Three

Yesterday, which was 5th of February, was the birthday of Shun Ling! Apparently, we (Ainin, Chia Venn, Fern, Hooi Ying, Jaevon and me) only wished her "happy birthday" and showed no signs of having a celebration for her. On the other hand, all of us were sticking closely with the brainchild which had been designed beforehand by Ainin and Hooi Ying.

Well, the party planning was kept under wraps. Lots of white lies had been told and not forgotten all the funny things happened throughout. For instance, initially, Ainin and Hooi Ying was meant to buy an eyeliner to her. They pretended as if it was Hooi Ying who wanted to buy one and asked Shun Ling to choose for her.(So they went to 1U) Thing turned out to be Shun Ling herself wanted to buy on the spot as well. Neither of them bought eyeliner eventually as they couldn't find the brand they wanted. What's more was Shun Ling wondered if Hooi Ying wanted her to buy her one in Ipoh.

Things went smooth and the big day came at last. Ainin and Hooi Ying bought a jelly cake for Shun Ling. The reason for buying a jelly cake was simply because it contains lower cholesterol level compared to that of the other "ordinary" cakes. With a superbly lame excuse-to buy a bleach for her tainted shirt, in which the actual case was she has already bought one, Ainin successfully cheated Shun Ling out(to the Centrepoint) for about 20 minutes so that we could manage to get things done and hence to achieve our ultimate aim for the whole event-SURPRISE! Swiftly, we divided the jobs and worked out (get the cake placed parallel to the door of our room). When everything was done, we waited for their return with bated breath.

We text messages Ainin in order to get the latest update of their location. When a message telling that she and Shun Ling were within the vicinity of BU6, we switched off the light, lighted up the candles, and locked the door. [Thanks to all my housemates for their tolerance and allowing me to turn off the first floor's light.] Hearing the footsteps of theirs, all of us got ourselves hidden in the room except Hooi Ying who had to stand behind the door to lock the door when Shun Ling tried to open it. [I don't fathom what's the point of doing that, though] She did that for several times as planned until we heard these words came out from Shun Ling's mouth: Open the door now! I knew what you guys are trying to do already. Hooi Ying finally gave in and let the birthday aunty in. [I have to clarify that we are actually practising a culture of calling the girl "aunty" when she reaches the age of 18+1.]

There we sang her birthday song and let the scheme unveiled. I bet she was happy, by reading her facial expression at that very fleeting moment when she opened the door. Well, here came the climax of the day. Shun Ling gave Ming Chai a piece of cake! OK. A little bit of introduction should not be neglected. Ming Chai is our friend, a male friend, who lives next to our house and sponsored us 6 cans of Shandy [God knows what's his intention for sponsoring alcoholic drinks]. Jaevon, our photographer, who happens to be a novice in video recording, recorded the almost complete process of Shun Ling giving Ming Chai the very small piece of jelly cake. It was such a shame that the camera ran out of battery in the end and thus the farewell part between she and he failed to be recorded. Nevertheless, it was still a precious recording.

Meanwhile, it is almost impossible for me to talk about Ainin without a snicker on my face. Actually, a few days before Shun Ling's birthday, she had been to Centrepoint in search of her brand of bleach. However, her attempt came to a halt as the brand wasn't available there and so she bought one at 1U instead. As she deceived Shun Ling out with that reason, she didn't expect that the brand was in store that day. She even asked her to help to look for that particular brand and there Shun Ling found it! In order to protect our top secret, she forked out RM7 odd to purchase that silly bleach.

The night ended with something more interesting during the late hours but it's better to keep it to ourselves, I think. Well, all that I could say is that I do cherish my new circle of friends. I love them all.