yk's birthday

yk’s birthday was actually super fun if it weren’t something at the back of mind constantly nagging at me. Thinking back on it, I’m not really sure what it was, but whatever it was it caused me a great deal of unrest.

part i: the sabotage

Ben had taken the pains of arranging a little ‘wake-up call’ involving 2 packets of ice. =D I suppose I CAN believe that he didn’t suspect anything (although he’s got a good sense for it but he still realized it too late) but I had to admit it was thrilling to be part of a little devious plan XD

yk and I headed to the IT office for some business bout the exchange program, and the rest prepared for the sabotage. The idea was to get him to go to my car…. and all hell break loose there and then. After we gathered at the foyer, we headed to my car, and at ground zero, the victim was starting to wonder why the rest was just standing behind him and not doing anything… I sense the suspicion building up then, but tried to alleviate his attention. And then…. like 2 shadows in the morning (haha this is really quite a literal representation) Ben and Alvin hoisted the buckets of ice water and drenched him with it. So yea, my car was given a little wash. What ensued was a cry of “Uwaaaa, my bag!” and a dirty look was shot at him as yk yelled out “BENNNN!!!” which led to a game of chase around the car park. Some of the other guys got wet too, but not as bad as Alvin and yk; drenched from head to foot. So naturally I sent them back to get them properly attired for the rest of the day.

part ii: more water

Went to char chan teng near OUG for lunch. They have a standing offer there where if it was your birthday you get this huge…. glass of nai cha (iced milk tea). Huge really means it’s really meant for a party of 10. I suppose we had the rest of the customers looking at us gaping at a huge glass and wondering going “omfg I’m supposed to finish ALL of this?!” Like he says, he now has a phobia of drinking iced milk tea. Well we didn’t make him drink everything, probably about a tenth of the whole thing (which is still about 3 regular glassfuls of tea which is enough to get anyone bloated on a normal basis).

yk’s most memorable lament from lunch:
“Why doesn’t the volume of tea seem to be changing even though I’ve drunk quite alot?”

He’s definitely going to remember this day for being the one most inclined with fluids. And definitely gonna get nightmares on this *eevil laughs*

part iii: “Are you watching closely?”

Went to watch ‘The Prestige’ @ the Cineplex, Kota Damansara. It’s a pretty good facility albeit the emptiness – not all the shoplots are in use, so cinema-goers here usually are from either Ikano or The Curve.

It’s a really good show because despite the fact of it being a show about magic tricks ala David Copperfield, it’s got a fair share of science fiction. And scandal. And that’s what makes it a really good show. It tackles a lot of social issues about right and wrong, but most of all on the human nature of competition – how it can lead to hate, and how it brings people to conjure the most bizarre out of nothing.

How Borden misled Aigier on his show of ‘The Transported Man’, and how it led to the destruction of lives around them as much as they didn’t realize it was simply tragically beautiful. There’s no real protagonist, neither was there a real antagonist, in the end there was no real victor. Tragic, yet beautiful. A kind that gives you sufficient thinking material for a few days. And of course I liked the British accent that came along with it, makes them sound more distinguished – must be one of the plus points of having a cold, stuck-up accent. Looks aren’t a factor, none of them looked all that good anyway. This is really a show where the story line is the real attraction, exactly my type of show.

What they didn’t need was the excessive explanation in the end – some bits could be figured out as the concepts behind that bit of scandal is just clear-cut, self-explanatory genius, to put it simply. It was gory where it needed to be gory, and it was amazing where it needed to be amazing.

All in all, I loved this show to bits and I wouldn’t mind watching it again. I know when I really like something, I’ll worship like it’s the best thing in the world, but that doesn’t mean I don’t watch out for the faults that may present themselves to me. Talk about being critical.

“There are three parts of a performance;

The first part of it is ‘The Pledge’ – where you invite the audience to inspect that something ordinary truly is the ordinary, no tricks involved.

Next is ‘The Turn’ – this is where you take that ordinary something, and turn it into something extraordinary.

Now this isn’t enough to make them clap, you need to bring it back.

And when you do, this is the last part – ‘The Prestige’.”

Or something like that.