The day after Tote

I slept on the top bunk bed in the guest room of Pom's house. Jam slept on the lower. Pom slept on the floor. I woke up first, and realised I was sleeping on my phone. Knowing that the two were deep sleepers, I climbed down the ladder, not caring whether they would hear or not. Like I thought, they didn't wake up from the squeaky sound of the bunk bed.

I went to have a quick wee and proceeded to go into Pom's room to type up the Tote post. When I finished, I went back to the guest room to find that Jam was awake. We chatted for a while and then discussed how to get out the house. Basically, Pom didn't tell his mom we were staying over, so we tried to sneak out without her knowing. Our first plan was to jump out the window. I was actually up for it until I realised it was actually kinda high. Also, my shoes were in the house. Jam came up with a great plan, but before that I have to explain the situation.

Jam and Pom's families were gonna have a meal in Birmingham, and they invited me to go. This was going to happen at 12PM. It was 9AM at the time when we discussed the plan. The problem was, Jam's car was at Hench's house. Jam texted Hench asking him to pick him up to his house to get his car back. The problem with that was Jam's car was blocking Hench's car. Screwed, I decided to go with Jam to Hench's house by bus.

Now back to the plan: Jam suggested that Pom open the front door, then Jam and I would run out quickly, then go back in and pretend we'd just arrived. It was a good plan, but executing it was risky. The stairs creak and the door is loud when it opens. Pom managed to get downstairs and unlock the door quietly. His mom spotted him apparently, and he came back to us saying 'There's no point doing this, my mom knows you're here'. We walked downstairs in shame. Pom's mom explained that she knew because Pom wasn't sleeping in his room. She then said 'You should have told me! I would have got the duvets ready'. It was an unexpected reaction.

So with that, Jam and I left to try and get his car and drive to the restaurant by 12PM. To catch the bus, we had to walk to town which took about 40 minutes. We couldn't catch the bus because we had no change, even in Pom's house. After the long trek, we extracted money from the ATM. Feeling hungry, we then decided to go to the cafe opposite. It's called Jenny's. The place looked pretty cool, and the guy who served us looked like Robert Downey Jr. David ordered the Olympic Breakfast and I got traditional. It was actually really nice! Realising we'd spent too much time there, we hurried to find the bus stop. Unfortunately, the next bus was in 45 minutes. We found a bench nearby and just sat there and talked. We talked about how funny it would be if we never spoke to each other again in university.

Finally, the bus arrived and we got on it. There was just a small problem. We didn't know where to get off to get to Hench's house. In order to find out, Jam whipped out both his iPhones and inputted Hench's address in them. He lent me one so that we could both keep track of where we were using GPS. At this point, we realised there was no way to get to the restaurant in time. We got off the bus when it got as near to the destination as possible. Using our combined instincts and skills, we braved long roads, hot weather and jealously of sexy houses and cars before reaching Hench's house. Remembering that there were two front doors, and they only answered the left one, we knocked. It was about 10 minutes before the door opened. Hench probably got lost whilst trying to look for the front door. Or maybe he was underground a few floors. It's probably take me a day to visit every room in his house.

Inside, we were treated with great hospitality. Hench offered us drinks and snacks and we just chatted for a long time. The conversations were interesting and educational. I learnt that love is a complicated thing, and it often never goes your way... Er, anyway.

We left after a couple of hours. Jam said to me 'stripeytofu, why didn't we go to the restaurant first with Pom's mom, then go Hench's house to collect my car? That way, we could have saved money from breakfast and bus fare'. It was true.

Hong Kong 2012

This summer, I am going to Hong Kong for a month with my friend Victory. This is the first time I've ever been 3 years in a row, so I don't actually go that often! I've also never been that long before. I don't know whether it's gonna get boring or not, but at the moment I am very excited! There's still about 5 months left till I go, but I'm still excited. We're gonna get girls, get drunk, get laid.. Jokes. But maybe. I mean, who knows what will happen?

