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friday was the birthday... but i was stuck in school coz of the budget that we had to hand in... met the guy at science for lunch... coz he had a test... so we just hung out at his LT as well... popping coffee flavoured chocs... never knew science had LTs like that... with huge wooden blocks as tables... then it looks like a scene from parliament... as you can see... i dunnoe how to spell... tried to read up abit on my work... albeit very unsuccessfully... parents picked me up... picked up my cake from selegie... dinner at home... maid cooked my favourite vegetables... which was superbly sweet of her... coz i never exactly told her i liked it... and mum didnt ask her to cook it... but she noticed that i almost finished the entire serving last time she cooked it... *gandong-ed* aunt came over as well.. so it was nice and rowdy... coz my home has 9 pple to start off with...  the mocha cake... we really love the tiramisu from LE Cafe at Selegie... but they stopped making those for a while coz of a huge order that they are trying to fill... the couple who runs that place are really nice... coz the cakes are only decorated when the customer collects the cakes... so it took a while for the lady to prepare it... her husband very sweetly brought out some moon pies for us to try... it was so good i was reluctant to save my dad half of mine... but i did... it's a very homely setting... with old mandarin songs from the 50s or 60s playing in the shop... real cool...  my grandparents, aunts and dad... that is probably my granny's favourite expression whilst taking a photo... she is still a spirited one... despite her age and all... and i wont go into how handsome my grandpa is again... i've said that way too many times...  my immediate family... the ones i've been crashing on the bed watching chn8 dramas all night with... the sis who hid her relationship from us for two freaking years... the bro who had just gotten braces... the mom who never fails to look in the pink of health without any makeup on... the dad who would ungrudgingly send my friend back to sembawang for me... i love them...  my sis and i were trying to imitate how my dad never smiles for the camera... which is super unlike his usual crappy lame self... somehow i feel it's his way of hiding his true self... like how he always tells me not to let people see through me so easily... else i'll be bullied... coz he knows i'm sensitive and am hurt easily... but he's such a wonderful person i think it's such a waste that not everyone sees it...  of coz... we have to look normal too... well... despite all i have said about them driving me nuts all the time... i cant do without them too... guy picked me up after that... went esplanade... again... but he knows i totally adore the place... the breeze.. the scenery... though it would have been better if he had planned where exactly to go when we got there... parking was real cheap at $1... Esplanade after 10pm... so after i was done with my sulking that he didnt have plans... i was kinda waiting to be blown off my feet with personalized fireworks at the waterfront... -_- he made me laugh by mistaking the Asian Civilisation Museum for Raffles Hotel... and the Parliament House for the Istana... maybe on purpose... but it was just so impossibly funny... so all was forgiven i guess.. also because he had to give up dinner plans just so i can have dinner with my family... and that he hasnt started on the 13 chapters for his tuesday's test... just so he could spend the evening with me... made our way to the jazz place that GY recommended... bought a couple of drinks each... i had two martinis.. and him, a margarita and an Erdinger... bill came up to 65... and the snobbish waiter refused to let us have the nice comfy cushioned seats... i seriously wanted to throw my hongbao at him... "what?!?! you think we got no money issit?!?!" (even though it is true...) but i reckoned i'd be better off with a nice jacket to keep me warm at lectures... i spotted a nice Puma one today... the waiter was mean... coz it was freaking late... and not as if it was a restricted area... coz everyone ended up moving there themselves... stayed for 1 set + 1 song... and the music wasnt that fantastic... maybe it was... just the entire experience didnt add up too well... and i cant stand second hand smoke... i'd rather save up the money and wait for norah jones to come back... with the guitarist who looked as if he was having multiple orgasms as he played... the guy foot the bill for the night... even though it was past midnite and not my bday anymore... wanted to sit the alcohol out at Macs... but it was closed... so walked back to Esplanade... he piggybacked me for a distance... until i remembered i was in a skirt... and asked him to put me down... which was super unglam... coz i fell to the ground... like PIAK. damn paiseh... found the car and drove out... to fong seng for supper... where i had a dino and a combo... and him, teh peng and pratas... it was almost 3 when he sent me back to PGP... all in all... it was a wonderful night... it better be... else he'll get it from me... left, right and center... the next day was Siloso Beach with the councillors... the girls were superbly lazy... cass and i seriously din wanna move around... though we did play frisbee for abit... good shit... though i would be better off if i din use my weird strap Havianas... which kept on slipping off and tripping me... =P  my team... which was obviously handicapped coz we only had one guy... this was when most of the guys hadnt arrive... dont have pictures of everyone... coz i passed my batteries to cass' better cam... so she'll pass me those photos soon i hope...  the other team... wah piangz... somemore lenny loke so tall... damn irritating la... we ended up losing... so much for having the two birthday girls in my team...  i know we dont look very pro... but it was fun... and i guess that's what matters... yeah rite...  shouwen's birthday was also close... so the celebration was for him too... just wasnt too used to guys being younger than myself... especially when in Uni... everyone is like so old...  cass and myself.. people used to say we look alike... but i think we're far from it... maybe it started when we were mistaken for each other during a ice breaker back in SC days... i think it was Samuel who called me Cass... oh well... Mr Quek even said Stella and i looked alike... a comparision will come later... so because of this... cass, siaowen and myself... became the triplets... with sw in far away aussie... we miss you!  