The Lunch that also Masquerades as Dinner

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yours truly is glad to report that although there was indeed ice-cream at *Starry's housewarming steamboat lunch cum birthday celebration for *Starry's fren (which, btw, she didn't tell yours truly it was meant as a bday celebration for someone yours truly dun even know when inviting me!), no one was forced to resort to having ice-cream. Thank Evilness.

Flashback to 1.5 week ago:

*Starry truly rendered an invitation to yours truly to a steamboat dinner (which turned out to be lunch), because she wants to introduce yours truly to 2 of her friends and which, more importantly, she sneakily mentioned that the steamboat was meant to be her housewarming party.

Now, the question was, why the hell did yours truly attend since basically, I hate such events where I dunno the other people and there is a need to make social chit-chat and being a hermit and anti-social, such events are no-no.

Well, let's see. I think I guilt-tripped and outsmarted myself. *ruefully*

First of all, being happily slacking, yours truly is more amendable to persuasion. (You will be surprised at the number of strange events I have been invited to, most of which, I have still turned down, and the number of people trying to persuade me to meet some stranger or go somewhere strange). *archly*

Secondly, yours truly's devious brain reminded me that if I have no qualms whatsoever to ask people I like to meet my clique (and usually that means a whole group of them), then to be fair, I should give my frens the benefit of doubt and meet people they like in turn. After all, I had no qualms just inviting *starry to meet my clique or *candid to meet my clique. If they had to meet a whole group of strangers all at one time, then in turn, how can I refuse to meet just 2 of *Starry's friends? (Damn, why do I value fairness and impartiality? Yours truly will work harder to get these qualties out of my system. *grin* Anyway, not that it matters, it turned out to be more than 2 strangers to meet. There was 3 of *starry's frens, *starry's significant other, *starry's roommate & said roommate's fren. Can I demand compensation for being misled? *laconically*)

Thirdly, yours truly has turned down *starry's invitation to meet her friends, and specifically, one of them in particular quite a few times, so yours truly is feeling a slight tinge of guilt in my practically non-existent conscience. Alas. *shake head at myself*. In any case, it's not that yours truly doesn't think that *Starry's frens will be interesting, it's just that I'm lazy and anti-social enough to not wanna make the effort to meet people. *grimace*

So happily, I plotted to buy *starry a housewarming present, meet her during the day to give it to her and then, wiggle out of the dinner. Unfortunately for me, the dinner turned out to be lunch, so I had no time to wiggle out. *wryly*

In gist, yours truly did indeed meet *starry's friends today and the amount of food prepared by *starry was obviously way too much. So we started having lunch at 3pm and finished about 5pm and that was like full enough to be dinner. And then, *starry also made tea, cooked *cheng tng and there was also the chocolate truffle birthday cake. Gosh. So-much-to-eat.

Ok. As an aside, *starry's frens are fine. No bad vibes. Thankfully. But yours truly is hard pressed to find her roommate and her roommate's fren likeable, not that they did anything to me, but they were distinctly unfriendly and distant, at least, they felt that way to me. I really don't think the blame can be laid at my door this time, since yours truly was in a fairly *sociable state, and I didn't even make sarcastic remarks. (Can you imagine that? Pause for gasp of breath. Even I am amazed at myself. *shake head*) So it's really them. *dryly*

On a happier note, other than finding *starry's frens acceptable, this is the first time yours truly really met *starry's knight in shinning amour, and fortunately, he is quite easy to get along. Not that we had much in-depth significant conversation, but at least it was easy and comfortable. Very important. It's sad if yours truly can't get along with the significant others of her closer friends. I mean, yours truly is already way too selective over who I go out with, imagine if I had to extend my anti-social personality to my closer frens' other halves. Wow. I'll soon have no frens indeed. *deadpan*

Ok. If you have managed to make it this far (I am surprised at you. Go get a life!), here's my thanks to *starry for a nice lunch and desserts, etc.

I had a comfortable day at your place.

As for the person you really wanted me to meet...*shrug* I have no comments really, except, oh my evilness, you can't even refrain from not asking me about so-and-so in front of your knight? *roll eyes*

Patience and resisting temptation are virtues, my fren.

Go acquire some. *wryly*

Yours truly,
Evil me