i promised a nice recap entry about my wonderful weekend and here it is! Hopefully a brief recap, though. =P
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Here’s basically what happened – we’d planned to surprise my dear friend Jaytee at a hotel where she was attending a wedding. A room in that hotel had been booked as the site of FUN for that day. Wanyi and I turned up to find mastermind YW in the hotel with her brother (Gege) blowing balloons, so we helped out.
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When it was time to get Jaytee – more like stall her, actually – I was sent down to distract her. I came up with a story on the fly, after having gone to the ballroom and seeing that there were several weddings/solemnizations that day. While looking for Ms Jaytee, I briefly caught sight of one of the notices they had put up for the events. Couldn’t find her there, so i headed off to look for her at the pick-up point. I spotted her there with a mutual friend (turns out I knew a few of the people who’d attended the wedding with Jaytee) and approached them. Jaytee was SHOCKED. Of course, she said, “So qiao!”, which was our catchphrase for whenever something coincidental happened (loooooooong backstory to this).
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She asked me what I was doing there, and I was all, “Oh i’m here for my friend’s wedding solemnization! What are you doing here?” She told me about the wedding I already knew about and I acted duly surprised. She probed me for some details about the solemnization I “attended” and I just gave the name of the bride and said she was a friend from my Uni. I also lied and said I was waiting for my parents to pick me up from the pick-up point, which was where I saw her. -__-”
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After letting the rest know that I was with her (via Whatsapp), I was rather worried that the others (who were running late and weren’t there yet) might run into her if we continued to stand there, so after our mutual friend left, I griped about my parents saying they’d be late and told Jaytee that we should go back to the ballroom.
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When we got up to the ballroom, she started talking about the solemnization that I had “attended”, mentioning that we were rather noisy in our celebrations.. I said, “Yea, they’re the ah beng (rowdy) group of friends la.” She nodded along with me, and as we passed the ballroom of the wedding i’d “attended” (the guests were all milling about since the meal was over), I mentioned to her that I’d seen some people I don’t really like, so told her that we should avoid eye contact and walk quickly.
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We hung out at the ballroom for awhile, chatting (she kept talking about how amazingly coincidental it was and I kept agreeing with her) while I frantically checked with the others via Whatsapp to see if they were ready. Funny story here about how she told YW, who was supposed to meet her at the pick-up point, that she had run into me, and how it was “so cool!”. YW played along, asking what I was doing there etc. Gullible Jaytee said I was there for another wedding. It was quite awesome lol.
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Finally, the others were ready and I could take her up! After bringing her to the toilets to stall for more time, walking past “my friend’s wedding” again (this time saying that everyone I knew had left already), we went to wait for a lift. Problem was, I didn’t have a keycard that would take me up to the hotel room, so I frantically texted them to bring a keycard down too. Trouble was, I’d already told her, “Let’s go”, and she’d assumed we were going downstairs to wait for my parents, so I had to keep pretending not to see all the lifts that were going down.
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Then, a lift going down opened and she spotted it and walked towards it… I hung back, trying to stall, until I was saved… The wedding party of the wedding Jaytee had just attended turned up at the lift lobby, and because I also knew the couple in question, I stalled and made small talk! I also got the opportunity to congratulate the bride – whom I’m really truly happy for =)
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Thankfully, not long after the bridal party had left, Wanyi’s lift (i had whatsapped her to ask which lift she was taking, since there were about 10 lifts at the lobby) arrived, and she walked out. I acted really shocked to see her, and Jaytee frowned so much that her face almost collapsed upon itself.
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Anyhow, for fear of being too long-winded, I’m going to stop now and let’s just say that we had a really successful surprise for Jaytee. We also had a really successful early birthday surprise for me too, later that day, but that’s another story for another day, which I’ll probably continue tomorrow. For now, let’s let the pictures do the talking!! =))
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lol with wanyi on the bus to the hotel! at approx 330pm =P
the happy birthday lion princess! (legit, she kept saying she felt like a princess the whole time (after the surprise))
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the happy birthday lion princess and a very grumpy-looking rach =P
with wonderful vivi after surprising Jaytee! =)
oscar-winning actress-to-be (moi!) with the birthday lion princess =P
lovely surprisers! =P
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Ahhh, we finally have a halfway decent blog post eh? =P I’ll be back tomorrow with another post, probably to continue the rest of the recap of my great weekend. Till then, ciao and enjoy the pictures! =P
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