And that was the most bizarre Valentine’s Day ever. It was about four days ago, and so the blood rush that ensued the day has by far been worn out already. It was a great day, yes. I went out with Rona, Miks, Kiks, Mina, Izaq, Justeen, Janno & Marlie. We met Jia and Jaya, these super cool twins that Miko introduced to us. (Actually, I knew them from ages ago, but that was literally ages ago, I met them when I was like, what, one? They definitely don’t remember me as that pudgy little kid from yesterday, well; they don’t remember me at all. Although I do remember them being huge, now I tower over them like Lady Liberty towers over New York Harbour.) They’re just about the most spontaneous twins ever and what they lack in height, they make up by being awesome.

 

I didn’t spend a dime on Valentine’s Day. Oh wait—I did. I used up all my money to get my bestfriend a rose. That’s how good a bestfriend I can be. Not. We ate at Cheezbox, and to say the least, the food’s not that bad at all. Really. Carbonara... good. And after eating, we just hung out and talked about a lot of things in particular, watching the clouds drag by the four p.m. sky. Good times.

 

After about a couple of hours of chilling—well I guess I can’t really say we were strictly ‘chilling’. There was a lot of running and chasing involved, around parking lots, I think there was this one instant where I almost, almost got run over by a Range Rover while chasing Janno (he nicked the chocolates I got from Kiks and Rona) around the parking lot over at Unitech.

 

Actually I felt like a major track star athlete that day. I did so much running; I oughta have won a Nobel Prize or something. There was this one point where Mina & I ran from the mall to the bridge over at Unitech. Kay, maybe it wasn’t that far, but I was exhausted by the time we got there (we discreetly ran off to buy Kiks and Rona Valentine’s Day gifts, a mug for him, a rose for her).

 

The longest run was from the fourth floor of the mall all the way to Fratini’s at Centrepoint, barely dodging shoppers and traffic. I was running my ass off, people were staring. I was running actually, ‘cause my Neo mates were having a farewell dinner for Joe at Fratini’s and frankly, I was one hour late and seriously had to bolt. I reached the cool and pasta-smelling air of Fratini’s looking like I was suffering from a severe case of asthma. They saved me a slice of pizza; I gladly stuffed the whole thing in my mouth after spitting out the anchovies (no, I don’t fancy anchovies much). I was late so by the time I got there, everyone was pretty much finished eating.

 

As to why I was sixty minutes late... me, Izaq, Justeen, Marlo or Kael or Marlie, whichever way you people call him, and Janno were busy scaring the piss out of ourselves on the fourth floor of the Centrepoint Hotel. Seriously. I think we spent about an hour on a corridor on the fourth floor, pretending to see shadows and ghostly apparitions. And we tried prank calling the others (Miko, Mina, Rona and Kiks, who were on the second floor pool area) into thinking we really were being haunted up there but no, they knew us too well to fall for it. Too well. But heck, it was fun. Until we got kicked out. Again.

 

Oh and I remember having a biting contest with Kiks. I lost. Goddamit.

 

 

Chels: I lost the biting contest. ):

Izaq: Chelsea... I’m so disappointed in you.

 

 

I know. I have this insane rep for being a biter and oh my God, I lose a biting contest. Hey man, Kiks has like, insane incisors! Sharp like razor blades. Ooooh, razor blades.... [shudder]. (It’s an inside joke.) After he let go of my arm, it was all purple and bruised and swelling. The swelling’s gone now, but there’s a scar where his teeth cut through my skin. Grr.

 

I demand a rematch. I gotta get my rep up! I do not like being beaten, you have to know that much about me.

 

The bite mark’s kinda like solid proof that last Saturday night did happen. It’s a bit blurry right now. Just like Richelle’s 16^th party. Oh, now that night was blurry. That even happen? I dunno, whatever.

 

Anyway, lemme sum of the highlights of our little Valentine’s Day soiree at the mall/Gadong:

 

 

01. Meeting Jia & Jaya (for the second time in my life in about ten years). Wicked cool twins, I swear.

02. The 3 o’ clock lunch at Cheezbox. Carbonara... good. And I didn’t spend a single cent, food was on Miko. The bill? $82.50.

03. Discovering the beach at Gadong. Yes sir, Gadong has a beach. A lousy one, but it’s still a beach to us. We even found a frigging island!

04. Hanging out by the ‘river’. Good times, mellow times, stupid times.

05. Izaq getting stood up by his date. Not that it matters, none of us had dates anyway. It was just a simple hangout with mates and not dates.

06. Watching the ridiculous antics played out by the boys. You know how boys are. Especially Izaq. The most mature of the lot. [sarcasm intended]

07. Running around Gadong. Literally.

08. Hanging out on the fourth floor of Centrepoint.

09. Getting kicked out of the fourth floor at Centrepoint. I suppose if we hadn’t gotten kicked out, we would’ve stayed there for hours and hours at on end.

10. Joe’s farewell dinner at Fratini’s. I was an hour late and missed out most of the fun, but heck, I was at Centrepoint getting stoned. Nott.

11. Buying each other Valentine’s Day gifts. Such an affair. It’s just too sweet. Mina and I totally mellowed out when Kiks and Rona got us chocolates. They melted though and was all gooey when I finally got to eat them.  Oh well, I’m never throwing away the box, no siree. Miks almost murdered Kiks for beheading the rose he gave Rona by sitting on it. It became even when Miks broke the mug Mina & I gave to Kiks. Gee, that was a waste of 15 bucks.

12. The amount of emotional trauma felt that day, or rather, night. I’m not saying anymore.

 

 

Yes, t’was a great day. It’s been four days so I don’t feel that much hyped up about it, but I was totally sugar high when I got home. As for what I got Valentine’s Day?

