Still, I am extremely thankful to everyone who had taken the time out to celebrate for me. It is strange how last year I wanted a birthday with a bang but I spent the day alone and this year, I thought it was gonna be a quiet birthday but I spent the entire week in celebration.
The week started with pancakes at "My Old Dutch". All pancakes are 5pds on mon, which makes any girl's day. It was an all-girls affair, with Ade, Elaine and Catherine. If someone told me a year ago that I would be eating with these 3 girls, I would think that the idea was absurd. Fortunately, we would all be graduating this year, and hopefully we will continue forging the friendship in Singapore. After pancakes, we went to Patisserie Valerie for some desserts. By we, I mean I ate while Elaine and Ade nibbled. Cath watched. That's what gym is for right???
Can't believe I ate these pancakes and was still not satisfied!
When I reached home later that day, I saw the package my family had sent me=)
On Tues, I received a beautiful handmade card.
On Wed, my housemates surprised me with a cheesecake and an mp3 player. It was absolutely crazy, because we had not spent time with each other for a month. The house has deteoriated into a hostel in the past month. The joy and laughter that night made the house whole again. Really nice when I thought that everyone was too busy to celebrate that week. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule, dear housemates (eh Gabe, I still need e pics).
Thurs, the actual day itself. One word. ADE. Ha~!!! Sweetie pie bought me Macdonald breakfast coz I told her I hadn't had any Mac in London before and that I liked the Mac breakfast. Given how much she loves sleep, waking up early to pop by Mac would be akin to doing coursework (ok, strange analogy). On top of that, she bought me a pile presents w a most lovely card. And if that wasn't enough, we went to cafe rouge to have dinner. It had a one for one deal, which she treated me for. Such friends, you never lament why you didn't meet them early; you would be too busy thanking God for placing them in your life.
The fries were YUUUUMMMMY!!!!
Pretty Ade... Damn...
And of course, there were various other friends who made the day even brighter. Ela1ne who met me specially to give me a card. Dav1d who took the chance to show off his culinary skill. And loads and loads and loads of sms and fb msgs (took 1 day to reply all. I am not trying to emphasize my popularity. Ok, maybe a little).
Mango glutinous rice, which incidentally is my favourite Thai dessert. Or is it red ruby... Hmmm... Tough fight there...
On fri, it was Ela1ne who showed off her cooking skills. Despite her "don't expect too much hor", dinner was exceptionally good. And FILLING. Jiaxuan and I had to force stuff down her throat so that we wouldn't waste any food. Glad to finally see her in stress-less mode.
Post dinner. Elaine refused to take the pic initially coz she thought she looked unglam after sloughing away in the kitchen.
Saturday was crazy. There was an intra-singsoc touch rugby tournament, in which my team won 1st place. That night, I had dinner w Ela1ne and J1n Yang (I am beginning to feel Ela1ne overkill even as I type this entry). Then I went home, only to receive a call from X1ufang to go her place, coz she had something exciting to show me. Well, you probably can foresee what came up after that (it seemed like a perfect plot written down but I didn't guess it at all!!!). To cut the story short, there was a cake outside the lift and everyone was hiding on the stairway landing. =) Kudos to my housemates and the rest who helped plan it. I think I must be the least observant person around, because 3 bdays in London, and 3 times I had been surprised. 1st one was a pseudo meeting to plan our Spain hol. 2nd one I planned my own party but was outdone by a surprise video made by my hsemates. And saturday marks my 3rd surprise. To think that most bday surprises turn out flops...
Too bad I don't have any pics to show, because I was obviously not prepared for this!
Present that Caroline got for me. Really pretty (for the guys' sake, this is an eye shadow palette. It is the thing you put in the space between your eyelashes and your eye brows).
On Sun, I received some really girly presents from Yvette and Xiufang=) The surprises never stop huh???
The bag the presents came in! Sums it all!
And finally, on Wed, my housemates and I went to this rather highend restaurant "One-oh-One" for dinner. It was embarrassing how we didn't know what this round plate thing the guy placed on the table was for and we even guessed it was for tips (but it was placed when we just arrived, so it didn't make sense). Turned out it was a stand for bottled water*oops* I need to up my knowledge of posh eating. Still, the food was good (only because it was 50% off the price). Really enjoyed myself, because the previous time I interacted with the guys was exactly 37 lines above this sentence.
Posh Nosh~~!!
Just wanted to put this in, because I wanted to show off the dress I just bought!! hahahahha!!
It is indeed sad looking at the other side of the 21. But for every second spent dreading it, I would spend 2seconds in the future regreting for dreading it when I could enjoy it, and I would then spend 3seconds in far future regretting wasting time regretting dreading it...
For the sake of the future, I would enjoy my life now.
Thank you for making 21-turning-22 easy.
