My side of the story

I suspected absolutely nothing. 

Nothing. 

Darn it!!! 

How could I not????

Being sung to in church was the first most embarrassing thing to happen. Everyone came, everyone congregated until don't know how long, and, I still suspected nothing!! When it was time to go, I waved sadly at everyone, thinking they were all going to Mid Valley and have fun. 

I went home and went online. Moping. Heh. 

"Dinner is at 6 ok?" Dad reminded me as I watched Leverage. 

"Uh-huh." I mumbled. 

6 came. I was ready. Not thinking we were gunna be going anywhere, I didn't bother to actually dress up. Got to the front door. 

"Wear the blindfold!!" Mum said. 

"Huh?"

"The blindfold! It'll be fun."

I sighed. "OK. Whatever." And I was blindfolded. 

Silence. 

Where's everyone? They can't have left me here right?

"HELLO? I can't see you know!!!" I yelled out. 

"Oh. Right. Comiiing! " my sister ran back to guide me to the car.

And I sat in the car. The whole time. Blindfolded. 

Lol. Yeah. I heard you guys all had to duck as to not be seen by me. I was blindfolded. Heh.

I feel asleep because it was so dark. =.=

I suddenly woke up when my phone started vibrating in my pocket, so asking if could take it off - "aiyah. As if she would know where we are anyway." dad said - I checked my phone.

Blitz: OI! Ditcher! Where you going for your stupid dinner? I bet you are bored. 

Me: I have no idea where the heck I am going. I am like, super lost. All I can see are trees and like, jungle. Ohmigosh. Where the heck am I?

And I really had no idea. I was disorientated, and everywhere I looked was just trees. 

Lol. I got bored of trees. So I took my own pic. Heh. 

Sighs. Failed tree shots. But yeah. Look there! Trees. All around!!

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Then I got another message. 

Blitz: AHAHAH! Why you take off the blindfold? Then your parent's can't surprise you lor (ok. So now I get the meaning. It means it makes ALL you guys jobs harder to have to hide from me) Anyway. I hope you have a bad dinner! Ditcher! Hope you get lost!

I didn't bother to reply him. Because at that point. We had arrived!! And I even took a picture. And this is the most grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr picture of all because...

Look at it!!

Do you see what I see?!!!

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It's the entrance of lookout point. And I took a picture. 

I TOOK A PICTURE OF ALL YOU SNEAKY PEOPLE AND I STILL DIDN'T REALISE ANYTHING!!! MYGOSH!!!!!!!!! 

Go and look at the picture again. See the MyVi. And the car Andy was driving. They're BOTH THERE! ARRRRGH!

Finally getting to the right place, I noticed we were sitting at the big table so I said to my parents, "Erm, shouldn't we sit at the smaller table? What if a big group comes?"

Dad replied, "nevermind la. They'll ask us to move if anyone comes."

"Okkkkkk?" I said sitting down. 

Suddenly this dude in a green shirt with a camera jumped in front of me, and following him was this sudden noise exploding directly behind me (lol, I realised later they were singing Happy Birthday. Actually, I just NOW realised this because I asked my sister. =.=)

I had no idea what the heck was going on. I was like, "why does this dude taking pictures of me look so familiar?" 

"Why are there so many people's voices directly behind me?" I didn't even turn around. I just sat there for a bit. Thinking.

"How can it be that these people's voices sound so familiar?"

"What the heck is going on?"

"IF it is what I think it is, how can this be? How could they have planned this without me even knowing?"

"It cannot be. I think I'm hallucinating."

"No I can't be. Ju in front of me is too annoying and real to be a hallucination."

"But NO WAY could this all have been planned and me not even knowing one bit. I'm dreaming. Rapture."

"NO LA. Not rapture. Why does Brand's and is that Jaryl's, I'm sure that's Jaryl, why does their voices sound so annoyingly familiar behind me? That must be real."

"OHMIGOSH! THEY SURPRISED ME!! OH SHITTTTTTTTTT!!!"

and that's when I turned red. And that was my second embarrassment for the day. 

Third embarrassment was coming right up. 

