Today, I’m working the graveyard shift. Incidentally, it’s also my birthday. I didn’t change my shift because it seemed too much of a hassle to swop nights with someone else. And yes, with great (nursing) power, come great responsibility. Wahahaha...
Today started out just like any other given day.
Unknown to me, a conspiracy was brewing!
My long time friends wished me on the stroke of 12 but I seriously didn’t expect anyone to remember my birthday and I didn’t think much when Bini wished me. I just thought it was strange that she knew. Then she patted my butt and I heard what she said as, "Got baby inside."
Piang depressing leh.
Even though Kristabel hadn’t wished me, I reckoned she was just tired.
Kelvin called near 12am, saying that he was nearby. He said he would reach in 15minutes and asked me to collect my boogers in a plastic bag for him. Of course I obliged! I said I would prepare a shit load for him. He asked to come out a little while, so I went to meet him to chase him home.
Initially, I didn’t want to bring Kelvin into the ward as you know how tongues wag, but he was so insistent. So I relented. I told him 5min tour only hor!
He said my ward was eerie and scared me with ghosts stories (especially with this being the 7th month). He said he also wanted to tour the nursing station. I thought this guy was seriously super kaypoh but since I could scare him with the needles, I allowed him in.
Then he said he wanted to see our toilet.
Good grief!
I thought he was some loony. Nobody I knew ever wanted to tour a toilet.
Toilet leh.. wanna smell shit meh? But with Kelvin’s intellect…nothing is quite impossible. No lah.. this Ah Wang not bad wan. So to all you Ah Lians-turned-good, do take note. We have a bachelor here! (I'm typing this while foaming at the mouth)
Inside the counter, I saw the toilet door slide close. I held my breath and gasped. I thought lethargy was serving illusions and didn’t want to fuel the imagination with rubbish. Then suddenly the door slid open and out popped Kristabel, Leni and Mokie (whom was holding a plate of fries).
I had the shock of my life.
They just burst into song and started to sing me a deafening birthday song. I was super touched.
Super (really molested) touched.
They had managed to devise such an eeeeeeeeeeevil plan to throw this surprise party for me at work. And the logistics involved must have taken a lot of planning. Going to the extent of getting Kelvin to lure me out of the wards so as to smuggle the stuff in.
Thinking back, they did drop hints but I was too dense to think anything was amiss.
Man, I love these people! I thank God they came into my life.
Thanks again. You devious, conniving, and most heart warming bunch of Homo sapiens anyone could ever get.
To uphold the anonymity of the internet, the above mentioned has been edited to protect the privacy of the people involved.
