  since jane is soooo stubborn and won't do what she is told *cough*, i'll blog (somehow that word just seems so barbaric/crude! ) about yesterday's happenings: let's just start w/ my mad rush to get to meena and the party on time. well you all know about my procrastination habits and how sometimes it can be quite extreme (kristy knows about that english project ;) ). so i'm home, and jane calls me to make me RSVP for her party when it strikes me, i have no gift! so i try to reach my dad, who is submerged in his "work" at his office and he tells me he's coming home soon, which by asian parent standards could mean anytime between today and next week. after 3 calls, he comes home, an hour after the first call.
nice, huh? so it's 4:20 and i've only just begun to make jane's gift. how dead was i? x_X i did finish it, though (i FORGOT to GIVE it to her!!! ARGNESS!!! ), at around 5ish, when i had to go pick meena up.
after arguing w/ my dad on whether the street #s were increasing or decreasing, we find meena and alessia. apparently, meena's mom said she couldn't come, so only alessia gets in the the car. 2 min later, when we're on Bellaire, meena calls and says she can come b/c her mom changed her mind(what is w/ the indecisive indian parents?). so we go back to meena's house and get her, go to the zoo (after semi-yelling back and forth between my dad and i; sorry about that) and meet up w/ jane, eleanor (who we all thought was asleep cuz all our calls were going to the answering machine), dima (the first to get there for some reason; he thinks he was just being prompt), liang and her bro, kristy, sobiya (she could've been a hemann triplet! haha but she went to DeBakey. *gasp*), jenni and phil.
aftering everyone cooled down w/ hawaiian shaved ice, we walk over to where jane, eleanor, and her parents are sitting w/ the food. rags calls and says that he'll sing happy birthday to jane, but doesn't do it cuz there are ppl around him. so jane's dad pulls out the butchers knife (which i've had too close an encounter w/, btw) and cuts the fudge cake that jane made for herself. i must say, that was pretty good frosting! hehe. we then progress to the pizza and the "garlic dipping sauce" (i think it was just oil... it looked kinda nasty).
we got to watch ridge (liang's 'lil bro) act like a duck! awww-ness! so then some ppl (meena and kristy) had to leave, and some other ppl (jane and liang) left to walk them home. in the meanwhile, the ppl who stayed behind took out the bread and started to feed the fish/ducks. it's scary how the fish will congregate wherever you drop the bread and all jump to grab it. it's equally frightening how the meat-eating ducks will just swim by a feeding school of fish and attack the fish (at first we didn't know what it was doing, cuz it seemed like it was trying to get the bread, but then we realized that by feeding the fish we were only helping the ducks catch them).
so dima still hasn't fully explained what all that stuff oozing to the water's surface is. i swear he said it was methane, but then he goes and tells me it's CO2. grrrr there was this really badly sunburned pfile near the lake. he was telling us to put bread between our toes so that the fish could nibble at it and just stared at us while dima tried to get a fish in the cup. he wasn't successful, of course, b/c he basically thrashed his arm and the cup in the water and scared all the fish away. he tried a trap sort of thing by putting bread into the cup and then submerging it, but the fish knew better than to swim in.
he also kicked a duck into the water and pretended like he only "shoved" it. ha! alessia tried to sink some fish w/ her densely packed breadballs, and also speculated on how a dropped cigarette butt might affect the fish (stone them). anyways, after we ran out of bread for the fish, we walk around and discover a duck being drowned/raped by another duck. so we start throwing things at them to make the other duck stop, and are temporarily successful, but that other duck chases the victimized duck around, and eventually goes back to doing whatever he was doing again. when all was said and done, the victimized duck had been raped by 2 ducks... she'll need some serious psychological counseling sessions.
so jane's mom finds a lost baby duck, and the awwing insues. the pfile guy tells us to go look for its mother, since she can't be that far away. jane hears rags' voicemail message where he actually sang! we find the mom w/ like 10 other ducklings swimming in the pond by the lilies but the lost duckling has something wrong with its neck and can't swim, so we can't release her onto the water. we try to get the mother duck's attention, but she just swims away. so our last resort is to get the baby duck to the animal clinic in the zoo.
so we walk up to the fence by the guard shack, where this guy is feeding the ducks in the zoo, and we pass the duckling through the fence, where hopefully he has been fed and treated. we walk back through the children's playground area, and everyone swings while trying to kick their shoes off in dima's direction. fun fun. we try to go through the misting thing, but only the bottom sprayers are on, so we only feel the water by our feet. finally we just decide to jump in front of the lawn sprinklers. so we all get separated into jane's cars.
i went w/ her dad and alessia. i thought i was going to jane's place (b/c my dad wants to watch the game and NOT come pick me up! *GRRR!!! *), but her dad decides to drop me off at home cuz i'm on the way to alessia's house anyways. yay! :) so i go home and watch the horrific game.
33-30 at halftime?!?!? you've got to be kidding me. so i've discovered that the fingers thing we do isn't exclusive to our bellaire ppl anymore, i mean, i saw kenyon martin do it w/ his coach! *gasp jane gasp* hahaha it was a good day yesterday 'cept for that little thing that few need to know of. i listened to some of the songs on the cd before i went to sleep as i was memorizing my lines for barbara. i think i suffocated the monkey cuz i was hugging him so hard... :) 
