Last night could be pretty much summed up in two words: boring and fun.
Eh? Why the contradiction you might ask?
Well... it was boring for the first TWO HOURS OF THE NIGHT. For the last hour and a half it was fun.
Btw, I AM NEVER EVER LISTENING TO EMM AND AL ANYMORE? YOU HEAR ME? I HAVE TWO BRUISED ANKLE (OR WHAT FEELS LIKE ONE ANYWAY...), TWO HUGE BLISTERS ON MY TWO LITTLE TOES!!
Want to know why? Oh gee, let me guess... I TOTTERED IN HEELS FROM LOK THIAN TO THE KCH FEST AND WALKING THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE KCH FEST (INCLUDING THE GARDENS) IN BLOOODY HEEEEELLLLSSSS!!!!! BAHHHHHHH. I AM CURSING HEELS!
AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT THAT I HAVE TO WEAR HEELS AGAIN TONIGHT TO MY MUM'S DINNER! MY ANKLES ARE KILLING ME NOWWWW AND MY BLISTERS ARE GOING ALL LIQUIDY ON ME.
Oh crude. I think I just burst one.
Wait a min.
Ouch.
All your fault.
Anyway, back to the prefect party. Don't worry I will be cursing heels more again later.
So, I left the house at about six fifty five. Picked up Van. Felt really stupid coz I was wearing a skirt, heels and a handbag?! Or whatever resembled one anyway. I only brought that coz I had no pockets to put my handphone, uber huge wallet and uber uber huge camera. :)
We arrived at the Bangkok Thai Restaurant (below Lok Thian) and the moment I walked out of the car...
Noel: (gulps down his saliva) Siaw Hui... (bursts out into laughter)
Me: WHAT!!
Noel: You're wearing a skirt!
Me:....
Van: And heels!
Me: (grits teeth) Van...
Then we were milling around outside the restaurant, Akmal called me...
Akmal: Oy, where are you lot?!
Me: Eh, outside the restaurant waiting for you?
Akmal: I CAN"T SEE YOU!
Me: HELLO?! YOU HAVE AN ENTIRE ENTOURAGE WAITING OUT HERE FOR YOU!!
Akmal: Who?!
Me: Sjane, Mtyp, Van, Emm, Noel, Kok, Lun and Sing Yue!!
Akmal: I can't see leeeeehhhh!!
Me: WE"RE ALL OUT HERE HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE?! (start peering out into main road to see whether can spot him)
Silence then...
Akmal: Eh... where's Bangkok Thai anyway?
Me: .... BELOW LOK THIAN!!
Akmal: Eh... right.
Silence then...
Akmal: Where's Lok Thian?
Me: GAHHHHHH!!! (shoves phone into Noel's face) YOU DEAL WITH HIM!
Finally, Akmal made his grand entrance... minutes after the phone call that almost had me throwing my bag in the other direction and stamping onto the road and almost getting killed by a car in my anger. :)
The worst was yet to come...
Me: Yay! Noel you reserve table right?
Noel: Yepp. Right next to VIP table!
Me: Ooh boy. Let's go!
(all start walking into restaurant)
Cynthia: Siaw Hui...
Me: Ya? (uber happily)
Cynthia: Umm. You're sitting at the VIP table.
Me: *almost chokes* What?
Cynthia: Yeah. You and Kok Ming. Both me and Louis. And Gerald Lee. Arthur Lim. The teachers...
Me: (barely a whisper) Really?
Cynthia: Yeah, see you there...
Kok Ming walks in happily too...
Me: (pulls his shirt) Eh... we need to sit at VIP table.
Kok: Issit?
Me: Uh oh...
So ok, we were in deep shit. We had to sit at VIP table with uber boring ppl. I would rather die than sit with them for two hours...
Kok: Akmal, got extra seat at VIP table.
Ak: So?
Me: If you didn't hear right, there's an EXTRA seat at VIP table.
Ak: Ah then?
Kok: GO THERE PLEASE!
Ak: Don't want...
Me: AKMAL!!! PLEASE!!!
Ak: Don't want to see Ah Lee's face...
Kok: PLEASE, PLEASE! (makes begging face) Please la... don't be like that la...
Me: Oy, I will die there ok... no one to talk to.
Ak: Both of you can talk bah...
Kok and me: AKMAL!!! THAT"S BESIDES THE POINT!
Ak: (whines) But I wanna sit here!
Me: COME ON LA!! YOU'RE BOTH OUR FRIENDS! MEBBE WITH YOU AROUND DYING WON'T BE AN OPTION!
Ak: (gets out of seat reluctantly) Aiyah... don't want le...
Kok and me grab one side of him each and start hauling him (or trying to) to the VIP table.
Ak: Oy!
Let me first tell you of the arrangement at the VIP table. We have, in anti clockwise arrangment, Mr Lee, Mr Lim, Mdm Voon, Cikgu Lai, Julian (MC for the night), Cynthia, mua, Ak, Kok, Louis. Anything wrong with the arrangment?
Note that I am sitting near and across uber boring ppl. ;)
I know that the VIP table got diff dishes than oth tables. So first course was Sea Cucumber Soup...
