Long Weekend - Continued
Said I'd write more about the past weekend, so I'll give this another try.
Day 2 (Again)
Let's rewind it back to before the practice commenced. At Harding, there were climbers, slides, swings, and such by the baseball diamond. Being the dumb, brave, and immature late teen I am, I went down a slide improperly. I went down two slides that were connected simultaneously. It was shaped like a W with the bottoms flat instead of pointed - |_|_|. I slid down the slides with a foot on each side, but lost balance at the foot of the angled metal. I sat down hard on the dividing ridge, and it creeped in between my bottom much too close for comfort. In fact, I had a splitting pain around my iliac area, all the way down to the coccyx. Had a good laugh. Or at least Gummi did.
Moving on to practice, we had two players coming to practice for the first time, so we did a brief intro of the players again, and soon proceeded to a game of follow the leader, Sam Hui style. In addition to actions, the leader must make verbal outbursts as well. Angie was selected to be the spotter of the leader, and was escorted away by Bobs. Then we found out that it was a joke on Angie, because it was her special day. The plan was that I be the leader to start off. I was supposed to shout and stuff and everyone would follow. Gummi suggested I do Johnny's "Ultimate D," which involved the waving of both arms in the air like limp noodles and swaying the cranium like a rock on top of a limp noodle. Gummi also suggested I say "Ultimate D! Ultimate D!" as I swayed, which I did. It didn't go too smoothly however, since I was the first to say the phrase and I was caught immediately. My voice is pretty recognizable, too, which didn't help.
So I was off to be the next spotter, and Angie was chosen to be the new leader of the group. After a few minutes, I was called back, and Karin was hiding from the rest of the team far away with a candled-cupcake in hand, whispering to me to tell Sam and them to hurry up. I got in the centre of the circle with my back to Angie, thinking she would start the actions/shouting if I didn't look at her. That didn't go well either. The plan was that the group would count to 3 and everyone would start doing their thang at the same time. At least that's what Angie was to believe. But in fact, the team was to remain silent, leaving Angie the only one to do something dumb and obscene. She didn't start, however, when she noticed that no one moved on the count of 3. Took a few tries, but when she did say something, others joined in as well, which ruined the whole thing. Bob made some suggestions that went against the plan, but we later found out that he didn't even know it was a plan to surprise Angie.
Anyway, that was that, not much else worth blogging about concerning practice. Gary picked up me and Gums after the practice to surprise Janette at her place. The plan, as far as I knew, is as follows:
Sam intentionally didn't do anything with Janette on her actual birthday, which was on Friday, and arranged to have dinner with her on Sunday. He was to cook for her at his place, but at the last minute changed it instead to have dinner at her place because Sam's parents "supposedly" had guests over. Around fifteen of us at Jan's place were to hide somewhere, and Sam was to call Karin to let us know when they were coming. Once Sam and Jan entered the house, they were supposed to head up to her room, which was decorated with all kinds of things which I never got to see that night.
But happened, however, was something like this:
Sam didn't get a chance to call Karin. Half of us were cooking and making a lotta noise in the kitchen, while the other half lounged in the living room and watched The Contender's second last episode. The living room was in clear view of the main door. It wasn't much of a surprise in a sense. It was supposedly ruined before they entered the house. Janette spotted Eliot's parked car on her way home with Sam.
Anyway, we had a fun time of barbecuing, chilling, and shooting Roman candles in the middle of the night. Got home around 2 or so I think, and didn't fall asleep until 3 am probably. So I was up from 6 am til 3 am. Probably the longest stretch of time I've ever stayed up. I've never pulled an all-nighter. At least I don't remember ever doing it.
Final Day
Met up with Angie at around 2:30 in the afternoon, and stayed til 10:30 or so. Always fun to hang with Angie. Did a lotta things there, mostly Chinese chess, which I actually did well in for once. Saw Twins Effect 2, which was weird and...very weird. Chinese fantasy isn't the greatest genre out there. Walked around Times Square a little bit, and bumped into a few Lights who were there for lunch after defeating the Apostles in an exhibition game. Will, Becca, and Chouji were going to Kim Po for their victory meal.
When I left Angie's place, my brother and I picked up some McFlurries on our way home. Good day indeed.
