Saturday, January 26, 2008
Mr lim wen yi's birthday celebration.. Pok had planned for the party since a long long time ago... But given lim's clever mind, it didn't take him long to realise that there was a surprised party for him..
What gave it away were mainly two separate events.. First one was when Pok's mum bought many many packets of hot dog and crab meat and stored it in the freezer of the fridge in her house.. And so happen that the main star opened the freezer and saw so many packets of hot dog and was starting to get suspicious... Second event was when his uncle called him and asked him about where the bbq is being held.. After that telephone call, he knew that Pok had a special surprised for him...
So we finally revealed every little details to him while sending him there.. And he kept saying that he knew something was happening and that he could predict the events that were about to happen..
Pok managed to get lim's SP classmates, SPS band mates, Childhood friends and SPS brudders... And of course the family members were also present to grace the special day for lim..
It was a night of many food and drinks, the MILK CARTON cake and photo taking with everyone present that day.. After everything was over, Pok and i cleared most of the stuff out before leaving the chalet and letting the remaining people enjoy themselves over the vodka...
Was a super tiring day for Pok as she had school during the day before the chalet and she still managed to keep herself awake to clear the place before leaving home to enjoy a good night's rest.. I must say that it was worth the effort seeing lim's smile when he cut his cake.. and i guess its been a long time since he last smiled that happily... =)
Happy Birthday Lim!
Josh Loh
12:01 AM
Monday, January 14, 2008
My pok decided that we will have a ice cream decorating competition to see who can make a better ice cream display..
We decided to have a fair competition and use the apple strudel and strawberry ice cream... She also said that we could use any other items that can be found in the kitchen... I think she cheat and used that flower display from another cake with was in the fridge.. But she insisted that she did not break the rule as it was found in the kitchen..
Anyway, i let her use the flower lor.. Cos i believed that i could win without CHEATING!!!! So we did out displays and we got my friends to judge which was the better masterpiece...
VIAN VS JOSHAnd the results were... 2 votes for pok... 1 vote for me... I LOST!!!
Damnit.. I hate losing.. Especially to my pok!!!! Cannot stand losing la.. but i do feel that she had the better masterpiece because of her FLOWER!!! but the process is really fun i must say.. i wanna do it again!!!
The winning display
Lost.. But at least i got one vote...
Josh Loh
10:08 PM
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Of course i am not going to forget to talk about my friends who remembered my birthday this year..
those two groups of friends which i have photos to show shall be mentioned in the below entry.. haha...
First dinner was with hui qian, jek hao, michelle and juan ling.. We could not decide on a place to makan so we all agreed to try the new restaurant at cinileisure.. the place itself isnt really nice la.. its call the Hip Diners (or something like that).. We all took a damn long time to decide on the food i tell you.. Cause there were too man items on the meun to order and they were are reasonably priced as well.. Made our decisions and then came the food...
Hui Qian's Lamb Shank
My Mixed Grilled Platter
Juan Ling's Seafood Combo
Jek and Michelle's Seafood Platter for Two
The food was just alright and decent.. But if given a choice, i would not choose to go back for a second serving.. Jek was totally depressed by the seafood platter for two as the serving was really small and definitely not filling enough for the couple.. So, peeps who are thinking of trying this place, you can try if you have a small budget for a meal but please do not get surprised by the serving size.. also, dun expect too much on the taste as well..
Next up are my brudders from SPS.. These guys are the best brudders that one can have.. With that said and done, guys who were present on my birthday included, lim, ling, kenny, gilbert, brian and ben... We all decided on some turkish place at shaw house.. Cause lim just had his operation and wasn't able to move that freely so we choose some place near for him and had good food...
Didn't know what was nice so we just ordered their platter which had most of the 'better' food...
All got conned except ben and lim, we ordered this drink which was suppose to be something similar to a fruit punch, but when we tried it, it tasted like water with red colouring in it.. Should have followed ben and ordered barley drink which was a much safer choice...
Lim and Bens' Extra Large Combo Platter
Mine, brian, bert, ling and kenny's mini combo platter
After lunch, kenny left to meet his camp friends and the rest of us went over to lim's place to play the new BIG SMALL gambling paper i got for him from hong kong.. Its really bad to gamble and we all should stay away from it.. lim and ling stop gambling la!!! Our bet were to drink one cup of water for 5 chips.. or you could also do 15 push-ups for 5 chips.. ling was practically on the floor the whole afternoon doing push-ups to earn his chip so that he could bet more choices on the paper.. brian was the winner of the bet as he continued to bet the pay rate on the paper.. 1 pays 50.. and he managed to get it TWICE.. WTF!!! Was a pretty cool and chill out day at lim's place.. but all were too bloated or tired from either drinking too much water or doing too many push-ups...
Josh Loh
1:15 AM
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Its been a damn long time since i really celebrated my birthday.. and this year, my pok really caught me off guard by booking a place at flutes at the fort for my birthday dinner...
What was really sad is that i had school on my birthday, although i really wished not to have gone for it, it was a practical lessin which i could not afford to miss... therefore i had to drag myself to school to attend the practical..
