Happy birthday to you,  Happy birthday to you,
 Happy birthday to Pei Ling, Happy birthday to you!!
 Happy birthday to you, To Jesus be true,
May God's richest blessings, Abide upon youuu!

I was greeted by this at around 11.30pm on 30th October, half an hour before i turned 18. i came back from a night movie with amanda and rowen cos amanda and myself had a free ticket each from GSC and it's only useable in the month of october. we were busy the whole month and could only bring ourselves to watch like, on monday which is like the last day, due to our hectic 10-hours-tuesday schedule on the 31st.

anyways, i knew something was cooking up already when i came home on monday afternoon and was greeted by yeeloon's surprise and utter shock when i told her i was going out for movie that night. she kept pestering me and begging me not to be out, to spend the night with her. i was like   like, duh! since when was she so attached to me? hahaha. but even if i had suspected something fishy was going on, all i could ever picture was just a normal surprise with my hsemates and possibly coursemates with a cake.

litle did i know that when i opened d door of my room that night i came back, i was greeted by the birthday song above, the room was lit by the candles on the birthday cake. the first face i saw in the room was alvin kor! i was totally taken aback and no words could describe how i felt at that time. slowly, i see the others - the pregnant man (thiyagu), calvin, wenlin, jason, wengkeet, and yeeping (yeeloon and teckchoon was pretending nothing happened and watching the tv outside). i was so shocked i just dropped on the floor and went, "oh my gooooodness you guysssss..."

i mean, like i've said earlier, the surprise i suspected would comprise of mainly my housemates but i did not expect the people above to come all the way from kajang, considering that all of them are working people. they're just so so so sweet, beyond words. i was deeply touched! ah, rowen and amanda were among the culprits! they were also working alongside the twins and wengkeet to make sure i get home before 12 =P they hid it so well that when i was whining about how bad i was gonna get bashed at home later (in the car on our way home), two of them were just chatting along with me, with no hints whatsoever that they knew what they knew (loss of words, haha).

and the most surprising thing was that the surprise of the people coming from kajang was not planned by the twins. i still dont know who planned it, they did not want to tell. whoever it is, im just so thankful and touched, if you do read this.

around 12.30am the kajangites just left for home, of course not without dirtying my face with the chocolate cake =P oh, and calvin very nicely splashed a few pails of water on amanda and yours truly. but at least it was better than the water + flour last year at agape house.

then my housemates urged me to open my birthday gifts. something worth mentioning was that i once told them jokingly to buy for me loads of HUP SENG biscuits on my birthday bcos i was happily enjoying my housemate Leng Sin's HUP SENG biscuits. and they gave me a big present, excitedly asked me to open it. i opened it and no prizes for guessing what's inside. HUP SENG biscuit. haha. in the end, they actually bought me another present, and the earlier one was just a teaser =P the real present was so cute, a piggy musical thingy which changes light or something. haha. yeeloon was so jealous bcos she's always liked that piggy.

oh and the twins bought me bedsheet and a christian t-shirt! haha. dont stare at the screen weirdly bcos ive always told them i wanted a new bedsheet bcos mine's really ugly but never knew they'd really get it. haha.. and cheryl jie' and soo aun kor's birthday gift.. beyond words. =) and jie, the bday card hor, so obvious aun kor was narrating and u writing. haha.

slept at about 4am.. and i have class at 8am to 8pm straight the next day  =s was really worried i'd not have enough strength to last the day but thank God i did.. had fun spending the day with my friends and also bday girl amanda =) i dont know if all of you know that amanda shares the same birthday as i do and we're both at the same age as well. it was worth remembering that we hugged and wished each other happy birthday at 12am this time (we didnt get to last year) and around 6pm when we parted ways, she hugged me and sweetly said, "aww im missing u already!". man, if only you knew how i was touched by those words! guna kor texted me in the morning asking if i had gotten his mms and when i said i didnt, he replied with a super duper depressing-looking emoticon, which i burst out laughing looking at. hehe! at nite my housemates (11 of us) brought me to a nearby hongkong-styled restaurant and i had my fav cheese-baked rice with ice cream coke! haha. the restaurant was so cute, it's japanese-styled seating where we all just sit on the floor with cushions. i had thought the meal was on me because it wasnt cheap. but when i went home they were like, it's paid for already. man, i really don't feel like i deserved anything they did for me. im going to miss all of them when i graduate in 7 more months!

i still had people apologising for wishing me late on 1st nov and 2nd nov..even this morning as well, haha. it was really cute. mayu's the cutest, when he wished me at 1am on 1st nov, he went like, "hi pei ling, happy birthday, im sorry i know im verty screwed up but i left my phone at my friends' place etc etc sorry sorry sorry sorry". with an sms like that how can u get angry? =) naresh too, bcos he had a first final exam paper that went badly on my bday =(

on thursday i had lunch with guna kor at masjid jamek burger king bcos geetz had to go to puduraya to get bus ticket to ipoh. been wanting to arrange lunch together with guna kor eversince i discovered he takes lrt to work and that the lrt station is very near to his workplace. im very near to lrt stations (yeap, 2 stations) too, hence. geetz only has nice words to say about guna kor! he was so sweet, not only did he buy me a gift for my birthday, he also treated both of us lunch! i felt so bad that he had to treat 2 persons! truly number one on my list of being hospitable and warm =) thanks so much kor!

on thurs evening, laikuan came over for dinner with the twins and myself. we went and have cheesebaked rice! pics below! =)

to end this, a big thank you to all who's wished me on my birthday thru text messages, phone calls, the birthday cards and gifts.. even if it was just a text message, im deeply touched u'd remember my birthday, let alone buy anything for me! i dont know what else i could do, but to thank each of u individually here.

