October 9, 2017 So today was quite an interesting day it’s the day that our group and I were planning on surprising Vincent so I had some prep work for that too haha I started off the day by accidentally oversleeping and missing my statistics class for the 3rd week in a row.. ah yes that is always a sign of a good day… LOL I wasn’t too happy with myself for that, but at least I got a goodnight’s rest? Haha One thing that I am noticing though, is that I’m really not eating properly on days I have class or I don’t have plans already… like idk I just realized that I never eat breakfast and a lot of the times now I don’t eat lunch until like 3 pm, so then I don’t really eat anything for dinner.. hmmm but not that I’m noticing it I’ll probably become more proactive to change it haha So right before my second class, I went to the campus bookstore and bought a pack of cardstock paper, cause I was tired of not being able to make cards and stuff for people so I thought that it would be nice to just have a pack on hand. And I made two cards for Vincent! One of them was for everyone to sign, and the other one was for me to write something on it for him. I think both of them turned out quite nice, what do you think? Then after class, I went to the MTR station to go pick out a cake for him, and that was a struggle too because he only likes chocolate cake but for some reason most of the bakeries there only had 1 cake each that was made out of chocolate. One of Vincent’s closer friends Ryo, met with me and we picked this one out together. We were also talking about how we wanted to take Vincent out for dinner, so we decided we were gonna surprise him with dinner and take him to a restaurant inside festival walk. Then we went our separate ways and the entire walk back I was just trying not to slip and drop the cake LOL Then at around maybe 5:45, I met up with Ryo again and we went to go meet up with Vincent cause he had class, and we went told him to pick a restaurant. He picked this really cheap place on campus that wasn’t really a restaurant, more like a pay and go, and we were like … lets just say we’re not feeling it and go. Cause we didn’t want to tell him right away that we were trying to treat him to dinner. Then we wandered around festival walk for a bit, and it was really funny because he kept saying no to restaurants because they were too expensive and we were like dude relax its fine and he didn’t get it. So finally we just told him we were treating him, and he was actually really happy and looked pleasantly surprised. What I liked about him though, was that he didn’t immediately go for the expensive restaurant, and although he said his favorite food was sushi he insisted on not going because he knew I don’t eat raw fish. I thought that was nice of him even though it was his birthday dinner. We ended up on settling for a place called Queen’s Café, and it’s a Russian style restaurant? But basically they had steak and more western types of food. Not bad haha It’s quite clear though who has been to these restaurants before and who hasn’t. I don’t think Vincent has ever really eaten steak at a fancy restaurant before, because 1. He doesn’t know the different types of cuts, and I’m not saying I’m a pro because I didn’t like steak till I met you, but he didn’t even know what a sirloin or a ribeye was haha. 2. The way he holds his knife and fork reminds me of a little kid. Like he holds it like hes gonna stab you with it right after LOL Me and ryo were both much more comfortable with maneuvering around. It’s not a big deal, just something that I noticed that he really stood out haha But It really looked like he enjoyed his dinner which I’m glad about ^__^ Then after dinner we went to go get Haagendas and I treated him to ice cream as well. He ordered coffee and strawberry together… I was like wtf LOL that is like one of the weirdest combinations he could have gotten.. but I mean to each his own!!! Then we ran into one of our friends Yuki, and we headed back to dorms. When we were at the dorms, everyone that was in on the surprise for Vincent was there and you could tell everyone was a little bit antsy haha cause we were playing games but we were also stalling time until midnight. It was actually really funny because I had to get everyone to sign the card, so everyone took turns “using the bathroom” in my room, and I thought it was going to be so obvious but he never noticed LOL I also managed to get everyone to take a group picture which I later printed out into a polaroid to put onto the card ^__^ the squad pic!! But yeah so at around 11:45, people started getting ready to go, and we all split up and I was just gathering all the stuff like the cake, cards, plates, etc, and then we went to get meet up with everyone. It got really bad for a sec because we accidentally texted the wrong group and we didn’t realize it LOL but thankfully Vincent never checked so we got away with it. And then it was also really funny because we got a text from Chris saying SHIT HE LEFT THE ROOM while we were outside the hall, so we were all like omfg go chase him, and it turns out he was only doing laundry. LOL So then the plan was that everyone was going to hide around the bushes, and I was just going to stand there alone with the cake and it would just be me and chris singing happy birthday until the second verse. So it would be like happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you BAM everyone starts singing, and it was really nice it worked out really well and he was actually really surprised haha I don’t think he expected it at all ^__^ He thought it was just me. Then we went inside one of the buildings and we cut the cake there and we chilled there for like an additional 2.5 hours till like 2:30 before we went back to dorms. I’m surprised no one kicked us out cause the building is supposed to be closed LOL but no one stopped us which was nice. The surprise was well executed!! So it was a good day ^__^