 

01. Two roses from three different people.

02. Chocolates.

03. A tiny balloon.

04. A $40 novel.

05. A shirt.

06. A stuffed lion.

07. A million hugs.

08. A bite. With a scar to top it off.

09. Other unmentionables.

 

It’s not much. But I do love the chocolates. Yay me. Yep, t’was probably the most bizarre Valentine’s Day so far. Yep, so far.

Labels: good times, hanging out, people, Valentine's, weekends

Safe to say Twilight wasn’t that amazing. It was a bit disappointing really, the acting was a little off; Edward Cullen didn’t come off half as perfect as he actually was in the book, no offence to Robert Pattinson’s hardcore fans. It wasn’t really that bad, it just wasn’t that awesome. But I guess it’s alright. Jasper was soooo *faints*. And Paths was right, they only showed Jacob FIVE whole times throughout the whole film. Geez.

A funny scene from last weekend’s hangout was me & Neesah’s little marathon around the cinema right before Twilight began. I came late, practically just before the movie started, barely missing the beginning and if that wasn’t enough I needed to badly to use the ladies’ that Neesah & I literally ran through the cinema all the way to the toilet round back =.= We were running like mad not wanting to miss a second of Twilight, it was kind of surprising really that the cinema ushers didn’t think we were trying to sneak into the cinema from the back or something, the way we ran as if we were chased.

Literally running to the toilet, slamming the cubicle door, yanking my pants off, willing my bladder to empty faster than it naturally would, pulling my pants back on and racing back to my seat (which was not to mention, right at the front, that means about 20 flights of steps to race down), we made it, just missing about 5 seconds or so. New record. And the rest of else is spent slouching in my seat, comparing every scene to the book’s rendition I’ve memorized in my head, digesting high-quality popcorn, eagerly awaiting Jasper Cullen’s every appearance on screen. Which, depressingly, was quite a few times only. He didn’t even have much dialogue! Honestly.

I guess it wasn’t quite a rip off though, but I reckon I’d have appreciated the movie much better if I had the self control not to read the book. From a cinematic point of view, all literary works aside, I’d give the movie an 8 and a half.

It was great though, going out with my buddies again. I’ve missed Haylie & Shannon Shannon a lot. Oh, speaking of Shannon, she finally admitted Edward hasn’t got rabies. YES. Who wouldn’t fall for any of the Cullens eh? What I pretty much regret though was I didn’t get to spend any time at all with Ells, Aikks & Josh. They watched Twilight at some other time and it didn’t help at all that I came ridiculously late with only minutes to spare with them. Gee. Oh well. There’s always next time. I miss them like mad already.


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I guess I won’t be going anywhere this Christmas, just spending it here at home. Oh, joy. I guess there’s that party on the 27th that I’m pretty much looking forward to. Though, sometimes I really feel there isn’t much I’m doing at home except eat, sleep, repeat. Oh, plus rehearsals in between. Yeah.

Oh & I heard the PMB results are out and they’ve failed like, practically everyone who ONLY FAILED BM. What in the hell is that? They can’t really give us an F for the whole damn thing just for failing BM! BM is just a pointless subject that I couldn’t care any less about. I don’t want to study it, and I’m freaking sure don’t need it. MOE, YOU CANNOT FAIL ME FOR FAILING BM.

I get As in loads of places and I fail solely BM and then you flunk me just for that one insignificant, not just to me, but a thousand other kids think so too, tactless subject, which I’m certain I’m not going to need at all in 10 years time. Tell me, for the love of God, where is the justice in that? That is, if MOE really has failed us. That’s just what I heard; I haven’t really had to willpower to go and Google my results for myself.

Man. I hope this sudden outburst of crankiness is due to PMS. Really. I don’t wanna be the Grouch for Christmas. Nope, not gonna wreck all this for myself. Tis the season to be jolly, is it not?

Labels: exams, hanging out, school, things that piss me off

I guess I’m pretty much above the norm from other girls. The way I talk, walk, dress & my less-than-feminine interests? Especially dress. I had absolutely no reason to worry about what I’m going to wear tomorrow when I go with twenty or so (hey, it is Twilight, Edward Cullen, hello?) of my friends and Ella’s combined, until she told me she’s been doing nothing all day but exchanging photos with Niks about what they’re gonna wear tomorrow. Wow. Since when did my girlfriends start dolling up whenever they go out?

She’s out there getting drabbed by Niks, fretting over what blush on she should use while I am here reading my 10th grade Biology textbook, wondering which part of our body does the alveolus domiciles in. I am such a nerd. Oh my goodness. Just last night in bed, I calculated how much each person would have to bring for tomorrow (what with everyone being broke and all). The number of pizzas we’d need, the number of pizza slices left over, the number of change there’ll be, the amount we’d have to pay and the average amount each person would need just so everyone pays fair. Gah.

Yeah. I get it, I’m a dork, enough said. I’m not the girly girl either. Sure, I get clad in skirts & I like high heels a lot (I have more than 5 pairs, that enough to count as girly?) but other than that, I look like a total dude wearing my normal clothes. Camo shorts, printed tee, Converse sneaks. And I’m not the one pointing it out! My guy bestfriend just told me I “dressed like a guy”. And just about 15 minutes ago, my other guy friend told me that the way I dressed was alright but probably because he thinks of me as a guy. I seriously have to fix my wardrobe, make me look more feminine or something. As if I weren’t feminine enough already. Geez.

All the same, I’m just so psyched about tomorrow. JACOB. Oh Jacob. Oh no wait, Jasper. Oh Jasper. (See? I’m feminine enough to still notice guys for heaven’s sake.) It’s gonna be so much fun. Just your typical day out with your untypical buddies. And also, Chuan wants a rematch after our cheesecake competition Wednesday. This time he says we’d see who can eat cake faster. Chyeah. I’ll win, no worries. Hahahaha. Oh & I cannot wait to see the look on Shannon Shannon’s face when she sets her eyes on Edward Cullen for the first time. Yes, ladies & gentlemen, boys and girls, this primitive teenage girl has not heard of Edward Cullen. Or anything Twilight. Ever.

