Perfection

Family Day was wicked as usual! It's my favourite school event in the whole year! It's a great time to chill, let loose and really have a ball with the colleagues and the boys. I did Shift C which pretty much means I'm down the whole day (8:30 - 3:30 pm) but being in the organising com means coming early to help out and leaving late to... help out. Not that I mind of course. I mean, I was exhausted beyond belief but like I said, Family Day's the bomb!

So what was I up to? I went around impressing my colleagues with my bargaining skills. I managed to play loads of free games, get free food and great discounts etc... courtesy of my ex students from the pri and sec side. My form class put up a performance but once that was done, I was free to roam the carnival. It was much smaller and far less appealing than last years' and Them Boys did not drop by but as you know, I'm self entertained...

After the carnival was over, the organising com stayed behind to count coupons. We didn't add up the total of the individual stalls but I really doubt that we hit our target of a quarter mil. It was nearing 7pm once we were done and I was starving so I headed down to Sakae Sushi at J8 for some take away. Only 45 minutes later did I manage to walk out with my order. Geez. I could have just eaten in and would have been done with my meal by then.

But as luck would have it, guess who I saw just as I left J8!! Da Weng, Earnest and Ivan :) Honestly, I was contemplating calling out to them - We hung out twice this week already and it was Saturday night, I didn't want to impose on guy time. Plus, they must be sick and tired of seeing so much of me! And I was smelly, exhausted and hungry. But I did call out and I'm glad I did. It turned out to be the perfect end to an already perfect day :)

We stood by the taxi stand, catching up. Hmmm... Can you call it catching up if we've already met twice that week? Anyway, we were catching up and I kept on mentioning to them that I didn't want to hold them back nor impose on their personal time but being the darlings that they are, they assured me that I was doing no such thing and that they were glad we bumped into each other. The only thing they had planned was to order in and chill at Da Weng's place. Then I had a brilliant idea; I told them that if they didn't mind, we could all chill somewhere and feast on my Sakae take-away. There were grins a plenty :)

They immediately helped to carry my handbag, the food bags and this bag filled with letters / cards / notes from the boys in school. We walked to Bishan Active, sat on the floor and started feasting on our sushi spread. Imagine, they felt guilty about "stealing" my food and they made sure that I had my share before they had seconds and kept on promising me that they'd take me out sometime soon. Come on now, saw awww....

It was a beautiful night and I had delicious food and amazing company. Our conversations ranged from school / office politics, to relationships, to reminiscing our 2 year friendship and even to sharing of crazy-cannot-be-mentioned-here antics. Oh, the 3 of them had a wild time reading the letters from the boys in school. You know how Lower Primary boys can get... Ms Parveen I love you... You are my favourite teacher... You are so pretty... Thank you for teaching me... I want to marry you... I want to buy a house for you... etc etc... True story, even the house-buying one. The kid actually drew me a picture; my house was in between his and his best friend and we were a stone's throw away from Bishan Park.

Time flew by so quickly and I didn't want them staying out so late... turns out it's a normal affair for them. Sometimes they'd be up till 4 in the morning hanging with each other. Once they even ordered McDs' for breakfast at around 5-ish! But I needed my sleep so I took a cab home while they headed to Cheers to quench their thirst. It was a quarter to midnight by the time I reached home. Calling it a great night would be an understatement.