Siu V’s Sagibration 2008

I've always felt it a waste if your birthday falls on a weekend cause somehow you will be deprived of birthday wishes from an entire classroom/ office staff. Call me a greedy girl but maybe that's why every beginning of a new year, I'll flip through calendars/ diaries to see what day my birthday falls on that year, the following year, etc... :>

This year was no exception and since my birthday fell on a Saturday, I wasn't expecting much (really!) apart from maybe a quiet pre-birthday dinner with my besties (muaks!) and then there was my mountain adventure to look forward to the following day (siu V boleh!).

Little had I known that on Friday evening (one day before), there was this pre-arranged cake-cutting ceremony for me. Hmm, that sounded too formal.
How bout, there was a little 'ta-daah... S U R P R I S E !!' cake-EATING celebration for me.

It all started in a very composed manner, with Jin coming over to my place and started fidgeting with my pressies...(that seems normal)

Then Jin started asking all these weirdly unrelated questions like who gave me this, why they gave me that, why this colour, blah blah...(hmm, starting to seem out-of-place)

After awhile, more people were walking past me going in and out the meeting room behind me...(ok, someone must be having some kinda meeting soon)

I tried peering into the meeting room but Jin kept on yakking away....
hahaha....that was funny thinking back now

Then MarkLim walked past and purportedly trying to distract me, shouted 'Come, come Steven call for meeting'....(what, with so many different departments?)

And that was when I was finally dragged into the meeting room like this...
I still can't believe I missed the cake being sneaked into the meeting room!
This is the loveliest birthday cake I've ever gotten!
and it was Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-LiCious! It was from Chocolate Lounge, Pavi (aww guys! sniff)
Now sing me my birthday song....

Thanks to each and every one of you...Sa jie, Mary, Yin, Choy Phyll, Jin, Fong, Ai Lin, Jo jo & Mel

aww, the guys were so shy...

Look, they even came in their uniform.

hahaha...now THAT'S more like it.

This was where my besties brought me come nightfall...

...Wings Cafe (opp BTS) where they have a live band to sing me my birthday song (again).

Girls just wanna have fun!... and guys just wanna see the girls have fun!

This is how drunk I want to look like when the night is over.

Look, I'm Santa Siu V and I got a big red pimpoi on my cheek!

If only it was on my nose, then I could be Rudolph!

Now, everybody gets to be Santa too....(okie it's the same hat for all... J:>)

Who looks the cutest in it? >.^

Who looks the sleepiest in it... =_=

Who looks like he's going to burst out laughing in it?

Who looks like he's all in for world peace?

Who looks like she's a mother of two and yet so happy she could sneak out and play late into the night without a worry in sight?

Who looks like a 'crook' in it?

Who looks like he's gonna pay for spoiling my hat like this!

Who looks like Uncle Scrooge in it?

Who looks like a RAT in it?

Now you know I gotta show you the food we had that night right?

As confusing as the menu can get (they have all sorts of combo meal that you can have add-ons/ 'substitute with's...), the food was not bad for the price and ambience plus free entertainment!

This is the Chicken Maryland,

Sweet and Sour Chicken + Rice,

Pasta Carbonara with Bacon Bits (my order!)

Black Pepper Chicken Chop

Moon : Don't worry, I saved you the whole bottle of chilli.

My cocktail ... but couldn't really taste the alcohol in it...should just call it a mocktail

A couple of guys ordered this...looks pineapplish, is it?

Fong's drink drink....mm I go 'goo-goo gaa-gaa' over anything chocolatey...

We have switched tables so we're now comfortably facing the stage (live band)!

Like their Christmas deco behind us.

Coincidentally on that same night, there was a performance from 10 finalists of some Popstar competition and we got to croon and swoon to their songs. The grand prize was a cash prize of RM 70K! Too bad it wasn't competition night though.

You can see from Mark and Moon's head, how close we were to them. Nope, there weren't any familiar faces to me, though Fong did recognise a few were rejects from the Astro Superstar competition. Didn't sound like rejects to me at all,...they sang Brilliantly WELL! Even our own Superstar Mark got a lesson or two from them..hehe

And we picked this guy as our fave for the night....in terms of LOOKS only ok? He sounded like Lai Meng when he sang....*pengsan*

The other fun part of the night was when we gambled, just for fun as none of us were really drinkers (eh-hem)...and this was what transpired....

Mark : 'The rules are very simple. I've learnt this since I was five...just guess the number on the dices'

Derek : 'When I was five, I was still counting my fingers, not dices...'

Moon : 'ya ya..whatever..I just want to sleep'

Mark : (Phiak phiak!) Hoy, wake up la !

Moon : oh! hee heee

Fong : Hmm, how do I trick Siu V?

Sa jie : Must strategize game plan

Derek : Why nobody ask me want to play or not...hmmm

Moon : B..b..but this means I have to bluff and my mummy says I must not tell lies.

Mark : Who your daddy now...I amm....

LET THE GAMES BEGIN.......!!

Sa jie : See see!

Mark : I dunch belif u got 12 sixes...OPEN UP!

Moon (in bubble) : (hehe, I've got 2 sixes hidden in my palm)

Mark : I AM THE GOD OF GAMBLER!!! Muahahaha.

Sa jie : Aiyok. your saliva-lah Mark!

Moon : Yawwnn...i wanna sleep i wanna sleep ...

Sa jie : HAHAHAHA I've never been out so late past midnight, I'm having a blast!!

One for the album, guys!

Thanks for the sweet memories!

Almost 1 when we made our way back home...

oh oh, these 2 had too much to drink perhaps?

*GASP* CAUGHT IN THE ACT!

Hehehe...hope you guys liked my story-line as much as I've enjoyed writing about it.

(hope I have not humiliated you in any way ya? >.^) You guys ROCK!

People tell me 'Welcome to the 30's club!' and I'm thinking, 'yeah really? Coz I still feel like I'm 25!' When my sister sms-ed me 'cannot believe u're 30!', it got me thinking 'How DOES A Person Grow Up?' Apart from the developing stages in life (getting hitched, married, kids,...), I think what matters most is at whatever age you set your mind to be at, THAT'S how one should live their life.

Happy Birthday to me (=^.^=)