rainy's birthday + new year's day!

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RAINY'S BELATED BIRTHDAY PARTY
&
FIRST DAY OF 2010 CELEBRATION

Venue: Chinese Garden

Target: Rainy

People present: Ah Lahs

t was time for our yearly Ah Lahs tradition (:

to celebrate the 1st day of the new year together!

nd it would have been a

perfect picnic on that day

if not for our lateness and the weather!

lol!

we were supposed to meet at Chinese Garden about 12

but practically everyone was running late

so the arranged time got shifted

from 12 to 1 to 2 pm

and omg, sow and i nearly suffered a heart attack

and had the time of our lives

evading rainy who arrived

unexpectedly at Jurong Point's Ntuc

which was directly next to the balloon shop

when we had a balloon surprise in stored for her!

(*special shout-out to sow for being so nice to

meet me at Jurong Point slightly earlier to

help me with the balloons! thanks!)

gosh, you should have seen us,

we looked like we were in some

mission impossible or 007 film

running all over the place around Jurong Point!

and when we finally gotten the balloons

(thanks to fana who was our spy to delay time)

sow and i looked like some crazed pregnant women

especially with so much helium balloons

floating around us!

plus it was no easy feat white-lying to rainy

to keep the surprise under wraps!

in the midst of it all, we also received

a distressed phone call from joys

complaining about the smell and stuff!

and wow, in the cab, sow was completely

engulfed by all the balloons and

yeah, according to her,

i was FINALLY blocked out from her sight for once!

and we honestly made a wrong decision

to alight at the gate as

it was a long long walk to the bloody pagoda

that the rest had settled at

and as usual, we arrived to find them already camwhoring!

lol!

and joys was already happily munching on some food!

but it was mcdonald's fries! ):

like my most dreaded food on earth,

second only to beansprouts!

photos

rainy and fanana then went off

to get our pastamania lunch

while joys, sow and i remained

just then, the sky went overcast

and joys suggested we should pack up

and start running to the shelter

before it really starts pouring

but sow couldn't resist the temptation of the cards

and suggested we play a round of tai tee first

before it starts raining on us

and being avid gamblers, we all agreed!

lol!

just as sow has happily shuffled the cards

and gave out the cards to us,

it started RAINING!!!

like what the hell, how timely!

guess god hates gambling! ):

anyway, so we quickly just grabbed everything

and ran to the nearby toilet to seek refuge and

soon we were scrambling inside the female toilet

as the foreign workers there were laughing probably

1) at our get up or rather my get up

2) our huge loots or rather barangs barangs

3) our drenched and train-whacked look

so anyway, we were calling the birthday girl

whether she has any wet weather programs

or Plan B

and guess what rainy's wet weather plans were?

going to my house!

lol! like what the hell!

so we started strategizing Plan A or B or C

and decided upon meeting rainy and fanana

at the mrt station before proceeding!

but the big problem is,

we only had one umbrella from fanana's bag

joys and i then decided to improvise and

use the plastic picnic mat as

a cover above our heads while

sow would use the umbrella!

and it was super hilarious as

joys and i were like performing lion dance

(yes, ahead of the lunar new year)

she was in front, leading the way

while i was behind her,

sharing the plastic cover together!

and can you believe that in the midst,

bloody joys could actually still took sips

from her Mcdonald's coke?!

after meeting up with fanana and rainy,

we decided to just drop by the nearest

HDB block and sort of chill!

but alas, there were like

three half-naked men

dancing around the void deck

but we were too busy

gorging on our pasta lunch and cupcakes

to bother as were super famished!

after popping the sparkling juice,

taking some photos and chatting,

joys suggested we pop by

Jurong Point's Swensens

and it was kind of amusing

when the Singtel operator couldn't find

the number for Jurong Point Swensens

and all of us went "huhs? is he serious?"

and when we eventually found the number,

it turns out that Jurong Point Swensens

doesn't accept reservations!

so we went there via bus and

yes, with our balloons and everything

so we were quite a spectacle to watch

and i think we could just feel like all eyes were on us!

after swensens,

we decided we HAD to get rid of the balloons

as they were beginning to be a burden!

so rainy was busy giving out

the balloons to random children and

scaring them at the same time!

lol!

after getting rid of the least favorite colored balloons,

we held to our favorite colored balloons,

made a wish and released them

and just when i wanted to

capture the beautiful spectacular moment,

i had a panic attack as

my camera was totally out of battery,

couldn't even took one last shot!

AAAARRGGGHH!!!!!!

and thus,

it remains to be one of the

greatest regret of my life!

