[edit 14/07/2006] : photos added!!! :)

the 19th birthday

okay la. 19 years only. no big deal. not 21 yet what hor. haha. well humour me la. :) thank you to all who wished me, in no particular order -
berlinda seah
ryan shi
paul ong
lilyana
esther loh
fiona liaw
russell
kenneth kwan
jade wu
adriel
mr looi
aunty may
ivan koh
marc ong
cake loo
cindy er
kenny
mat
kellyann
yiting
lynette
ben tan
rachel kee
ang korkor
angela
lin jiamei
winnie tan
elger
erik
jem
andee peh
terence lum
kerrie
talitha lau
daniel
ctbah
hong shern
joseph lee
willis ho
ray tiong siang rui
my family
and those who wished me but i somehow missed you out, thank you too!

and for all the presents, thank you as well!
daddy for the big big ang pow
my dear for the ang pow
ct & sahmadi for the tangs voucher
jade, ber & cake for the photo of us and the photo frame & the black feathered rose
terence, kerrie & andee for the nail salon voucher
hong shern & joseph for the hair clip & the chocolate
ray & willis for the ang pow
yiting for the steamboat dinner treat

very briefly, this is how my 19th birthday went this year. 5 days of celebration, well kinda, 21 june to 25 june. the actual day - 23 june. sadly i was sick during most of it, so all the good food tasted pretty bland to me. :(
day 1 - wednesday night clubbing at zouk
day 2 - thursday BBQ
day 3 - friday stoning in town with berlinda
day 4 - saturday gucci bag! steamboat treat at Lu Bian Tian Tian Huo Guo & clubbing at MoS
day 5 - sunday family dinner at Min Jiang restaurant

day 1 - hur. well i did say previously that there was plans to go mambo with the girls but in the end that got cancelled, but in the end we decided to go anyway even though i was sick and dying. the night didn't end well, it wasn't very enjoyable, shouldn't have gone, but oh well. berlinda stayed over at my place that night and we planned to wake up early to prepare for the BBQ the next day but obviously that didn't happen.

day 2 - the BBQ! the people who came -
andee
terence
kerrie
talitha
daniel
ctbah
hong shern
joseph
berlinda
jade
cake
willis
ray

thank you all for taking the time to come all the way to sengkang just to celebrate my birthday. :) there was plenty of leftover food, to think we were all worried about the food not being enough. satay, chicken wings, otah all catered by Lee Wee Brothers' Foodstuff. my sister fried beehoon, me and berlinda fried the seaweed chicken and made mash potatoes. the condo has strict rules about the pit being closed at 10pm, so we had to stop cooking then. after lazing around awhile, we all came up to my place for the ice cream cake. yes ice cream cake again this year! hur. swensens. my dad was like cut at 12midnight so just nice it'll be your birthday exactly. which we did. lazing. talking. red wine. laughing. but what i will never forget is what happened after most of the guests had left, in the wee hours of the morning, and there was just this remaining few of us. smoking in the balcony, us daring them, them daring us, four of us actually carrying out the dare, amazingly not being paiseh, the giggles, them losing to us. calling mcdonalds delivery at like 7am. it was crazy. all crazy. the details i shall not mention here, it's all but become a distant memory now. i enjoyed myself, its something that i don't think will happen again, one of those once in a lifetime thing.

day 3 - i cannot remember what happened but i think we slept in till pretty late.

day 4 - i had to work, after that i had a steamboat dinner appointment. in between, i went down to Gucci, and made myself happy. haha. i've been wanting to get a new wallet or bag, and i couldn't decide. i finally decided that since my Fendi wallet is still in usable condition i should get myself a bag instead. so i did. :) after that, with my huge gucci paper bag, went down to marina south for steamboat with yiting, lynette, my sister and ben. at some restaurant. i think it was lu bian something something tian tian huo guo. or something like that. the food was good, but unfortunately i was still coughing so i could not drink the ma la soup. sob. after that, rushed down to MoS. my precious gucci bag was put in mervyn's car. hur. it was fun, it was me and ber's 2nd saturday night there with that gang. mmm. oh yes, and how can i forget, we had a very drunk jade on our hands. :) home alone that night.

day 5 - family dinner day. we had dinner at Min Jiang restaurant at Rochester Park. There is a group of colonial style bungalows there that have been renovated. there's restaurants and pubs. the bungalows are now very modern and when night comes, the pubs are really damn cool places to chill at. Min Jiang has another outlet at Goodwood Park Hotel, and they're famous for their Beijing Duck. unfortunately, i still being sick, was unable to savour it fully. the food was alright, the ambience was really nice, i guess it was a nice change from the usual japanese buffet/ soup restaurant/ steamboat restaurant family dinners we usually have.

about a week after, my dad saw my gucci bag, and he asked me why i didn't tell him i wanted to buy it, because he would have bought it for me. :/ i jokingly said i still wanted a gucci wallet, and he said ok we'll go gucci to see. wahahaha. and the next day we did. the wallet was more expensive than the bag. hur. :) its classic, and its pretty and i love the leather smell. and it fits more easily into my bags because its not a long wallet like my fendi one. one of those days i went shopping with ber. went tangs where i blew 196 on lancome makeup. i love lancome makeup. i was tempted to get m.a.c as well but i restrained. hur. then went topshop and bought myself a new skirt.

basically that sums up what happened around my birthday.

after that things went really crazy. school started, but i wasn't in school. there was alot of shit, but there were times i won't forget. those moments you made me laugh, yet cry. all those days we all went crazy into the wee hours of the morning at my place. at jurong. but i guess all good things, or even bad things, have to come to an end. but i guess there can't really be an ending when there wasn't a beginning. its made an huge impression on me, i doubt i ever will forget. that cap. the dance moves. mos. blasting techno on my comp. watching just my luck. the chinese accent. some things will never be the same again. listening to certain songs. saturday nights at mos. you made my whole birthday week a really interesting experience. i don't think anyone would make me laugh the same way again. 17th june. what a difference that day made. those 2 weeks. it was fun. it was. and i suppose sometimes its better to just leave it as that, leave everything the way they should be, people come and go, all for a reason. some make an impact. a huge one.

i guess that's all i will say for now. there are photos to upload. but i am too lazy and tired to do it now. there's work early tomorrow. so i shall save it for another day. though i think this entry would make more sense with photos. hur. :)

i love you all. well, most of you.