Tuesday, September 04, 2007
It's my birthday. Yay me!haha. seems like turning 20 has already made my skin THAT MUCH THICKER!
oh well, limme just say that my birthdays, for the years that i've been faithfully serving my country, have been ABSOLUTELY normal. in fact, if not for the copious amounts of SMSes, i would myself believe that it's probably just another day. okie, granted my family does prepare me such special celebratory food and cake, the rest of the day passes by like just another busy day at the office. this is the 2nd year in a row that i've spent (what by most regular human standards is suppose to be) my 'special' day doing the plain old tasks of everyday. nuts.
what the heck happened to things like the 'birthday off-in-lieu'?
what happened to the tradition of granting lessen manning to the 'birthday boy'?
craps. anyway, i saw something today that turned out to be the most wonderfully sinful present of them all. here goes the true story.
"i have a friend. his name is W******, he works in the camp next to mine and was a classmate during my first year at J**, lets call him W for the rest of this story.
i was on my way home from work today and i approached my base bus-stop as usual. i was toying around with my handphone, replying everyone's thoughtful birthday wishes, when my other friend, some indian brother, lets call him K nudged me and told me that someone was smiling (and sorta waving) at me from across the road. arousing my curiousity from my handphone, i turned up and was shocked yet mildly surprised to see W. he was his usual qwerky self (he hasn't changed much i'm sure) and gave me his old crooked smile. then it happened. for a spilt second i thought i would die laughing.
the thing was this --- his head was turned towards me the whole time... even when he was walking. what he didn't realise (neither did i) was that he was gonna...
WALK STRAIGHT INTO THE LAMP POST NEXT TO THE BUS STOP!
K was so stunned when he bonked his head that he screamed bloody murder and laughed damn loud. i caught his infectious laughter and produced a surpressed laugh that probably sounded like a giggle. neither of us could believe how uber blur W was. even his reaction when he finally realised what happened was so hilarious we bursted out laughing AGAIN. even thinking about it now brings me a chuckle. haha."
Morale of the story... watch where you're going.
i only thought things like that happened in dramas or movies. oh well. =)