just living it fullest! signing off!'

on the envelope, she wrote:

'true friends can sit down and say nothing at all but walk away feeling as though they've finished the best conversation ever. but i dont think we'll reach that stage since we'll just be laughing our way through!'

yiyao's was short and simple:

'azri! happy seventeenth. i know that this is your first time getting a card from a v(powered infinity)ip. i shall bear that in mind and not overwhelm this card with that many emotions. gymmate, classmate, schoolmate.'

wenson's:

'laughing partner! happy birthday and please enjoy the day cause you own it. it has definitely been painful for me to sit beside you in lectures and tutorials cause you know what? you make me laugh so much and i mean, the belly-aching kind of laughter. i promise you i will go for the next gym-ming session cause i wanna be an oh eight hunk too! anyway, please cheer up and clear all negativity. you are great, trust me, in your own way. there is no need to live up to other's expectations. oh eight loves you. be a fighter! fight! azri rocks the world! right after wenson! hurr.'

huilong's pretty artistic so the words are like an artwork and all over the place. so i'll try to piece them together into one for convenience:

'the fact is that you're no longer sixteen and i know you love my handwriting so this card is filled with it! happy seventeenth birthday. life is short and we cannot afford to turn back. cherish all moments for they'll be the best in the future. it's great knowing you! stay cheerful! people move on but memories live on!'

they're sooooooo sweet! (:

we soon went home. yiyao and benjamin were feeling queasy since they ate like twenty plus plates! goshhh.

okay. i think i've wrote like, a thousand words for my birthday alone. (:

today! after waking up and bathing, i read some chic literature before watching legally blonde, which belongs to zijia. after that, i managed to catch singapore-sentosa volleyball world open. god. they're good, really.

china's forth team, one of the player looks striking like rachel yeow from the front view. just that the player had a more wider facial frame. then again, maybe i'm suffering from temporary retina displacement and didnt really notice the features correctly. oh well, just stating what i saw and felt. (:

oooooo. there's a hot show of gore and horror and violence tonight. twenty eight days after. a bit like resident evil. but it looks so much better. more bloodshed and violence. I LIKE! ahahas. pure sado-masochism! (:

that's what happens when you get into a good school. you like the bad things cause the school pressures you to like the good things.

anyway, in an article i read about the top fifty universities in the world, singapore is ranked thirty one. national university of singapore. i'm not surprised really. for all the pressure and emphasis in academic achievement, it's pretty evident, we'd be able to achieve a global standard. now, we are!

more pressure, here we come! (:

i'm so going to watch that wonderfully uplifting show depicting gore, hate and violence. rock on!

oh yes, i'm going out with margaret next week to get a training bag. the one given by daphne as an early birthday present is truly GORGEOUS! (:

it's just too big to use for volleyball now, since the training has cut down on the necessities that i need to bring. what's more, i'm highly annoyed by those rude and conspicuous people who just don't know the beauty of the phrase 'excuse me' and instead shove through my bag, sometimes sending me flying into others. after which i'd be fuming and billowing smoke!

i hate rude commuters. makes life a pain in the ass.

PS. thanks guys, for celebrating my birthday! though it was a bit early! love you peeps.

PSS. yijia and jonathan are going out to catch pirates of the caribbean: at world's end. shall ask them whether it's nice tonight.