We've planned some days out already. During the first week, we will go to a strip club called Club Bboss. It's actually spelt with two B's, and we pronounce it 'Buh-boss' but I'm not sure if that's how you actually say it. We're also gonna explore the mountains. There's loads of mountains in Hong Kong, and I haven't been to any of them.

http://www.club-bboss.com/eng/wel.html

Jam may also be going Hong Kong, and if he does, we're gonna take girls back to his apartment because this time his dad's not here! It's gonna be so fun!

I'm hoping to record videos everyday, and then upload the ones that are interesting on to YouTube, while I am actually there, so you can see what I'm up to! The days before I go to Hong Kong may the last time I see some of my friends, so of you think you'll miss me, just watch my videos!

Jam

Although this was meant to be a post advertising Jam's blog, I thought I'd go the extra mile and broadcast to everybody what a bro he really is.

Our history officially started in 2009 when we both went on the China trip. We knew a couple months before, and he came up to me on school and we quickly became friends. We exchanged phone numbers and started texting each other loads. I'd never really taken advantage of my free texts until I had Jam's number. Oh, and whoever's reading this thinking 'what gay boys', then screw you! You don't know what it's like to have a true bro! If you thought that as a joke... Then fair enough haha.

Our first photo.. I think.

Anyway back to the story, I invited him to come out with me, my cousin Beef and friend Purple. It was the first time I'd seen Jam outside of school, and my first impressions was 'he dresses stupid'. This is also the first time Jam will know this, so don't hit me tomorrow please! He dresses a lot better now, so that's okay. Ever since then, in the 3 years we've been bros, we've overcome many obstacles that come our way, been on so many adventures to other places, and had our ups and downs.

A bro really, is a bro for life. To be honest, I feel slightly homo for saying this, but I don't care: anyone would be lucky to have Jam for a bro, but I'm glad he'a my bro. Of course there are other bros in this bromance, but this post is dedicated to Jam.

Jam has proven many times to be irreplaceable. Even though I've finished my piss and need to flush, I need to finish this paragraph. Jam is someone you can completely count on... Most of the time. He's a valuable friend and is always there when you need him. Seriously, you need anything, you go to him and he gives you a solution. From copying homework to getting life advice, he's there. I've seen Jam change from when he was a little to prick to what he is now, and he's only ever improved. Even if you're not friends with him, he's so good at making friends that you'd feel like you've been his friend for ages.

Now look at us. His hair hasn't changed at all.

If it wasn't for Jam, I would never have got any social skills I reckon. I'd still be some wannabe emo kid in the corner, listening to MCR and thinking about how awesome blood is (I've never done that before by the way). He gave me the confidence to make friends easily and that's a really important skill.

I have to admit, I've let him down several times.. Yeah, that's right, SEVERAL. Some of the times I couldn't even help it but, but you know, I probably didn't try hard enough. I can't even think of any times he's let me down, except for last week when he didn't drive me home, but whatever!

There's so much I could write, but I feel like I should stop here now before any more girls call me gay and ask me to be their gay best friend.

Oh by the way, check out Jam's blog here.

Udon's birthday karaoke

8:23
Woke up. Don't wanna, but have to.

10:10
Playing PS3. I just wanna do this all day.

11:25
Just got on the bus to go Pom's house, where Jam's gonna pick me up.

12:27
Arrived at Pom's. Extremely tired, and my phone already has only 70% left.

13:27
Jam's taking too long, so I decided to catch the bus. Going to meet Swan. She's already there. Crap, I'm late.

14:39
In Forever 21 with Swan. She's gone in the fitting rooms, and I've been waiting for like 30 minutes now. Just kidding.

15:20
Now in H&M. How long will this last for...

I kinda stopped updating then, cos I forgot. I'll blog how the day went now. I'll start from meeting up Victory.