)':

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have you guessed it right?

why yes,

i'm going to blog about

my bestie's birthday celebration ((:


target: felicia

venue: mykii

people present:
felicia, gabriel, ying, min and yours truly


the birthday girl decided on

a really cool spot she spied on hungrygowhere.com

called Mykii

and boy, did she keep us reeling in for more

with her description of the place as

a cozy spot at Holland V offering brunch

and furthermore,

at an affordable price of only S$28++!

okay, okay, i admit that the compelling reason

i felt like i had to give it a go was because

their brunch name was titled

"Lazy Brunch" (:

oh the delights!

suits lazybums like me to a T!

and so, the long-awaited day, 27 Dec came

and i was actually on time for once!

like HURRAY!

arrived at Holland V around 1

in my fat blair-inspired outfit

only to realize i was kind of over-dressed

after FG messaged me that

she was just gonna come in shorts!

like uh oh, but never mind,

and soon min, ying,

fer and her beau, gabriel arrived!

so we started walking to the restaurant

and i had to say that i was quite skeptical at first

since the restaurant sounded

like a japanese restaurant

but only to learn that it serves western food

like what the hell right? *raise brow*

and i had my concerns like

whether it was air-conditioned,

(because i was wearing leggings and

i obviously didn't want to melt in those)

whether it serves lousy brunch and etc!

yes, i know, i sound like one spoilt brat!

but i soon found my concerns

and skepticism totally unnecessary

cause the place was nicely decorated

it was air-conditioned

and it looked like a small little cozy cottage!

and so, now on to the food!

we were greeted by the Mykiian Brunch Platter

which consisted of eggs done

sunny side up, well-done,

overeasy, scrambled or omelette

served with hash brown,

(which was quite a pity as it was burnt)

cheesy baked wild tomatoes,

mixed salad,

streaky bacon & chicken chipolata sausage!

oh and have i mentioned that

the eggs are free-flow?!

like totally AWESOME!

especially since all of us love our eggs so much!

and so, we went extremely over the top by

ordering like 4 plates of egg each?

which kind of meant we slaughtered

a total of 16 chicks!

oops!

it's a wonder we didn't have

nightmares of chicken that night!

(hey, which means,

bbc ate so many of her own kind!)

and yeah, after that, we selected our mains!

FG and i chose to go for the more oriental dish

Tamarind Glazed Chicken with Glass Noodles

while min went for the Forest of Mushroom Pasta

and ying went for the Roast Vegetable Wrap!

needless to say,

FG and i relished the entire bowl clean

as it tasted kind of thai-chinese,

just the way we like

as it seems more like an appetizer,

not heavy on the palate!

min's pasta would have been a good dish

if not for the powdery cheese that ruined it all

poor ying did not touched her Roast Vegetable Wrap

as it contained her much-dreaded capsicum!

though it didn't quite matter

since we were all rather stuffed after the brunch platter!

after which, we ordered the

Granny's Aromatic Lime Leaf Pancakes

in chocolate or maple syrup!

which was also free-flow!

it's kind of like a dream come true!

a free-flow Mcdonald's breakfast in disguise!

by then, we were already full to the brim

but it felt so good lazying around

on the sofa-like seat,

enjoying the professionally done eggs,

catching up on gossips

and talking about everything

and nothing at all!

definitely an absolutely wonderful afternoon

spent with great company!

thanks FG for the great recommendation (:

oh and in case you guys are wondering,

my presents to FG were:

- Gold Clutch

- Houndstooth Dress

- Stress-reducing toy
(those that shake their heads)

before you guys start dozing off,

here are the visuals for that lovely day!

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like my stefanie sun concert!

it was such a blast!

so i don't quite get the horrid media reviews of it!

they wrote truly awful comments like

"stefanie sun is turning rusty and

she has lost her former magnetism"

which to me, is utterly nonsensical!

*i know, might be my biased opinion*

but one thing's for sure,

stefanie sun can truly sing

and she definitely hit all the high notes!

plus all the music heard from the concert

was played out by a 12 people live band!

besides, she certainly looked radiant and glowed all night

resembling a lucky woman in love!

perhaps due to the new-found love

in her hollander boyfriend?

oh and my apologies that i didn't take much pictures

as my phone died out mid-way!

and yes, i actually had a rainy moment!

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and harry potter and the half-blood prince

was full of it!

with all the romance between

harry potter and ginny weasley,

ron weasley and hermione granger,

ron weasley and lavender brown

but overall, a really funny and lighthearted movie,

which could be likened to a romance comedy!

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