Operation Get Bryan.
Sunday, June 01, 2008So everyone's favourite blur friend turned 21 on Friday, and thanks to his mom, who'd been conspiring with Laura and his cell group to throw him a surprise celebration, we had a blast on Thursday night. I hope he did too, although I'm sure his fun was a lot wetter than ours was. Hee. Michelle also blogged about it here.
Surprises are always exciting. I remember the time when about fifty of us surprised Paul before he flew off to London - that was super funny. The part where Derk Aun called his house and asked for his mother while they were planning the surprise, leaving Paul majorly puzzled, and then when we were all hiding and someone tickled Siokkwan. Who was the culprit, eyy? I can't remember.
And Zhen Han's almost-nearly failed birthday surprise in Australia where he was walking through the dark house and he went "Is this a surprise?" leaving all of us housemates hiding with a -_- on our faces.
And Zhen Han's almost-nearly failed birthday surprise in Australia where he was walking through the dark house and he went "Is this a surprise?" leaving all of us housemates hiding with a -_- on our faces.
Anyway, you get the drift. I love surprises. The look on their faces is always worth it. As was Bryan's.
Surprise! We hid behind a corner and jumped out at him. See, the pretense was that he was attending just another cell group meeting. He even brought his bible and all. Lol.
Surprise! We hid behind a corner and jumped out at him. See, the pretense was that he was attending just another cell group meeting. He even brought his bible and all. Lol.
Steak marinated since Monday. OMG. Crazy delicious barbecued stuff. Partially attributed to Josh's barbecue-ing skills and wholly to Bryan's mom's super-long marinade. Mmmm.
Laura and I.
There we go, chef of the night with his helper.
The jokers all signed Bryan's 
Birthday boy and Laura posing with the grill.
The uni people minus ZH and Laura.
Let the festivities begin. Bryan's mum bought him two bottles just 'cause she knows he loves it. So sweet.
Drink up!
Haha, for everyone who wasn't in Melbourne and didn't see us consume Baileys in our house there, this picture is testament to just how much Mel loves Baileys. She's getting her cup filled while her mouth is still full. *shakes head*
YUUUMMMMMMMMMMMM SENGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG! Lol. Everyone looks so happy in this pic.
One with me in it.
Awesome cheesecake. Bryan and his friend from cell group, I think her name's Christine. :) The funniest thing is that because she's holding the cake, and because I'm trying to get pictures of Bryan with the cake in it, she turns up in every cake picture, and then they just end up looking like a couple celebrating their anniversary. Haha.
Get the candle out, Bryan!(He cheated, by the way -_-")
Lol, I think someone went "Yerr, Bryan's nose very oily one." Haha.The rest of the night was spent playing Taboo and explaining the efficient frontier and the CAPM to Josh who brought along his Investments textbook. Yes, do it together with me now. Dash-underscore-dash.
Taboo, as usual, never stops bringing the laughs, anywhere, anytime.
Joshua majorly fails at describing during Taboo. Like, fails big time.
"Uhh, another word for something like carpet..?"
"Rug!"
"...on the ground one..."
"MAT!" - Andrew
"YES YES! Okay and then..."
"Mat?"
"YES YES KEEP YOUR WORD KEEP YOUR WORD!! And then what's another word for we... *inserts lots of hand gestures here*"
"Huh?"
"What's that?"
"We?"
"Something like we... *inserts more funny circular hand gestures*"
"...our?"
"YES OUR!"
"Huh?"
"Our?" - Mel
"OKAY NOW YOU KEEP YOUR WORD! KEEP AHH!"
"WTF?"
"What word?"
"Huh?"
"Aiyo Joshuaaaaa!"
"...and then right.. Umm.. okay okay, when you play Monopoly, you collect $200 when you pass...?"
"GO!" - me
"YESSSSSS!!!!! *getting very excited* OKAY OKAY NOW ONE TWO THREE!!!!!! *points to me, Mel and Andrew in succession* ONE TWO THREE!!"
