Day 2 (2nd installment of the GC trip)

Morgz, i didn't pick Shairah to go, her bro was sort of the organizer and so of course she came along. But even if i was gonna plan a trip, it would be with my "old" buddies, not my "new" ones. So... Argh... Haha... No worries. It's all good.

Irz, Sherman helped me out cos i helped him out when i let him crash at my place... I guess, plus he's a gentleman, so is Jonathan... I'll explain later, and puking in front of the guys is not good, i know, but they're all younger than me so why should i care, except Raimi and Adam. And Irz, when people talk to me, they don't get all the vocab (apparently). For some reason it only comes out when i'm feeling passionate and creative about what i write. And why do you think i enjoyed your book-in-progress so much. It was interesting plus i could learn new vocab. Basketball, sure, i'll whoop your arse... Hehe. Non of the guys can get past me when i guard. We played yesterday, Jonathan, Shannon and Jensen. Non of them could so bring it on!!! Muahaha... Kidding.


So... 8.15am my phone alarm clock rings, i wake up to see that Shannon hasn't messaged me yet. And i'm thinking "i'm so tired. Since he hasn't msged me yet, might as well sleep." I set the clock to 9.15am. So i was sleeping in hour intervals, if that's what you can call them and it's not really a good way to sleep cos you'll keep thinking about what you're waiting on and not really fall sleep. So anyways. I woke up at 9am by myself and switched off the alarm, no message then either. This time i decided to sleep "properly". I think i woke up when i heard Shairah talking to Jonathan just outside on the balcony, the door was open and the balcony was behind the couch i was on. It was 10am then and soon after, Shannon messages me saying they're arriving soon and asked where we were. I call him back (optus to optus is free cos i have free minutes, part of the plan i picked out), he says they're at the entrance of Movie World buying tickets. I was like, "what!? I thought that when you said you guys were arriving soon, you meant at the train station." So anyways, we decided it was too late for us to go then and so i told Shannon we wouldn't be joining them and for them to have fun.

They were talking about the previous night and mainly the drunk people and the "pukers". I honestly did not remember how i got to the toilets. Shairah, Raimi, Jonathan, Sherman and I sat at the couch area talking about everything that happened the previous night. I then got a clear idea of what went on, like i said before, when i'm drunk i'm just high but i still know what's going on, but i just didn't remember how i got to the toilets. Then i found out: I puked while i was sitting on the couch and so my first pool of puke was on the carpet (this would come back and haunt me later). Poor Jonathan who was actually also drunk cleaned it off the carpet while i was puking in the toilet(at least i think that's the correct sequencing of ideas). He was explaining how thick and chunky it was and it was so funny, of course i felt bad for the guy, i can't believe he could still clean up puke when he was drunk. He said Sherman kept saying, "i can't deal with puke" or "puke is not for me, man", stuff like that. Jon's such a nice guy. P.S. Shannon, if you're reading this, you have to promise me and swear that you won't tell Jess. Please please please... This has to be kept a secret cos if Jess finds out that Jon drank, she'll be pissed and if she found out he mopped up my puke, she'll be even more pissed. Thanks. And they told me that when i'm drunk i tend to say "cool" a lot, do the "rock" sign with the fingers (pointer a.k.a. index, and pinky pointed and the rest of the fingers curled into the palm) and keep going around giving people high-fives. So after the story telling, and people started to wake up one by one, and after my refreshing shower and molar brushing, we headed to the central area of GC or rather Surfers Paradise to find food. After that we went to the beach to get tanned, i was wearing my track suit that day, and as far as track suits go, they're always sleeveless. So my shoulders got a good burn, but the rest of my body was sunblocked. At least now the skin tone on my arms are even. There's this little thing/detail that i won't even go into too much but i'll just touch on lightly. Shairah, for some weird, unexplained reason attracts Kuwait guys. So that day after lunch when we visited the beach, and i was walking along happily, she got a call from Abdullah whose nickname is Loco for some crap reason. Abdullah and Abdul Rahman came by train that day and were waiting outside our apartment (the Condor). Without a key, you can't even get into the building, so Shairah's like rushing back and dragging me along with her just to open the door for the Kuwait guys. There's a background story here: Loco likes Shairah, and when Shairah was drunk THAT night(the 2nd night) she told me she likes him too, but she also likes Othman and yada yada yada, oh yeah, the first night, she also kissed Alex. Ooo... all the dirty details when she gets drunk, can you imagine if she was holding a secret government code or something? we'd all be gonners. Anyways, you get the picture hopefully and i don't tell other people's secrets normally but i'm telling hers cos she pisses me off sometimes, i'd say 55% of the time. I won't explain now, it's too complicated and anyways, i'll put it this way: you guys don't know her, nor will you in the future as i don't plan on introducing her to any of you(my good friends of family) and she is the only person's secrets i will tell. I usually NEVER give out other people's secrets. i'm a good secret keeper. Promise. But when it comes to her, i'll make an exception. Oh yeah, i don't like Loco, as a matter of fact i don't like any of the Kuwait guys because they blew me off the other day. Oh and Loco is so rich, he doesn't come to any classes and offered to buy a ticket for Shairah to a Kanye West concert that was held here previously and also, every week they have illegal car races on the highway and trash their cars, just to give you an idea of how rich he is.

Anyways, that night we bought more booze and had dinner at home after we bought back Coles Coleslaw, Coles Chicken(3 of them), Garlic Bread, Frozen Fries (We had a microwave and an oven and a dishwasher in the apartment, one of the reasons why it was so expensive. There were also 3 bedrooms, some foxtel channels, a washing machine and dryer and cutlery. We later realized it cost RM1000 a night, just that we were splitting and so it didn't seem that expensive, FYI it cost us $100 each for both nights. In total the apartment cost $700 for 2 nights). After dinner, i showered and we drank again. We had Amarula, which is something like Bailey's but nicer(in my opinion), you drink that with milk or on the rocks. It's like a coffee-based liquor. Then we shared the bottle of Jack Daniels Raimi brought over. We watched the comedy channel on Foxtel, they were showing South Park series, while we drank. It was so funny. I had 4 shots, 2 cups of Amarula with milk and a beer that night, no, i wasn't drunk nor was i tipsy. Loco and Abdul Rahman came over that night, they're Muslim so they didn't drink but they were just there to watch. Shairah was drunk the night before and that night as well. The night before she told Alex all her secrets and gave him a kiss. That night, she told me all her secrets while we lay in bed and slowly fell asleep. She even asked for a hug from Alex when he came in with our supposedly dry clothes which he promised he'd help us fold. We had a group hug and i thanked Alex for folding our clothes. Haha... so funny. Can you imagine him sitting down and folding our clothes one by one... The image in my head makes me smile. Anyways, Shairah blabbed a whole lot that night. And i just listened. Thank God i don't blab, not when i'm drunk, tipsy or high. We planned on going to Dreamworld the next day with Shannon, this time Shairah decided she'd come with us. That night, i crawled into bed at 3am and i don't know what time i fell asleep.

Next morning, i woke up with a slight headache and a definite hangover, yipee, my first hangover in Aus. Jonathan, being the thoughtful guy he was, went out himself in search of a chemist and bought me panadol. Meanwhile, all of us (including me) cleaned the apartment, i washed the cups and stuff and picked up rubbish. I packed the previous night so we would be able to check out on time, so did the rest. We pushed the couch forward to cover up my puke stain which was not that visible and i reckon Jon did a pretty good job. Shairah said so too, it wasn't that obvious a stain. Somehow that morning i was craving McMuffins and so that was our plan- to have breakfast at Mackers which we though ended at 11am. We checked out and everything seemed A-ok. Shannon rang me as we were walking to Mackers and said that they just arrived at Dreamworld. I told him we'd be having breakfast before joining them.

When our posse got to Mackers, it was about 10.20am. We looked at the brekkie menu and found out we were so lucky to not have missed it, breakfast ended at 10.30am not 11am. We ordered our own thing and enjoyed our breakfast. Some of us were sleepy(Alex), some of us had a "heavy" head (Jonathan), some of us were having a hangover (Shairah and I) and some of us were feeling just dandy(Sherman, Raimi and Adam). I savoured my McMuffin, it was delicious. And so was my coffee which was just right and not too hot and my hashbrown. After breakfast or should i say brunch, the rest went to the beach and Jonathan, Shairah and I headed to the bus stops to wait for the X bus that would take us to Dreamworld directly. As we were crossing the road, it just so happened that the bus left when we were on the other side. Dang, we should have waved, then maybe the bus would have waited for us, for that was the moment that changed our whole day. Haha. Just being dramatic. We waited for the bus for about 40mins even though the brochure said the bus came every 15mins. At one point Shairah said, "by 11.45am, if the bus doesnt' come, we're not going," Jonathan was a bit disappointed, i could tell, he controlled himself from drinking the previous night just so he could wake up early and have fun at Dreamworld. We started talking with this guy at the bus stop and so he pointed us in the right direction when we decided we'd be going to Pacific Fair instead of Dreamworld. We only waited a few minutes before this bus came and although slightly disappointed, we got excited because we were about to shop!! Pacific Fair is like this major shopping area, it wasn't on sale or anything like Harbour Town but there were many more stores there, including an outlet of Toys'r'us. Yay! i love toy stores.

