[ The Memories ]
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Birthday Bangs! Food oh glorious food!
Since i promised myself that i wud not be lazy this year and blog my birthday celebrations (its my 21st birthday afterall), i shall make a vague attempt at it. Mind u, its not total recall tho... this year's celebrations have dragged on for so long (even by my usual celebration days standard) that its not even over yet, and i doubt i'd even be able to dreg up partial recall of most of the details...
Ok, here goes... in chronological order.
The week started pretty mundane, with me even half-suspecting i may be spending it rather peacefully at home with my family (our usual birthday celebration) and a day out wif xiang only. Ironically, while that has been my wish for the past couple of bdays (which din go according to my wishes, though maybe thankfully), i had hoped this years's celeb wud be abit more... happening. Its my 21st afterall.
Well, the exact day of my bday's on Sat, 7th January.
The msgs start pouring in on Tues.
After loads of planning, i've finally spreaded out my "eating schedule cum bday celebrations" wif most peeps... heh heh.
Wed...
Met Vivian for a nite out and early dinner at Coffee Club Express.
Chosen that place cos i was craving for their Muddy Mud Pie... haha. (It was yummy by the way, and their seafood marinara spaghetti in white wine sauce is to die for!)
Thurs...
Sch whole day, so... Rest. Make more plans.
Fri...
Dim sum and chinese buffet with Xiangling at the Orient Ocean Restaurant at Mirama Hotel~!!!!
Dim sum buffet man... Oh. My. God. If i haven started to feel my age, having lunch at that restaurant then totally made me feel like an adult (ok, i am, so wats my point u may be asking). I mean, most of the places we've usually celebrated our own birthdays or frens' birthdays at till now has been the usual teen hangouts - Swensons, Jack's Place, Marche, Fish & Co., Cafe Cartel, Jap restaurants, dessert eateries, cafes and other similar Western-food decked places being the norm... and even if we were to go for a chinese eating place, it'll be Crystal Jade Restaurants kind, or the typical zhi char with ya family or relatives... but DIM SUM BUFFET IN A HOTEL??!
I feel almost like a taitai man... Lolx!
n thats when the stark truth of my age comes crashing down on me...
fark, i'm really gonna be 21 soon.
Its def not the first time i'm having dim sum buffet... It may be the place we're eating at (i.e. a hotel), or the ambience of the restaurant that makes the whole affair feels really formal... but i think most of all it was the company - somehow having dim sum at a hotel one-on-one with ya best fren is diff from having the same lunch/dinner with ya whole family, where u noe the one footing the bill will def be ya parents (thanks again for the treat gal, if u happen to read this).
This whole dragging-ourselves-there-for-a-dim-sum-buffet-in-a-hotel affair has a certain grownup touch to it.
At any rate, any of u who intend to celebrate ya 21st birthday in a very appropriate 21st birthday setting can try having it there. Regardless of who's paying, trust me, it'll make a very memorable 21st birthday meal.
Chilled out at a bar at the hotel lobby after that... where we promptly set out to unwrap her many presents she has given me during lunch (but haven opened)... and inevitably attracted many i'm-too-polite-to-look-but-man-wats-the-world- coming-to stares with our (or rather, my) very public displays of attention =p
Two gals slobbering all over each other at a hotel lobby, wat the fark has the world come to, cant they even wait to go upstairs to their room??!
Lolx!! XP
Ok watever, haha.
Went downtown to meet a few other frens from the BT gang before taking cabs down to a bar in Railway Mall. David n my sis joined us when we reached.
And was the countdown a surprise this year...
Becos it was late!! Lolx!
As usual, we've come to expect the usual antics at each others birthdays... the 'secretly' getting the pub/bar/restaurant's cooperation in playing the birthday song/ karaokeing the song/ bringing out the birthday cake at the stroke of midnight. (As u can see, it has turned into such an old trick that it cant be considered a 'surprise' anymore... only an act of good-will, lolx. =p )
But... the time came n pass without much ado - with hugs, kisses, well-wishes n cheers, but none of the usual fanfare.
