Monday, March 13, 2006

ALL FALL IN! so after a week of furtive smsing and planning and the requisite frustration, plans fell faaaar from the tree of fruition. the whole idea was to give policeman ming a surprise right under his nose just before he submits to national slavery. but alas, people could not come, the weather was not cooperative despite being blazing hot earlier on that saturday afternoon, the pit was not booked and just about everything but our plans happened. then one of the surprisers, fran, bumped into the surprisee at the bus interchange. the main Surprisers, jessica and me, had no choice but to yield to shitty circumstances and unveil the plans to Surprisee Ming prematurely. all was salvaged when the idea of a dinner party was even better than a lousy, messy barbeque. so my grilled chicken was a hit, the fried rice [essentially rice with egg. Surpriser Ming didn't even know how to peel the skin off a garlic before throwing it into the pan] was very mediocre and yellow like the cook and the rest of the food was fine. company was great with the exception of an annoying girl, the sort who thinks she's hotshit and that cooking and being in the kitchen is the kiss of death from domesticity. thank gawd miss anti-domesticity left and we began a rowdy game of i dunno what, i just knew it involved alcohol. but no thanks to Surpriser Ming's dusty place, mine and jess's eyes started swelling up and noses started running. not a pretty sight at all. all in all, i was glad things turned out the way they did, despite veering so far off from original plans. thanks to jess, fran and myself for everything. glad you liked it, surpriser ming. looks like you finally got your dinner party. next time round we'll have a better one k? anyway i would have pics in but i should really be getting ready to meet ming in town like, oh about NOW. happy to spend his last civilian day with him, even for a few hours.

the textual siege.

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