Day 2 (Again)
Let's rewind it back to before the practice commenced. At Harding, there were climbers, slides, swings, and such by the baseball diamond. Being the dumb, brave, and immature late teen I am, I went down a slide improperly. I went down two slides that were connected simultaneously. It was shaped like a W with the bottoms flat instead of pointed - |_|_|. I slid down the slides with a foot on each side, but lost balance at the foot of the angled metal. I sat down hard on the dividing ridge, and it creeped in between my bottom much too close for comfort. In fact, I had a splitting pain around my iliac area, all the way down to the coccyx. Had a good laugh. Or at least Gummi did.
Moving on to practice, we had two players coming to practice for the first time, so we did a brief intro of the players again, and soon proceeded to a game of follow the leader, Sam Hui style. In addition to actions, the leader must make verbal outbursts as well. Angie was selected to be the spotter of the leader, and was escorted away by Bobs. Then we found out that it was a joke on Angie, because it was her special day. The plan was that I be the leader to start off. I was supposed to shout and stuff and everyone would follow. Gummi suggested I do Johnny's "Ultimate D," which involved the waving of both arms in the air like limp noodles and swaying the cranium like a rock on top of a limp noodle. Gummi also suggested I say "Ultimate D! Ultimate D!" as I swayed, which I did. It didn't go too smoothly however, since I was the first to say the phrase and I was caught immediately. My voice is pretty recognizable, too, which didn't help.
So I was off to be the next spotter, and Angie was chosen to be the new leader of the group. After a few minutes, I was called back, and Karin was hiding from the rest of the team far away with a candled-cupcake in hand, whispering to me to tell Sam and them to hurry up. I got in the centre of the circle with my back to Angie, thinking she would start the actions/shouting if I didn't look at her. That didn't go well either. The plan was that the group would count to 3 and everyone would start doing their thang at the same time. At least that's what Angie was to believe. But in fact, the team was to remain silent, leaving Angie the only one to do something dumb and obscene. She didn't start, however, when she noticed that no one moved on the count of 3. Took a few tries, but when she did say something, others joined in as well, which ruined the whole thing. Bob made some suggestions that went against the plan, but we later found out that he didn't even know it was a plan to surprise Angie.
Anyway, that was that, not much else worth blogging about concerning practice. Gary picked up me and Gums after the practice to surprise Janette at her place. The plan, as far as I knew, is as follows:
Sam intentionally didn't do anything with Janette on her actual birthday, which was on Friday, and arranged to have dinner with her on Sunday. He was to cook for her at his place, but at the last minute changed it instead to have dinner at her place because Sam's parents "supposedly" had guests over. Around fifteen of us at Jan's place were to hide somewhere, and Sam was to call Karin to let us know when they were coming. Once Sam and Jan entered the house, they were supposed to head up to her room, which was decorated with all kinds of things which I never got to see that night.
But happened, however, was something like this:
Sam didn't get a chance to call Karin. Half of us were cooking and making a lotta noise in the kitchen, while the other half lounged in the living room and watched The Contender's second last episode. The living room was in clear view of the main door. It wasn't much of a surprise in a sense. It was supposedly ruined before they entered the house. Janette spotted Eliot's parked car on her way home with Sam.
Anyway, we had a fun time of barbecuing, chilling, and shooting Roman candles in the middle of the night. Got home around 2 or so I think, and didn't fall asleep until 3 am probably. So I was up from 6 am til 3 am. Probably the longest stretch of time I've ever stayed up. I've never pulled an all-nighter. At least I don't remember ever doing it.
Final Day
Met up with Angie at around 2:30 in the afternoon, and stayed til 10:30 or so. Always fun to hang with Angie. Did a lotta things there, mostly Chinese chess, which I actually did well in for once. Saw Twins Effect 2, which was weird and...very weird. Chinese fantasy isn't the greatest genre out there. Walked around Times Square a little bit, and bumped into a few Lights who were there for lunch after defeating the Apostles in an exhibition game. Will, Becca, and Chouji were going to Kim Po for their victory meal.
When I left Angie's place, my brother and I picked up some McFlurries on our way home. Good day indeed.
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