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The Monkey Says: For Once In My Life

Up on the highlands, I was finally surprised on my birthday last September.

An hour before the clock stroke 12 that night, we took the cable car down, from Genting back to Awana to meet up with the rest of our classmates who were already in the hotel.

Fourty minutes till 12, we boarded the last shuttle bus that was incredibly full, and sang along to songs that were played on the radio.

Fifteen minutes. Arrived at Awana, but was brought to walk around. The two of us sat by the pool, smoked our cigarettes, talked shit and listened to people sing along to the karaoke.

Four minutes and we walked to the elevator that led to our room. He knocked on the door, and a classmate came to open it with complete darkness behind him. The singing began, the candles on the cake, and camera flashes lit the room.

That was not my surprise.

They were.

As my classmates serenaded me to the birthday song, I could not miss the blinding flash from an SLR.
After the song was done, and I blew all 18 candles on my cake (in one breath), a classmate came up to me with a container that held six cupcakes and said,

"Here, Belle, your friends made this for you."

"My friends? Who are my friends?"

Out came four (out of six) of my closest friends, grinning. The SLR flash was from Chee Weng's camera and I blindly missed it, thinking it was just a classmate who brought along his SLR.

Completely moved, I screamed and then proceeded to cry. So as you can see,