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Part 5

I haven’t had time to update my blog, and I won’t have time this weekend, so I gotta get this up by tonight

Monday morning, I was greeted with a Happy Birthday song by 5A That was kinda cool.

Matthew Pang refused to get his pencil case during class though, and insisted he will let me know at 10am (breaktime) which was right after class. And what happened was, he waited for Genna to appear before he went to his bookbag and unveiled a present for me – which was why, he said, he couldn’t get his pencil case because it would show the present too early.

I opened the card first:

It says: Ms Hoo, Happy Birthday! Though this wasn’t (entirely) on your wishlist, you can always pretend it’s a plasma tv or HDD camcorder. Remember the important message behind this gift: It is like us, not as bad as we may first appear to be Have fun. Love from, Genna Gan & Matthew Pang

Then when I opened the top of the wrapping and peered inside, I absolutely refused to take the present out!!!

Of course they insisted, and I had to show the whole class this:

That’s exactly what it looks like, folks. A TOILET SEAT!!!

Then I had to open up the toilet seat, and here was my REAL present…

Oooh!!! It’s like looking for hidden treasure

And I got what I wanted. Book vouchers! And it’s a pretty generous stash of vouchers, too.

Genna & Matt – the people behind this prank

They’re so naughty and creative, I can’t help but to love them. As in the two brats, not the toilet seat, which is as we speak, is still sitting on my desk because there’s no way I’m going to carry it in full view of the whole school to my car, only to bring it home to show my family.

Later that day, Gerald gave me an incredibly cute toy dog which now has priority seating in my car. Well, more like priority hanging.

Aww…	Seat with a view

Oh, and during lunchtime, 5A threw a cake party for Ms Anjali (birthday 10th July) and me. Mr Selvam (3rd July) was supposed to be there too, but he didn’t come down. I don’t have the pictures though – Yisan took them. All I managed to get was the cakes…

Cakes. Yum yum

Part 6

Part 6 was thrown by my staffroom today. Led by Chandini our staffroom monitor, they organised a “surprise” party for the July babies but I inadvertently found out because… they forgot I was a July baby and included me in their mailing list.

Still, they got my name on the cake, at least. Hehe.

Hew, Chew, Hoo, Minder, Prema, Bala. But Prema didn’t come

July babies: me, Minder, Chew, Hew, Bala	Blow them candles out!!!
Kong Wai & Chandini	Mr Hew
I asked Mr Hew to take a picture of me cutting the cake but he forgot the ‘cutting cake’ bit	Food galore!