"WHAT?"
"ONE TWO THREEE!!!"
"HUH?!"
"What one two three?!"
"Go...our...mat?"
"What mat?"
And Bryan finally shouts, "GOURMETTTTT!!!!!"
"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!"
I bet you can imagine everyone's expression by then. Heh.
Needless to say, we didn't let him describe anything else after that. Lol. He also previously tried to get us to guess "orchid" to lead us to say "orchestra". Right."YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!"
I bet you can imagine everyone's expression by then. Heh.
After all the Taboo fun, it was nearly midnight so we started packing up and someone cleverly sent Bryan away to keep the tables, so we started making water balloons. Hee.
Our ammunition hiding in the sink. Earlier in the evening, we blew them up before we surprised. Btw, Giant balloons are damn good quality. Took us forever to blow a balloon because 
Waiting for Bryan to come back from keeping the tables so we could attack him. But no, that's not why this picture's here. LOOK AT ANDREW POSING. WITH THE CAP SOMEMORE. Hahaha.
Sneaky sneaky Zhen Han creeping up on Bryan.
ATTACKED.
After the water balloon attack, they tried to drag him to the pool. Firstly, Bryan is a lot stronger than he looks. Don't underestimate his strength. It took four guys to tackle him and he put up quite a good struggle before finally giving up and resigning to his fate and walking to the other pool himself.See, there were two pools in Casa Tropicana. AND, one of them was being chemically treated. So obviously, we weren't to throw him in that one. But nooooo, none of them were listening when Laura told us that we had to drag him to the further one.
This resulted in the guys tackling Bryan and pulling him to the chemically treated pool with the other girls cheering them on and me running after them, trying very hard to capture all the action with my camera, all while shouting "NOT THIS POOL! NOT THIS POOL! NOT THIS POOL!"
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So in the end, you got a mess of Josh and Andrew pulling Bryan towards the pool, Bryan obviously putting up a struggle and not wanting to go in, pulling off Josh's shirt in the process and hanging on to Andrew's shirt, and Adam trying to save Bryan from the chemically treated pool by pulling him in the other direction. *shakes head* Tak jadi.
(Ehh I don't know what Zhen Han was doing. He's not in any pictures of the guys tackling Bryan.)
And then they stopped because they must've finally heard all our "NOT THIS POOL!!!"-s and Michelle swooped in to save Bryan's watch just in case it wasn't water-proof. 
And for some unknown reason Bryan started attacking Adam even through he was the one trying to save him from the chemical pool. HAHAHA. And everyone else is just happily looking at him attack Adam - Josh even has a water balloon in his hand, lol.
Hauling him towards the other side. If you look closer, you can see Andrew nicking Bryan's wallet so it doesn't get wet later. Lol.
Finally, Bryan gave up and resigned to his wet wet fate and even walked towards the other pool by himself.
It was like a walk of shame with everyone following behind him.
And in he went!But wait. That's not all. Obviously, once was not enough.
After Bryan dodging more attempts to get him into the pool a second time, we all walked back to the barbecue area and when everyone least expects it...
MEL RUNS TOWARDS BRYAN AND PUSHES HIM IN.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. She was so quick that I didn't even manage to get any pictures. LOL!
Andrew and Michelle with (a completely soaked) Bryan.
Andrew and Michelle with (a completely soaked) Bryan.
And that wraps up our night up. Fantastic food, crazy laughter, horrible Taboo description, Baileys in plastic disposable cups, water balloons and pool dunks. Happy TWENTY-FIRST again, Bryan! I better see the effects of using our present soon. *coughcoughcough* :P*
13th June - Int. Banking & Finance
16th June - Investments & Portfolio Mgmt
17th June - Financial Accounting Issues
18th June - Lending Decisions
After which I will be freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! :) :) :)
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