well, this year i asked mother if i could please chuck a bday bash. see, i've finally rejoined the 'th' family: twenty-one's your '21st', twenty-two's your '22nd' and twenty-three's your '23rd'.
mother asked me, "what kinda party do you want?"
i had two plans in mind: one, a bday meal @ pancake manor or two, a kareoke bash @ neway. i've only been to the pancake manor once, back in 2007 or earlier, with joshels and some girls. i'd also been to neway with some church ppl for a fun night of bawling our lungs out. :P i put the question onto facebook, and got two responses: tim said to have both, and dr. lee said that there were many stairs to walk up if i chose the pancake manor.
the parents went to neway and k music to suss things out for me, and came back saying neway was good coz they had this 'k dinner' deal which was a plate of food, two drinks and five hours worth of singing.
next problem: who to invite? dad decided that i could only invite five, so i picked christy jie, fisobao, letty, joshels and dr. lee. however, when dr. lee said he had to work that night, i invited lee (leanne's cousin) instead.
i'd wanted to invite janice and wilfred along too, but mother said i couldn't, "coz they're too busy preparing for their wedding to come to your party."
fair enough ... but, turns out, they came along too! see, the sunday before my birthday, aunty denise (janice's mum) walks over and asks me, "heard it's your birthday next sunday. planned a party?' when i told her i'd be having a kareoke birthday bash, she asked me, 'ooh! have you invited janice and wilfred along yet?"
i answered her that i dearly wanted to invite them along, but that mother had told me that they'd be too busy planning their wedding to attend.
aunty denise laughs. "but emily, she warns me, 'if you don't invite janice along, she WON'T BE YOUR FRIEND ANYMORE and SHE'LL NEVER TALK TO YOU AGAIN!' o_O gulp. i hereby immediately ask mother, who says, "you'd better invite them, then. i'll explain to dad." :P
the days pass quickly, and soon, it's my birthday! :D both mum and dad wander into my room to wish me a happy birthday.
@ bible study, i bring out a packet of chocolate that christine lai had given to aunty wendy to give to me as my birthday present. only problem was that i couldn't eat any - 'twas of the nutty kind! (curse my peanut allergy. ><) but instead of the class sharing it, june (men hua's wife? i'm sorry, i keep getting all the adults in our bible study class confused ><) said she'd take the chocolate down to the morning tea area and get everyone toshare it. :)
service was nothing unusual, just the same. the congregation didn't sing tim and i happy birthday :(, but i made sure to bid tim a very happy 20th birthday after the service. i admit, i'm always incredibly jealous of anyone who makes it to their 20th birthday, coz for mine, god had already smited/smote/whatever the past tense of 'smite' is me down with the brain tumour! >< lol, i prolly spent my 20th birthday in the ICU ward. :(
as usual, we hit plaza for lunch. coz it was my birthday, mother lemme have one slice of KFC chicken for lunch. lol, usually i don't get any say; i just eat what they get. usually it's a chicken wrap from hungry jacks or some sushi.
back home after lunch, and i plopped online. no visitors from SHINE fellowship that day. :( i think mother said they were leaving me free to celebrate my birthday, but hey, i would've enjoyed the companionship. :( but i enjoyed my time online - i got thirty-five facebook messages wishing me a happy birthday! :D i know tina got more than one hundred, but hey, thirty-five's pretty damn awesome for someone who doesn't have any friends anymore! (i'd like to think i've still got friends, but mother often tells me that after my brain injury, i don't :( because my behaviour's warped or sth? ><)
but all too soon, 'twas time to go for my bday party! mother changed me into a nicer top first (the sparkly tweety one i wore for the night was bought for me by cousin teresa when she, uncle dickdick and franco went to movieworld.
