The title is referring that I'm celebrating a friend's birthday twice. With 2 different group of people that is. The birthday boy is this time is Alvin Koh.
I went out at noon. I went to Tampines Mall alone first. Frankly speaking, I have not bought anything for the birthday boy I'm going to meet later. I really have no idea what to get for him. He has already wasted his memorable 21st birthday in the Navy, so I insisted buying a present for him instead of just treating him a meal. In the end, I bought him a set of DVD. It is one of his favourite TV Drama, but is a special edition. I was praying that he does not have that DVD, it will be alright if he has it in his computer. Haha.
I took MRT down to Pasir Ris to meet up with Luvena and Yvonne. Their job is to get the cakes, and we took a bus to Downtown East since it was raining at that time. We went up to the ticketing office to get movie tickets for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in E!Hub. Yes, the previous month and on that same date (ie. 22 January 2009), the 4 of us were at the same location celebrating Yvonne's birthday. Now, we were back in the same place for Alvin's too! Haha, that's Yvonne's idea since we all have not been to there for movies.
Alvin came just in time for the movie, and the next 3 hours we were in the cinema. It was weird when out of all the audiences, our row (The 4 of us plus a couple) was the only ones laughing for the part when an old man kept repeating he got struck by lightning 7 times... I was wondering whether that part is meant to be laughed or to be serious. Well, we all still enjoyed the movie.
After the movie, we went to play pool. It was like so long since I last played with Derek's gang. Luvena too, saying that the last time she played was that time too. Poor Alvin, he has to be left out while the 3 of us kept chatting about things he do not know. Anyway, we played and I never won any of the match. Haha. We stopped playing even though Alvin and Luvena only played 2 matches while Yvonne and I played 3 matches. Our hungry stomachs forced us to stop and get something to eat. We went to the Street HK Cafe for dinner.
Luvena was "secretly" asking the waitress for lighter in front of us. Quite odd. We ordered and had our dinner and chatted while waiting and eating. Once again, Alvin was quite left out in most of the topics. It was weird since the 4 of us do not have any common topics. Sigh. Then I tried to talk about TPJC, then again, I realised I started to talk about school life. Again. This time, Yvonne was left out. Sigh.
Before taking out the cake, Yvonne was purposely asking whether Alvin wanted to go toilet, so that we could prepare the cakes, but he didn't. And therefore, Luvena just took out the cakes. Alvin immediately recognised the box and the brand, it was like the totally same as last time when we were celebrating Yvonne's. Only this time, the cakes chosen were different. There were 4 small cakes for each of us. There were 2 chocolates, 1 mango and 1 strawberry, and the 4 of us started to play the game of "giving the most honored to choose first". The 3 of us wanted the birthday boy to choose, but he insisted of us choosing it first. I'm like always knowing a bunch of "随便" friends, and to stop all this, I decided to choose first. It was because Yvonne said Luvena wanted the mango cake at first, the gentlemen Alvin offered her that cake even though it is his favourite. But Luvena do not want it since Alvin is the birthday boy. Then, the game started again. In the end, Luvena admitted defeat and took the mango one.
The present I bought was handed over to Alvin. He was saying like "Err...mmm...." when he saw it. Immediately, I knew I bought the wrong present. But he said he had it in his computer, so I guess it is still ok.
While we were chatting, Alvin and I noticed that there was one time Luvena was laughing by herself when we were talking about something that was not really funny. She kept on laughing. Then the 3 of us asked. She said that it was so funny to see Alvin and I. We were puzzled, then we realised the both of us are doing the same action and stopping at the same time. Like we like to rest our chin on our palms, and fidgeting our fingers on our face, and stop fidgeting at the same time... Ok, next time I will take note and make sure we are not doing the same actions. Haha.
The start and stop conversation goes on as we ate and finished our cakes. Alvin was still left out most of the time. I felt very bad. He made me remind of myself, when I just got to meet the Tk Gang and I was left out in their conversations when I hanged out with them in the past. But I was just as happy to see them having fun and laughter together. The kind of friendship I wished I had that time. Ok, that was a bit of sidetracked.
Yvonne was saying like there will be future outings with just the 4 of us. I was wondering if we can keep this awkward outings on. Haha.
To Be Continued...
Next: An Occasion Celebrated in 2 Days: Day 2
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