Happiness and Tragedy strikes together

I thought I will be having a great day today. The weather was sunny and we were invited by Mindy and Jack to their house tonight for a steamboat gathering. It had been a long time since we last had our steamboat gathering. The last time was sometime during the Chinese New Year 2007.

Since the weather was fine, Wern and I had a walk around city centre after we managed to find out the location of City Inn where Wern will be having her first interview this coming Friday. **OOSH OOSH!!go for it Wern, this is your mission. Have some confidence in yourself, you can do it!!**

While we were roaming around, we spotted Great Western cinema which is situated inside a shopping centre. They even had an automatic vending machine for the movie tickets. This is how it works... ...

First you press the START BUTTON, followed by the date and this page will pop out. Now, lets see, what kind of movies there are offering. The list of the movies seems a bit OUTDATED for me, don't you think so? E.g Harry Potter, Rush Hour 3...Hey!! back in Malaysia, these two movies are already been shown at GSC quite sometime ago, right? Then... ...

After you had picked the movie which you are interested in, then its time for you to pay. As I ran through the price, I regreted for not watching movies in cinema when I was a student. As you can see, how much difference are the prices?

I passed by one pound shop and bought myself this little thing. It has stickers, cards, papers and other kind of accessories in it which I can use to make cards to be guven out to my friends. I love handmade cards compared to a ready made one, why? because I can use my own creativity and design to send my wishes and blessings through the piece of card to my friends. I can design the card which I think matches the person's liking. E.g colours,words, size etc... Friends out there which had ever received my handmade cards, do you like it? or do you think that I am over reacting here?

Not forgetting to mention that I saw two policeman patrolling by ridding their horses.

Wern had also happened to see her dream kitchen when we passed by a demo shop. The dream kitchen is like this.

Now then I knew that the metrolink bus is free if you take a ride around city centre. See, its written there? Wern and I both was like an alien showing the bus pass to the driver as its a free ride. The punk group behind us was climbing up the bus without showing anything. I'll never repeat my stupid mistake twice.

Wern and I headed to mindy's house when it was 7.30pm as we had agreed to meet at 8pm. Mindy was busy preparing the tom yam soup when I walked into the kitchen. This was how it looked like.

Closer look?

Together with its smell, I so wanna eat it eventhough I can't stand to eat spicy food. By judging the way it looks, you can imagine how tasty it is... ... **yummy~**

We had these for our steamboat.

and these... ...





Some more, these... ...



Look nice?

Gah tee was called by Jack to join our gathering as we thought that the gathering was not fun at all without her. It was totally hilarious, the way Jack invited her to join us. It would be a total waste of energy to organise a gathering if someone you expected to turn up didn't show. So, we finally all of us bombarded gah tee out of her room and make her join us in this gathering. With curiosity, I asked them why they organised such a steamboat activity so suddenly? They answer me by saying that if we were to be all working next time, then it would be hard to get another chance like this to gather around steam boating anymore. **I was SO touched by their words**

As soon as we are all full, Jack treated us with his collection of red wine and white wine. I did make myself white wine+ lemonade as I felt that the taste was great after having a sip from mindy's glass.

This was when the tragedy struck. I had a weird feeling on my left cheeks, it felt kinda sore and swollen. Man!!while I was enjoying myself at the peak, my "old friend" came to visit me. Who is that? Mr.zhu tou pi in chinese, Mr. zhu tiu pi in hakka. Got it? The pain is getting worse each minute and my left face is now swollen like a pig's face. Zhu tiu biang in hakka. Really suffer me a lot. When I took my picture with my 'family', I am forced to turn my head slightly to the left in order not to be snapped like a pig's look.

Mindy had drawn me a "tiger" on the left side of my face because as she was born in 1986, she resemble a tiger. A tiger is mean to eat up a pig and so she drew the letter on my face with an eyeliner. But the pain is still there. Thanks to Mr. zhu tou pi, now I can't chew my food properly, when I laugh or talk, the pain seems to drag me to hell. I can't even open my mouth widely now. **sobbing**

When I was suffering from the pain, Gah tee and wern cheered me up. While I was concentrating taking the picture of this wine, Gah tee showed her funny face between the wine glass and the bottle. The next minute I was like laughing in pain because of Mr. zhu tou pi. What more to say when Wern suddenly said, "cindy is taking picture la, I asked you to look away from the wine bottle instead you stuck your face in between!!"which made me laugh even harder. I so can't stand the pain, I asked them to STOP...STOP....

Gah tee who is never an alcoholic drinker seems to enjoy wine now. I got the evidence, see... ...

I think this was all Jack, Mindy and Poh Kiang's effort as they encouraged her to drink more so that her allergy towards alcohol will disappear. According to the theory which was developed by 3 of them, her allergy towards alcohol will soon be immune if she kept on drinking alcoholic drinks. I guessed that she likes the taste of white wine+ lemonade too, the moment she had a sip of those mixture, she likes it and from that moment on, she starts to take alcohol.**congratulations!!you had succeed copping your phobia towards alcoholic drinks!!yeah!!**

Till now, I still feel the pain on my left cheek. I am sick NOW I guess. GREAT!!I think I can't join my 'family' for the second round steamboat as I am now feeling the cold. FEVER I guess. I can't even join Jack and poh kiang for swimming tomorrow. God, why must IT strikes at this time? I hope it will heal before I started work. Or else people may think I am a lazy bum.

Start to feel dizzy....I guess its time for me to rest... ...I so wanna join my "family's" activity tomorrow, **sad**but I think I can't...God, please bless me to recover ASAP.