Day 4 is a slow struggle to the top
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Yup, especially after lunch/dinner when everything seems to be moving rather slowly and sleepily. Yet the sixth floor is still about half full and people are steadily mugging away the last few hours. Feels just like a normal school day instead of a holiday.
As each day passes, I find it harder to wake up, especially if I know the rest are not up yet. Woke up to find a message from Kim sitting in my phone: "Do you mind if I not go to school with you guys today? Sorry."
Huh. Does that mean I can sleep more? Yes.
No. So I called her to clarify and she said she was suffering from a major hangover from clubbing and drinking too much last night. Ok so no quick transport to school except on my own two legs. Goes back to sleep.
Oh ya, what about Daniel? Checks phone to discover, much to my delight, that no message/call has appeared yet. Conclusion: Daniel the pig is still sleeping soundly in his dorm. Gleefully goes back to sleep.
Woke up to play with Misty for a while. A while took half an hour or more. Went to shower and waited to be contacted. Nothing.
Do nothing and stone.
Nothing still.
Daniel messages me: "Hey are you in school already?"
Er. "Er no I'm still at home. Hehe." As I typed that, I could almost hear Daniel cursing me all the way from old KR.
"And Kim is not coming. She's hungover." I thought I heard Daniel start to curse Kim as well.
So eventually I took the bus(es) to school. Had laksa again for lunch, and
again Daniel forgot about his sweet sauce.
Settled down and camped on the sixth floor the whole afternoon.
Dinner time came. Again Daniel had laksa, and
again he forgot about his sweet sauce. Could imagine Daniel silently cursing his sweet sauce.
With so many curses, it is sure to be a slow struggling day for us.
But since Daniel's birthday is coming up very soon, in a few hours as we speak, we have something to look forward to. And Kim is coming to school as part of our plan to surprise Daniel, although he is probably not surprised already since we used the same trick on Kim the last time.
But before we get to that and hasten the pace, today is generally a very slow day for us.
//updated 29th September 3am.
At exactly 12 midnight, Kim drove into school to pick us up, after making us wait some two hours, by which time, Daniel was getting a bit impatient and hungry, and wondering whether Kim will come at all.
When we came out to find her little black Hyundai, we found her driving in the opposite direction i.e. away from and not towards us. So we had to walk towards her car. We saw her getting out of the car and leaning into the passenger seat. Hmm.. what is she up to this time?
And then she appeared with a little cake in her hand, no doubt with a lighted candle sticking out of it and she screamed: "DANIEL!! Surprise!"
To which Daniel replied: "No! I'm not 23! No! It's 11:59!" Of course he was in denial all the while 'cos it was already midnight. At last, we sang him a birthday song and he made such a long wish that we thought he was silently cursing all his enemies.
And then off we went to Crystal Jade, just so Daniel could have his braised sharks fin's soup (they
still do not have chicken soup by the way), and his third meal, this time
not laksa thank goodness but beef brisket noodles.
Happy Birthday Daniel!
You are not:
(a) old (even though in comparison to Kim whose just turned 21, you are slightly older, but just think of all the old men in their 40s!)
(b) suffering from a quarter life crisis (because quarter life means being 25, which you are exactly 2 years shy of!)
So don't worry 'cos you don't look like your actual age. In fact neither of us look like our actual age anyway. We will forever be called
xiaodi and
xiaomei at hawker centres. Well, not forever but at least for quite some time anyway heh.
7:46 pm
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