Post Birthday Celebrations Blog

Friday, 23rd January 2009

Woke up earlier on Friday morning as I had to go pick up some donuts that I had ordered for my collegues. Was plesantly surprised when I got to the office and was presented with some pressies. 

Grace, Belle, Lynette & Joey got me a small standing bouquet of flowers, including a huge sunflower in the centre. SQ got me a pair of uber cute dangly earrings. Stella got me sparkly eye-liner and eye-lash enhancer. Even our temp staff Anna made me some handmade roses! So happy! I managed to feed my collegues with 3.5 dozen donuts from Donut Empire before heading off for my own birthday facial treat. The facial was done at aFond Spa. It was a pretty good diamond peel facial where I was so comfortable that I fell asleep and woke up very refreshed.

As the spa was just across the road from Chinatown, I went to Chinatown to get some goodies for my grandma before heading to Plaza Sing to pick up more stuff and finally, rushed to Bugis to meet my cousins.

Haven't had a chance to catch up with these cousins in recent times as we've all been fairly busy. We say cousins, although in actual fact, the connection is quite far. Our grandmothers are cousins, so I guess we are like 3rd degree cousins or something. I always like to hangout with them though, its always a bunch of laughs. Was quite happy to sit down and find out what has been happening to them. We had dinner at the Chilli Padi Nonya Buffet which is next to Bugis Junction. The food was pretty good, although it was a different menu from when I went there with Ed 2 weeks ago. Still, everyone ate alot, at least 3-4 helpings each. My cousins were uber sweet and got me a tinny piglet for my birthday. Two of them have the same piglet doll, so we put them together and took a picture.

From left: Pipi, Luplup & Feifei. Notice how Luplup is a different colour... Less pink, more grey! Why? Because Shirley needs to give her a bath!

Loong, Shirley, Michelle & Me at J.co where Loong wolfed down another 3 donuts before bringing the rest of the box home.

Said goodbye to my cousins at around 10 something and headed home where a surprise was awaiting me. Will and Irene dropped by at midnight with my durian cake! It was meant to be a surprise as I was sitting in the living room with my back to the main door, but Bunny gave it away when she looked at the door and smiled. I turned around just in time to catch a glimpse of Irene dodging down the corridor so I yelled at them to come in. The both of them came in smiling and smelling of durians. Will also gave me the long overdue Havanas that he was meant to buy for me in Melbourne last year! Fortunately he didn't forget when he was in Brisbane this time and got me my new Havanas! Finally I have decent beach slippers!

Me with my durian cake

Me and my Bunny in our incredibly messy living room.

Irene & Will, the 2 would be surprisers

We had durian cake and chatted for a while before Irene and Will headed home. The Bunny gave me my new pretty in pink Canon Ixus 80 IS that I charged in anticipation for use the next day. I had to get to bed early again as there was a long day ahead of me.

Saturday, 24th January 2009

Woke up at a decent time and got ready to meet Will for lunch. Will had told me that he was picking me up at 11:40 am, so I got myself ready by 11:30 am. Bunny took a ride from Will, but did not join us for lunch. Funnily enough, even though both Will and Bunny didn't tell me where we were meeting for lunch, I received an sms from Joe in the morning wishing me Happy Birthday and telling me he would be late for lunch, but would still meet us at Plaza Sing. So before we even left the house, I knew we were going to town. Despite Will rushing me, we were still the first to arrive at the restaurant, so it wasn't really a surprise, but was a good lunch with the Prophecy gang. Really so happy to catch up with everyone and hear of their latest escapades.

First picture taken with my new camera before heading out of the house towards Plaza Singapura.

Cam-whoring in the car while Will is driving us to Plaza Singapura

First stop of the day... The Manhatten Fish Market at Plaza Singapura.

Lunch at Manhattan Fish Market with the Prophecy gang (from left): Joe, Daryl, Shahin, Me, Will, Najib & Kewei

Before I knew it, Lunch was over and it was time to set off for Part 2 of my Birthday. Will asked me to say bye to everyone before pulling me outside of the restaurant where I found a tiara, sceptre and a floating pig waiting for me. I was then told that I had to wear all that for the day while going on my very own paid for shopping spree. What a great way to celebrate my birthday right? Free Shopping! With Bunny, Cheyenne and Ed in tow, I proceeded to go around Plaza Sing, looking for bargains. Took me over 2 hours, but I managed to get some good stuff Didn't find my flats though

Me at the beginning of the shopping spree

Me and the Bunny bringing my new pet Pork Chops for a walk

Fighting the crowds while attempting to do my shopping spree...

The harvest from my shopping spree: hammie houses and clear earrings from Daiso, 2 pairs of jeans, a blouse, Ripples laptop case, cheap Ripples slippers, URS black heels to replace the ones Edna broke and a pretty cute 1 GB thumbdrive that comes on a chain with a heart dangling from it. All for below $150 in total.