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to mum, hoong, bit and kong:

for the bday mms and sms. the mms really touched me bcos it contained a pic u guys snapped on the spot of all of u and kong's voice wishing me happy bday in the background and after that bursting out giggling.

loon and ping, for everything. everything.

the pack - teckchoon, min jiang, leng sin, siong, chin chung, jazz, tuck seng, chin hong and sam.

the surprise team - wengkeet, wenlin, alvin kor, jason, thiyagu, calvin, loon and ping.

the calls - wendy, sarah and wongkinmeng.

the gifts  (each very personal to me and touched me very much) - loon, ping, kean, christine, ray, calvin, joanne jie, timothy kor, bit, cheehao, daniel, hoong, kong, laikuan, jupiter kor, cheryl jie, aun kor, wengkeet, belinda, minjiang, lengsin, teckchoon, ah siong, chinhong, geetz, waiyee, farah, guna kor and chin ai jie, sarah and hannah.

the text messages (chronologically) - ah tze kor, suetnie, michele, melvyn, bit, mum, seeyee, christine, cheeseong, ganesh, chandran, minjiang, michellelim, wongkinmeng, daniel, geetz, terri, jiayin n jiamun, wengkeet, siong, lengsin, jasonsan, adrianlow, cheehao, vivien n james, waiyee, jayasivam, sumei jie, paiking, hannah, xianshi, ngeezheng, sooann, matthew, puiling, chinnee, guna kor, laikuan, wendy, aun kor, keatlim kor, szeping, ivanlee, michellechan, wenlin, thiyagu, suguna, markdarwin, stephanielim, vincentchai, tonghow kor, phoon, huihsien, kirsten, joanne jie, ellice jie n jupiter kor, timothy kor, ray, auntiekim, cheryl jie, bina, mayu, chenyoung, choiyee, ms yee, ms chon, choo, naresh, jaya kor, waiyi.

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some of the pics taken this whole week in college:

Tuesday, 31st Oct at DK ABB, 6pm.

from left: yours truly and waiyee at a lecture hall.
don't ask why i didnt smile.. i was never photogenic =(

waiyee, geetz and amanda pointing at waiyee's new crocs.

a candid shot of waiyee and geetz


waiyee and amanda. proudly, with their cf camp t-shirt - all green. yikes!


at Cannes Tea House, 9pm.

my bday dinner with housemates! check out the seats! ^^

my housemates busy deciding what to eat for dinner.

ping busy sms-ing.

housemates leng sin and ah siong. a bit blur, sigh.

housemates chin chung and tuck seng.

my favourite cheese-baked rice! but this Cannes' is not as nice as Restaurant Happy Valley 128's. (that one can be seen below)

some sausage-wrapped-with-bread-filled-with cheese thingy. it's yummy!

housemate min jiang (ever-playful boy) and loon posing outside d restaurant after dinner.

housemate chin hong (super caring mummy-like figure) and ping after dinner.

i know i look reaaaaally weird here. so do. not. comment. anything. especially. irene. look. oy. ling. haha.

wednesday, 1st nov

amanda and myself wearing the tops that geetz got for our bday and insisted us to wear the next day. taken at block v outside of our class in the afternoon.

in the afternoon during our four-hours-break, geetz and i went to the career talk held in the function room in college just because amanda was the emcee. we bumped into solomon (graduating from advanced diploma next yr) who was there and he said, "eh diploma students no rush to go to career talks all!". i instantly replied, "solo, have u ever heard of people who go for a career talk just because their friend is emcee-ing?"
solomon gave me the DUH look and left. haha.

it was raining heavily after our last class at 9pm. we (waiyee, amanda, geetz, mich, ju and myself) were waiting for rowen and teeliang to come and fetch us home n for dinner in front of block v. as u can see, amanda was very hyper and singing while jumping all around, waiyee happily talking on d phone with you-know-who and such. *ignore the blurness of d pics, she was moving =P* and below are the pics of rowen (after our 20 mins wait) with amanda's spider, named anwaribrahim and rowen wid waiyee.

thursday, 2nd nov, dinner at Happy Valley 128, Genting Klang wid laikuan n twins.

somehow i look retarded. the cheesebaked rice here is the best! better and cheaper than kimgary's! ;) thanks laikuan, for bringing us there!

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had an eventful week all in all!