Oscar and the Kurse of the Klutz

No papparazi, no taxable goody bags, but OSCAR NIGHT nevertheless! that's the theme of this year's teachers day dinner.
And it marked the start of THE MISS CONGENIALITY CURSE!

YESH YESH. Blame it all on Sandra Bullocks. During the teachers day dinner, i was given the Miss Congeniality "Award" for being smiley and the Klutzy Kurse kicked in the very next day.

We had to go for the Teachers Day Rally, and I left my Teachers' Day Rally Invitation card at home. Edwin n nora started saying, "hey, i've never noticed it about you before... but really hor, you are quite... errr... miss congeniality hor?" Agh. And they started joking about the miss congeniality curse. ok... it WAS quite funny. but so poor thing rite? only sharon pitied me and fed me some chocolates. =) so...i ended up spending $30 on cab rushing around looking for the silly card. And YES IT WAS PEAK HOUR. DARN. I'm gonna get sacked from SSCB...

Then i queued half an hour for the loo .. when there was another one in the Expo Hall! By then my colleagues were all seated in the audi... and somehow i couldn't find them when actually i walked RIGHT PAST them and they were calling me. (Aloy had to run to get me, and he asked "how come you couldn't see us? We were all calling you!" i sensed the amazement/exasperation in his voice) And the Miss Congeniality jokes continued.

After the rally, we had to walk to the bus and i walked as carefully as i could, watching out for all those knee-high barriers (see, they're out to get me!) and congratulating myself for not bumping into them, or tripping over the curbs in my platforms. Brainspeak * ha, think you're gonna get me again? no way man! i won't give em one more chance to mention the Miss Congeniality joke again!* And i kept my eyes on the ground all the time. Except for about 3 seconds. And i stepped into a puddle of water. And whadyaknow... the jokes started again.

Now i do NOT believe that curses will work on me. Hey, i claim every promise in Psalm 91! but just for that evening... it was Agh-ifying.

i've never considered myself a KLUTZ. i mean, i danced, wakeboarded, inline-skated and played hockey, and those aren't exactly for ppl with two left feet rite? So let me make that clear, I'm no Klutz! oh... ok...sometimes, i'm a klutz, but only once in a long long long while.

Ha, like almost walking into a bin on my first date with S.K.C.
Or when i almost fell down the stairs the first year i taught and ripped my fav purple skirt.
Or when i walked and my platforms forgot to follow my feet.
Or when i bumped into my computer tray in office and got bruises all over my thigh.
Oh, and that time at Orchard outside Wheelocks... gosh, THAT was embarrassing.

Hey... wait a minute................

D=

shoots!