12 August, 2005
well. happy birthday to jocelyn!
she's sweet sixteen
we hope you don't think
that we forgot your birthday dearie.
lol.
sorry.
since friday's come and gone, i shall tell you what was behind our very own hazel eyes. expose the sneaky going ons of the planning of jocelyn's birthday.
stupid me decided that surprising jocelyn will be a darn good surprise for someone who's turning sixteen, and in order to make the surprise more 'realistic', we decided to erase her birthday from our minds. but alas! what happened today was a total disaster.
first. EUNICE TOK had to go and wish jocelyn a happy birthday, INTERRUPTING my talk with jocelyn in order to do so. which means that she so very RUDELY REMINDED me (note the alliteration) that it was jocelyn's birthday. and she started singing a birthday song for her. so loud lah. then apparently i think ms choo heard it? (she commented on the increased instances of our class singing and remarked that we were all feeling rather stressed) boo. but! that was not all.
then came the barrage of presents. wah like FREE FLOW like that. so blatantly staring me in the eyes. they were so naughty i could see them wagging their little designs at me and gloating in their loud colours that i didn't have a present for jocelyn. EEKS. how frustrating. so i had to pretend that i was blind and couldn't see them. i tried so hard i even held my gaze on mr nah for a grand total of 20 minutes CONTINUOUSLY. (ringing applause)
yep. then zhi hui was seizing every opportunity to come up to me and furtively ask "HOW?" before innocently walking away. :( then i was almost wringing my hands in despair, so at a loss i felt. (it's very hard to make me feel like that)
maybe i should share my ideas on how to celebrate people's birthdays with our general readership. (should i hand out subscription forms yet?) lol.
shu's(which kl thinks is dumb): stalk her to bugis, buy her a cake and make zhi hui take her there so we can cut it
mine(which requires more work from the birthday girl): conduct a treasure hunt for the birthday girl at bugis to find either a. her present or b. her cake
BUT the worst part was living in fear that the book talk was compulsory (which in the end it was not?! the lt was overflooded and i had to sit on the staircase, poor little me -- full of sec 1s and 3s who had to get their sia marks and unwitting sec 4s (just like yours truly and co.) who were cheated into attending)
so, to compare our fates, jocelyn and zhi hui went off happily to bugis junction with peas and carrots whilst poor shu, dawn, kl and me had to sit through a book talk. not that it was bad, but just compare, and you'll see the light dawning. forgive the pun. lol. we were just less fortunate.
to conclude, today was jocelyn's birthday, and a day fraught with tensions indeed. phew.
p.s. when you want to plan a birthday celebration:
- don't let kl watch tv ever (ESPECIALLY LOST)
- don't let audry be so hardworking in doing chem sia on a FRIDAY. that's almost ILLEGAL. (i think i did it last friday lol)
- don't let there be book talks on people's birthdays.
- hone your creativity so you can come up with intelligent and brilliant plans for birthday celebrations.
- let your birthday fall during the weekend.
four left a trail- 8:10 PM
