So here I am, posting my heartfelt gratitute and thanks to my dear friends, who helped me to celebrate my birthday, instead of providing insightful and sometimes satirical remarks about the upcoming GE. Which is something half of my graduated seniors do.
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Back to the topic.
Well, to start off, I have always "sort of" anticipated the birthday celebration, thanks to hua2's making no efforts in keeping it a secret. She basically discussed the whole event in front of my face. Well, I know that there is going to be flowers, there is going to be a cake, and there are going to be cards. (Notice that I even know that the quantity is more than 1). AND, most importantly, everyone is expected to be in school before 7.15am on Friday morning, again something hua2 didn't bother to hide from me at all.
So I decided to be a cooperative birthday girl and reached school at 6.60am that day; a great achievement this week, because I barely slept for 6 hours in total for the previous 2 days and as a result was developing the bad habit of reaching school just in time for morning assembly.
Despite all the knowing-it-beforehand things, I must say that I really got a big shock at what they have prepared, and I was very, very touched. I couldn't express my 感动-ness to them on the spot, being the cold-blooded person I was, (ok I am not good at expressing this kind of stuff; it just felt very mushy) so here I am, publishing this post and hopefully one of you would read it and tell the rest.
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So I reached school at 6.60am, and I saw hua2 sitting by herself, totally immersed in some book. She looked up, gave me this startled WHY-ARE-You-So-Early look, and then looked around desperately for the others. There was none. duh. everyone is so tired nowadays we are competing with the school bell to see who will make its appearance in the school first.
BUT THEN, my shock/感动 #1 came!!!
My dear Ah Ma (She's not my ah ma, she's just my Ah ma because we all call her Ah ma, do you get me??), who always reaches school at the last minute cos she lives a good 1omin away at the boarding school, arrived at 7.05am!!!! God knows how hard it is for her to reach school early. She doesnt even bother to appear early for her own birthday. And she wasn't feeling well that morning, usually she would take MC for that but she still came. AWWWWW.
And then Yuna appeared (or so I inferred, because apparently somebody signaled to cheryl who signaled to hua2 to go and do something about the celebration, all happening right in front of my face), I so I bent down to do my Chem tutorials, and when I lifted up my head, I received my biggest bouquet of flowers so far!
Well, I dreamed for bouquets of this size--but to get in in reality is a big surprise. (later I found out that Nana actually went down to Far East to get the flowers because they are much cheaper and then she and hua2 hand-wrapped then outside the MRT station. A humiliating experience in Nana's words, but I will always treasure the 心意 you have put inside.)
Oh well, the flowers were so well received I got such a high 回头率 today. Meaning that people were staring at me in MRTs, buses, along the streets, and especially in school. I think I have become the Hwa Chong attraction of the day haha. Please allow me to indulge in the egoism for this brief 5 seconds.
And then, after making sure that Kian Shing the birthday boy of the class is here, they got the cake out! IT IS COFFE-FLAVOURED!!!! muahahaha. ok my coffee-holic image must have made a long lasting impression in all of them, second only to my "PINK AURA".
Birthday cards and presents from Ying Jing and Sze were received, need I say how cuuutteee that card is? And with all the super-funny and warm messages too~
[I wanted to put a picture of that card, but blogger being always ineffient in photo-uploading has discouraged me from doing that after 10min of futile work. you can go facebook and see though~].
Just to mention about that "PINK AURA", the envelop is in this shade of PINK. okay this colour isnt an apt representation, but just imagine the deep violet colouration after neutral iron chloride has been added to phenol. and add a pink shade to it. I dont know that Singapore actually sells this kind of envelop. Put it in the mailbox and one might assume that it's a HOWLER from Harry Potter. (just joking).
Reading all these messages and receiving the flowers, I am truly deeply touched by all your love. (awww...) And the constant staring I got from passers-by (and weird hwa chong guys who stared at me at the Little India Bus stop like I'm an alien) reminded me of how much efforts you all put in in this. I know everyone is suffering from sleep-deprivation and the like, so I was really shocked when I saw all the stuff that you prepared. Even years after we graduate, I think I will still remember my 19th birthday, one that is showered with sincere love and warmth, something that I will always treasure.
因为有你们，带给我高中生涯里最美好的回忆。