I’m gonna get such a kick out of it tomorrow. So long fellas.

Labels: hanging out, myself, people

Rona
10-Dec-08 3:09 PM
Chepii! I’m gonna kill you for not coming! Especially for not telling me that you’re not coming!!


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I wonder what Rona & Kevin are up to. No, it’s all like that! Geez, some people. We were supposed to go out today, ‘we’ meaning Rona, Kevin, Aikks, Aaron, Mickko and myself since Rona’s leaving the country Friday.

(And it was also some sort of “official band inauguration” thingy, Kevin’s switched the band members around and he’s certain Rona, Aikks, Aaron A (from Neo slash MD slash church) & I are the perfect mix, and Aaron, the latest addition as the band’s drummer hasn’t met Rona and Aikks yet. Although, Rona is not at all pleased about being included in the band.)

And for some unapparent reason, I didn’t feel like going. No, I didn’t see them dying inside the cinema while the mall burns down or something. I have a theory though as to why I declined to going out today. It was possibly because I doubt I’d be missing anything; Kevin’s bait for me to go was Twilight which he thought premiers today.

Unfortunately sucky ol’, well, whoever is in charge of this country’s entertainment & cinematic needs, won’t be premiering Twilight until tomorrow. So I guess, yeah, what’s the point in me going if they aren’t watching Twilight right?

Due to the annoyingly frustrating postponement of a pretty much awaited movie, like ever, I’m probably going out this weekend with Ells & Aikks and a bunch of other St George kids to watch it. Chyeah. Go Jacob. JACOB. Either Jacob or Jasper. JASPER.

Anyway, back to the beginning: I wonder what Kevin and Rona are up too. Oh, the other three? Well, Aikks decided not to go as well since I won’t be there, says she ‘can’t have fun without me’ (aww, that’s nice), Aaron, I’m not sure he made it or not but I doubt it and Mickko, wait—Mickko’s probably there. Happy belated birthday perfect guy from planet Perfect (quotes Kiks)! Love.

I guess I’ve to rephrase it now. I wonder what Kevin, Rona and Mickko are up to now. Beats me. Rona spent the last weekend at my place and Kev & Aikks were here Saturday...although, I’m still not clear on why they were here. *shrugs.


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Band reunion tonight! YEAH. Actually, it’s the awarding ceremony tonight for the concert people i.e. = BAND REUNION. Although you can’t exactly call it perfectly a reunion, with Nina being in Europe having the time of her life (“I wish I could bring back Disneyland with me!”). And she’s all worked up about missing the awarding and rehearsals for Acoustic Night and Acoustic Night and yeah. Neenz, I’d gladly trade places with you given the chance.

I’ve yet to raid my closet for something ‘semi-formal’ to wear. After all the ‘semi-formal’ occasions at Neo I am seriously running out of anything ‘semi-formal’ to wear. I told my teacher I’d wear a cheongsam (is that how it’s spelt?). Who on Earth wears a cheongsam to an awarding ceremony? Chinese New Year is ages away. And I’m not Chinese.

Okay, that doesn’t solve anything. I still don’t have anything to wear. I’ll just open up my wardrobe and pick up the first thing that deems “something semi-formal that I don’t think I’ve worn at Neo yet despite the number of times I’ve had to...which was about 3”. So let me just go and check it out.

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Do denim jeans count as formal? I suppose if it does if I you pick the right top. So. I’ll just wear this brown blouse thing I got from Ego. Which was a couple of years ago. I do hope it still fits.

Okay, I have to run. Dad’s nagging at us to get our lazy bums downstairs and play badminton. Yeah. Oh wait—I can’t. I’ve been doing sit ups yesterday. The outcome? My entire abdomen hurts like mad everytime I stretch, laugh or sneeze. And I can’t spread my limbs. Oy vey.

Labels: band, birthdays, hanging out, myself

“..When I’m scared, I get diarrhoea.”
–Shannon

>She was kidding, but that doesn’t make it any less funny of a statement to make.


Note: Just so you know, there are two Shannons in this entry: Shannon Osman aka jumpy squirt and Shannon... just Shannon. I’ve no idea what her last name is but anyway, she’s one of Neo’s vocalists, and so in relation, is part of the band as well.


So Nina & I got to the mall at about 1:15, which was, at the most, pretty early. I coincidentally saw Shannon O (she was so frigging hyper, she should be banned from Coke, seriously) and hung with her till we ate at Mr Pizza. She was waiting round for her buddies as well and so stayed with us.

Meanwhile, Nina was having a raging headache (“I just wanna chop my head off. Aaarrgh.”) and we had to sit down. (Although, it didn’t help that we watched a horror movie by the likes of Cloverfield, you know, shaky-camera-with-all-the-running-and-falling kind of thing that’ll make you feel a bit woozy.)

And at about 2, the rest starting arriving and by 3, everyone was present & accounted for. Well, not everyone. A few others couldn’t make it :( I feel bad for what you guys just missed. It could’ve been awesomer than it already was if literally everyone from the band was there ><

Oh, I almost forgot about Haylie and I’s awkward fear of spiders. Mine’s not as intense as hers though; the mere utterance of the syllables “spi” and “der”, and she will shriek into oblivion. I just cringe into a little ball, whilst shuddering; spiders are like the Kryptonite to my helpless Superman. You would’ve thought someone slid ice down my back or something. Chuan spent a couple of hours desperately trying to buy his cousin (he and Haylie are cousins, yeah) a fake spider *cringe Haylie, cringe* but couldn’t and so made up for it by shoving a picture of a 5-legged spider into her face. Ooooh, shudder.

