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Monday, December 25 @ 3:09 PM
FALLING AWAY WITH YOU
today can be described in one word: tiring. okay, another: wet. uhh last word: worth-while (: since Hiqmah and i promised Iylia we'd help surprise her buddy Gordon for Christmas, we had to collect a few things. first: the gift, from Iylia's adorable little sister, second: balloons., which we pre-ordered from Raffles City. so i was running late as usual [heh] and decided to message Iylia's sister to inform her about it. and luckily i did, because she was going to JB and Iylia forgot to tell me about it. thanks ah babe. Hiqmah and i had to go all the way to their home to collect the gift from their grandma and off we went to Raffles City!
the balloons looked so great! so i decided to get another two more because later, i was going to celebrate my friend's birthday and i figured it would be a nice touch. saw Starbucks and i got a yummy Caramel-topped cupcake and saw Gavin too! he thought i was there to see him! uhh yeah right maaan. lalalaa we were really excited with the balloons and getting into the spirit of everything. but City Hall is always confusing and we almost got ourselves on the wrong train. thanks to ME, we didnt! (: the air-con was blowing in total madness and the balloons were flying all over the place. it didnt help that everyone had their eyeballs glued on us while we struggled to keep them tame and laughing our butts off while doing so. we got ourselves seats and things werent so bad! until my balloon burst and the pieces flew really really far. ultimate paiseh moment and covering my face with the remaining balloon seriously didnt help my situation.
finally reached Yishun [that's where Gordon lives] and Hiqmah didnt get directions from him so we had to find his place on our own because we didnt wna call and ruin his beauty sleep. Hiqmah wanted to hire a cab but i insisted on finding our own way there. so we took this bus 811 where the bus driver confidently told us that we were on the right bus and that he'd tell us where to stop. so basically we just sat in the bus and waited and waited and waited some more. the driver never told us where to alight! he drove us back to the interchange and we were laughing at our own stupidity. we decided not to get down because the bus was going to a different route. [confusing riiiight??!] the driver kept looking at us but never said a word and we were fuuuming. we went back to the interchange AGAIN but still didnt alight. a nice aunty said she'd help and she did (:(: yay aunty! but we had to walk quite a distance still and if it werent for the map we found half-way, i bet we'd still be roaming around Yishun right now. *phew*
we sat at the playground near-by while Gordon took his time to wash up and find the balloons we set up. there were these 2 matreps trying to get our attention that took one of our balloons and we were like wtf!! those balloons were expensive okay!! they basically took all of the balloons and Hiqmah and i waved our money goodbye. exhausted, we took a cab to PasirRis to get ready my surprise for my friend (: BUUUUT, as if the day wasnt already bad enough, it reallu poured which ruined my plans but we still headed down to the beach anyway. we found ourselves shelter and got everything set up. then comes along this huge malay family with alot alot of stuffs. they said they wanted to 'tompang', so we let them. but soon, they started unpacking their stuffs and started cooking!! Hiqmah and i were like wtf!! again, packed up and went to find another spot. ergh, we're too nice for own good i think.
but whatever, the highlight of the day was seeing the expression on my friend's face when he opened his gift. heh priceless. and at that moment, i knew that everything else didnt matter (: