Hello Liver, I'm Sorry

 Meet Beer Tower. 

Meet also the sadistic guy who poured the contents of said beer tower down our gullets.

*slurs* It was supposed to be a birthday party! Sharon's birthday party, to be precise! We were supposed to chill out and be party-ish.. but noooooo Ryui Bynn was like "Imma get two beer towers and we're gonna drink it all!"

It was more like two beer towers and a jug of stout. We're all lightweights, with a few exceptions (RB being one, lucky bastard), so you can imagine the effort that went into finishing all that.

 "It's Sharon's birthday! Must give face! Drink drink drinkkkkkkk"

A mix of stout and Tiger. Not a fan of stout. Mixing doesn't help.

 Empty tower = relief!

"Wait, got one more!"

*despair*

 Tomato head! I 'gave face' to Sharon, and she returned it after roasting it a bit in a beer marinade.

 Finally! Some semblance to a birthday party!

 "When I open my eyes, the beer towers will mysteriously disappear"

Happy drunk faces on the way home.

Sharon clutching her bottle of curacao.

Yum, curacao. =D

 

Other People Only Get ONE Surprise Party A Day

Chrissy got TWO!

SURPRISE! 

(only the first of the day but she didn't know it muahaha)

You can't tell from the picture, but we're super hungry and only our love for camwhoring gave us what we needed to smile for the camera, only inches away from a huge pot of delicious pasta.

The guy who made it happen - Nigel!

Seriously. He made the pasta (SUUUPER YUMMY HOLY CRAP) and brought the cake!

He called me on Sunday to tell me the plan, all I had to do was bring Chrissy to her college's cafe! And tell Chris Tan and Pei Vin, of course. Is he awesome or what??

No other pics, sorry, we were starving and spent the whole time eating like famished wolves!

Later at night,

Pusingan kedua!

She thought she was going to eat ais kacang with Sasa, bless her innocent soul.

Cake (and lots of food!) courtesy of her sister, Melissa, who planned the whole thing and enlisted my help in getting ready the UKM side of the party.

From right, Arun, Melissa, Chrissy's mum and Melissa's friend (sorry I forgot!! D:)

Taken while waiting for Chrissy to arrive

Still waiting...

 And then.. SURPRISE!

Just realised my handwriting is so childish T___T

Haha I love how it looks like everybody is looking at the fish.

Sasa wanted to feed the birthday girl, and I wanted to feed myself. Fruit salad, yummy!

Sasa, David and Nana.

Nice.. uh.. pose, David.

Me, Hani and Sasa!

This is David, happily eating his cake, not knowing that

Chrissy has a PLAN.

*insert maniacal laughter*

You took it like a man, David. Proud of you.

So this concludes the tale of Chrissy's two birthday parties! Now, go off and insist that your friends plan two surprise parties for you too!

Burnt Marshmallows, Floured Cars, and BBQ Set Parts In the Longkang: A BBQ, 6 Damai Style

First up, thank you so much for all the kind words and wishes, my mum and I really appreciate it! After writing the blog post, I went with my mum to the doctor to collect the test results. As it turns out, she took three tests: one came back positive, one negative and one more has yet to come back. 

So there is a chance that it's not ACTUALLY cancer, if I understand it correctly.

Phew.

The final test result will be out sometime next week, so til then we are totally chilled out. Waiting is a bit of a bitch though.

Anyway, I said I was going to go to a barbeque and celebrate life!
Life is all about learning, right?
And I learned a few things that night:
1. Trying to rip apart strips of streaky bacon that have frozen and are stuck together = holey streaky bacon
2. Holding a marshmallow too close to the flame = fireball on the end of my stick! OMGWTFBBQ(heehee)
3. 'Decorating' one's friend's car with flour AFTER it has rained and the car is wet is NOT a good idea. Dried flour paste is mothereffingly hard to get off T____T
4. Lanterns catch fire o.O

Pictures? As if you had to ask.

The food! Marshmallows not in the picture, dangit And also, no picture of marshmallow fireball, cos I ate it right after putting out the fire *guilty*

Uh. Allow me to explain the modified lanterns. The plates were meant to keep the light drizzle out of my lantern, therefore saving it from getting wet and dying on me. And the weird things in the middle of the plates are actually fishballs. To, you know, stop the lantern from sliding off the stick. All ideas not my own, credit goes to Sharon, the owner of the head perched on my shoulder! One of the lanterns is hers, which is why I'm holding two =D

Why you shouldn't celebrate birthdays with us. Not only do you get floured,

so does your ride!
Look at us having fun here. Little did we know it'd be such a bitch to get off!

No, there isn't a weird white creature behind Mun Yee the birthday girl. It's her personal Flour Cloud (TM)!

Refer to Lesson 4.

"Only I burnt my lantern! Don't jellis plz."

 The host attempting to clean up our mess. Ooops. Sorry, Ryui Bynn.

Our host and the missus cleaning up our mess. But hey! Don't think I was useless okay! I was at the back, cleaning too! Cos I uh... well, I made extra mess at the back. *shamefaced*

Paying penance.

The BBQ aftermath.
Oh, and Lesson 5:
Don't forget the inside of the BBQ thingamabob. It can fall out.

And then you'd have to go into the bowels of the earth to take it out.