Remember what I said about not caring whether we get kicked out of hotel swimming pools? We lived up to that. Hah. Almost. Instead we just got kicked out of the Rizqun hotel lobby because SOMEONE wouldn’t stop wetting us with the fountain. *coughCALVINcough* I think I’m starting to build up a reputation at that hotel. Haha.

The movie started at a little after 4 so we had time to humor our semi-hungry tummies. But before eating, we went off to the arcade, Neenz, Shannon O & Joak had to satiate their thirst for a little DDR. And they’re goooood. Not as good as Zat or Justin, but they’re way better off than me anyhow.

Oh, and Shannon Shannon, Shannon O & I played this game, it’s like this jeep thing and you get in it and inside there’re guns and stuff and the game is pretty much just about killing humongous spiders, bees and maggots. African Safari, I think was what they called it. It was fun. Especially the parts where Shan and I (Shan O didn’t play, she just sat beside me watching) were being chased by this ginormous tarantula, she wouldn’t stop screaming her head off. Ah, I still have the memories of anaconda-sized maggots flying up the screen trying to bite my character’s face clean off. Oooh, shudder again.

After our horrific “safari” spent shooting at abnormally sized insects, we headed off to Mr Pizza for some, drum rolls please, tada, pizza! I haven’t had pizza in days! But anyway, we ordered a Hawaiian & a jug of Coke (yay Coke), Joey had to leave for the airport (he was coming back at around 6) and had some immense trouble finding out how much it cost us. I mean, we’re not blonde or anything, no duh but the waiters just forgot to put the price on the bill or something. In the end, the whole thing cost us about $16 and Chuan insisted on paying for the whole lot. (He’s bloody rich, don’t tell anyone.)

And that was when all the fun started. I don’t know how to put this, but let’s just say this guy, let’s call him uh....what’s a good name for a prick? Um, I don’t know, let’s call him Jake (okay, so Jake is a pretty nice-guy name). Okay, well Jake hurt someone, a really good friend of ours. And being good friends, that pretty much ticked off the whole band, well, technically, everyone who was there. Everyone was furious. Well, I was. I was ready to rip his head off.

The girls stayed back at the cinema to comfort our friend, let’s call her Victoria, to comfort Victoria, and since there was time to spare, the guys and I went off looking for Jake. I swear, the guys were so wound up about kicking his ass. I was only there to verbally torment him; I’m not so good at the kicking-people’s-asses front. Jake was wearing a green jacket and we looked out for anyone wearing green. (“Seeing red used to make me mad, now seeing green does” –Howard)


Chels: He’s wearing a green jacket and he’s probably with this guy wearing all-black.
Howard: So we’re looking for a black guy?
Chels: No, he’s a white guy wearing all black.
Howard: Pfft. Ironic.
Chels: *rolls eyes*


We sorta just scoured the mall, scowling at guys clad in any shade of green. We never found Jake. Hah. Coward. Or not. But yeah, we never did. (“Let’s just tell Victoria we beat up a couple of guys but unfortunately weren’t Jake.” –Howard). He’s lucky we didn’t find him. He is in so much trouble with us. Grr.

So we just went back to the cinema since the movie was about to begin anyway. I’m no fan of horror flicks but with the right people, it can be insanely fun. I had Howard sit next to me the whole movie since he’s seen it before, therefore giving me a heads-up seconds before something immensely gory happens on screen. He was frigging smiling throughout the whole of Quarantine! He was even laughing at the morbid parts while I cowered underneath Aneesah’s jacket. I think I spent a majority of Quarantine under there, just peeking a little when the bloody (literally) scenes are something my gut could take. Howard said I looked hilarious. Yeah whatever!

At least I wasn’t screaming my pants off unlike SOME girls I know, screaming under the jacket. Chuan & I made this bet on who screams first during the movie; I bet on Aneesah, he bet on (of course) Haylie. Originally he wanted to bet on Shannon but I can honestly say without a doubt that that wouldn’t be fair. Only because Shannon is as easy to scare as anything. Screams her head off at anything. Hahahaha. I say it’s cheating, Chuan says it’s knowledge of who’s easy to set off screaming. Ah phooey.

But about the bet? No one won, it was a truce. Haha. Aneesah left halfway through the movie, partly because Joak got back and partly because she couldn’t take much more of the bloody and gore. So it wasn’t fair on me. Don’t worry Chuan, we’ll have another bet pretty soon.

Everyone else was cool with the horror movie. It wasn’t that horrific though, just loads of blood & saliva. Nina, who still had her headache, even FELL ASLEEP THROUGH HALF OF QUARANTINE. Gee. I was right though, about the whole seen-it-all-before thing. It was a little too familiar. Like a Cloverfield-28 Weeks Later-I Am Legend collab or something. But it was alright, it was funnnnnnnn.

Though not quite everyone. Shannon was a little traumatized after that, she was shaking all over & Haylie made a vow never to let Nina book the tickets. Whatever, as long I’m with you guys :D

So after the movie, Nina had to leave, already and left us with parting gifts: a drawing of the anime versions of our real selves. Chyeah. You rock Neenz, hugs, stay away from waffles. And we went off to Unitek. Yay Unitek. One of my favorite places in Gadong. Howard hates it though (“It’s so full of piracy! ><”, it’s true, just close your eyes and pretend it’s another horror movie) And that’s where Aneesah & Joak had to leave. I was so enthralled by the sight of Joey’s car, I hugged it. Oh the memories in that car. Getting squished like a bunch of lemons at the back seat...singing along to Bad Day...making the wrong turns. Ah. Those were the days.

