The Birthday Weekend
I am now 25. Is that supposed to be a great age to be in? Coz "a quarter of a century" sounds really old, although technically we are still qualified as a young adult. And apparently, we are supposed to be a bunch of confused people. This leads to this article about having the "Quarterlife Crisis" which I'm sure anyone would have received this through e-mails at least once. Ohh.. What am I talking about? It's my birthday, man! So we shall talk happy things here!
Let's start over. I am now 25. Had a quiet birthday weekend, nevertheless, am very glad to have celebrated it with my family and close friends. I guess, as we get older, birthdays are not so much of a huge celebration, playing games and receiving presents anymore. When I was younger, every year Daddy would buy a blackforest cake. When I say cake, I meant the 1kg one, with 12 cherries on it. That was huge, considering there were only 3-4 (3 was before Bel was born) of us eating it. Now? "Don't need lar.. So old already.. Pai seh lar.." Hehe..
Anyway, I had mentioned it here that it would be lovely to meet up with Winnie to celebrate our birthdays together on the 27th. We eventually did, along with our other halves, over dim sum in Foh Sun on Sat morning. It was too bad that Keat couldn't make it (some other time, perhaps?). It was also too bad that Roland is still in Perth, it would have been a sweeter moment to have all 3 of us celebrating our birthdays together (Roland was 5-7 hours younger than me, and 10-12 hours younger than Winnie). We had a great time catching up on each other's lives though, especially when I have not seen Ivan for 7 years now. Winnie brought her SAM photo album along, so we were laughing and relating back the good old days as I flipped the pages. It made me realize that I wasn't very close to our classmates and that I did not take enough shots as memories. Heck, even there were probably only 1-2 pics of us together! As of today, we have at least 5 pics! Hehe.. It was all good though. From what I wrote for Winnie's testimony on Friendster, despite the major glitch we had in our friendship 7 years ago, we were able to look past that and we are still good friends now like as if that glitch had never happened. :)
Next on the "makan" line was with my family at Eastin for the buffet dinner. As usual, I was more keen on the dessert but I forgot to take the custard pudding! Aw man! Every year, 27th Nov was always my day. But this year, I'm making it as Mummy's day. A day to remember how much of pain she had to suffer just to bring me into the world. Apparently, I was supposed to be out 2 weeks later, but the doctor wanted to induce Mummy, coz he was to go on a holiday! Before he even did it, I came out the very next day by myself. I must have been pretty scared about the Induction. Hehe.. As a token of great appreciation, I am buying Mummy a DECT cordless phone so that she can take advantage of the speakerphone feature. The phone of course doesn't cost as much as the pain she went through, but.. At least something lar, I hope!
On Sunday "pulak", was another dim sum lunch, this time with Laine, Ke Yaw, Kai Ling, Zona, Julia and Sey Chuan. It was in Chynna, Hilton KL (the one in Plaza Sentral). Fulamak, I was pretty impressed with the fine dining environment, so not used to using gold cutlery and all. We were quiet amused with the way they served 'pat pou char' (Welcome tea) with this super long spouted teapot. Something like this. Actually not as huge as that, but something like that larr.. It was all gold in colour, and at the front of the handle was this gold dragon statue with florescent green pom-poms as it's tentacles. Very unneccessary, but.. Amusing lar.. Hehe.. It was a great experience, though, thank you guyz!
Finally, had dinner with sayang's family at La-La Chong Seafood somewhere near Terminal 3. The food there was not too bad, especially the 'ham dan' (salty egg) crabs. Was quite tension to sit beside Pik Ngan, coz she's like 8 months preggers and every now and then the baby would kick her. Kesian her larr.. Naughty baby.. Hehe.. We didn't manage to take any pics here coz our hands were busy hammering on the crabshells or scraping the flesh out.
Oh well, that was it, a weekend, just eat and eat and eat. And I did not even mention that I had steamboat dinner on my birthday eve with Zoe, Janan, Kelly, Godffrey, Sean, Jennifer and Stan somewhere in Mejalara. That was to celebrate Zoe's birthday in advance, actually. Wow... What a weekend! And I am now 25.
