Friday: Cakeday + A lesson learnt

Woke up super early today, went sch and met Wan Ting to 'ka pok' some of her pushcaert items for our sales day cip on sat. (Thanks Wan Ting, for making yourway down to sch!) Then lugged back 4 huge bags of socks and hp pouches back home with the help of CY. Gosh, nearly broke my finger as i attempted a finger grip while sipping on soymilk with the other hand. Jus kidding...

Then, went out with CY and the rest to celebrate stephanie's reali belated birthday. Lol, met super early at 11.30am at bedok mrt, but only had lunch at ard 2.30pm. Haha, the 3 hrs we went to bk movie tickets, had a debate between Kung Fu panda( fighting) or Narnia( even more fighting), shop ard taka, bought a cake( whcih was a piece of cake as there were cake shops every where )and wander ard orchard looking for the holy grill... erm i mean the perfect place to eat since every where was super crowded! Finally settled on Fish and Co at paragon and guess waht 8 out of the 9 of us ordered the classic fish and chips... haha, guess we were to hungry to choose other wise...Then had a great time catching up again and chatting with on and all. Coincidentally, at the table nxt to us, there whose birthday was on this day and we witnessed the signature tribal influenced birthday chant by the staff members of fish and co and the poor dude standing on the chair with a sparkler to boot. It was hilarious !!! Then after that, steph was like 'you had better not ask the staff members to sing that song!', but fortunately( unfortunately for us though) the tribal birthday song is only invoked on the date of the person's birthday, or 3 days before or after...

Anyway. after feasting on the cake and the food and settling the bills, we realized that it was 3.50... and our movie was supposed to start at 3.50! So, it was a mad rush to cathay cineleisure, as we sought to make it before the 15 min deadline. Fortunately for us, the staff outside allowed us entry and had to squeeze, duck, and creep our way thought the packed hall to locate dour seats. Well, the movie was kind of hilarious and the graphics were quite good, but i was kinda of hoping for more action as there was only this crazy snow tiger villain, and a host of good guys vieing to stop him after his amazing prison break from some prison carved out in the mountains. Kind of liked the part where the rhino prison chief said that the prison had " 1 way in, 1 prisoner, 1000 guards and 1 way out!" So basically, it is sucidal to attempt a break out... But nevertheless, the villian managed to outsmart, outwit and outplay the guards and fought his way out of prison. Kinda like Micheal Scotfield and Mas Selamat, but with special powers!

So what was the lesson learnt... No, definitely not breaking out of prison is the 'in' thing, though i loved prison break( And there is gonna be a season 4!!!). It was the part where the 'dragon warrior', the Panda finally realized that he did not need do something special to be special! He was the dragon warrior because he believed that he could be the dragon warrior. When he looked at his reflection in the empty dragon scroll, what he saw was his own face, not the face of warriors that he taught were better than him! So that was the lessons that i learnt that day: We do not have to always strive to be special, to be unique, we are special by virtue of us being unique individuals with our own failings and strengths. So do not always look at people whom you think are better than you and be envious of them, we are all special in one way or another!
Yep, i dunno if it sounds cliche or what, but i feel it is true. Like when the panda's father finally revealed to his son that there is no secret to his famed noodles that is best in the village, the secret is that there is no secret! People simply think that the noodles are special and perceive it to taste better than ordinary noodles. Yep, so all in all, it was a really memorable day for me!