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Saturday, January 15, 2005
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Had a good time yesterday with christine and huili (without sick lihui :< ).
For huili's 21st belated bday celebration. :)
Well it all started out pretty rocky cos at 5 plus, i had no idea where the place wesley recommended (Changing Appetites the cafe) was. I was trying to check the location out on good ol' www.can.com.sg but cos of conflicting details like "Far East Square" and "Cecil St." which were totally different places, i had no idea where that place was. Until i realised i could just do a google search. The internet is INCREDIBLE. love it. Esp when you need to figure out where places are and how to go.
ANYWAY. Yep, i was getting pretty frustrated cos i couldn't get too huili-san cos she was in a meeting and lihui might not turn up cos she's quite ill. (everyone is getting sick. everyone beware. ) And i was rushing huili's pressie (hehe) cos this week happened to be a pretty hectic week for me and i managed to squeeze time here and there and take fri noon off to come home and finish it up. Then finally i got huili and confirmed the meeting time and place. And i was flying around the house, having to bathe, put my contacts, get the cake (hehe) , 'wrap' the pressie and get a digicam i borrowed (lucky i borrowed).
And yep. i was late. i am always late la. But i was INTENTIONALLY late this time round (proud look) cos i wanted to smuggle the cake into the cafe. So i could either go early or late. But knowing me er.... early is quite impossible. (:P) So i got up a bus at er... 6.45 when i was supposed to reach Chinatown MRT at 7.15. hyuck. I do 'late' very well. Its damned tough i tell you! My pressie was A3 size and flat so i trayed my huge cake on it and slinging my bag, i had no hands to spare. Can u imagine going up a bus with no hands? I was trying to juggle my ez link card while getting a seat before e bus uncle moved off. Brrr. (HUILI , wei3 da4 right?!) Then i stopped at outram and started my HIKE. i walked from.... Outram MRT station ALL THE WAY to far east square , holding that not heavy but bulky load. Its bout 20 min walk my speed which is super far. I was all sticky when i reached. (i'll spare the details of chiding christine for being late for e reservation i made and getting really lost at chinatown. haha)
Passed e waitress e cake. Haha. It was quite hilarious. I simply presented the cake to the waitress outside the cafe and she gave this clueless expression. Then i realised wat i was doing and quickly explained : " Could u help me keep this cake ? " And she gave an even more bewildered (slightly offended too) expression! Then i realised she din even know i was a customer with the girls who were in there already! But anyway, she finally got my pt and managed to smoothly glide pass the gossiping girls with the cake unnoticed. Then i came in.
It was a pretty good dinner! Cos it was FREE! Free dinners are always good!
I like free dinners! Huili rocks! I love 21st bdays! All my friends are to treat on 21st bdays! Yay!
hurhur. Oh the food was in great quality and satisfactory proportions. :) Huge. I had Parmesan Fish and Chips. Never tried cheese in fish fillets before. Yummy and dead sinful. Huili decided to challenge her Feng1 Mo4 again and try fish and chips here. (haha, the last 2 times she had it at Coffee club she had a hives outbreak and spent god-knows-how-much on her doctor fees with huge bumps all over her face) While chris ate her lover's choice : Mango Steak (er... its a nice steak i think with mango and cheese sauce which was surprisingly appetising . mmm, gonna try it e nxt time i go. )
THEN we presented gifts. Christine gave Huili HEAVEN (aka Godiva chocolates). MMMmmmmm. They very generously allowed me to have 1 hazelnut praline which was worth $4. Oh. i think i died. again. But dats only her part 1 present. gee. Like some bday saga. Oooh. Den huili gave me MY present! haha. Super belated. Stupid huili, wrote a letter on her wrapping paper which i happily tore up. Scolded me somemore. WHO ON EARTH uses wrapping paper as letter paper? And the wrapping paper was cheapskate " Season's Greeting" type somemore. wAh lau. my bday gift. pui. OOOh. But wat's outside DOESN'T MATTER. She gave me a PIERRE CARDIN 100% PURE LEATHER WALLET. ooooh. altho i recenly started using my B.U.M. wallet (another bday gift 2 yrs back), but this one is much nicer so i ditched my BUM (smirk). It looks younger la. And its brown n not boring black. And its PIERRE CARDIN (proud bitch look). And also cos huili was demanding i changed wallet there and then, so i painfully said goodbye to my 12 day old bum wallet.