And if you think the work stops there, it does NOT.
Yes, I always look like this when I mop floors.

Look at this creation! Made with my own fair hands.
Not.
I can't bake to save my life.
My friends made it! Homemade, fml. I need to up my game, man.
And it tasted AWESOME! Now, to con my friends into thinking my birthday is coming again.

Happy birthday!
We aren't totally mean, okay. The floured woman got to take a shower and all. AND we cleaned her car!

Part of our Form 6 gang, plus a few extra people who are honorary members of our elite group.
It's been 3 years since our days of gambling in class and hiding handphones in our bras, but the bonds of friendship have only gotten stronger with time. Luv yu guyz *wobbly lip*

Touched

Emotionally, that is.

My birthday was definitely celebrated with lots of loved ones and friends (not necessarily all on the same day, mind) and I was reminded again and again how blessed and lucky I am to have all these people in my life! Yes folks, be warned - this post is a rather emo one.

First, my Form 6 friends had a small joint birthday celebration-cum-get together for me, Jerome and Moong Kiew..

Introducing... *drumroll* (almost) the whole 6 Damai bunch - the class known for gambling in school and making far too much noise!

Us at Ke-Yang's (the blurry guy up front in the picture before this one) house with my first jelly cake of the year. Yes, after looking at this photo I'm now aware that I clap like Paula Abdul.

Then, I had my awesome day out with my LoverBoy that was everything a birthday celebration should be, and more! And just when I thought the surprises were over, he managed to surprise me AGAIN, by showing up on my birthday with

THIS!

I love the absolute impracticality of flowers, as well as the incredible beauty they possess. Aren't they lovely? I've got gazillions of pictures of them; close ups, camwhore shots, you name it, I've taken it! 

 I even got a pressie from LB's parents! A Burberry Brit perfume set, in case you're wondering. Bless them.

My second jelly cake of the year, courtesy of LB (yes, my boyfriend is awesome. No, you can't have him. No, I will not accept yours in exchange, either!). 

Actually, it's really not so much the STUFF, but the effort he put into everything that makes me slightly snuffly and watery when I think about it.

 Ooops. Too over-eager to cut the cake and sink my teeth into that butterfly!

The restaurant owner was like "wah, is that your boyfriend ar? He spent 5 minutes arranging the candles on your cake! *insert chinese words here that mean that he really has the heart to do it well, sorry I is banana*". And I melted, again. Honestly, I have done nothing at all to merit Adam Riff. Fate, you've dealt me a good hand!

Not only do I have an A+ boyfriend, my friends are all top-scorers as well!

Lookit the gorgeous card Chrissy made me! BY HAND! As you can see in the picture above this one, there is a purple envelope with a Sleeping Beauty sticker on it.. Chrissy bought the WHOLE sticker sheet just for that one sticker because she knows I heart Sleeping Beauty. The feminist in me objects to the whole 'lie there and wait for your prince to save your arse' thing, but the Disney Princess lover in me goes 'SHE'S SO PWETTYY!!' (and oftentimes the DP lover's incoherent squealing drowns out the measured tones of the feminist).

And here is something my mum's friend's daughters (they are also her students, incidentally) made for me!

SO SWEET RIGHT?

Handmade by a 12 year old and a 7 year old. They are so cute! I don't even know how they knew it was my birthday. Kids really are the darnedest creatures, sometimes you want to strangle them (I'm not talking about these two, though), and sometimes they do things that make you melt and go all warm and gooey like butter in the sun.

But the funniest story is the one involving this

Sasa and Nana's pressie!

So this is what happened. During a recent sleepover at my house - you can read Sasa's account of it here because once I read hers I didn't bother to write my own since we'd have the same pics and everything - Sasa and Nana decided to surprise me on my birthday by leaving my pressie with my mum so that she could pass it to me on my birthday.

My mum being my mum, SHE FORGOT. And as it was a surprise, I had no idea about the existence of the present so I couldn't remind her. So the days passed with no response from me regarding the pressie, and Sasa and Nana were starting to get a little bit worried. On Tuesday, I received a cryptic text from Nana.

Nana: Hey babe, did your mum give you anything for your birthday?

Me: *thinking she meant FROM my mum* Yeeesss... why ar?

Nana: Oh, nothing.

Me: *hmmm*

Then, I got a message on Facebook from Sasa telling me that they got me a pressie, and to collect it from my mum. Me being me (IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY!), I forgot. So another day passed.. and on Thursday (earlier today), I suddenly remembered. 

"MUM! Did Sasa and Nana give you anything to pass to me for my birthday??"

*pause*

"OH YA LAR!!! I FORGOT!!"

"YOU FORGOT MY BIRTHDAY PRESSIE??"

(This is a genuinely shocked expression, btw. I hate candid shots.)

So anyway, when we got home, she rushed to give me my pressie, and I called both Sasa and Nana to explain the whole sorry tale. Thank goodness they're both understanding people - more reason to love them to bits! I've already started on the chocs (making up for lost time!), yummm. If you want some, you know where to go.

Looking back on my 22nd, all I can say is that I am truly truly blessed to have so many awesome people in my life! <3 <3 <3 Thank you, friends and boyfriend alike, for walking into my life and deciding to stop and hang out.