Yesterday was the day when everything started to go downhill (I'm still at the foot, by the way).

I should've gotten an inkling when I woke up with my lower lip tingling. It signaled the return of something that I thought had disappeared after my secondary school days.

It was a blister! No, make that two!

But they still looked tiny and undeveloped when I looked in the mirror, so I thought, "What the hell, I shall just go to work and hope for the best!"

At work, Mummy advised me to put salt on my lip. At first, I did, then decided it'd be retarded to serve customers with grains of salt on my lip, so I went to put salt water instead. That was probably my undoing, but I had no idea at that time. Let me just remind you to take a good look at the following pictures in this entry of me, and maybe you'll be able to guess how I started to look like by the end of the day.

After work, Xiaomei, Di and Ash came over to meet us. They hurriedly wrote their birthday wishes in the card that I'd drawn last night while I distracted Lao Di in the toilet.

What happened next shall be told in mostly photos, 'cos I'm lazy to type. =D


They blindfolded Lao Di!


Ta-daa!

At first, she was really reluctant to put it on, but she gave in in the end.


The very smug Diana.


And the very smug Ash and Xiaomei.


Me: I'm smug too!
Di: You can't see me, you can't see me!
Lao Di: ???!



Actually we're quite mean to her, make her walk blindfolded from P.S. to Heeren. But, as Xiaomei says, she can't see people staring at her (and many did), we're the ones seeing them stare. And it's not us being blindfolded, so scared what?





See the similarities between those 2 photos? Di took them. HOW COME MY LEGS ARE APART WHEN I WALK AND THE OTHERS' AREN'T?! Now I know what people mean when they tell me to walk with my legs closed. -.-"


See, I wasn't lying. We really did make her walk blindfolded until Heeren.


She doesn't like me to take her pictures, so I must take as many as I can while she doesn't know. =P


Xiaomei commented that the Chicken Little in Action City looked very cute, so Lao Di asked to take a picture with it. Since we didn't allow her to take the blindfold off yet, she agreed to let us take a pic of her blindfolded.

Can't believe she really trusted us when we said it was a Chicken Little display. What if it wasn't? -.-


Finally allowed to take the blindfold off at Billy Bomber's.




Those are Winnie the Pooh plastic utensils, the ones that Xiaomei got for her, along with the Winnie the Pooh lunchbox. You're never too young, 'kay. They look like earrings in the picture, though.



She was blindfolded all the way to the Musical Fountain, Sentosa. We were planning to keep it a secret from her, but silly Xiaomei kept letting the cat out of the bag accidentally.

First was at Billy Bomber's, when she accidentally said, "Sento-" and cut herself off in time. Di almost made it worse by having a stricken look on her face and hitting my leg. -.- Lucky I immediately turned the topic to Hanee and how she always gives things away, like that time at Sing Singapore Festival. No, I'm not going to go into that, or I'll be sidetracking from a sidetrack. =P

And Sally didn't hear the "Sento-" anyway. Phew.

Second time was on the bus to Harbourfront, when Xiaomei was on the phone with someone and mentioned that she was going there. Sally heard her, and kept asking whether we were going to Sentosa. From then on, she knew that we were taking her there, even though we tried bluffing her that the person she heard was someone else.

Then on the blue line, we realised too late that the bus driver announces each stop, so Sally knew she was in Sentosa liao. -.-


Taken before the show started. This pic is here for the benefit of those who paid attention to what I said earlier. =P


A totally random pic with interlinked twists. =)

The show was ok, but I was quite bored, 'cos I'd seen it before. The place looked like NDP, 'cos of the huge number of spectators. Plus I think people were more interested in the fireballs than the water display. How ironic. Lol.


Family pic in front of the Merlion!


She was still blindfolded after the show, 'cos there was one last place to go to. I think this is a nice pic!


Seems too much like walking down the marriage aisle. -.-


Caught in the act.


They were actually setting up the birthday candles in the sand. It wasn't easy, 'cos the wind kept blowing the flames out.


The very happy birthday girl.


The candles are much prettier without flash.

While Lao Di and Lao Die were having a chat...



...Xiaomei, Di and I were taking pretty pictures of our feet! Well, as pretty as my feet can get with that ugly set of toes. Lol...

Took loads of silly pics, but I'm lazy to post them all, so too bad! Hahaha... Went back to Xiaomei's house to stay overnight, and I decided to put on Sally's blindfold for fun. I totally understood how she felt wearing it. You know you can trust the people leading you, but at the same time, there's just this psychological barrier inside that prevents you from totally letting go. But I stuck to it anyway, 'cos I could grab the opportunity to "sleepwalk". (I was tired!)

But silly Xiaomei didn't hold me and made me trip over the curb and graze my knee. Lucky it wasn't a serious wound. Back at her house, we finished the whole tin of brownies she baked for us. The things she make are super addictive!

Choir days made us nostalgic again, so we went to dig up Xiaomei's old choir scores to sing the old songs. Sally listened to us until she fell asleep. LOL. But it was so fun harmonising on Irama Belia, In Christ Alone, For the Beauty of the Earth and all the other songs. It was so annoying that I kept forgetting my harmony though. -.-

And by that time, my lip had already swelled to immense proportions man. Plus the 2 blisters had merged to become one humongous thingy. Lucky I didn't take a picture to gross you out. =P When we woke up in the morning, Xiaomei took one look at me and said, "Wu tong!" As in mahjong that wu tong. -.-" She said it looked like there were 5 blisters.

5 BLISTERS?!!

*sobz* They brought me to see a doctor later, and even the doctor said she'd never seen anything that bad before. Oh maaaaaaaaannnn... Save me!!

For the last time, I shall explain what condition it is. It's not coleslaw, neither is it COLSTRAW. *glares at Linggie* It's a cold sore. It got infected (probably from the salt water that I kept rubbing on it) and became like this. OK?

Yes, it's contagious if I share stuff with people, but I've been careful so far what. It's not STD too (even though the medical name of cold sore has the word 'herpes' in it)!!! Dunno how many kukunathans say I got STD. NB.