everybody feels cheated sometimes

so originally i had plans to study it up today but that plan failed. i went on some errands with my mum in the morning/lunchtime while practicing to drive, drove on the freeway for the first time for like a minute anyways. not too bad, i don't feel so nervous about driving anymore, my palms aren't as sweaty.
anywho this post is dedicated to the first half of my mid semester break, as i had mentioned in the previous post.

Monday: S's Surprise Picnic/BBQ
Ok so i woke up early and made my way to Bentleigh where i haven't been for a while. Met up with Y, Sh, N and V and we made our way to safeway to buy some food for the bbq. after that we walked to the park which was pretty awesome, the park that is. so we set up the bbq and starting cooking the sausages. M, Y and me wondered over to the playground which was so cool, we went on the spinning thing which was so much fun. Sh and N went to bring S over to the park. while M and i were on the spinning thing, we saw S blindfolded walking towards our bbq site. so immediately me and M got off and felt the effects of dizziness, we tried running in a straight line but we failed, ahaha it was pretty funny, because we were pretty loud so i'm not quite sure if S heard us or not.

So we surprised S, and Sh bake this epic cake 6 layered cake that had a different colour for each layers with jam in between. Set up the table for food, and then S dropped a plate of sausages but it was alright because we had plenty of food anyways. i love sausages, i dunno but they are so yummy and i always look forward to sausage sizzles.

V and N ate the pavlova i made and said it was nice. the thing is, i screwed up the meringue base so it was kinda marshmellowy in the middle but none-the-less, my friends seemed to like it but i wasn't so sure, i hate it when my cooking screws up. i mean most of the time it's my fault but thats not point. then it started raining pretty heavily so we made our way to S's house for a viewing of Sidney White and more stuffing our faces with junk food. then i left with Y earlier because i needed to get ready for tuesday.

Tuesday: My Birthday Party
Oh the day that i have been forward to for ages, although my happiness has been overshadowed by another factor that only one other person knows about, its stupid really, but i cannot help but to think about it. but on the day i was feeling really happy. i love hanging out with my friends and it felt good to know that they were all there for me, ok i know that sounded snobby and conceited but its a really good feeling, and its also a rare feeling as well so when it does happen, i think you've just got to embrace it. so everyone came while i was icing my cake, which looked stupid. the icing became quite stiff and somehow managed to get three shades of brown in the one batch of icing, i have no idea how that had happened.
oh yeah so this was how i did my introductions:
"Guys, uni friends, high school friends" pointing to each group respectively, well that intro didn't really work out because some people overlapped in the two categories. so i tried again, it wasn't too hard because my uni friends know most of my highschool friends anyways so hopefully it wasn't too awkward.
so we played band hero for a while and then we ate the food. after we ate, my highschool friends went to play band hero again while my uni friends played on the wii. i was a bit iffy about the separation because i wanted unity in my group of friends. but its ok, they seemed fine with that.
then my 'high school friends' watched Mean Girls, and i was waiting for the "You go, Glen Coco" part. Mean girls is fricking hilarious and so quotable, well that was the main reason we wanted to watch it, so that we can start memorizing the lines again.
then after it was time for cake, i tried to cover up my stupid looking cake with strawberries and sprinkles, that didn't really work but oh wells. so they sang happy birthday and all those cliched stuff. i took forever to cut the cake. it tasted alright but i wished i used chocolate whipped cream instead of buttercream icing, i think it would have worked better with the cake.

then we played a "How well do you know Me?" game which was pretty fun but it got really hard to come up with questions about myself. i gave the winners prizes and one of them was a pack of stick on moustaches which was so cool and then we took some photos, which i think need to be developed and hung up proudly on the wall.

so after, we played sing star which was fun, which reminds me that i need to get more sing star games because there wasn't much choice of songs, and my friends didn't know half the songs. i was trying to spilt myself evenly between 'uni' and 'highschool' but i think i spent more time with 'highschool' so then i kinda felt bad, so hopefully they didn't feel isolated or anything and had fun. because i admit my 'highschool' together can be quite loud and overpowering but its ok, because i'm like that too. its just that the dichotomy between the two groups were quite clear. wish i had taken more photos with them as well, but i never take many photos on my parties anyways, but luckily i had M to take some photos for me.
anywhoo it was getting quite late and my 'uni' friends had to go, and i suddenly felt quite sad, because it felt they didn't stay long at all. i guess i did say the party would end at around 4 and it was like 5.30. So i said we can do one high school musical song and then they can go.
oh yeah so before they left, i opened my presents, and i was quite excited because i love presents. as you can guess there was so much squealing involved, my 'uni' friends got me a cook book and a tripod which i love, and my 'highschool' friends got me the ralph lauren romance perfume which i have been wanting but its a tad expensive. i opened it immediately and sprayed some on. then i proceeded to hug everyone. i was little awkward hugging the guys because i haven't hug a guy since year 7 and even back then it was awkward. i don't even do hugs with anyone in general but i was really really happy. B told me they tried to figure out what to get me by stalking my blog, which i am not quite sure how i feel about that, because i do tend to reveal a lot of inner thoughts in my posts, but thats ok. so they left and it was M, J, Y and L(N) left and so we decided to take some photos, after trying to balance the camera on the table, i suddenly realised that i now have a tripod so i opened it and used it immediately, with the tripod, we were able to take some photos outside.

this is our glee pose, which i really like.

this is indoors jumping pose.

this is our failed outdoor jumping pose.

this is our failed Marilyn Monroe pose.

this is our failed superhero pose

this is our failed beatles pose.

this is us posing on a rock

this is us posing on a bench.

then we went back to my house and made up captions for the photos which made us dissolve in bursts of laughter and giggles, but then they eventually had to go home as it was quite late and it would have taken around 2 hours for some of them to get home. and then when everyone was gone, i felt sad.

wednesday: Catch Up Day/Movie Day
So today was the day of our proposed 12H reunion, and yeah so it turned out to be only me and Mels. Yes it was a rocking fantastic reunion. i found it quite hilarious. but it was good catching up with Mels because i haven't seen her for quite a while so we had lunch and bummed around melb central for a bit. and then i met up with Y and Ti as they were in the city as well, and it was still early. so i hung out with them and then we watched 'Easy A'. i quite enjoyed the movie though it wasn't the best, it was a little different than your typical teenage school movies. movie tickets are very expensive and i was a bit reluctant to go because it wasn't a tuesday so i had to pay full price tickets. but i watched the movie anyways because i wanted to see the movie.
then Tif left and me and Y went to hang out in borders, because that is our go-to place. so after rushing to borders at south wharf to pick some books, we made our way back to the station and went home. i was sad because it was the last day of hanging out in the holidays.

so today i was in a depressed mood, because i was getting withdrawal symptoms from not seeing my friends, and a little part of me wants to go back to uni so i can have some friendship interaction, but only a tiny tiny part of me. exams are creeping very quickly and knowing me, my exam studying will not kick in for at least a week. oh wells, lets hope that i survive through these exams.

love Squealer.

ps. sorry for some of the bad quality photos, i fully compressed the image so it can upload faster.