ME ACTING DAO w SILLY HUILI AFTER DROPPING EYEDROPS N MY stylish 'PC' WALLET (i think i can go pai guang gao)
Then i gave MY pressie! She criticised the wrapping. Wah lau, i chose the newspaper with NAthan to wrap ok. gee. hehe. Aiya, cos its a mirror mah, so must wrap w newspaper. (i have NO IDEA what the logic is, if it drops it'll crack also ma. odd. old wives' tale of sth ba hehe) Its actually a photo collage of our photos which leaves a star-shaped mirror in the centre. GRIN. Think its quite nice :P. Here it is :
And yea, could tell she loved it. Until she started noticing how AHEM AHEM she looked in the old photos. *cough cough* er... *whistles* er.... *knits fingers* ladidar. hahhaha. aiya, we both look TERRIBLE. mortal terror. black and fat OBS photos with village hairdos. haha. we look so different! check this 2 photos out :
BEFORE
AFTER
looked so gross last time. teehee.
chris was busy pacifying the traumatised huili with stuff like :
"but you look great now! you look pretty! (den adding in a whisper) relatively..."
silly girls.
I think huili was on the verge on throwing the mirror on the floor in distraught if not for the 18 years of bad luck dat comes with it. *grin*
Den we started taking photos.
And all of a sudden, the waitress came over and laid the MOST GORGEOUS CLASSY LOOKING PROFESSIONALLY DECORATED CAKE ON THE TABLE.
OH. WAT. A. SHOCK WE HAD.
hahahahahhahahahahah. (im so irritating n egoistic i love miself)
Huili was in shock. She was about to ask the waitress if they got the wrong table until she noticed her name on it. And all the while, christine (i noticed) had this sudden SMEAGOL look on her face, she looked spellbound by the cake and its rich cream and purple luminous jelly, she wanted to DEVOUR IT ALL BY HERSELF! haha. Den i gave the "oh-not-a-big-deal" look and told huili dat i baked it. hahhahaha. I'm a poser shit. Den we had this very miserable bday song singing session. Cos i was taking photos while huili was e bday ger which leaves CHRIS happily clapping to herself! she looked a bit mad and giggly. But her eyes NEVER left the jelly.
THE CLAPPER, THE WISHER and THE CAKE (chio right?er.. the cake of cos)
Den we cut 3 slices off the pretty oversized cake (for 3 persons) and chris was sneakily trying to pinch off some "overhanging" (i quote her) jelly or some mispositioned black cherry. HMM. hehe.
Its a " Triple Sponge Cake with Three Layers of Black Cherry Cream Cheese Mousse decorated with fresh whipping cream and topped with Cherry Jelly " I LOVE exaggerating my cake names! haha. But this seriously took a lot of work la. Esp. the whipping cream part. got my hands super creamed up cos HUILI chose to call dat day to disturb me. tsk tsk. Den the lousy box was too small and smudged the cream a few times so i had to redo the creaming. But it was fun to do and fun-ner to eat. hoho.
LOOK AT THE TRIPLE LAYER! and the SHUAI GE and er.... *small letters* mei nus...
Den we started this mad phototaking session. took alot of wu liao photos. rocks. i love taking photos.
Den we decided to go over for our 3 person ktv after all!
haha. KTV was fuN! haha. these 2 girls are really mad, u see the way they dance. okay la but i am always mad so its okay! and there are ALL the SHE songs! but er. the words were MTV size so most of the time we were mumbling. BUT TONG KUAI was no problem! hahha
all in all, a good stress outlet for this week. Whew. altho most of e stress came for preparing for the day itself haha. e irony.
Anyway, i get to drive next tues to next thurs! cos dad is out of town n bro is in sweden! woo. scary tho. But i'll drive to nearby places onli. :) Hopefully can find one day to drive jiabin, chris n huili to somewhere for dinner after their classes. JB go arrange! otherwise no car ride for u. we could go tiong bahru for dinner! i love tiong bahru market! heh. i'm excited. den we could have dessert back at Changing Appetites since we havent tried e NO.1 MUDPIES YET!
p.s. first time i have a blog with pictorial inserts. so tiring. :P
p.s.s. anyway boon, u can claim a reasonably sized cake slice from huili cos i ordered her to bring u a piece on monday. ok? im good right?
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