Just after they left, Shannon and I had to head home as well, she dropped me off. But not before taking away some McDo’s ‘cause honestly, I haven’t eaten anything from McDonald’s in years. Not consciously anyway. Eventually, I got home, with a couple of DVDs, a fun experience with horror movies and whole new load of memories.

Gosh. I miss you guys already :( Nina, enjoy your trip to the UK, get us something. Joak, go move in with someone. Everyone else, I certainly hope to see you again sometime soon. Thanks for a greaaat day, you guys are a recipe for fun. Love.

Labels: best buddies, good times, hanging out, people

I can hardly wait for tomorrow. There’s a band reunion. If that’s what you want to call it. It’s the lot of us from the concert’s band hanging out again merely to enjoy being in within a 10-mile radius of each other. Watch a movie or two, wreak havoc around the mall, the works. Who cares? As long as I get to see my mates again, I don’t care whether we get kicked out of hotel swimming pools (again), get chased by rabid dogs or be scared crapless by some no-nonsense horror movie.

Which is quite likely to happen, if I may say so myself, despite me entirely detesting horror movies (I don’t see the whole point of it; seems horror films exist just for the mere purpose of scaring some poor fella into wetting himself), everyone seems to want to watch Quarantine. I’m pretty sure it’s about another city getting wiped clean (figuratively) by some killer virus, yada yada. We’ve seen that already, hello, heard of 28 Weeks Later? But yeah whatever, as long as I’m with them, I’m good, no complaints, smug as a bug under a rug. Snug as a bug, what???

There is just one thing though. Practically my whole family, with the mere exception of me & my mom, thank God, is unwell right now. Everyone seems to be down with a cold or fever or something, I’ve never really found out the difference but anyway, I just hope to God I can make it. It’s just that my mom might want me to stay home and look out for everyone else or something. There’s only a 20-40 percent chance of that happening, but still.

I really wanna make it tomorrow; we’ve moved the ‘reunion’ date several times enough to drive me crazy. And if that’s not enough random people from the band are leaving, like uh, like Neenz, she’s leaving for UK this weekend, and others who’re leaving someplace for nearby, and tomorrow is practically the only day where everyone can make it. Oy vey.

Right. So yes, here’s to tomorrow. Can’t wait to see you guys :)


(........boy, do I hope I won’t be rendered speechless tomorrow by [insert name here]’s mere presence. Oh, humor me.)

Labels: hanging out, people, random

I’ve just come to realize that whenever something epic & memorable happens, I never want to write it all down in detail in order to retell it to others. It’s like, you weren’t there, and that’s it, too bad. As is this case. I’ve just spent the weekend at Rona’s house (which has endless supplies of junk food and never-ending sources of entertainment, I swear) for her pre-birthday thing and it was epic. We went swimming with Aikks, Danice & Eunice. Watched a horror movie after (which is really pointless & futile for me to watch, I spent 95% of the movie cowering behind Joe and the cushions) & yeah. It was epic. Period.

Especially Saturday, hanging out with Mickko, Kiko, Janno, Josh & Des. That was the awesomest weekend. You know I could live with spending every single weekend like this for the rest of my entire life. I don’t mind. That’s how awesome it was. I’m not gonna say anymore ‘cause I suck at retelling. Yeah. It was awesome.

Labels: good times, hanging out, sleepovers

The afternoon after last day of exams Aikks & I headed off the mall with a few buddies namely Ells, Richelle & Siff, Justin, Ben (Ells’ twin, like for real) and for a short period; Zat & Andy. Good times, good times. I’m too much of a bum to lay down the day’s events for ya, so I’m just putting up photos since Ella is dying to get em. Haha. For full account on the day, see Ella.





[Homer Simpson style] Mmmmm...chicken rice.



“I’m not hiding anything under this flab!” –Aikks
We stole Ella’s hairbrush. I’m not really sure what happened to it now and if she ever noticed. Oh well.



Ells & I. Love Not War, if it’s readable, on my shirt.







‘Cause we ride: hijacking the kiddy rides.



Nuts! Semi-literally.



See how everything’s all clear and his feet are a blur? Haha, Justin’s fast, wicked fast. You know him? He’s like the friggin’ Alpha and Omega of DDR! Haha, well besides Zat of course. They are freaking awesome at the darn thing, AND they’re guys. You should see them move. Whoo.



This was epic. We took photos beside Wall.E right and then like, a split second after that, on Aikko’s side, Wall.E’s arm tore off and we realized and ran off like mad into the cinema going, “Aikks, what have you done?!”. Good times.





Elevator scenes.




Aikks & I at the bookstore. Practically my most favorite place in the whole of the mall.




Featuring A Spot of Bother & I Love You But I’m Not In Love With You. Funny titles eh?

So that’s about, there are loads more but these are the only ones which came out alright. Cheers.

Labels: Aikks, Ells, good times, hanging out, Justin, photographs, Richelle

“..And from your lips, she drew the hallelujah.”
–Hallelujah



So I almost got the spot at Chill. Yeah, almost. Not that I failed the interview, it’s just that I was too freaked out. By the guy who owns the place. Well, he was intimidating and all. But who cares? I’ll try again. But I prefer finding out whether they do take under aged, non-locals as their employees, rather than going for the interview and getting immediately turned down for not having a yellow IC.

Yesterday could win The Most Uneventful Going-Out award of the year. Yeah, we didn’t do much, Aikks, Rona, Des & I, and we spent virtually the WHOLE time at Chill. Haha, faithful clients, we are. There weren’t any customers at all, so we decided to take over the place for a bit, and we just kinda sat all over pretending we didn’t know each other. Rona was stuck outside eating her sandwich, Aikks inside; I was in the middle while Des sat in the most secluded corner he could find. Of course, the waiters, who were like, Nikki & Giebabe, didn’t mind. And there wasn’t anything to do, so we all just watched TV. Yep, free entertainment for everyone.

