An "Odd" Birthday

It's an odd birthday I had this year.

It's odd for a few reasons. One, that I turned 23, which is an odd number. Somehow I felt odd as well about celebrating a 23rd because it wasn't like a very significant number for age.

And then for this year, I thought I had some of the odd-est and never had before venues for birthday celebration.

On Friday a part of the Anal Code 0612A gang kept me in the dark and sprang up with a birthday cake while I was enjoying my bak ku teh at a coffeeshop opposite Central, Clarke Quay. Man, so unexpected that I nearly choked on the bak ku teh and took me a while to recover from shock for the night.

It ain't just that, I even got to have the staff from the bak ku teh stall to specially light up the cake candles with their ultra long gun lighter, and sang birthday song together for me. Guessed we created quite a din there that a couple sitting at a table next to us was overheard saying, "First time see people celebrating birthday at such a place."

(Relight my fire with a long gun lighter.)

All was not over after the mini bak ku teh party. We hopped over to Singapore River where we had an odd way of squatting down to cut and eat cake by the river side. May sounds unglam but sure is romantic in its own way, with the company of the stars above, river with a view, flashing city lights and occasional screams from the opposite bungee jump.









(Above five pictures: Me ma-chiam endorsing the cake)


(Ming Wei wants a piece of me... I mean cake.)

The following Saturday night after ending work, I got to receive another cake surprise coming from buddy Jim and Kevin. Yet again, the venue was odd with us cutting and eating cake in the middle of a public stairway at AMK Hub.

(Pictures not available as of now)

Finally came Sunday. Spent the upper half of the day at Vivo City, watched One Missed Call, dinner at Dian Xiao Er, followed by NUM fashion show at Powerhouse in the night. Nothing odd for the day unless you count watching a horror show on a birthday occasion to be one. =p




(I found a "Wu Lin Mi Ji!")


(Wah... faster read. *Engrossed*)


(Memorising the "Mi Ji" and practising the strokes in mind.)


(The Peking roasted duck is good!)




(That's me. Watching the fashion show by NUM guys. Sorry no pictures of the guys for you girls. Haha!)

On a last note, a really big thanks to friends, closed ones who had created such a wonderful birthday for me. Be it through dinner, cakes, presents, cards or even birthday wishes through SMS, Facebook, Friendster or blog. My best wishes to you guys for the year too. (: