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 Dad 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 Sis was born) of us eating it. Now? "Don't need la.. So old already.. Pai seh lah..". *lol*

Anyway, I had mentioned it here that it would be lovely to meet up with Wan Nei to celebrate our birthdays together on the 27th. We eventually did, along with our other halves, over dim sum in Foh San on Sat morning. It was too bad that Cleopatra couldn't make it (some other time, perhaps?). It was also too bad that another friend is still in Perth, it would have been a sweeter moment to have all 3 of us celebrating our birthdays together (he was 5-7 hours younger than me, while I was 6-7 hours younger than Wan Nei). We had a great time catching up on each other's lives, especially when I have not seen Shaggy for 7 years now. Wan Nei 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 Wan Nei and I together! As of today, we have at least 5 pics! Hehe.. It was all good though. From what I wrote for Wan Nei'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 Mum'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 Mum earlier 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 Mum 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 Moorish, Sue, Lily, Jewel and their other halves. 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 quite amused with the way they served 'pat pou char' (welcoming tea) with this super long spouted teapot. Something like this. Actually not as huge as that, but something like that lar... It was all gold in colour, and at the front of the handle was this gold dragon statue with florescent green pom-poms as its tentacles. Very unnecessary, but.. Amusing lar. Hehe.. It was a great experience though. Thank you guyz!

Finally, had dinner with Inspector'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 Princess, coz she's like 8 months preggers and every now and then, the baby would kick her. Kesian her la.. Naughty baby.. Hehe..

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 Inspector's friends somewhere in Menjalara. That was to celebrate one of their birthdays in advance. Wow.. What a weekend! And I am now 25!

Just a quick note to thank everyone else who had taken the time to call, SMS, sent e-cards and what not to wish me on Saturday. Thank you so much!!!