Me and Swan saw Victory get off the bus, and I didn't wanna run to get him cos he was far away. So instead, I called him and told him to come KFC. Yeah, I had KFC, but only a small wrap thing! After, went to Card Factory to get Udon a birthday card. Oh, did I mention this karaoke thing is for her birthday? Me and Victory bought a card saying 'Happy 7th Birthday!' or something, because it was only 29p. Then I bought a Sharpie and we drew in a '1' in front of the 7 to make it 17. Hahahaha we are so funny.

We met up Jam too, and after shopping at Primark, we made our way to CCK, the karaoke place. Only Udon and a couple of friends were there first, but then suddenly loads of brown people came. So I went downstairs. I have to admit it was pretty awkward. I mean, I kinda knew them, but didn't talk because they're all in the year below me. Now that I think about it, I was actually the oldest one there.

So yeah, it was awkward. Us Chinese people segregated into the corner (as I had predicted) but then after going outside and talking to a few of them first, it became more comfortable. I got to know more of them and they're actually pretty nice!

Erm let's see, what happened next? It was such a long day I can't remember. I think the drinks came and I drank like 3/4 a bottle of WKD. I know, I said I don't drink, but I was really thirsty. In fact, it made me even more thirsty... Victory kept telling me WKD has loads of calories, and made me stop drinking it, but he also peer pressured me into drinking vodka! I smelt it and it was so strong, I could never take it. That was the only alcoholic drink I took that night. Oh wait, May forced me to down some vodka mixed with coke I think. It went up my nostrils so I think my nose got drunk.

There was a lot of singing, but mostly rap and I hate rap. Mainly cos I can't rap. To be honest, I tend to avoid karaokes because I don't like singing, but then I realised it's kinda okay to be honest. Still, I'd rather not go hahaha.

Later in the night, Swan prepared Udon's cake, and we sang Happy Birthday to her. Some people gave very touching speeches. Udon cut the cake afterwards, and gave me a piece, only to have Victory snatch it away from me and say 'Do you wanna get even fatter?'. Luckily though, Udon fed me a piece, and then Butter, and then Lettuce. Even though Victory tried to stop them. Thing is though, I felt even more like a pig because those three fed me. But man, the cake was so nice. Which reminds me, the girl who made the cake was sitting with this guy who had his arm around her and Jam said 'Are you guys-' and then he did a thrusting motion. The guy said 'We're cousins. Oh man, it was so awkward!

Spin the bottle

I put on Love Story by Taylor Swift, and then stole a microphone and began to sing. May came over, and we sang together. Man, I was so sick I didn't even have to look at the screen. But I did because I had nowhere else to look at.

Around 10 o'clock I think, everyone started to leave, leaving only the Chinese people. I thought to myself, finally, I can pick the songs. I grabbed the mic, and proceeded to sing all the Taylor Swift songs. Oh by the way, I sill hate singing. I don't really know what came over me. Also sang Knock You Down by Keri Hilson, Run by Leona Lewis and 童话 by 光良. It was pretty sick. We could finally hear ourselves sing since it went from 20+ people (some of us didn't even have seats) to 8. After belting it out for like, an hour (11pm), it was finally time to go home. Jam drove Swan back first, then Butter, then Victory, and finally me.
Gotta say, I didn't dislike it as much as I thought I would have. I guess it's good to go out once in a while rather than stay stuck at home. But man, all that PS3 I could have played instead...

01:30
Finished writing the blog.

Today, I saw a weird thing

Okay, so it was during break, and I sat opposite Jam at a table. Two guys were chatting really loudly behind me, when suddenly Jam flinched. I thought it was weird, but what was even more weird was what happened next.

Jam told me that one of the guys had spat a drop of saliva on his nose. I was like '(LMAO) Just wipe it off'.

But he didn't.

Instead, he took out the piece of gum in his mouth, and gently dabbed his nose with it. I was staring at him while this happened. My face was like O__O. Could I really believe what I was saying? Jam was wiping his nose with a piece of gum that he took out of his mouth? Was that even possible?!