10th UGS Gathering

Since no one else has seemed to really blogged about it, I guess it’s up to me to write about UGS’s most recent gathering. The 10^th gathering was held mainly to celebrate Kenny’s coming of age. Yeap, he’s finally 18.

Anyway, we decided to celebrate it a day early, on the 3^rd of February, since most people couldn’t make it if it was on the 4^th. I thought we all agreed to go earlier at 11.15am at Coffee Bean to make the preparations before Kenny arrived at 12pm. So you can imagine my surprise when I arrived at 11.20am and not a single person was there yet. So, to justify my waiting there, I had to fork out RM12 for one ice-blended coffee, there goes my money… Anyway, finally they did arrive, almost half an hour after the appointed time. For a moment there, I was worried that it would only be me and Kenny awkwardly waiting there you know.

When the UGSers did arrive, there was a flurry of activity as we tried to finish the preparations of our gifts and get everyone to sign them.

I have no idea whether guys would appreciate something sentimental like this, it’s a photo album and we put in some photos of previous UGS gatherings and activities. I like that the casing is in hard cover and that on every page there’s space for captions. We sure did crack our brains trying to think what to write.

Here’s the birthday cake! As they say, there’s a story behind every photo. We couldn’t manage to light the candles since Coffee Bean is a non-smoking zone, wouldn’t want to risk setting off the fire sensors. Didn’t realise it until after we put the candles in the cake though. So, we had to resort to this…

Kenny “blowing” the candles removed from the cake. Haha. Then, the unthinkable happened, Cedric absent mindedly placed back a candle into the cake, forgetting that he had licked the cream off one of them earlier on. Oopsie! Thus, he managed to secure himself a hefty slice of cake which had been contaminated by himself.

After all the commotion of cutting the cake and consuming it, someone brilliantly came up with the idea of playing the “Honey, I love you, would you marry me?” game. Well, the game goes like this, you say “I love you, would you marry me?” to a person of the opposite sex and if the person smiles or laughs, then he/she loses and has to continue the game with someone else. Quite embarassing playing this game in public, thank goodness the place had cleared by that time. But no doubt very funny. Well, somehow I ended up being the first victim and of course lost. Everyone was victimised at least once, except for the birthday boy, who somehow got away. The eventual winner was Paul, who managed to remain stoic looking and did not even show a hint of a smile when “proposed” to.

All too soon, it was time for the other girls to leave as they had Girls Brigade meeting to attend. Here’s a group photo we took just before everyone left…