KT and myself... this is the girl who shares the same birthday with me... probably the only one i've found so far... KT's real sweet... and we had a wonderful time working on Talentime together... painting banner... putting up the decor... making sure that pple dont step on the banner while we were painting it... memories man...  just something we took on the bus on the way out of Sentosa... coz we realised we were wearing different coloured ones.. the few of us left earlier coz of other appointments... everyone is like super busy... some of them are in their student union... which is great really... glad that council and the busy life rubbed off them so well... that they went for it again... i was supposed to meet the surfers at linc's place for a potluck.. but i had to go home to get my contribution as well...  i dont have many pictures of this evening... coz i was busy having fun with wilson's 7.2MP Exilim... which was uber cool... but linc's place is huge... so huge until his garden got frogs... and can put a swimming pool...  food... which was super duper a lot... they only finished half of my mee hoon... not because it was bad... coz i liked it... but because linc bought 7 packets of 5* chicken rice... and kelv got 30 BBQ wings... macaroni salad... satay... fried chicken... chips... crazy stuff.. and we had ben & jerry's, jelly cocktail and four leaves cake for dessert... *burp*  we kinda celebrated kelvin's and my birthday as well... had a yummy chocolate cake from four leaves... i think we're really lucky to have yijun as our welfare.. he's such a foodie... so we're looking forward to yummy cakes and nice eating places! not that xy was bad... she damn good at presents... i'm still using the pink cushion she got for me... this year i got a pink Nalgene bottle! i think i kinda forgot to make known that i'm not the pink sort of girl...  the gang watching soccer... lyna went back early... so not bad leh... we had 13 people... oni justin and ya'ou couldnt make it.... and philip, the guy who demanded stingray, was sick... and everyone not used to wilson's flash... i mean camera flash.. not flasher kinda flash... so half the guys were like -_-... just like the guy... sunday was the last day of my 4-day bday celebrations... met 0102 for lunch... it was a few 7 of us... but i was ultra touched that these people turned up at least... lunch at fish and co @ glass house wasnt cheap... neither was the cake they got for lala and myself... lala's bday is in 2 days! nonetheless... had loads of fun... and was ultra full...  fish and co cleverly switched their tv to ESPN... and the liverpool-birmingham repeat was on... so you can see that the guys are very distracted... guys and soccer... hiaks!  YC especially... i think he supports liverpool... judging from how distraught he sounded when we mentioned the own goal...  the drinks... liked this picture... just so orangey... and it has song ge in the background... our favourite leader of our very own song dynasty...  this is twig and his corriander pasta... the best part of the afternoon was that he didnt know wad corriander was.... he doesnt eat seafood... fish, very forcefully... and he hated vegetables... he had a terrible time with his first bite of the pasta... then he donated it to stella, merv and myself... who were sharing a seafood platter for 2... the pasta wasnt too bad... just that the corriander was really strong... so i had to overload the Tabasco...  our yummilicious seafood platter... Glass House dont have New York Fish and Chips! *wails*  this was probably the highlight of the afternoon... lala and i went to the toilet... and when we returned... 3 Fish and Co staff were on standby by our table... with sparklers in hand... and they made us stand on the chairs while everyone sung us a bday song... utterly embarassing... but at least i had lala with me... she does look really happy though...  our pretty cake from Breadtalk... tasted like cheesecake... but 10 times creamier... the 7 of us managed to finish the cake... very forcefully though...  we decided that we were sick of taking pictures with the LOVE outside the glass house... also becoz we couldnt find anyone to take the picture for us... we walked to the Istana Park instead... and YC took the picture... not bad a shot... save for the fact that Alvin was desperately trying to peer out from behind... i had an extremely bad hair day... worse than usual... darn... kept feeling paranoid.. and wondering if people were staring at my gravity defying hair...  this is YC and merv... the gay pals... since goodness knows when... people always complain that i always hold the camera slanted... but i seriously thought this effect is good... breaks the monotony... and it took in the full height of the pillar... which was a pretty background... went back to PGP after that... tried to do some work... met the guy at buena vista to go holland V... had dinner at subway... then went to check out his guitar club's performance at some community event... it was cool... especially to see old uncles clapping animatedly to the rock version of wen bie... and many more songs like, Sway... She will be Loved... Ironic... Inside your Heaven... and lots more... but something which struck me... was how music can touch and move people... kinda regretted not having overcome my inability to play any music...  this kid in red was ultra cute... but totally distracting... he was totally fascinated with the drummer... and he got really close at times... when someone kinda shooed him away... he ran rounds around the stage in a Liang Po Po manner... very funny... but very distracting... that marked the end of my long weekend... it went by really fast though.. but it was the best-est bday i had thus far... i never had a 4day long celebration before... a total of 5 cakes... within a span of 4 days... (i need to jog...) the TKG bballers... serene, jasmine and GY... the family... grandpa, granny, aunts emily & violet, dad, mom, sis, bro and auntie sue... the guy... the council... clarence, CK, lenny, SW, cass, KT, jocelyn, huiqing, ruth, dennis, liteng, peiqi, boss & jerhsuan... the windsurfers... linc, XY, kelv, wilson, yijun, lu, viv, kunshan, lyna, charlene, melvin & weiming... the class 0102.. YC, alvin, weisong, twig, merv and stella... and all those behind the sweet SMSes and MSN msges... thanks once again. ----Stef stopped rambling at 17:45 --Link to Post |
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