From beyond.

Since SPM is long-gone-over and deeply buried under the sands of the past, i shall not hide behind the G12 persona. It's about time I speak for myself and take credit for my penmanship. Or lack of.

Lara's farewell party.

The proposed plan: Lara's surprise farewell party.
Mission status: Failed.
The truth: Lara knew everything about it and she even helped organize it.

So well, we have learnt that Von's heart is in the right place, but her head isn't quite on the right page. She did an awesome job of getting everyone there and thinking of feeding hungry packs of wolves. The only problem was that, she turned up later than me. She probably planned herself a surprise party! Her scheming plans!

It's a good thing i didn't appear early to supposedly 'entertain' our dear fire-starting-people, they didn't show up early, nor did they even start a fire. I obviously did the right thing at the right time. It took a while before our dear organizer decided to show up with her posse of people food.

I'm attempting to keep it short.

Fire got started, we got eating, the kids/boys went wild, sand was being thrown, and the regular antics of kids-on-the-beach began showing their true colours: they're still kids at heart (especially the boys/hooligans)

The end.

Well, that was basically the night. This is my part where i thank all that travelled many many many miles just to roll on the sand.

Anyway, i wish i could write you guys the saddest most saddest post you've ever laid eyes on, but, i'll save it for the few days prior to floating off into the cold dark skies of this forsaken town with the cutest mushroom-sounding-name, Shrewsbury. I had this overjoyed excitement in me for this awesome night. I went home with sand in my pants and all that didn't matter because i had a great time. And it didn't quite exactly involve labored breathing, head sweating moments. Not entirely anyway. And i'm touched (which is rarely) for the effort and time.

Let's not make this into the "touching" post yet. I'll be back for more. [screams and runs in circles] Just wait. Photo's will be on facebook. No facebook? It's time you adventured into the greater depths the cyber-world has to offer.

Love always,
Lara

Throwing Sand At Each Other Is NOT Cool!

ORGANIZER, ORGAN-ORGANIZER, I'M THE ORGANIZER,

OH ORGANIZER, OH I'M THE ORGANIZER BABY!

- sang to the tune of Womanizer by Britney Spears;

the song of the night.

So, the much awaited, much anticipated "not-even-close-to-a-surprise" farewell party we threw for Lara finally took place and by late night time, it ended. The partying hasn't, though. G12 will carry on the legacy of throwing SUPER FUN parties over the years to come. It's always fun to have a couple of girls who get high on just sparkling juice around, no? We'll all find some other way to keep partying together again. Anyone up for a party tomorrow night? How bout the day after that? Hey, there isn't a need for a reason to party! LOL.

The party started when Jo-Wyee, Oliver, Marianne and I arrived super late, with pizzas, sandwiches and all the other stuff, just to find that it was really dark by 7.45pm and we couldn't see all the others who were already there waiting for us. But soon I heard Lara laughing and I saw Linken's cap {not his head}; reflected by the moonlight {full moon, btw!}, I knew we were approaching the whole party crowd. We had some difficulties in starting a fire, but with that many guys around, they managed to successfully start our own lil bonfire! We started off by serving all those hungry mouths Dominoes pizza and sausages. After the guys ate, they gained enough energy to start running around the beach in circles trying to "attack" each other with.. sand, water, you name it. Some touchy touchy stuff happened too. Gross!

Soon after that, the guys needed a power-up, so we brought out the sausages. Oliver got excited when we told him we had marshmellows. Haha! So while all the others were busy nibbling on {burnt} marshmellows; Oliver, Marianne and I disappeared to Jo-Wyee's car to get Lara's presents out! G12 gave Lara a huge photo frame with all of our pics in it as a team :) After that, Lara blew her #13 candles on the chocolate cake and it was makan time.. yet again. I think by this time we got stuffed already. The guys seemed to have stopped eating and started running around the beach like mad men at.. 11pm! Boundless energy, they've got. After watching Wei Jin and Daniel throw Linken into the water {poor Linken}, it was time to go home. Don't we all wish the night never had to end?

To all the guys and girls from the various floorball clubs who attended the party,

Thank you guys for coming! It wouldn't have been fun without every single one of you who came. Thanks so much for making it an awesome farewell party for Lara. I bet we made her really happy :D And to the people who thanked me for organizing the party, thank Lara! I wouldn't be the organizer without her letting me plan this party for her.

With about 70 leftover tuna sandwiches Huey Yuen and I made, I think I'll count tuna sandwiches to sleep. Goodnight everyone! :)

Feeling hungover,

Von <3

2nd Farewell Party

Hey everyone! Von blogging on behalf of G12 here :)

We've successfully had our 1st Seniors' Farewell Party on Wednesday, 30th July 2008 at Seoul Garden, Gurney Plaza. Now, some of us from G12 have put in our time and effort into planning another farewell party. It's the much talked about, much awaited; G12's 2nd Farewell Party. As most of you may know, G12's team captain, Lara will be leaving us to pursue her tertiary studies at the Concord College in Shrewsbury, UK (in case you're wondering, Concord is within easy reach of both Manchester and Birmingham). Soooo, we decided to throw Lara a surprise party! BUT THEN.. The news got out because SOME people didn't hear me stressing on the word SURPRISE. And thus, now we're throwing Lara a not-so-surprise farewell party! But the element of the 'surprise' is still there, as Lara has no clue about the guest list or how the party's been planned!

Date : Friday, 12th December 2008
Time : 7pm (please be punctual!)
Venue : The beach @ Paradise Sandy Beach Resort, Tanjung Bungah
(that's the hotel next to Dalat International School)
And if you still can't find it, the address is

527 Jalan Tanjung Bungah, 11200 Penang.

We will be charging all guests a small sum of RM10 to cover for the food and other expenditures. Invited guests are free to bring any food items or presents for Lara. If you want to bring your friends along to the party, please inform me 2 days before (by Wednesday, 10th December).

If you have any questions regarding the party, feel free to call me at 0164668137.

We hope to see you guys there and we look forward to having a blast together!

Cheers,
Von :)