"Many of your doubts will be cleared early this month." on a fortune cookie picked up from an asian restaurant on the 30th of January! :-| The sensible thing of course would've been to replace 'this' with 'next'.
Also, I know I'm in the midst of a bunch of people growing older, and maturer, and wiser, and generally more boring when the time for a birthday party changes from 12 a.m. to 10 p.m. because they have an assignment to worry about, and then from 10 p.m. to 8 p.m. because they now sleep at 9 p.m. in order to go slave the next day! Of course I know I am not allowed to complain about birthday parties but at least I have been sensible enough to do away with a birthday altogether instead of making it this wish-wash, toned down and sober affair with cliched jokes backed by fake laughter and a general artifice of pleasantries attempting to stifle the boredom of the same humdrum birthday routine for one birthday after another. Anyways, I am quite out of touch with people so it doesn't bother me. So long as they have fun, all is well! :)
I wrote this today because I suddenly got an invitation to attend some party at 10 p.m. and feel terribly uncomfortable at the prospect of going as I haven't been speaking to any of the members of that circle that she's invited for at least a few months now and I am at a loss for what to say to the various people and the birthday girl in general, except of course, 'Happy Birthday!'. If I go too early, there's too many people to greet and talk to as they drop in one by one. If I go too late, then everyone will see me enter at the odd time and get curious to talk to me. Its best to go in just before the cake-cutting, when they switch off the lights, and quietly sneak in at the back. Then wish her at the right time, take a big slice of the cake, then some chips and coke, and keep stuffing myself in a very preoccupied manner so that nobody is really interested in coming anywhere close to me. And then make a hasty exit with some doomsday excuse(its saturday tomorrow so excuses are harder to come by and I haven't found a good one yet. Suggestions welcome.).
4 comments:
haha..i liked the fortune cookie...maybe u can fight with them next time u visit them on the last day of the month..
I have a trouble with attending parties..coz i always go on mentioned time and usually end up only with the first for quite sometime until the guests starts pouring in..
:)) That must be awkward! You become part host yourself :)
how about "sorry, I'm old, I'm asleep."?
@Rukmini: Now that's a clever excuse. Only problem is that nobody buys the "I'm old" from me because of the foolish mentality of most people to equate age with wisdom! *sigh* And to have fallen asleep is a terrible crime considering I've got advance notice, and since I might stumble upon these people again(they are in my neighbourhood after all) it'll lead to more situations I'll have to try and avoid! :) I'm practicing the 'severe cold' voice though! :D
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