After spending 2 hours shopping, it was time to head to Raffles City where Part 3 of the birthday surprise awaited me. We arrived there to find that Elita had arranged for another hat for me. This time in the form of a birthday cake. We proceeded to a nail salon where I had my pedicure done . The manicurist had to test paint my toe nails 3 different colours before I settled on 1 colour. It was still early after the pedicure, so I got talked into going on the Gmax reverse bungy ride with Elita and Rafel.

We walked to Clarke Quay where we bought tickets at student prices (Don't ask me how... Elita and Rafel managed to convince the guy I was a student too) And when the guy found out it was my birthday, he said he would give us a very special ride. He started the joke by only strapping me into the seat halfway and starting the machine. I was half convinced he was gonna let us fly with me barely strapped in my seat, but he laughed and strapped me in after a while.

He started the machine and asked us to sing a birthday song. Halfway through the song, he launched the ride. And that was when I heard Rafel start laughing. After the initial spinning, the capsule settled down and it became somewhat of a rocking chair. I had to close my eyes when we were spinning as I felt like I was going to puke, but once that spinning stopped, I was fine.

The ride lasted for under 5 mins and the conversation we had during those 5 minutes was hilarious! The worst part about it was we had no idea anyone could hear us, so we were laughing, screaming and saying stupid things, utterly unaware that everyone below was watching a live feed and could not only see us, but could hear us as well!!! The funniest parts of the ride: Rafel's laughing throughout the entire ride and Elita's declaration while we were at the very peak: "I'm scared of heights".

When we finally got off the ride, I stood there in horror as I realised that the entire process had been streamed live to everyone on the ground and it was now bring played on loop. We went and bought a copy of the DVD so they would stop playing it... I'll try to load the video one of these days.

My new hat that got alot of compliments. Someone even said I looked like Santa Claus (am I that fat?)

Rafel who also got her nails done

Elita looking bored while waiting for me at the Nail Salon

The nice girl painting my toe nails. She kept smiling at Pork Chops.

Waiting for my pedicure to dry

The final product of the pedicure... pretty toe nails to match the new blouse I bought for Chinese New Year

Little kid at the basement of Raffles City who was fascinated by Pork Chops, yet refused to go near him. When he finally did, it was to give Pork Chops a slap. Poor Pork Chops was really abused by the children that day.

On the way to take the reverse bungy Gmax ride

Us before the ride... pictures after the ride are too embaressing to show

Once we had relaxed after the ride, it was time to head for dinner. Although I for one, was not really hungry after being thrown around in the air, but we still had to eat right? We headed for dinner at Ichiban Boshi where Bunny had said around 8 to 12 people were waiting for us. Turns out it was more like 18-20 people. The restaurant had to join a series of tables for us to create a long table at the corridor. We had 24 people for dinner and OMG, I'm sure the waitress was totally harassed by us. People kept coming, so we kept ordering and then asking her for stuff etc. When it was time to bring out the cake, she was again the one harassed to take a few pictures for us. She must have sighed a huge breath of relief when we asked for the bill. Then it was the cashier's turn to panic. We went up to pay for our food separately and I am sure she thought she had never entertained such a noisy and troublesome crowd before!

Sunday, 25th January 2009

The day began with me feeling uber tired from so little sleep the night before. However, the show has to go on. I had to get to my auntie's place before noon because we were having reunion lunch instead of dinner as my cousin had to work that evening. So I went with my Bunny to have a quick reunion lunch at Holland Village before heading to Bishan to meet my sis Emily and my Godson Jayden. For the first time in his 15 month old life, Jayden was uber good that day. He was in a good mood, so he agreed to be play with me. Managed to get sooooo many good shots of him, in such a short time. Really made my day

First time we managed to capture a photo of Jayden and me while we are both smiling and looking at the camera

Finally a decent picture of the 3 of us

"I show you my tooth by pressing my mouth against the glass ok?" grins Jayden

"Hi Godma, doesn't your bag look good on me?" asks Jayden

"Hahaha, you can't catch me Godma" laughs Jayden

"This bag looks good on me!" says Jayden while he sashays around the library

Jayden says "Godma's bag is not enough, so I'll just take Godma's present along with me"

Jayden abandons the loot and heads for the books instead... Just like Godma!

So what is the pressie?

Pretty box

Guess what it is?

A pretty new bag! Yay!

All in all, I had a great, fantabulous, wonderful and awesome birthday! Thank you to everyone who gave me well wishes or made the time to meet me, have lunch, come to dinner, drop by for drinks. Special thanks to my Bunny who arranged everything so that for once, I didn't have to decide what I wanted to do for my birthday (Although that didn't stop EVERYONE from calling me and asking me what I was doing/when we were meeting/what I wanted for my birthday). It was all taken care of

It was a fantastic 4 days and now all I have to do is look forward to the big 3-0!