Whirlwind of Mad Adventures

I woke up with a terrible swirling headache. Again.

I couldn't walk straight.

I was rather groggy and grumpy.

And suddenly, my mom asked me if I wanna go to my very old elementary schoolmate's house today.

I was totally shocked. This is the first time my mom's actually letting me out on CNY!!!

So I got dressed, and did a zig-zag to the car.

Thank God I roughly remembered where her house is. We found it in a jiffy!!!

When I walked in the house, there was this "conference table-like" table with full of people sitting there.

With all of my ex-schoolmates and my juniors.

Yes, including Carol. I was bummed.

The house was so noisy, we can hardly hear each other. It was really really hard trying to pay attention to anyone at all.

And so we ate. At least I ate a lot.

The food was really good. It was awesomely glorious.

Then came the gambling. Not exactly gambling.

We were gambling with groundnuts.

We were there until 5 pm to wait for another friend before we headed to the next house; Carol's house.

Carol told us, while we were at Calesta's house that her dad does not allow gambling in the house.

And we all joke bout how we should play in the garden and offer the policemen groundnuts if they happen to pass by.

We watched Rush Hour 3 in Sze Lyn's car on the way to Carol's house. Kinda awesome. But it was a little too loud.

And we chatted and ate and chatted and ate some more.

And suddenly, Carol suggested that we play poker again.

This time, we used kuaci.

It was just damn crazy. There was this girl who was eating kuaci at the same time when we were playing poker.

We all had to beg Carol's younger sister for more kuacis. We all ran out because crazy people like Carol bet about 12 kuacis at one go.

It was pure fun until Carol's dad came home and walked into the dining hall.

His face was intensed and his eyes were huge with suppressed emotions.

The danger alarm went off and we all heartily chirped "Hello Uncle!!! Happy Chinese New Year!!!" to ease the tension a little.

And Carol turned around and told her dad, "It's just kuacis"

I felt rather bad because her dad turned away with a none-too-happy face.

We still had fun for a little while more.

Clarissa, the kuaci-eater won all of our kuacis because for the last round, we dumped all our kuacis in for the bet.

And we all scrambled back home to be on time for dinner.

We really had lots of laughter. And Sze Lyn kept on getting fortune cookies which are linked to happiness.

"Anger will make you lose 60 seconds of happiness."
"Be happy and your life will be extended along with your happiness."
"A dark night will be followed by a bright day. Stay happy."
"Love others especially the ones that don't deserve the most" - Which we interpreted as indirectly saying that she should be happy.

And Clarissa who was sitting beside Sze Lyn had this fortune cookie which says

"Stop searching for happiness, it is right next to you."

We were all seriously crazy. It's so fun to be around juniors. But I almost felt like an ancient. Imagine, we will be legally adults in 2 years' time.

We will be reaching the digit 2 next year.

This is seriously scary.

Why are we growing up so fast?? I don't want to!!!

I'm forced to draw chickens now because it will be another long day tomorrow.

p/s: How I wish that I have taken the Hospitality & Tourism course. Listening to Sze Lyn's experience working in Ritz Carlton was seriously fun. And she is so relaxed from day one until today. Unlike us mad CAL-ians running up and down and jumping around from the amount of pressure and stress that we have.