tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11819912.post-40288398882083010162007-11-24T03:49:00.000+08:002007-11-24T04:08:44.014+08:00Mother of All Weird Weekends: Part 2<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br />"<span style="font-weight: bold;">Five lil' Japanese boys sat in a row...</span>"<br /><br />This pretty much gives a broad hint on how I concluded my Sunday, hot on the heels of my virgin foray into the world of local fashion shows.<br /><br />See, a few months ago, Kiwi informed me that one of the ex-YEs, Daichi would be back in Malaysia on a school trip.<br /><br />*<span style="font-style: italic;">blinks</span>*<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">SCHOOL TRIP</span> wei...<span style="font-style: italic;">hebat sial</span>.<br /><br />Yeah, I guess schools all over the world love organising<span style="font-style: italic;"> lawatan sambil belajar</span> (educational tours). The difference is our schools here usually organises such trips to <span style="font-weight: bold;">oh, factories and such</span> while Japanese schools organise tours to other <span style="font-weight: bold;">COUNTRIES</span>.<br /><br />Sweet.<br /><br />Anyway, that aside, it would seem that most Japanese school tours have CRAZY schedules. It's amazing. They really expect young teens like 'em to <span style="font-weight: bold;">lights out at 10pm and wake up at 6am</span>.<br /><br />On a school trip. Right. Someone really should clue them in or <span style="font-style: italic;">something</span>.<br /><br />But yeah, thanks to their insanely-packed schedule, Kiwi &amp; I had no choice but to meet up with Daichi at their hotel for a <span style="font-weight: bold;">ONE-HOUR</span> break.<br /><br />(Celaka, drive through the mad traffic around his hotel on a Sunday night. *<span style="font-style: italic;">shakes fist in air</span>*)<br /><br />So we arrived at the hotel 6pm on the dot. But of course<span style="font-style: italic;">lah</span>...meeting up with Japanese friends = punctuality and none of our <span style="font-weight: bold;">infamous Malaysian timing</span>.<br /><br />In fact, Daichi had told Kiwi earlier that he would <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Stand by the hotel entrance waiting for us"</span>. Uh. Right. <span style="font-weight: bold;">(O_o)</span><br /><br />Like a eager boyfriend.<br /><br />Something which I pointedly asked Kiwi,<br /><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;">You sure he's not into you? I mean, you're the only one he kept in touch with you know? And I've slipped on enough boy-drool in YE Camp to know your effect on guys...</span>"<br /><br />(Yeah, Kiwi is UBER CUTE. Duh.)<br /><br />Kiwi, being Kiwi...went "<span style="font-style: italic;">Nahhhhh...</span>"<br /><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;">Uh. O-K-A-Y. If you say so...</span>"<br /><br />Now, if it wasn't because they were coming back from Malacca in a <span style="font-weight: bold;">MALAYSIAN-driven bus</span>, I think he would seriously be waiting at the entrance.<br /><br />So, there we were waiting by a pillar since there weren't any empty seats around when all of a sudden we heard Daichi saying hi.<br /><br />We turned around...<br /><br />...and <span style="font-weight: bold;">CHAOS ERUPTED.<br /><br /></span>"えええ〜!やべ!だれ?すげい〜!”<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">(-_-")<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Daichi's friends went WILD x 10</span></span><br /><br />If I didn't see for myself that their female schoolmates outnumbered the guys, I would have thought they've never seen <span style="font-weight: bold;">FEMALES</span> before.<br /><br />The whole scenario had a <span style="font-weight: bold;">"M'sian-GF-meeting-Japanese-BF"</span> vibe to it. No shit.<br /><br />Bemused, I could only give Kiwi a pointed look. Taking the respite we had while the <del>guys</del> boys went to change, I muttered under my breath to her, "<span style="font-style: italic;">You see? Told ya...</span>".<br /><br />Now, prior to this meeting, Daichi had informed Kiwi that he would be bringing <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">A</span></span> friend. Which we were cool with, of course.<br /><br />Somehow, when the boys finally joined us though...<span style="font-weight: bold;">A FRIEND</span> became <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">FOUR </span>friends</span> instead. *<span style="font-style: italic;">smacks forehead</span>*<br /><br />........................................<br /><br />[At this point I was trying hard not to snort out loud and laugh like a mad hyena]<br /><br />So there we had them...<span style="font-weight: bold;">5 lil' Japanese boys sitting in a row</span>.<br /><br />Pretty sight yeah? Or it would have been if I didn't feel so old.<br /><br />Boys being boys (especially cheeky Japanese ones), they asked a lot of questions. Out popped their electronic dictionaries. Out popped their questions. Questions like:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >"How old are you?"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">(-_-")</span><br /><br />Ignoring the fact that this is one question <span style="font-weight: bold;">men should never ask women</span> within the first 15 minutes of meeting them, it was <span style="font-weight: bold;">very entertaining</span> when I blithely informed them that I was <span style="font-weight: bold;">SEVEN YEARS OLDER</span> than them.<br /><br />Keh. Apparently, they thought I was only 20 years old. The same age as Kiwi. Ahh..such nice boys. I like 'em more already. Hee!<br /><br />5 minutes later...came the thousand-dollar question:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Do you have a boyfriend?"</span></span><br /><br />Damn. These boys are really gunning for it. I couldn't help it. I snorted out loud and left it to Kiwi to field the question.<br /><br />But of course! Given a choice of someone 7 years their senior, and someone who was only 3 years older, what's the most logical choice for them eh?<br /><br />Smart boys.<br /><br />At this point, I must confess something rather naughty. It would seem, that my informal education of the Japanese language must have improved by leaps and bounds.<br /><br />Because I UNDERSTOOD <span style="font-weight: bold;">ALMOST EVERYTHING</span> THEY SAID as they were arguing with one another in Japanese.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Did you bring camera?"<br />"I want to take pic with them?"<br />"Can we take pic with them?"</span><br /><br />[Me: (Must. NOT. Laugh.) Urk...guhhh...cough!!]<br /><br />Then they argued over how to ask us for a pic, which was solved when their <span style="font-weight: bold;">OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER</span> (What ho? Official photographer?) came over to <span style="font-style: italic;">kepoh</span> and exclaimed this and that and <span style="font-style: italic;">terus</span> shot us the request to snap a pic.<br /><br />And then, get this...them cheeky fellas actually asked us:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Which of us do you prefer?"</span></span><br /><br />Guh.<br /><br />I don't think I can take this anymore. *<span style="font-style: italic;">bangs head on wall</span>*<span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /><br />Oh brother, talk about bringing out the big guns!<span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I buey tahan</span>. </span>I keeled over LMAO and abandoned Kiwi to answer this question.<br /><br />Seriously, if I wasn't there, <span style="font-weight: bold;">those 5 boys would probably have jumped Kiwi.</span> Or like, wheedled her email, address and life story out and proceed to "court" her via email from Japan or something.<br /><br />How did a supposedly normal reunion chat turn into <span style="font-weight: bold;">fielding a mini-interrogation from 5 cheeky fellas</span> like some surreal warped dimensional dream??<br /><br />*<span style="font-style: italic;">shakes head</span>*<br /><br />These, and other questions...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11819912-4028839888208301016?l=rakshademon.blogspot.com'/></div>Rakshahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09744666598229537702noreply@blogger.com3