So anyway, as I was talking with everyone and trying to find the masterminds of all this (Brand and Bel) when the boys decided to go toilet. Together. For a really long time

And I didn't think anything of it. I just talked and Bel showed me the videos. HAHAHAH! Thank you guys for the video!

Then they came back. And food arrived. 

That's when Brand handed me a couple of scraps of paper and asked me to solve the insane riddles he wrote. I shall spare you what this aspiring poet attempted to write. Anyway, his last clue was:

Wait til 9, then use your eyes. You'll be in for a big surprise.

It was 7:30 then.

"I have to wait one and a half hours?!?!?!?!?!" I shrieked. 

"Actually, it can come sooner. Maybe 8:30" Brand replied.

"So I dunno how long I have to wait!!??"

"yeah."

Greaaaaaaaat. 

After half an hour of trying to solve it myself - and eating my really really good Carbonara - I decided to ask for help.

"Well you see, at exactly nine o'clock, the earth is in a certain position that can only be seen at Lookout Point where this natural occurrence...will occur, and .... you'll be surprised." Josh smiled.

"Brand said it may come at 8:30." 

"OH. Hehe."

I turned to another person.

"Jaryl! Help me!"

"Wait til nine, then use your eyes, you'll be in for a surprise." he read. 

"Yeah. That's like an hour away! I have to wait til then," I moaned. 

"It's one hour to nine? What time is it now?" Jaryl asked.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHAAAA!! 

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I gave up asking people. 

Around 8:30. Nothing happened. So I was just like, waiting. Then, Brand said he had to use toilet < THAT EXCUSE AGAIN!! I MUST BE BLIND. AND STUPID. 

He came back super fast. 

"You used the toilet already??" I asked. 

"yeah. See for guys. It's like, touch and go." Josh said. 

=.=

I stopped asking. 

Shortly afterwards, the lights went off.

And this random disco ball in the middle of the room started spinning. 

And EVEN more random Happy Birthday song started playing in the background (to the tune of those Chinese songs you hear during Chinese New Year).

Ohmigosh. Please nooooo. I banged my head against the table. 

Embarrassment no 3.

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Stole this from Ju's facebook. Heh. Probably one of the only semi ok (means non-ugly) pic of me. =.= why can't I get older gracefully?

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Anyway, I blew my twelve candles - with one candle crooked. And the other candle not lit. Because Josh lifted the plastic thing off and the wind blew it. So yes. Twelve. I am twelve. I'm getting younger people! yeah. Then later we went to seaview. 

SEE VIEW. 

Darn Del. That was really bad. 

=]

I had a really nice time. This is one of the most memorable birthdays ever (next to the one on my 9th Birthday when my sis and I got in trouble and we had to stand - yes seriously. no sitting allowed - downstairs in the cold for two hours as punishment. yeah. Child abuse I tell you.)

Though it was embarrassing, and Ju, you are mean. =.= But altogether, I loved the surprise! I honestly never suspected anything and well, it made me feel special. Heh. =] So yeah. Thank you.

Oh and BIG thank you especially to Sam, Bel and Brand whom I believe were the main organisers behind this. I heard of the credit you guys blew up to organise it all, I heard of the pain it was to decide on the cake, and, Bel and Andy having to drive everyone everywhere and, actually, I can't remember what else was complained to me about, but yeah, I know it was a lot, and thank you for making it all happen. Hehe. Seriously, one of the best birthdays ever. =]

And yeah well, thank you to everyone who came. 

*sob sob*

This sounds like some grammy award thing! Ok I'll stop. 

Anyway. Onto the pictures I stole off Ju of all the insane people called my friends:

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Watermelon. Haha. Jaryl loved the game. 

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In case you didn't get it, they're suppose to spell my name. Heh. 

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHA

Yeah. We pretty much ruined everyone else's view, peace and pleasure. 

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Bel insisted on this emo shot.

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I love you guys =]

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And really, see. Simple Seventeen. It's gunna be an awesome year. It already had a brilliant kick start to it. =]

Edited: Crap. The pics are too big and some people are cut off. Its the smallest I could upload straight from facebook. Sorry. You could go check them out there. =]