Oh. My. Gawd. It was the most boring dinner I have ever sat through. They talked about Education! And Discipline! And Charity! I HEAR ENOUGH OF THAT EVERYDAY. I was like, muttering to Ak: Please shoot me. Now would be good...
Then an sms came. From Emm: Hehe, feel like dying now?
I look over to the next table and I see Emm, Noel, Van and the others grinning like idiots.
Me sms back: Oh shuddup.
Emm: I pity you. How much joy are you having over there?
Me: Eh...
Akmal clears his throat: Siaw Hui...
Me: (still furiously typing sms)
Akmal: Siaw Hui... (more desperately now)
Me: What? (annoyed and look up)
Cynthia, Louis and Mdm Voon staring at me.
Akmal: (coughs loudly) You're being rude.
Me: Eh... (smiles sheepishly) Ok.
My sms back to Emm: OH SHUDDUP! and then I regretfully stow away my handphone. Sob.
Was still feeling like I wanted to die until...
Cynthia: I
aspire to go to Singapore for education!
Table falls silent then...
Cikgu Lai: So you *pauses* aspire to go to Spore huh?
Cynthia: *blab blab blab*
Kok: (leans over to Ak and me) Eh... what's aspire?
Me: Eh... dreams? Hopes?
Kok: Oh...
Later on in the convo...
Cynthia: SOME PPL ARE JUST PLAIN OBNOXIOUS!
Me: ...
Ak and Kok: (lean over to me) Eh... what's obnoxious?
Me:...
Ak nudges me with his leg.
Me: Think that they're better than others?
Ak and Kok: Oh...
Then when Tiff and Joshua Pui were singing the song from High School Musical...
Cynthia: Have you watched High School Musical yet?
Me: Uhh yeah?
Cynthia: Oh, you should love this then.
Me: (smiles wryly) I guess...
Cynthia: (gives me a smug look) Troy is hot.
Me: (hears wrongly) What? Toy is hot?
Cynthia: ?
Me: Oh oh. Sorry. (swallow food I've been chewing on) Troy is hot. Right.
Silence then...
Cynthia: Gabriella is hot too.
Me: Uhh yeah. (in back of mind I'm going: Is she a bisexual or something?!)
Then we had Cynthia praising Louis...
Cynthia: Louis you ordered top of the range food. Top of the range service. (at this I almost gagged) I envy your wife next time.
Mdm Voon: Hint hint Louis.
Cynthia: Oh come on I don't mean it like that. (smile)
Mdm Voon: But you'd have to take a number. He has a long line of girls eh?
Me: (leans over to Ak) And number one on his list being yourself?
Ak: (stifles laughter)
When Louis heaped Kok's plate with meat... Cynthia tried doing the same to me...
Me: (happily chewing on meat)
Suddenly an uber huge scoop of mixed veggies end up on my plate.
Me: (open mouth to protest but realize got food in my mouth shut it and chew while mentally going NOO!!!)
Another uber huge scoop of veggies.
Me: (look frantically at Cynthia) (start chewing and swallowing faster)
Cynthia: (takes up another scoop of veggies)
Me: (swallows uber huge piece of meat down don't care whether I choke or not) Eh, that's enough Cynthia...
Cynthia: Ok. (smile)
Me: (smiles weakly)
Me: (looks back at plate) Got cauliflower, carrots, baby corn, mushrooms... I can't eat this stuff!
Ak: (distractedly) What?
Me: (hisses) I can't eat this! I hate everything that's here! I hate mixed veggies!
Ak: Why the hell did you take then?!
Me: I DIDN"T! SHEEEE DID.
Ak: (starts laughing)
Cynthia: (begins to look over)
Me: (stab a cauliflower viciously)
Cynthia: (smiles at me)
Me: (smile back and pop uber huge cauliflower in mouth)
I swear I am never ever ever eating cauliflower or carrots or baby corn ever again. NEVER!!!
If you think that's bad enough wait till you hear about the fish...
Me: (looks apprehensively at fish being served)
Ak: Eh...
Fish starts being passed around...
Kok: (takes a piece and puts on his plate)
Ak: (takes a piece and puts on his plate then turns to look at me) You want?
Me: (mouthing) No
Ak: (glares)
Me: (shakes head)
Ak:(sccops up one huge piece and plonk it on my plate) Eat. (in a lower voice) Just be polite...
Me: Okay enough.
Ak: (scoops another and put on plate)
Me: ENOUGH! (grabs plate and shoves it to Cynthia)
First bite of the fish...
Me: Yuck. (look over at Akmal) Eh... is there smth wrong with the fish?
Ak: (gulps down his own) Eh... I think so.
Both look over Kok.
Kok: (pokes his fish piece, the tail part around the plate and nodding politely at whatever Louis is saying)
Me: So how ler? (picks up fish and sniffs at it) Eww, it smells bad.
Ak: (nods) I know.
Me: Eh...
Ak: Just eat. Be polite la.
