Tango Appassionata

It's been exactly a week since I last posted. The week's been fulla stuff. I can't remember everything atm. And I don't feel very detaily...



Christmas Day. Dinner at my grandma's place. My Mainland China auntie invited some strangers (strangers to us, acquaintance to her) to our dinner. Wtf to that. Whatever, it was Christmas so I'll let it go (even though she does that EVERYTIME WE HAVE A FAMILY DINNER). I got movie tickets from my aunt, and some lucky money from others. Later that night, I went to the 'Christmas Party' hotpot thing to find that they were STILL eating. Some of us watched World Idol on tv while we had nothing to do. We cheered on the singer from Norway by constantly phoning in to vote for him. Played a bit of MJ and Smash Bros. Pretty much it.



Boxing Day. I did absolutely no shopping. I only drove my mom to work. Later that night, Jo, Elie and Mike invited me to Starbucks. We talked and discussed plans for the ski trip. Jo's drink exploded over my pants.



Saturday. Can't remember.



Sunday. I remember we bought Mc Donalds back home for lunch that day because of the snow.



Monday... why did we wake up early again? Oh yeahhh, shopping! The four of us woke up early to buy shopping stuffers for our ski trip. Eleanor had to work later that day so we had to be quick. I was surprised to be picked up by Mike without sign of Jo or Elie. But anyways, on our way down, we get a call from Elie to find that she wanted to go to Yaohan all of a sudden. We met them there, went inside and visited the asian supermarket. Upon seeing all the asian foods, we started to buy food that wasn't on our planned shopping list. We argued about pancakes and dumplings and ended up with a strange basket fulla stuff. We finished and headed off to Superstore. There was a giant black pool of water in the middle of the parking lot we had to dodge. We stormed in and picked up the left over shopping items. Elie left to head to work when we lined up to pay. It was then we decided on dim sum. We went to the dim sum restaurant across from Yaohan (expensive stuff). Ordered more than we could eat and ended up with a plate of noodles that I had to bring home. We sat around longer, sipping our tea after we paid to tick off the waiters, which I think we successfully did.



Jo wanted to refund a number of things so we headed off to Future Shop first. As she lined up, Mike and I looked at a number of things causing the employees to think we were actually interested. After a good plus hour, we sat in the car feeling awfully lazy. We talked as we gradually fogged up the car. Then we suddenly remembered Simon's party. We called up Simon to ask what he wanted to do and ended up with us planning most of the things for him. After that was settled, we visited a few sports stores for more miscellaneous ski equipment. Night came around and we felt hungry. We headed off to Fukuroku Sushi for some Japanese. Once again, we ordered more than we could eat, forcing ourselves to finish a few things. I believe we went home afterwards? Either that or no memory left of it.



Tuesday. No idea. Home?



Wednesday. Woke up early again to pick up our snowboard rentals. We arrive to find that the prick caucasian didn't want to rent it to us because he would make us pay for the free day the other guy agreed to give us for FREE without charge. We left in a huff and had lunch at Oakridge White Spot. Everyone had to go the bank. We ate lots and Jo made some returns. Elie and I spotted a hawt guy working at Gap Kids and I think he saw us staring lol. Elie went to join up with the party people before we did. Jo and I decided to accompany Mike to the vet for his dogs (and the forgotten cake :x). We went back and had a bit of trouble getting Louie into the car but ended up ok. Jo and I went to pick a cake while Mike did his vet stuff. We visited a few bakers and spotted a good cake we thought we'd come back to get later. We wandered off to London Drugs and picked up a bottle of Sobe for the upcoming Karaoke later that day. We poked at the electronics section for a while and returned to the bakery to get the cake. We headed back to his place and ended up playing some N64 games and sleeping. After we missed the karaoke, we dropped off the cake and met up with the rest of the people at E-Spot. We heard about the disappointingly expensive karaoke and the failed bbtea meeting and felt bad for Simon. We played some arcade games, took some pictures and watched them play pool. Soon we went to the Japanese restaurant for the late-but-cheap all-you-can-eat. The receptionist was a of a pushover to know how many people exactly were going to come. We didn't know exactly at the time so we told her who was there already. So she gave us a dinky spot. We started off with some mad ordering and began to feel full very soon. Phillip had his digicam so we made some silly videos (which I have to ask him for asap!!) that kept us cracking up the whole night. But we had a bunch of disrespectful teenagers sitting behind us that kept mumbling and repeating loads of BS. Soon Tony and Sally showed up and ordered like mad too. We couldn't wait so we took out the (supposedly) surprise cake tht didn't turn out surprise after the girl came out and put down some new plates. We all asked "What are these for?" and she answered "OH for the birthday cake!" and we were like.. :D "Uhhh, it was supposed to be a surprise. :D" but ah well. With only half n hour before the New Year countdown, we quickly paid (the lady charged us only 10 people -- supposedly 12 attended and ate) and sped to Jerry's New Year party. We arrived with 1 minute remaining and counted down with the tv :D. We left about a minute later (lol) and went to Mike's place. Some hongers already showed up and stayed to play more Smash Bros and MJ. We started with some light liquor. Elie drank a bottle too quickly, and being unstable and weak she felt sick afterwards. She puked a few times and so Mike helped her with some tea and such. Jo and I tried the cute adorable Absolut Vodka bottles and had to drink it with some lemons. :/ Sally found Coke somehow and so we tried what I suggested, SMIRNOFF VANILLA TWIST -- AHH OMFG -- IT RULED WITH COKE! I played a bit of smash bros with the nonalcoholics until they left. We started to doze off so we all attempted to sleep. It took me a while to sleep, after rolling around many times. Throughout the night, everyone made different noises -- moaning, snoring, farting, shuffling, moving... And all of a sudden at 8 in the morning JO WAKES UP TO WAKE US ALL UP FOR NO REASON. But we all go back to sleep afterwards :D... We awoke again at 12pm feeling a little groggy but no hangover. ELie left early to join her parents for lunch. We had dim sum with.... MIKE'S FAMILY. It was strange at first but it was interesting overall. We had lobster congee for lunch, lol... most expensive dim sum dish ever eaten. After, I was dropped off at home.



I did some packing and relaxing and soon headed off to New Years dinner. We ate at one of our favourite seafood restaurants on Graville. The "GHEY" waiter and the "GAMEBOY" waiter from last year were serving today, lol. It was a very, very good dinner overall. Near the end when we were having desert, I was enquired about my ski trip tomorrow. A little excited to talk about it, I tried to enjoy the conversation. However, my parents and my brother both were against having my dad drive me early to mike's place tomorrow morning at 7am. Yes, I agree it's not fair in their part to have to wake up early for my sake but I didn't wish to sleep over another night, and I told them that. I wasn't even done packing and even suggested that I'd bus myself if necessary. Somehow, the feeling of being betrayed by my bro for not even being on my side and all the other overwhelming discouraging and anger remarks my mom's been giving me lately caused me to start crying. So I started to weep my eyes out and tried to keep it in, without making it look like it's a big deal. No one said anything to me after that. The strange thing was, if someone were to ask me what was wrong, I wouldn't know how to explain to them what was wrong. Even I didn't know myself... I guess it was one of those times when you just gotta cry to let out everything. But bad timing nonetheless. My Mainland China aunt kept staring at me. I wanted to fucking kick her in the face. Not to mention she kept glacing at me during the whole bloody dinner. I'm still quite teary eyed... and to add onto that, I've got an upset stomach. Either its the damn dinner or its that time of the month.