twenty oh nine

this post is to commemorate the winning of my first lottery ever!!!!  no it was not for money.  i did not win a million dollars nor am i any closer to becoming a millionaire right now so don’t you all come mug me because your efforts will come to nought

anyways back to the lottery.  i got 2 out of the 25 rush tickets for the Wicked musical which was abit surreal bc all the tickets were sold out for the holiday season and things looked tragically bleak.  it was supposed to be the highlight of the holiday!  so you can imagine how i exploded into this confetti of happiness when i heard my name.  the last name somemore!! and orchestra seats!! so dramatic right.  plus the sister was sooo embarrasing haha..here’s why

6.00pm: 150+ people waiting in the frigid cold outside the gershwin theater for the results to be read.  apparently, lottery contestants are considered second class and are not allowed to wait in the theater so we had to freeze our feet off in the slush and brace ourselves against the blizzard winds which had died down after the storm but were still there (indulge me and let me dramatize abit la okay)

6.10pm: beanie cap lottery guy comes out with slips of paper in his hands and everybody shushes and surges forward to surround  beanie guy

6.11pm: you hear the first shriek and you’re like oh man one down

two down

three down

four down

beanie guys: blahblahblah jhaaaaa luuuu?

HERE COMES THE EMBARRASSING PART

embarrassing sister: THATS ME THATS ME OMG WE WON!!! (i forgot to mention that one person wins two tickets, hence the ‘we’)

me: huh really? are you sure?? i heard a lu not foo leh..

embarrassing sister: NONONO THATS ME LETS GO

embarrassing sister grabs me and we push our way through the throng going ‘excuse me excuse me excuse me EXCUSE ME’ 

embarrassing sister and i reach front of crowd

embarrassing sister to beanie dude: THATS ME RIGHT!! SHIYAN FOO!

beanie dude: JHAA LU??

embarrassing sister peers at paper. her face turns red

embarrassing sister mouths to me: it’s JIA LU omgomgomg move back

mortified sister pair shrinks back into the crowd and avoids everyone’s gaze

THE REAL ‘JHAA LU’ COMES UP AND COLLECTS HIS TICKETS ZOMG.  i bet he was giving us the evil eye.  why are these two idiotic girls trying to steal my tickets!

…

and moments later..down to the last ticket

beanie dude: SHIRONG FOO?

OMGOMGOMG AHHHHH THATS US THATS US!!!! SORRY SORRY EXCUSE ME EXCUSE ME  WE GOT TO GET TO THE FRONT……AGAIN

and thank goodness it was REALLY us else i would have just melted with humiliation

ohwell. the musical was fantastic btw.  perkiest glinda ever altho we got an elphaba who had very awkward hand gestures while singing..it was abit disturbing actually