So this is the year of 21st birthday parties - I have several to attend within 1 month. And the thought of having a party myself just somehow crept into my mind. But as per any birthday party, there is the worry of how on earth you’re going to attend to all 4928752 guests. And it’s not like my circle of friends are those who’d be comfortable standing around sipping champagne (or at least sparkling juice) and people-watch, and be elated at the occasional (bimbotic) air-kisses I’m going to lavish on them as I pass by ushering another 38424231853 of my guests. And then there’s the worry of how to build the invite list - invite all the cool/pretty/handsome acquaintances so that present count gets high (oh I heard someone say she’d hold a party so that she can earn back all the money she’s spent/going to spend on all the presents this year because people just invite and expect presents anyway regardless of attendance) and crowd gets too large for them expect attention from you, or invite the small pockets of good friends but end up having awkward moments of shoulder-tapping-hey-you’re-needed-over-here and having to introduce “hey X clique from primary school meet Y clan from secondary school and Z gang from JC”.
Get what I mean?
It’s like one part of you is so darn itching to hold a chalet so that you get lotsa presents and (pseudo) love and concern from (pseudo or not) friends, but the other part just goes “what-the-heck”. Uh-huh.
And now I think friend’s logic of “earning” present-money back sounds like an oddly enticing idea.
i hate birthdays. if i had a birthday party, nobody would come. and if there are people who do come, it’s my mother’s mahjong kaki and jogging gang. which is possibly even worse than having nobody come. -_-
and i’d hate the stress of organising one. and i’d probably get really lousy presents that i don’t want or don’t know how to use. and i’d have wasted way too much money thinking of the good food i want to serve, in return for those lousy presents!
haha. hahahahaha. it’s late and i’m cranky. indulge la.
me: just let me ask this question first - what are the both of us doing online at 2 am when we should be sleep?!
Anyway, agreed. Won’t want to waste money in exchange of lousy presents. And hate catered food anyway. And don’t want to cook.
i was finishing my literature review on discourse analysis. in second year of college, and this i the first time i’ve written a lit review - i know, my college’s not good.
took me the whole day to finish it! the whole morning, surf first. then the whole afternoon going back and forth on the internet to look for sources. then the evening go surfing again while trying to evoke the do-work mood. then break for 2-hour plus to watch gilmore girls and nip/tuck. then finally finished the 3-page review (1/2 page is bibliography).
my time management’s excellent!
me: I’ve never written a lit review, then again have not taken any course on discourse analysis either. (Am still dabbling with sentence-level stuff like syntax or even word-level like morphology. Text-level will have to wait. Heh)
Aiyoh you watch nip/tuck. I don’t like. Caught one episode and was like … quite very action-packed but not my kind of thing. I prefer House. Even ER is better (haha Hallmark’s like re-running it like some classics or something).