Bizarre Birthday

"Today's your birthday right, wanna go celebrate ?"

"Sure, I'm gonna call people then. Can you help me call some of them? Where should we go?"

"You're the birthday boy. Just do nothing and wait for us to fetch you later at night, okay?"

Hmm... I can't forget the last sentence he said to me. And I had a wonderful birthday this year with this bunch of friends, who surprised me with a cake they bought.

And it's our turn to celebrate his birthday this Saturday.

We went to One Utama to watch a movie. We managed to find a parking spot as soon as we got there as someone was leaving. We're really lucky, I thought. I watched another movie, Stormbreaker (they should just name it Spy Teenager), last Monday and it took us 30 minutes to find a parking space.

Since I watched the preview of the Covenant and I totally loved the special effects, I recomended that we watch this movie as there was a special sneak-preview secreening. The movie officially opens on 2 Nov and we get to watch it that day, how good is that? Not good actually. First we waited for around one hour for the uncollected reservation seats to be opened to public (30 minutes before the movie starts) and by the time I was at the counter, there weren't many seats left. But since I was eager to watch that movie I bought all 5 seats that were separated from each other. That costed me RM 50. My friends and I waited for another 20 minutes for the movie to start outside the cinema and when I took out the tickets. I realized one ticket was missing. I remembered that I was going to distribute the tickets so I tore a ticket out (the tickets are stuck to each other like stamps) but I didn't as my friends told me to wait till we're entering the cinema.

I panicked, kept searching and rummaging through my pockets and wallet. There were 5 of us and we only had 4 tickets. I went to the queue and was going to buy another ticket when they stopped me as they discussed and decided not to watch the movie. I was so sorry and embarassed. I could be so blur that I can lose a ticket I was holding while standing outside a cinema doing nothing but watching movie previews on the tv screens there.

I felt so damn bad as we went window-shopping instead of watching the movie. I told them to go watch the movie without me but they said it's okay as they only lost RM 10 each. I totally screwed up the person's birthday.

Then as 3 of us was sitting in front of a music store while the other two went in to browse around....

" Look!" The one sitting pointed somewhere as the other two was leaving the store. I looked at the direction of his pointing finger and only saw two twins wearing pink dress with a skirt that looks like boa.

"Look! Look!" I looked again and realized there was something blue on the floor.

"1 ringgit! For our carpark fee. Lol" The pointing friend said. The other two looked at the floor and didn't dare to pick up the money.

One of them said " It's FIVE ZERO"

Another weird thing that happened is that a Malay woman sitting next to us told the guy to just pick up the money. "Ambilah" she said. Maybe she didn't know that it's a friggin 50 ringgit note! My friend picked up the money and we decided to wait for half an hour for the owner to come, who we thought would be coming to the front of the shop looking at the floor frantically.

30 minutes passed. The owner didn't come, or at least we didn't find anyone examining the floor.

I was given the 50 ringgit note and so in the end we didn't suffer any financial losses.

RM 50 out. Rm 50 in. Weird huh?

BTW, we put this incident behind us as we celebrated with a birthday cake for that friend. It's like a tradition for us to celebrate birthdays at Mcdonald's at night this year. Haha. We even borrowed lighter and the paper plates and plastic spoons from the staff, like what we did when we celebrate my birthday. Only after finishing the cake we realized there was a sign showing "No Outsider Food Allowed" on top of the wall.

(I'm lazy to put on nicknames for the other 4 friends. They're not the Jocker Jack and Donald Duck I mentioned. I hope this post isn't confusing for you all. If it is, please lemme know.)