So much excitement and panic for you guys

Haha so it's my birthday today. Happy 21th birthday to me!!! Heh heh heh...even though this is a special day, it started off as a regular day. Slept at 4 am last night and woke up about 11.30 am. Had a bowl of cereal for breakfast/lunch and watched Dr Phil while occasionally chatting to Steph and Wan Shi. No one wished me happy birthday although I assumed it was because my housemates didn't know that it was my birthday. Surprisingly, Chris didn't wish me either. My dad was the 1st one to wish me, last night at about 10pm. I was expecting my mum to give me a call so I was a little put-off when she didn't call at all. Not even an email from her!! I read through and edited Chris's assignment then proceeded to watch a movie (In the Cut). Super boring movie (sorry Mantou) where I almost fell asleep but tahan-ed to the end just to find out who the murderer was. Mantou, I know I asked you to recommend some horror/thriller movies but this was just not my type. I would rather watch shows like Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Hannibal where there's more blood, gore and mindless killing.

I took a nap after the show and woke up at about 6.30pm. Then I decided that I should go down to Hawken to get some groceries so I changed and went out. I was halfway to the ATM machine at the bus stop to get some money when Chris called me and asked me to come back for dinner. When I told her that I wasn't hungry and asked her if I could eat later after I bought my groceries, she started to sound quite panicky and told me to come back immediately. That was when I started to suspect something.

I was really tempted to refuse to go back but that would have been too mean, especially if Chris had planned something for me. So.....I went back, and found Chris and Mr Tan waiting downstairs for me. We went upstairs where I found that the lights in my apartment were off. I knew that a cake was probably going to come out next but seeing Ah Hao's head hiding behind the corner and hearing his voice kind of spoilt it all.....hahaha....I knew the 4 guys had to be here and then I saw my 3 housemates too. So I got the cake, the birthday song, the candle-blowing and the photo-taking.

We had pizza for dinner which was nice although the pizza was cold and the cake was good. Mango cheesecake....ummm....very rich and sinful but still tastes so good. I got a quilt cover set from Chris and the 4 guys, too bad it was the wrong size. They bought queen size when my quilt is actually double size. My housemates got me a pair of dangly blue earrings. Very very nice! I always appreciate earrings, no matter how many I've already got and the quilt cover will be very useful. Hopefully we can get it changed tomorrow for the correct size. I think I'll try to put up pictures in this blog if I can, just to show you all the earrings I've got so far....hahaha....

After dinner we sat around the table and talked about the planning of this "party". Apparently they didn't wish me on purpose because they wanted to act like they had forgotten about my birthday when I actually assumed that they didn't know in the first place. Then my appearance in the kitchen around dinner time gave my housemates a shock because they thought I was fixing my own dinner when they already had food planned. My disappearance from the house gave them an even bigger shock. According to Wan Shi, she had heard the door slam and she went out to check. She started to panic when she saw the "Gone out" sign on my room door because she was hoping that I had just gone downstairs to do laundry or something. But she knew that I don't put on that sign when I do laundry and I usually don't leave the room door closed as well. So she went and knocked on Steph's door and Steph immediately called Chris to tell her that I had left the house. The 4 guys were at Chris's place writing on my card and Chris started panicking as well. She told the guys to go out and stop me but apparently I walk very fast and they could find me. Meanwhile, Wan Shi and Steph were looking out the window trying to locate me but they couldn't see me at all. That was probably when I got the call from Chris asking me to come home. Wahahahahahhahahahaha........oh my god!!! I got such a kick listening to their individual stories and imagining their reactions and the looks on their faces when they realised that I had gone out and possibly spoilt all their plans.

So much excitement I had caused for these few wonderful people, don't you agree? Nevertheless, I wouldn't have wanted it any other way. Creating such a disturbance will be in my memory for a long time and it definitely made my 21th birthday so much more fun and exhilarating. Ahahahaa....I still can't keep that smile off my face whenever I think about all the fuss and havoc I created. Yup, this year's birthday was really really memorable.

Lots of hugs and kisses to Chris for organising this wonderful day for me.
A big thank-you to Wan Shi, Tommy and Steph who were in on the surprise, acted as spies in my own home and gave me so much fun and laughter.
Love to the 4 guys for even bothering about my birthday because I know that being the guys they are, this is already a huge effort coming from them. (Plus I do feel a little guilty that we did so little for Kenny's birthday but did so much more for mine)

I still have 3 slices of pizza and about 1/4 cake left. Maybe I'll give some to Crystal and Mildred...hahaha....as much as I love the cake, it doesn't mean that I should gorge on it and gain the unnecessary weight....heh heh heh....

Oh yeah, I really do not appreciate it when someone (I suspect it's Ah Hao) wrote "cheng X zhong" on my birthday card. Thanks so much for reminding me about that embarrasing moment when I misread the chinese name for Chinatown. For those who do understand Chinese, it was supposed to be "Zhong guo cheng" but I read it from left to right instead of right to left, and I didn't recognise the middle word "guo" because it was in "fan ti zi". Oh well....we all have our embarrasing moments.