This is what happens when you eat at a place that sounds sinful

Today I touched a worm.  A green worm to be exact.

It was pretty much the highlight of my day, and NOT in a good way mind you.

I mean, it was a pretty normal day, other than the fact that I GOT UP BEFORE 8 AM (gasp that's almost as rare as pigs turning blue and flying *inside joke*, REALLY ask my mum she'll totally agree)

but then i went back to sleep until around 12. So...  =)

oh and i got to eat really yummy Mee Rebus for lunch and I sat under the shady ciku tree in the garden near the hammock "bonding" with my mom until mosquitoes got the better of me

AND i spent practically the whole day contending with my (i say MY, but it actually belongs to the family) desktop. I swear, that computer's more stubborn than I am. It either refuses to start, or it refuses to let me go online. It has a mind of it's own, and it HATES me. It's practically a baby, HOW did it get so rebellious, so fast?! =/

Oh I helped my dad prepare his PowerPoint slides (he's worship leading tomorrow and is endearingly clueless about technology)  and got hit repeatedly on the head by him because he was jealous that i could type so much faster than him.

=D

btw i taught him Ctrl C =  copy and Ctrl V = paste and i THINK he got it! =)

Anyway we were invited out for dinner with Uncle Francis and family, supposedly a going-away dinner for me (but really, it's coz my parents refused to accept money when we lent them our car and they're just using me as an excuse sheesh)  at Xin Garden Restaurant.

I love that place. When you say the name people immediately think you're going somewhere cool called Sin Garden   =D

So, the thing about that place is it's kinda surrounded by really tall, leafy, shady trees. Which is really good, considering we need more trees to counter global warming and all that.

BUT

trees = breeding ground for creepy crawlies like stupid worms and caterpillars etc etc

So... maybe it's my fault for hanging out under the trees for so long. I was playing a game with my brother and he REFUSED to back down! So i MAY have spent longer than necessary under the trees whilst persuading him to give in.

Anyway inside the restaurant we were eating (really really yummy food btw), and i looked down at my black shirt and saw this rice grain thingy stuck to it.

I say rice grain because it was kinda curved, or curled, AND it was stuck there the way rice does sometimes. The only thing was, it was green but i kinda ignored that fact (i'm used to seeing weird things because i usually don't wear my glasses and i forgot i was wearing contacts)

So anyway i grab the so-called rice grain in my finger

AND


THEN


i looked down at it, thinking, "strange, it really IS green".

That's when it started SQUIRMING. In between my FINGERS.

And i realized i was actually holding an honest-to-goodness WORM.

I'm not really squeamish about insects and stuff, but that was really TOO MUCH TO HANDLE

You just WAIT till that happens to you, then you'll know (not that i'm cursing you or anything, i'm just saying)

so i did what any girl (and guy, probably) would do:

I flung it away from me and SCREAMED.

I think it wasn't that loud. It was probably a really soft, muffled scream.

I hope lah.

It WAS loud enough to get the whole table's attention though, especially when i ducked down and kept peering around to make sure that worm wasn't crawling up the legs of my chair, or (god forbid) my actual legs.

It was pretty embarrassing actually. Uncle Francis actually got up and came all the way over to my side of the table and bent down, saying "what is it? where? what?"

And then the hostess of the restaurant comes over too, and she started asking if  I lost anything. And when she found out it was a worm i was looking for, she gave me this really amused smile and said she'd look out for it when she swept the floor later.

Me? I just sat there and smiled. In a this-is-so-shameful-but-eeek-the-worm-might-still-be-ANYWHERE-please-help-me way.

Like i said before though, the food was really good.