We didn’t bother watching anything either cause nothing slightly amusing was on. Well, Aikks wanted to go see Mamma Mia but Rona & I’d rather not. It was mighty awkward too when Des arrived cause well, he got freaked that it was an all female crowd. Honestly speaking, he didn’t say a word until much, much later. He was really shy (which was one reason why we spread over Chill, less awkward, haha). Man, I can honestly say it would’ve been seriously funner if Josh was there. Couldn’t make it thought, sadly.

The only highlight of yesterday was going to the pool at Rizqun and getting kicked out. Aikks was willing to pay me money if I jumped into the pool. I wanted to, I really did. Haha. And for about 10 minutes, we tried ever so hard to get each other wet. Until this guy in pink came up to Des and said that we should get out and that the pool was ‘only for customers’. Killjoy.

So basically what we did was sit all over Chill, get wet (to the point of looking like you’ve pissed in your pants) in the pool area, get kicked out, walk around aimlessly and uh, that’s kinda it. Highly uneventful, I must say.

Oh well, bloody hope next time we go out would at least be a little funner. What sucks is that our 5-day holiday just ended tonight and well, it’s back to getting our lazy 9th & 11th grade asses back to school tomorrow. Wish I was in the 10th grade. I’m not even sure what the subjects are for tomorrow. Goodness.

And so ladies & gentlemen, without further ado, the holiday ends.

Labels: hanging out, holidayys, people, school, things that piss me off, weekends, work

“...Two more weeks, my foot is in the door, I can’t speak in the wake of Saturday.”
Fall Out Boy

I’ve got a job interview at Chill. Ha, now that’s what I’m talking about.


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2:00
Class just ended at Neo and I was waiting for Rona to pick me up, and you know what time she comes and picks me up? 3. Like, one hour late. I just kept calling and calling and finally she replies and tells me she’s overslept. I know. Well, what did I tell you? Her body clock’s all mucked up right? Hahaha.


2:53
She finally arrives after an hour and like, Josh was all like, “We’re at the cinema, come!” I wonder what he and Tiong were doing while waiting an hour on us. Haha. They weren’t even close. Much less extroverted. The traffic at Gadong was massive man; it took us like what, half an hour to finally get to the mall? It was crazy.

Rona and I wanted to walk in the rain (it’s been all stormy for the past few days here) but her mom simply refused. Parents will be parents you know. Then again, maybe not. All we talked about in the car was the least expected subject that you’ll ever talk about with a parent. Her mom found out it was gonna be two guys and two girls and she thought it was a double date or something (IT WASN’T, I SWEAR, WE’RE ALL JUST BUDDIES HANGING OUT) and so we got into this awkward (for me) conversation about her past mistakes with her then boyfriend, screwing up (literally), the naiveté which ended up with the birth of Ryan, Rona’s 19 year old brother. It was weird. Honest. It went something like this:


“I’m just telling you to be careful. One drop is all it takes to get pregnant. The safest way is to use condoms.”
Me and Rona feeling all weird. And then I say,
“Uh, it still isn’t safe condoms; you know they have holes in them?”
And then Rona’s mom just laughs.


I know right? Man. Can you imagine talking about screwing up, using condoms and all that with your mom? I mean wow. Well, Gette is young right? And I don’t mind her past mistakes. If she never made them, then I wouldn’t have Rona right? Haha.


3:17
We finally got to the mall at about this time. Rona & I decided to spy on the guys for the first two minutes but they caught us. I mean, come on, we just wanted to know what they were up to. Who wouldn’t? I told Josh to get the tickets and the popcorn earlier so all we had to do was get our arses into the cinema.

We watched Zohan. Which was quite disappointing really. I’d give it a 5. I found it quite perverse. Zohan was like an American produced Israeli version of Austin Powers. Adam Sandler was...not so great this time. I mean, banging all those old ladies, what the hell? Did Hollywood run out of bright ideas or something? That’s really cheap. The jokes & one-liners were hilarious and their accents rocked but all the disgusting bits just wrecked the movie. But that’s just me, I don’t know bout everyone else, but I’m not some idiotic person who finds entertainment in incredibly perverse movies. Honestly.


5:30 ish
The movie finished and I was starving. Really. My last meal was like, what, at 6.30 that morning? I really needed to get food so we went down to Chill and I ordered their beef pasta and hell, it was delicious. It’s like, the best pasta I’ve ever tasted, honestly. I found myself having to start the conversations all the time. Cause like, I was pretty close with Rona (duh), Josh and Tiong but Rona isn’t that close with Josh, vice versa, and Josh isn’t that close with Tiong and the other way round too. So basically, I was the bridge. Sort of. I had to get the conversation going. And if I stop to eat, there’d be silences, broken only by alternative music blaring over the speakers.

So I finally downed the last of my pasta and I just wanted to sit around for a bit until this song came on the speakers and it reminded me so much of all the bloody mess I’m in right now (note: present tense, I AM in right now) and I was like, “Let’s get outta here.” Stupid song.

Ey, Rona, remember the Cinderella bit? Hahahaha insane. And you guys were all like he’s my ‘future husband’ or something. HOW IRONIC. Then again...it could be.


6:14
There wasn’t much to do but walk around the mall with the guys and so that’s what we did. It was raining the whole day and apparently, the mall was freezing us all to death. Well them anyway, I felt kind of warm. You shoulda seen Josh, it was like he was somewhere at the South Pole. He was shaking. Really. And so we set off for some place warmer and just kinda sat there when we found it.

Oh, and we saw Haz with his so-called crush. Or girlfriend. I’m not quite sure, but yeah, we saw them and he introduced me to her, I think her name was Peach? Cool name. At first I was like, what, Fish? Hahahaha. But she’s cool and Hazmi deserves to be happy after all the bullshit he’s been put through for the past couple of years.