Was really restless during the practical and all i could have think about was to just finish my practical as soon as possible.. She somehow managed to keep it from me till the very last minute and i nearly could not have made it in time for dinner.. We were quite late for dinner but luckily for us, the people at flutes at the fort were really nice and they kept the table for us...
Entrance to Flutes at the Fort
Other Guest at the restaurant
Got there and settled down.. it rained pretty heavily before dinner time so the weather was just nice and cooling.. but not mosquito flying around and feasting on our blood... Look through the menu and ordered our dinner..
Herbs olive oil and wheat bread
My Pok's grilled lobster
My beef tenderloin on mashed potato
My Pok's Lemon Cheese Tart
My Chocolate Pudding with Ice Cream
Surprise!!! Thats what my pok give me right after my dinner... She gave me once last twist to my birthday... She prepared a cake from Bakerzin and got me to make a wish before i could blow the candle out... I was lost for words when she told me about this surprised and it was the best surprise in sometime... I gladly blew the candles and made me wish.. Afterwhich, i went over to give her the biggest tightest hug i could give and thanked her for the pleasant surprise..
Birthday Wish, Cutting of cake, blowing of candles and the birthday cake
Me and my Pok
The best thing in life is to have someone there to make your day seem so perfect and beautiful.. Thank you pok for making my birthday such a special and interesting one after so long celebrating it alone... I Love You!!!!
Josh Loh
10:25 PM
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
time for some long due updates.. well, was back from a family holiday to shen zhen, hong kong and macau.. well, it was a great family trip i must say.. although there were the usual quarrels and all, but all was good in the end and it was a really good trip.. food wise for me.. shopping and food wise for my two sisters..
first two days and nights were spent in shen zhen... well, i personally do not really like the place that much.. the air was really bad and the place was quite dirty i must say.. but however, my sisters did enjoy the place, cause of the shopping and hair extension and eyelash extension.. my mum also joined in the two crazy girls and did her eyelash too..
on the first day, while waiting for my sister and mum, my dad and i went for a foot massage.. and we nearly ended up fighting and calling the police.. well, they told us it was RMB2o.. and when we paid they RMB100, they gave us back RMB40 only.. so my dad was furious and demanded that we get back another RMB20 before we would leave.. so after a long arguement for the S$5, we got back the money and we left angry... went in search for finger food as my mum was hungry and then went to find my younger sister..
lots of fake goods were sold everywhere and boy do i mean everywhere.. every other corner will have a stall which sells fake goods.. and my younger sister burst her allowance in just one day.. *shakes head* anyway, we have this really good international buffet on the second night.. they gave dad a birthday cake as it was his birthday month.. the food spread was really good and included western, to chinese, to thai, to japanese, to local food.. the dessert were also top quality and there was also a chocolate fountain.. totally sinful..
shen zhen international buffet
after two nights in shen zhen, we packed our stuff and went over to hong kong via the train aka MTR.. which is similar to our MRT.. well, it was a long ride and since the train was packed we didnt get a chance to sit until we reached our hotel.. after checking in, we went in search of food and then went to watch the lighting display by the harbour.. the display is in the guiness book of world records for the largest co-ordinated lighting display if i am not wrong.. it was pretty nice, but cold for me as my younger sis borrowed my jacket from me as she did not bring her's out..
the biggest LV display EVER!!!
me and my only shopping purchase
harbour lighting display
happy kids
parents at stanley pier
hong kong was really rewarding in terms of good food man.. the food there is really OH MY GOD!! i kept eating like there's no tomorrow sia.. that explains the gain in weight and also in size of my tummy.. but who cares right, i am on a holiday and how often do you get to come to hong kong to enjoy its good food.. shopping for my two sisters continued and i only managed to get two shirts throughout the whole trip.. but the food was enough to cover the lack of shopping.. wanton mee, egg tart, fried pig intestine, mango pudding... too many too many to recall..
cookie dough with ice cream
yummylious wanton mee
the famous penguin dim sum
whacky candic photos
well, we also went over to macau for a short day trip.. and it was quite a bad experience as we got stuck at the customs for almost an hour.. it was a really sucky wait mind you.. long, crowded, noisy and smelly people.. also wanting to enter the macau casinos to strike a fortune.. like as if it will really happen... but the experience was good.. they have like free bus shuttles to all the major casions and hotels from the airport and ferry terminal.. so to go from casino to casino, all you have to do is just take the bus from the hotel to the ferry terminal then hop onto another bus to the next hotel.. was quite a cool concept but alot of time is wasted on travelling..
before long, we were back in hong kong and we did some last minute shopping after eating at the revolving restaurant.. i managed to squeeze in a hair cut and got my egg tarts again before making our way back to shen zhen to the airport there to take our plane back.. and at the airport, my mum slapped this really rude indonesian boy.. we were asking the counter girl to hurry up and there was a long queue behind and this boy thought we were saying their family for taking too much time.. and scolded "fuck you" to my mum.. my mum did not hesitate and gave him a good slap on the face.. we continued arguing and he was still boiling over the slap but we just checked in and went on our way.. i even managed to make the whole family laugh about this incident while waiting to board the plane..
its great to be back but sucks cause that means i have that i have to get back to studying again.. damn..
Josh Loh
3:11 PM
