Tuesday, January 27, 2009
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!
Thank you all for the birthday surprises and celebrations!!! ^.^ This year's bdae was really fun. LOL.
Took sometime to post this entry because I was busy with CNY celebrations and had no time to post on the blog.
On Saturday (24 Jan), we were supposed to go to Jan's house for early CNY celebration because she sent a sms the day before saying her mum wants to invite us. Well, actually I guessed that it was to celebrate my bdae coz we have been celebrating each other's birthday XP
In the end we cancelled it coz I was lazy and "ppl couldn't make it" so she "postponed" it. LOL. oops. Sorry Jan! So I arranged to go with Cuifen for CNY shopping at Bugis instead. Funny thing so on Friday night when I was asking her, I was so sleepy waiting for her sms I didn't realise she already sms-ed and was waiting for me to reply such that she had to call me to get my reply XP Hehe. Oops.
So we went CNY shopping at Bugis. It was SUPER crowded and packed. Felt like fainting in Bugis Street. I didn't get to buy my shoes nor dress =( Cui bought her jeans and...something. I don't remember what. We decided to go back to Parco Bugis to get other stuff.
Cui wanted to check some prices at Seoul Garden for her friend who wanted to dine there so I followed. Here's where the interesting story starts. (LOL)
I was helping her check all the Seoul Garden prices for weekends, CNY etc and she was like "ok, let's go". Oh before that we saw Jing Ting and Michelle (cedar guides). Yes, so we walked to the other end of the wing where there were Sakae, some thai restaurant, and a Jap restaurant. I was the menu of the Jap restaurant and decided to stop and look at the desserts. Jing Ting and Michelle came and we were talking.
Later, Cui asked to go back to Seoul Garden to check the credit card prices coz she forgot about that, and we walked back. Passing the thai restaurant, I felt someone kicked me and I was super irritated and shot a glare at the person. Guess what?! It was Janice with Tim and Sarah, trying to hide and waiting for me to spot them! Haha.
So I found out that I was super blind. There were initially sitting outside Sakae (on the left), each holding just a postcard to block their face and walked past them. I even looked in their direction because I saw a postcard stand (FYI: I'm attracted to free postcards. A habit I got from Guides coz we needed postcards for souvenirs etc last time) that was just next to them. I thought I saw a family reading newspapers! HAHA.
They were quite surprised that I didn't see them, since they were so obvious. And while I was talking to Jing Ting and Michelle, I didn't even realise Cui went away to ask them what to do!!!
So when we turned around and walked back to Seoul Garden, they were again seated outside the thai restaurant (on the left) and much closer to me, but I still walked past them. Jan got so irritated she stretched out her leg to kick me! XP HHAHAHAHAHHAAHAAAH!
I can't get over the fact that I was so oblivious to my surroundings and didn't even notice them at all! We ended up eating at the Jap restaurant and I love their mochi dessert!
And I think I surprised my friends at church coz they wanted to surprise me too but I didn't go. XP So in the end, I got my surprise in church on Sunday, which is the actual day of my birthday! =) So I had a celebration in the youth room and had a lovely chocolate cake and presents ^.^ Wheee.
For CNY, I also received bdae ang pows (a first), usually I get a combined one, if not no bdae ang pows. (PS: My bdae has fallen on CNY period for a couple of times) Yup. So i'm quite happy this year. Is it you grow older and ppl remember your bdae more?! Haha.
Now to go back to doing my work and presentation slides =) I'll try to post the bdae photos some other day. Heh.
Thank you for all the birthday wishes (I only wrote the ones who sms-ed coz it's easier to keep track. heh. but thanking the others who wished me in person and on facebook!!!)
Sherry (12.01am)
Shinn (12.01am)
Sining
Pei Yin (da jie by 3days)
Liying
Trish
Sharon
Zaferin
Wei Ling
Nana
Yi Ting (who wished on the day and thought it was belated)
Calvin Fong
Cui Fen
Zhi Wei
Candice
Winnie
Xiaona
Shireen
Eleanor
Anger
Hui Juan (who got the dates wrong and wished me early and on the day itself)
Joshua (NYP)
Noel
Vivienne
Joy
Sheela
Peggy
Hui Yu
Andrea
Alethea
Thanks all for the wishes and those who stayed up to be the first few ^.^ Really appreciate it. Cheers. And for those who wished me in person and on facebook or in other means, thank you too! God bless =) Oh. and thankew peeps for the bdae surprises!
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