dad drove us to neway, 'twas drizzling a lil. much thanks to the random lady working there who kindly let me hold gently onto her hand as i walked inside. :)
kwany arrived first - and he brought me K4! :D see, kwany first brought me K1 and K2 (they're toy grinning flowers that you can twist around sth) when i was hospitalised back in 2007 and 2008, and he bought me K3 when i was in the mater in 2009. after he'd RSVPd that he'd attend my bday party, i asked him, "kwany, will you bring me K4 as my birthday present?" his cheeky response @ that time had been 'wait and see." anyways, kwany's given me the promise that whenever i haveta spend time in the hospital (like, overnight stays, not just day visits), he'll bring me another flower! :D but i'm seriously hoping i won't haveta spend anymore time in hospitals anytime soon!
everyone else soon arrived, and we started singing away~
but i had two surprise visitors!
the first was tess. tess is my carer from kyabra who comes to look after me on saturdays, from 10am till 1pm when mother's @ work. see, i used to treasure saturday's; my favourite hobby's sleeping, and saturday was my only day when i could sleep till like 1:30! too bad mother was a party pooper who didn't like me sleeping so much (she's prolly jealous that she can't sleep as much :P) and rang DSQ asking if they could send someone to dig me up. tess just came to gimme a bday present and a hug. :)
the second was dr. dr. tai! (she gets two dr.'s coz she's doing some extra study after her medicine degree :P)she brought me a lovely batch offlowers, and also stayed to sing a few songs. :)
idiot of the day goes to me, however: while we were singing, i poked joshels in the ribs (he's widly ticklish :P) and asked joshels, "hey, does it have that (i switched to CANTONESE!) 'be a dog, be a cat' song?" joshels looked @ me like i'm daft or sth (well, i prolly am. :P and replied, "uh, em, i don't speak your language." oops, i was mortified! :P
thanks to letty and christy jie who helped me once to the bathroom before dinner. i was rather cranky, however, to discover that the disabled toilet didn't have a bar installed! >< but i managed alright.
for dinner, i chose that salty fish and diced chicken fried rice. much thanks to whoever that pushed the tablr up next to me, so i could eat without spilling food everywhere. :)
the 'k dinner" deal also included two drinks. i ordered a cold milk tea first, but stupid ela knocked the entire cup over (era slapped her for that) then after dinner i also ordered a cold horlicks.
thanks to janice who brought a camera! :D when the night was almost over, i asked her if i had time to stand and take a photo with each of my guests, but she said no. :( so i just stood up and took a group photo with everyone and then one with the parents. :)
oh! and we FINALLY got lee to sing! :D the silly man refused to all night, but someone pulled up 'happy birthday' and ordered him to! :P the first time, his voice died out about the third line, but i just ordered, "again! and the WHOLE song, this time!" :P lee actually sings very nicely and in tune; dunno why he's so shy about that?
can't remember who ... but i asked someone to please set an alarm on their phone telling when 8:22pm was, so i could announce to everyone that i'd finally been born and was officially twenty-four! (see, i was born 6:22pm hong kong time; that's 8:22pm brisbane time)
anyways, i hugged and thanked everyone for coming. :) but you guys who came were NAUGHTY! my birthday = my shout! who went around collecting money then stuffed that into the bag containing my presents, then SMS'd my mother when we were almost home?! lol, if my mum yells @ you when she sees you @ church on sunday, don't look to me for help. :P
but home, repeat the usual nightly procedure.
then, 'twas present opening time!!! :D lol, don't think i got much that i'd put in my birthday wishlist, :P but hey, any and all presents were and are highly appreciated! :D
all in all, i had a WONDERFUL birthday. i wonder how the next six years will fare for me... they'll all be 'th' years. does that mean i'll haveta wait seven years till i get another birthday party? :P
anyways, next post should come before tuesday - coz mother and i had lunch with my australian godmother @ sunni cafe three days ago! until then~
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. janice uploaded the my birthday photo pics onto facebook under some album about pikkies taken during march. joshels deserves to be smacked coz he tagged someone who did the bunny ears onto someone else's head. :P
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