Haha... as it turns out, the liveband was taking their break and had totally forgotten. Jus as i tot midnite was over and was settling comfortably into our usual drinking slouch... the liveband started crooning the birthday song... at 12.40am, lolx!
Anyway, the crowd was quite frenly there n a few tables came over to cheers.
The boss (who by the way, was quite charming in a scholarly way, or how u wud imagine the bar owner in a TV drama serial wud look like) came over to offer his well-wishes and opened a bottle of red wine for our table (a nice birthday gesture, considering that aside from them, i was a first-time customer there).
We left near closing time and after we saw the rest of them home in cabs (tho it was a friday nite, most of them still had to work the next morn), the remaining four of us (xiang, david, lyn and me) took a cab down Bt. Gombak for the very famous carrot cake there (ok, very famous in the context that everybody who had tried it so far says its the best damn carrot cake they've ever tasted).
After all xiang n i had eaten at the buffet, we were surprisingly ravenous...
After a very full supper of porridge and carrot cake and a lot of crapping (somehow everything seems alot funnier and laughable when u're in an intoxicated state, lolx!), we finally headed home.
Sat...
Sis went out to buy my birthday cake early noon.
The coffee cake from Bengawan Solo i've been craving a taste fot since when i first realize my bday was approaching. *smack lips*
Both mum n sis bought back a mountain of food (even repetitive cos they din noe wat each other was getting, though thankfully no second bday cake, haha).
Me? I washed n cooked rice. Lolx! =P
After the usual family birthday fanfare (birthday songs, making wishes, blowing of candles, photo-takings, cake-cutting), we settled down to an early dinner of loads of fried food... my birthday, my fave foods. And nobody to nag me to eat lesser of it. Aahahahaha~
Sun...
Rest... and DIGEST.
Mon...
JAP BUFFET at Suki Sushi with Hanxiang!!!
Suki sushi used to be our gang's hangout eating place during sch days where we wud partake in the occasional guilty gluttonious pleasures. That was back in the time where they weren't so popular n their prices had not yet sky-rocketed n poor students like us were very willing to pay $12.90 + GST for our occasional monthly indulgence (now? for 13bucks? u wish! or rather, i wish).
Haha, jap food was originally my first choice when i had to decide wat i wanted to eat n where i wanted to celeb for my various birthday celebrations. Therefore, i msged and replied everybody i wanted to eat jap food... and promptly got four jap food dates. Lolx!
Haha, thankfully i was able to spread them out nicely to satisfy my cravings for other foods hence the dim sum buffet n others.
The soft shell crab... calamari... unagi... oysters and scallops in melted cheese...
*drools at the thought now*
Ok, enuff said.
Tues...
Rest... and DIGEST.
Wed...
Dinner at Cafe Cartel with Huishi and Ashley~!!!
Satisfied my craving for their seafood macaroni...
*thinks of the cheesey sauce* oh man...
Took loads of pics... some of them (of myself) are so disgusting that while its funny to look at them and laugh, it'll certainly look too porn to put on my own frenster profile... Lolx! XP
Thats wat u get for hanging out with those crazy gals... they bring out ya inner porn star, lolx!! =P
This has been a long entry... yawnz.
Its now Sat/Sun, the end of the week, but apparently not the end of my bday celebrations yet.
And there're so many January babies still to celeb for... and CNY...
Gluttony... thou art not a sin except in the mind...
If only i can hypnotize the world into believing this too. Or my body's fats into thinkin each drop of oil is an Extrim-X pill...
Ok, its late and i'm not making sense anymore. May come back n edit any nonsensical parts later on. Haha =p
//
Heh, thanks for the pressies darlings~
And for all the well-wishes pple =)
This year's haul has certainly satisfied the bibliophile in me (i got nearly all the books and more than half the things on my wishlist) and my love for bling blings and pretty stuff :)
Really really like them alot pple! Thanks~!!!
Ah Muaaaarckzzz~ =>
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 4:30 AM
