A chat with a fellow blogger who celebrated her birthday today reminded me of this one girl who used to pull pranks on unsuspecting victims on their birthdays.
There was that cola splashing from a shaken can on Liz (yes Nasir, I can almost see you smiling at the memory); there was half-a-bottle spattering of talcum powder on Nita after being rewarded with ice-cream cake on her 21st birthday. And then there were other occasions in which I became part of gang bangs pulling pranks on somebody on their birthdays, No other days seemed better to be doing these awful things than the sometimes suspicious victims’ birthdays. Lucky for me – those few years these gang bangs became popular, I had either celebrated my birthday on a busy exam week or quietly at home during college breaks.
Remembering how fun it was to celebrate other people’s birthdays back then with naughty tricks make current birthday celebrations seem almost blasé – cake, birthday song, some snacks. No outrageous pranks – it’s too cruel to purposely splash even a drop of colorless water on a birthday girl. Especially when we know that she doesn't have a change of clothes handy - unlike when we were in the hostel. And since talcum powder is mostly used at the surau – not exactly an appropriate venue to pull pranks, huh?
Juvenile as they may seem now, if I were to do it all over again, I would choose to get involved in pulling those pranks all over again. I enjoyed it, everyone else found it amusing, and I believe even the victim would smile at the thought of it although maybe with a little ‘geram’ feeling…
It was fun – unfortunately, what used to be practical jokes in our youth are often not quite practical in later years… Yes, I guess it might be true after all - we tend to be more serious as we age...
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