The Eight Idiots

Day 61

What year is it? 2020? 2021? No, t'is 2022. Much has happened which I shall detail to you, dear reader.

Since these years, two of us of split off to the sunny lands of Queensland, while the rest of us six stayed behind in Sydney for university. So we don't really get to see each other everyday like we used to at school (took you guys for-granted my babies x) But when we do meet up, wack times galore!

Let me set the scene. Lauren is coming back to Sydney after a whole year of not seeing the Sydney-ers in person. She's exceptionally excited - after all, she hasn't seen her good ol' high school buddies in so long. She hadn't told them that she was in Sydney and wanted to surprise everyone. Oh how they will react, she must have thought with anticipation, when they see me in Sydney.

As she stepped down at the train station, where she was tipped off by a certain someone that everyone was meeting, she caught a glimpse of a woman with short stature. Oh shit, she thought. It's Sophie, oh boy do I hope she does not see me.

 Lauren looked here. She looked there. She looked everywhere but could not find a suitable place to hide. That's it, she thought. The secret is up. She'll spot me.

Sophie then made eye contact with Lauren for a prolonged period of time. The seconds ticked by.

Yet there was no spark of recognition. It appeared the cogs did not turn in Sophie's mind, much to Lauren's relief.

But don't worry! When Lauren surprised everyone at a brunch cafe, everyone was happy to see her in Sydney! :))) However, Sophie was now confronted with the fact that she must explain her rather cold, stoney stare at Lauren when she first saw her. We were able to ask Sophie for an interview to discuss her part of the story. When interviewed, she said that she saw someone at the train station that 'looked a lot like Lauren'. But that was it. 

Some say that Sophie's 20-20 vision is actually a myth.

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So flash forward to these cold months of '22 and the Sydney gang were ready to go out for a nice university cruise party. Getting ready was happening in a blitz in the accommodation that they had booked together. Some were slipping into their outfits, others were questionably putting on nail polish before everything else '_'. One person was watching a practical online while doing their Anki. 

As everyone rushed out of the room to go to the harbour and board the boat, Vivi forgot her seasick medication. "Oh, I'll survive," she said somewhat, not really confidently. 

Alas after an amazing, refreshing 10minute walk to the docks (or, an agonising 10minute downhill walk for the two in heels), everyone had arrived. Then it was time for lots of time standing in the line. I got my hand sanitiser confiscated (kinda insulting that the guards thought I would chug my own hand sanitiser). 

But we were on the boat! The music was at the perfect volume, balanced somewhere between eardrum-destroying and cochlea hair cell mutilating. Any time you wanted an escape of the volume and ventured outside, you were quickly bashed in my the cold winds on an autumn Sydney night. But the pizza was very nice and more kept reappearing after everyone finished eating the mountains they had available. It was great to finally be at a function with everyone x (Qld bbs pls come again and visit us xxx). 

On occasion, Jessie would whip out her phone and settle in for a TFT game, to which I respect her bravery and courage. Vivi and Wendy (and on occasion, Emily) would go and dance their hearts out to songs that they belted at the top of their lungs, and then enthusiastically bop to not-so-familiar songs. But in all, the night was a great experience. We all left the boat with pounding ears and could not hear our own voices for the next hour.

And then back at the hotel room, we got to see the dichotomous nature of drunks. I shall leave the names out incase of embarrassment. But one individual was bubbly and bouncing about - she started to do pushups at 3am in the morning. Yet the other one, was.... not. (She did have killer one-liners though to which I shall share).

Person: "Alcohol is a depressant". 

The drunk: "I am depressed". Gets up and goes to vomit in the toilet.

Overall, lots of great memories to remember. But unfortunately a few days later, half of us got the flu :D