We shopped around, going from store to store, browsing (me) and buying (them). At toys'r'us, i was walking around gleefully looking at all the toys when Shairah got a call from her bro. "Bad news," she said, "they found the puke stain". I held my breath, she continued, "we have to pay $250 for the carpet cleaning fee." Immediately i was like, "SHIT!" No, actually i felt real guilty cos it was my puke and then i only felt the urge to say shit. I was so so so down after the news, i kept thinking that if only i had cleaned it up or at least try to make the stain less visible than it already was then we wouldn't be in this mess. I regretted not trying to clean it further. I lost my "appetite" to shop and went into depression and breakdown. Mostly i felt guilty cos i knew Raimi would say for all of them to split with me, that is, we'd split $250 in 7 and pay accordingly. I felt i was in such a deep shit hole and there was no way out of this one. It was irreversible, unforgiveable and most of all, uncalled for. From then on, i walked around like a zombie and the only thing on my mind was the 250. I felt really guilty to let down the whole gang like that. I had really learnt my lesson then, it hit me like a hammer onto the head of a nail: no action comes without consequence. I constantly converted the $250 to Ringgit and i was like, "holy crap, i just wasted RM750 cos i didn't clean the carpet." But then i thought to myself, "that's not very fair, $250 for a tiny stain like that, the stain was about slightly bigger than a piece of bread." I kept apologizing to Shairah and Jon while we were shopping. All i knew was that i was in deep shit and that i would have to explain this to my parents and save even more to cover the costs of the puke stain. And i'd have to face the gang, they would definitely be pissed and blame me for the fine. Shairah who noticed my sudden change in mood kept trying to cheer me up and kept saying, "nevermind, don't worry bout it" or "it's the past, forget it". But of course i didn't feel any better. I'd never felt so guilty in my life, honest. Cos i don't usually get myself into such situations.

When we got back, Raimi and Alex were smoking by the pool and Adam and Sherman were nowhere to be seen. I went up and said sorry to both of them for my puke had caused us so much money. I then went into the reception area looking for Adam and Sherman to apologize... Before i found them Shairah came in smiling, she told me the fine was $75 and not $250. Raimi had only just found out that the fine had changed moments before we got back from Pacific Fair. Which means he wasn't playing games and lying to me. I thanked God and warned myself: always evaluate my decisions and watch my actions for they all have consequences. I felt much better after the good news. I was told that $250 was the price of cleaning the whole apartment(carpets) but $75 was only for that spot. I was so definitely a whole lot more relieved and thankful. I had learned my lesson: if i ever drank till i wanted to puke, run like the wind to the toilet and throw up there. No, joking... I learned a serious lesson: be responsible when you drink and know you limits. Actually i never knew my drinking limit till the first night in Gold Coast cos previously i never puked from drinking excessively. So now i know how much i can drink plus i had loads of fun just drinking, watching tv, shopping and sleeping.

You know the rest of the story don't you? We had dinner in the city like i mentioned in the 1st part of this anecdote. Hope you enjoyed reading, thanks for reading and thanks for caring.

Oh yeah, yesterday i played basketball with Shannon, Jensen, Jonathan and Jessica like i told you before when i said the boys couldn't get past me. I also cooked that afternoon before playing ball, i mean really cooked cooked. It was my first time cooking rice and lamb and boiling veges. It was good fun, i made a video of it, it's on the same video as the GC trip. It tasted rather insipid though. But what can i say, it was my first experience of cooking and i got it on tape. Haha... I'm so proud of myself. It may not seem much to you, but it means something to me to be able to cook real food without help from anyone. Haha. Cheers people~~~!!!