Whirlwind

WHIRLWIND

It's been one rollercoaster of a weekend. 

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, all filled to the brim. College, youth, birthday gathering, volunteer work. So much to do, so little time for myself. So little time for the things I want time for. In fact, barely any time at all. 

Still, we all had time for an awesome person we all love on Saturday, so much so we spent the entire day with him. :)

 We had waffles for lunch. Best. meal. Ever. Adrian's mom is an awesome cook. And the peanut butter..and the applesauce...and the maple syrup.. ohmygoodness. I can feel myself growing horizontal just thinking about all the food I devoured. *Sob*.

BROWNIES! :D :D :D

Those brownies are sooooo awesomely good. When I first tasted them, it was like, *quoting someone else here*, God baked them in Heaven's kitchens and sent a tray down here as a gift. Yeah, you heard me.

And the pile of shrivelled looking things there are actually waffles made without carbs and sugar, in other words, healthy options to the usual delicious treat. They actually taste awesome too. Everything tasted awesome that day. :D

(I just realized, I'm over-using the word 'awesome'. Grrrrr. Forgive me.)

What next? Hmmm.

Well. I kinda forgot it was a boys' group gathering. 

Surprised? I was the only girl there(their mom aside, cause she's a woman, hehehe <.< ). 

Joel went straight to the xbox, and Chris proceeded directly to his computer after lunch. How typical of younger brothers. 

As for the rest? 

This is the view they wake up to every single day.

I snapped that at the hall window. Ain't it gorgeous? :)

Isaac and Adrian.

Joshua was supposed to come with us, but he had something on at the last minute, so he missed out on the fun. Adrian wore that awesome blue shirt that I love( I'd die to have one of my own, but if it's a Malaysian flag on it, I'll pass thanks) :D In fact, almost everything he wears is dark blue in color. Talk about commitment to your favorite shade.

We were sipping ginger tea and crunching on some really yummy biscuits while talking away about any random thing that came to mind. Yeah, we sound like elderly folk. Only we weren't wearing dentures and sitting in wheelchairs or had minders watching our every move. 

This buddy of mine here definitely did not act like an elderly man.

Joel played the xbox for nearly the whole time, till we decided to switch strategies and make it a four-player game. Joel, Isaac, Adrian...and me. I was nonchalantly handed the controller, told to get my game face on, and despite my constant protests got dragged into playing Marvel superhero characters that I've never touched before, never dreamed of playing, never wanted to play, and never expected to play before!

.. not that it was a bad thing, mind you XD. I learnt how to play the xbox! And that I suck at it! 

I chose Iron Man as my character before we realized it was a mix-up and Joel got Iron Man and I was stuck with his rather lame Captain America. After a whole lot of getting lost amongst enemies and allies and getting killed, I decided to switch to Wolverine just so I could SEE where I was(Wolverine had a nice bright yellow outfit on). It worked for awhile, till the game progressed and Isaac and I began to realize that our Spider-man and Wolverine were getting more and more useless as the enemy became tougher and tougher. Not to mention Adrian emphasized our diminishing roles by switching to Magneto and literally bulldozing everyone who got in his way. I didn't even need to do any clawing around.

Finally, I got tired and switched to Human Torch. And I was like, "FINALLY. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN MY PERFECT BELOVED LITTLE FIREBALL??" I finally became useful, because I could throw fireballs from long-range, splorge pillars of flame into an enemy's face, explode into a human flame when surrounded by enemies, and(the best thing of all) if I ever lost myself on the screen, all I had to do was go 'flame on' and fly into the air like a man on fire! Hah! Beat that Magneto! 

I suppose you can say it was a pretty eventful xbox session XD. I learned a lot of things. Like how an entire day can fly by in an instant when you start playing the xbox. 

Dinnertime! :)

I couldn't help but sniff the gorgeous smell coming from the kitchen ;D. The soup is sooooooooooo good; sigh. And I nearly got addicted to the coleslaw, because..well... it was delicious tooo! T.T 

Sorry, food person talking here. Unlike someone I know, who just doesn't eat at all.

That person is definitely not my brother, I can tell you XD.

Last thing he'll ever do is not eat. I've never  known a day when he is not hungry. He outeats me any day, any time. And I'm one heck of an eater too, for a girl. ;) And proud of it!

Seriously though, I have to stop eating. If any more of these gorgeous foods turn up I am sooooo dead. Apparently, people are trying to fatten me up when I'm supposed to be downsizing, that's why I gotta resist temptations.

Board game hour: Cash Flow.

Like my red mouse and cheese? :D

This game went on forever XD. It'd been ages since I last played a board game(The Game of Life, yes), but this one was pretty interesting because it taught me how to, um, invest. Dad would've aced this game if we played it with him; him and all his business skills are no match for a simple board game! XD 

Adrian's mom literally out-played the bunch of us. Even Chris, who was the lawyer and had the highest salary pay. I got a teacher(no, that is not one of my future aspirations ever), Adrian was a secretary(hrhrhrhrhr....), Joel was.. someone, and poor Isaac fared the worst as a janitor. :P 

However, just before we embarked on playing rats... 

.. the moment we'd all been waiting for! :D

The awesome part was, instead of the same old boring birthday cake, there were brownies and whipped cream served with chocolate-coated(Nutella, in fact) strawberries! :DDD All complete with a candle and the traditional birthday sing-along... hahaha. We're all still kids at heart, we are. 

There's the birthday boy! 

Enjoying his favorite food of all, chocolate-coated strawberries :D. Doesn't he look great in that pic? All smiles while impatiently waiting for me to finish taking a snapshot so he could devour his chocolate and strawberry concoction! I'd never tasted them before, so right before I did he was like, "Your life is about to be changed FOREVER." With all that drama in his voice too.You have no idea how much I LOL-ed at that statement XD.

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My verdict on the strawberries..? They were.... TERRIBLE. Yes, an abomination. Just kidding XD. They actually taste wonderful..but nowhere near a match to those brownies :D. 

OMG THOSE BROWNIES. 

They were like, baked in Heaven's kitchens by the hand of God or something. But I think I've said that already. Cut out the repetitions, Esther, seriously. I suppose you can say I feel about those brownies the way Adrian feels about his strawberries. End of story. :)

Cyclops Chris.

He was taking horribly retarded photos of me all day, so I tried to get my revenge, but he spotted me too fast and flashed his cammie up in counter-attack. It was hilarious though. I couldn't stop laughing.

Before we left, I wanted to get a group shot, so this was what we ended up with:

XD

My bad. I forgot to set the timer, and undo the flash, and we got that by accident. I just had to put it up here; it was too funny to leave in my photo archive! :D

This is the ready shot. :)

Everyone looks awesome except me. But then I always mess up my pictures, that's why I hide my face all the time. But oh well... I had such an awesome time, I couldn't care less :D.

We left preeeeeeetty late, almost at midnight. Yup. Overstaying. In the midst of all the excitement, I'd forgotten my manners. That was the only downpart of the day(night?), and also for getting poor Isaac in trouble because he drove and followed me home in his car. So, yea, I'm sorry guys, for the trouble I caused. I should've known better, but I didn't. :(

But, anyways, we had an awesome, awesome, awesome time :)

God bless you all, everyone up there in that pic! Especially Aunty Glenda, she is soooo nice, for putting up with the lot of us kids. XD And Matthew, for being our 'slave'. Hehehe.

Party? 

More like, having friends over for the day to enjoy ourselves XD. 

I think its waaay better than the usual parties and celebrations I'd always gone too, big groups and all with many unknown people who ignore me. 

After all, there's a first for everything right? :)

Peace. Out.