After she left, Tiong, Josh & Rona said Peach looked like me. I THINK NOT.


“Dude, she looks just like you.”
“What? Haha, no, she does not.”
“Yeah and wasn’t it awkward when he introduced you to her?”
“What?! No, there’s nothing going on between me and Haz, he’s like my big bro man. Ew, you guys.”
“It’s like; he liked you but couldn’t get you so he got someone who looked like you!”
“You guys are nuts.”


And so we stalked them for about 20 minutes. Or wait, was it them who stalked us or we who stalked them? I don’t know. But there was a lot of stalking going on both sides. Cause when the four of us were walking around, we’d look back and they’d be behind us. Then again, the mall is small right? Haha. And so we in turn, stalked them back. We followed them into Rizqun and Tiong and I were like,


“Let’s follow them up the elevator.”
“NO man, you need a card for that, I learnt that the hard way. Not really, but still.”
“No you don’t, just follow me.”


So I reluctantly gave in (I have a phobia of elevators, bad experience) and we got into the elevator and guess what, you can go up without the card. Haha, I think Rona & I took the wrong elevator last time. And so we explored the fourth floor, looked like there was some highly important dinner going on at the ballroom. We wanted to hang by the pool but it was all raining and stuff so yeah.


6:30
So we went back down and saw like, other SMS and JIS people hanging out together. And I met Bob. That isn’t his real name, I think it’s Jeven or something, but he calls me Pencil for no apparent reason so there. Haha. He’s in Rona’s Science class and he’s pretty cool. Much like Arian, but cooler. Haha, no offence.

And I saw Pejman, for like, what, the first time in five years? Haha, remember Pejman you guys? We used to call him Elmo, but he’s freaking tall now, that ass. I used to be taller than him and now’s he’s probably an inch or two taller than me. Darn. I was like, DUDE, IS THAT PEJMAN, HE’S FREAKING TALL, WHAT THE HELL? Yeah, height is kind of a big deal around here. How lame is that?


6:45
And at around 7, Josh had to go. He said something about everyone having to be at the house at dinner time or something, I don’t know. But before he left, he showed us this insane video of his 13 year old sister, Shannon. It was crazy, honestly. She was like, screaming expletives or so at the next door neighbours and throwing this chair at the wall. And there was this video where she was freaking screaming her ass off at the computer till it turned on.

Insane. And only because everytime I see her at school, she looked like a teacher’s pet, or perfect & adored by all. Honestly, her uniform’s all perfect, she looks like she’s involved in all sorts of societies & I heard her ambition was to be a doctor (it was in the yearbook). Until Josh showed me the videos.

Now I know, NEVER to judge people by their entire exterior. It never really tells you anything till you’ve known the person completely. That’s the lesson I’ve learnt this year. Just don’t, don’t ever think you’ve figured out a person because what people show outside is rarely how they really are. I’m not exaggerating. I’m being honest.

By the way Josh, I still wanna meet Shannon. She rocks. I bet she’ll be laughing her ass off when she sees this post, so show her yeah? Haha.


7:40
And so Josh left, his dad was over at McDonald’s and he had to walk in the rain to get there. I wanted to video him getting all wet but the dude ran instead of walked. Pfft. How exciting. Haha. And there we were again, at Chill. We never really wanted to go again, but there wasn’t much to do and so I sat down. The waiters noticed that we weren’t gonna order and so just left us alone.

So we just sat there for about a couple of hours talking, waiting for our rides. Until my dad called and said he wasn’t picking me up until midnight cause the traffic was too much at Gadong and they were already late for something. I didn’t expect that, but it was great.

So I was like, “If we’re gonna be here till midnight, then might as well eat dinner right?” Tiong left already for Netland, so it was just me & Rona and all that pasta. Haha.

Oh, and there was this random moment where they unexpectedly played Wannabe by Spice Girls on the stereo. That was hilarious! Hahahaha, oh I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want, so tell me what you want what you really really want! Insane! And some of the waiter dudes inside where dancing, haha! Chill rocks.

So we just kinda sat there, eating and we saw Barry & Awi. They’re up for some fight with Ong, this dude who got suspended from school. Awi said something about him betraying the brotherhood (he lied to much) and all that and now they got their whole gang to go and beat up Ong & his gang. Do boys have to settle everything with violence? What is with all that huh? It’s bullshit man. Whatever.


8:30 ish
Still eating dinner, taking our time, nothing to do anyway. And we saw Giebabe, he works at Chill. Haha, he hasn’t changed one bit. Except maybe he’s a little better now than when I met him, he was in my class, 3 years ago. But he is still stick thin. It’s possible he’s thinner than I am. If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends, make it last forever, friendship never ends. That’s gotta be the cheesiest classic song ever. HAHA. Don’t call me baby, you know I don’t belong to you. Their music taste is pretty cool. They even played Hale. The last song I expected to hear there.

Barry requested for a rock song but it didn’t go on. Don’t worry Barry, when I start working there (hopefully), I’ll take requests. Haha!


9:30
We paid and went back inside the mall to just hang around. See if we could do something. But there’s wasn’t anything to do and so we just sat there on the benches somewhere on the third floor and just talked while I went online with Rona’s account. I chatted with Paths, who is doing great in Cali and we got into this really personal conversation which I don’t like to talk about. But she kept us company till we left and gave loads of advice on my case of the heart. Thanks Paths, I really appreciate it and I suppose I can always move on, and life goes on, there are others right?