Me: (pick up fork and stab another piece reluctantly) Okay. (put it in mouth and got some salted feeling. Meat is so crumbly) (drink down loads of Sprite)
After finishing fish on plate...
Kok: (gets up to go toilet)
Split moments later...
Me: (gets up to go toilet too) I'd be back.
Ak: Oyyyyyy
Me: I feel bad...
After coming back from toilet...
Me: Where the fish go? (secretly happy)
Cynthia: Oh, we sent it back to kitchen.
Me: Oh why?
Cynthia: It wasn't fresh. Extremely unfresh apparently.
Me: WHAT?!
On Cynthia's dad living in boarding sch last time..
Cynthia: Last time my dad say that he don't dare go toilet at night.
Gerald Lee: Why?
Cynthia: Supposed to be haunted or smth. So whenever he want to pee right, he holds it in till morning. Every day.
Table silent then...
Kok: (while choking on food) Well, thanks to him holding his pee in, we get to see the result sitting right here tonight. (looks meaningfully at Cynthia)
Me and Ak: (only ones to catch the look)
Three of us start laughing non stop while the others were like Huh?
Then about Aidan and Cynthia...
Cynthia: Where's Aidan going next year?
Me: Eh... I dunno.
Cynthia: I think he's going Spore.
Me: Eh...
Akmal: (cuts in) Yeah, he is. Most likely.
Cynthia: I'm going there after Form Five there too!
Silence then...
Ak: Oh. How wonderful. (monotonously) You must be a pair made in heaven.
Cynthia: (beams uber happily) No la...
Me: ...
On Aidan again...
Cynthia: Want to hear something interesting?
Me: (swallow food quickly) Eh?
Cynthia: When's Aidan's bday?
Me: Eh...
Cynthia: He's bday is same as mine you know!
Me: Eh...
Cynthia: Funny hor?
Me: Eh... actually Noel has the same bday? Ehehe? Coincidence huh?
Cynthia: ....
On Aidan YET again...
Cynthia: You know Cikgu Anita used to tease me with Sing Yue...
Me: (drinking Sprite almost spits it out) WHA?!
Cynthia: Then my friends tell her that it's Aidan.
Me: Oh issit? Ehehehe...
Cynthia: Do you look at us that way?
Me: (starts choking) Excuse me, what way?
Cynthia: You know. Think we're more friends and all that. My friends also think that way...
Me: Eh... it depends on how you look at it I guess. Some ppl might think you guys were some wouldn't think it was...
Cynthia: What about you?
Me: Eh? (starts drinking to stall for time)
Cynthia: What do you think?
Me: Umm... Well, I'm sure Aidan takes it as a joke. So don't worry about it.
Cynthia: Oh... (face falls)
Me: (mutters to self) Oh gawd.
Aidan, as a friend, I'm telling you straight as it is. You better be afraid. BE VERY AFRAID.
Okay, after the dinner, we got little gifts. Then we decided to head on over to the Kch fest. The gang was Ak, Noel, Sing Yue, Kok Ming, Van, Emm and me.
On the road...
Ak: Ee! Look! There's Ben's car!
Sing Yue: (looks over and wave)
Then...
Sing Yue: Oh shit!
Me: What?
Sing Yue: AKMAL! YOU TELL ME IT"S BEN! IT"S NOT! I WAVE TO WRONG PERSON! DUNNO WHO AR...
All of us: HAHAHAHAHA!!
On crossing the road...
Kok: RUN! NOW!
Everyone starts running then...
Akmal: SIAW HUI"S WEARING HEELS SHE CAN"T RUN!
Me: SHUDDUP! (runs for life)
Needless to say, for the rest of the way to the fest, I was bullied nonstop on how I ran flailing in my heels and skirt. Phooey.
On walking to the fest...
Emm: (walks over this huge drain with holes) Oof!
Ak: Make sure you don't get your heels stuck there eh! Teeheeee teeheee...
Emm: Shuddup! (whacks him hard)
At the fest...
Everyone was walking faster...
Me: (tottering in heels) Oy, wait... slow down...
Van(walks even faster)
Me: Oy!
Even faster...
Me: (yells) OY!!! GIRL IN HEELS HERE! DOES ANYONE CARE?!!!
Van: ...
We bought some fried ice cream and chicken and started walking in the gardens...
Van: (takes a bite into ice cream) Uh oh.
Me: What?
Van: I think I ate tissue.
Me: WHAT?!
While throwing to throw away my drink...
Me: (reaches over to throw away drink)
Emm: (accidentally hits me)
Me: (almost falls into a hole near dustbin) EMMELINE!! (flails wildly and manage to jump onto other side of hole)
Emm: Oops. Sorry dear.
Well, the rest of the night passed without much event... oh wait there's one more joke left before I go...
While buying tissue packets from a woman selling them at the gate...
Kok: Umm...we just buy la. You know support her.
Me: Yeah. Pity her...
Silence then...
Van: Eh... she has a handphone you know.
Me: What?
Van: Look.
All of us look.
True enough, she's playing a handphone.
Uhh did i miss something?
I think I'd upload pics another time. Yeah?
That was a long post. Hope you guys enjoyed it!