On Saturday, Nab organized a Raya gathering with the secondary school Malay peeps and I was supposed to bring Yuna over to her house but she told me to keep Yuna for another day.
Syafiqahs and Nab
I went over to Nab's house the moment I felt my body didn't feel that sick.
It was great to laugh over steamboat with the girls and Rahimi and his girlfriend. He's getting married pretty soon. One by one, everyone's settling down. Oh what a wonderful part of growing up!
It was also great to catch up with Syafiqah. We were in the same CCA, share the same name and it was funny laughing at the fact that we have the same ex. Oh good old secondary school days, those days you think you're cool but you're not HAHA
After eating and laughing, I went off early to meet Hazwani, Kashib and Fuad at JCube for a karaoke session. Honestly, I wanted to bail on them because I felt sick but I felt bad so I just went on with what we had planned.
Fuad and Hazwani are such great singers... I swear I felt insecure at first. But slowly, they made me feel comfortable. 2 hours of karaoke session felt too short for the 4 of us. The moment Paramore's songs and MCR's songs came on, we all just screamed our hearts out. (Well, I screamed. Not sure about the others.) Oh secondary school days...
After the karaoke session, Hazwani had to leave because she stays all the way in AMK and the next day is Sunday which means mentoring session in less than a few hours.
Fuad, Kashib and I continued hanging out for a while in my baju kurung and Kashib in his jubah. Only Fuad looked normal that night. We talked and Kashib got Fuad and I panicking that night when he said he's gonna stay at home.
Fuad and I actually planned a surprise 21st birthday party at Kashib's place for him, together with his girlfriend and his other friends who were so so so sporting! Thank God Syahirah got everything sorted out, so everything went as planned.
So many crazy stories on the whole preparation for his surprise. I'm glad I didn't spend much on the deco but it looked so gooooooood. The only thing I really splurged on were the huge "21" helium balloons. The food were all sponsored by his parents, his mum cooked a lot of pizzas, nasi lemak and brownies. They all tasted so good!
His brother Muneer and his dad were really great at helping me reach at places that I couldn't. His grandmother even helped with the whole blowing of balloons. I had a hard time trying to figure out how to paste the balloons up on the wall because his walls are not like the ordinary walls, they have "dots" sticking out and that made it harder than usual to stick those balloons up. Thank God Hidayah and her boyfriend Safi came along to help out with the balloons problem!
Speaking of balloons... Fuad and I encountered a funny situation with the "21" balloons. So when we reached Kashib's void deck, I felt like something was missing while I was walking towards the lift. I looked back and saw the "1" balloon up at the ceiling of the void deck. Fuad and I looked at each other in shock and then we laughed for a moment. I tried calling Muneer to ask for a ladder while Fuad was jumping for the balloon but he didn't pick up. Few minutes later, some random dude was walking with a ladder towards us. What luck! We borrowed his ladder for a while, took the balloon and went for the lift. The moment I entered the lift, it closed a second after I pulled the balloons into the lift. The lift didn't have any sensor so really... God was really on our side, protecting the balloons for us.
Us waiting to surprise Kashib in his room
The boys did the whole bashing the moment he came home... I just stood there laughing. Oh, and can you believe it... the Chinese guy in the centre front is actually my neighbour? We have been staying at the same block for more than a decade, only different floors. But we have never noticed each other! Guess now I have to stop wearing pyjamas out, in case I bump into him in the lift while looking so damn unglam HAHA
A group of his secondary school juniors came for Raya and they didn't know there was going to be a party but it's all good... we invited them to join in the fun as well!
My Sunday peeps 💕
Ari was such a great game master. We played the same game for rounds and rounds... so many screams and unhappiness but it's all good! We ended up laughing more than cursing at each other.
Fuad, Kashib and I 💕
I hope we will hang out for a really long time. I hope we will all grow old together. Because they have been nothing but a joy to be with. I know for sure that they will soar high in whatever they do, and I hope our bond as a trio will just get stronger from here!
Fuad and I
I'm sorry for looking all sweaty in that photo, but really... it was such an eventful day for the both of us! Everything was a success all thanks to Fuad. He was so supportive on the whole idea of making an event for Kashib's birthday and I'm thankful that he has been nothing but a supportive friend. All my crazy plans... he said yes! Ok not yes, he will just laugh and then tell me to calm down because I always get overly excited over my own plans. Then, he will help me out...
As far as I can remember, August will be a break from birthday surprises. At the rate I'm going for all these birthday surprises, I can seriously open up my own party planner company.
Happy 21st birthday Kashib, time to put on some R21 movies on! 🎉
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People have been asking me about Yuna... I'm still trying to let go of her. My family have been trying to ask me to get a pet cat again once I'm fully recovered. I don't know how to feel about it. I gave her away to Nab yesterday morning and it hurts so much whenever I remember how much she cried while I gave her away.