10:15 ish
Most of the stores were close by then and there really wasn’t anything to do. And so we got up from our 3rd floor retreat and made our way back to, guess where? Chill. Haha. Here’s what the waiter said to us when he saw us for the third time & how I got my job interview:


“Hey, it’s you again!”
“Haha, favourite place I guess, there’s nowhere else to go.”
“Haha, I remember that orange tie. Haha, but this is good.”
“Yeah, I know right, we’re keeping your business up. Oh by the way, do you guys have job openings right now?”
“Yeah, as a part timer, we do.”
“Awesome, cause I’m looking for a job right now.”
“Yeah, if you really want a job then you can be our part time cashier. Just come here anytime after lunch so you can talk to the boss, you know like, direct interview, negotiate your salary and all that.”
“Wow, cool, thanks man.”


I know right. THANK GOD. Hahaha, guess what Natasha, I’m gonna work at Chill! Haha. I hope. I seriously pray they’ll take me. I’m halfway in already.

You know what’s so ironic? The person I DON’T EVEN KNOW tells me they have an opening when ALL THE GUYS I DO KNOW didn’t really do anything. Haha. Really.

And Nigel, Natasha’s brother, who’s been serving us the last two times, served us again. Here’s our conversation when he served us our tea (don’t ask me why, Rona wanted tea, who drinks tea at night anyway? Us, I guess).


“I bet you’re weirded out by us, coming here again.”
“Hahaha, nahh, money, money, money, money, money!”
“We’re not rich okay? There isn’t anything else to do anyway, haha.”


And he just walked away laughing, going money, money, money, money. Hilarious. So we hung out there in the dark. And you know Azim, whom we were supposed to hang out showed up at like, what 11? Haha, he’s like 10 hours late? Crazy arse. He was probably at Netland the whole time.


11:30
We got picked up just when things were getting funner. Funner. What a weird word. Josh and I constantly argue about it, he thinks its bad English. Whatever man, it could be in the dictionary one day! Haha! Gette was at a party and so Rona was at my house till about midnight, I told her to sleep over but she had nowhere to put her stupid contacts. Haha.

So we just watched Step 2 till Mike came and I went to bed at about 1 AM, but it took me hours to fall asleep. I do not know why. I probably fell asleep at about 4 or 5 AM.


So basically, yesterday was great, wish Aikks was there, it would have been more fun that it already was. I’ve got my job interview & that’s all I wanted. Life is great once again despite its shrouding misery.

Whoa, this has got to be my longest post. If you’d made it this far without falling asleep then I really appreciate it. Haha.

Oh yeah, does anyone know if we’ve got school tomorrow? Call me if you do. Have a great weekend dear readers. (:

Labels: hanging out, hilarious, people

The BM orals were so easy, I can NOT believe it. It’s like, you know, that easy. Hallelujah. So I told the teacher, I came from an international school where they don’t teach that much BM, what’s the deal? It worked, which is awesome. I highly doubt that I got an F; I mean at least, I TRIED speaking it, right?

We ended up at Netland after the orals, bullying the other customers (: And we got to see what Josh does for a living. Haha. He sits around in his wheely chair with all the power in the world. Actually, just within the room, but still. Oh, the havoc we wrecked. Good times, good times. Can’t wait for next Friday.

25^th Friday

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“..at one point we were waiting for Chels and Aikks to emerge from the bathroom, we were talking about boxers/underwear when we noticed they were taking too long. so i headed into the bathroom, Eddie and Andy on my heels we were screaming "AIKKS, CHELLLLS WHERE ARE YOU, YOU DONE?!" guess what? THEY WERENT IN THERE. mygod, where did they goo?! Eddie was funny though, he was half a step into the bathroom and Andy was.. well, behind Eddie. XP. people were staring! and Eddie was the one screaming "CHELS, AIKKS ARE YOU DONE?!" haha. RIGHT.”

-Ells

“..After that, Jaybee, Eddie and I were waiting for Chels and Yikes!. They were in the toilet, or so we thought. We chatted about underwears and boxers XD. Then it was quite some time and Chels and Yikes! werent out yet. So we decided to head into the toilet. Saw Jacin on the way there. Eddie almost went into the girl's toilet O.O". People were looking.”

-Andy

we ditched them :p

It was Audrey’s birthday and so was my sister’s. Happy 15^th and 9^th (: So we went to the mall for Audrey’s and she was all clad in this sparkly tank looking like a diva. Just like always does. Seriously, she likes anything shiny. It was pretty fun as always, although I did come a bit late and missed the food ): But awesome old Eddie bought me lunch, I was really hungry, didn’t eat anything since 7 in the morning.

The whole thing was pretty fun, and I especially love the part where Aikks made this comment about all those Europeans and this particular dude heard her and we ended up going all Mission Impossible, ducking every time we saw him cause he just happened to be in every place we were. I remember telling the whole thing to Audrey and them and we happened to be under this echo place and everything I said was twice as loud:

“So the guy heard her and we ended up running all the way over here..”

“Hahaha, no way?”

“Yeah. Man, I think he’s pissed.”

“Oh, is that him?” (points at the dude a few feet behind us)

“Mothe--”

We do a double take and Aikks and I make a run for it to the cinema and we hid behind the stairs for about a minute or so and the dude was still there buying popcorn or something. Then these couple of dudes were pushing a tree and we hid behind that. It looked like something out of a Simpsons episode. And Aikks’d go like “D’oh!”. Haha, crazy times.

It was so fun, seeing Ella again and meeting her friends. Well Aikks didn’t know any of them, I did. Great times (: I bet this is the last time I’ll be let out, the mocks are just in a fortnight and I really must study.

For full accounts of the Saturday, check out Ells’ & Andy’s entries.

26^th Saturday

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It’s been an awesome weekend and here we are again. Monday. Which is great, I love Mondays. Today was a typical, boring old routine until after break, someone was sent to the hospital for fainting. Yeah. Not that unusual really, it happens all the time, it does. Aikks was convinced the girl got into a coma. Not likely. Hahaha. Don’t laugh, it’s serious.

Labels: birthdays, hanging out, people, school