22nd Birthday..

Birthday was Sunday. Had a long, tiring but great time celebrating my 22nd. The day was pre-dominantly about eating (typical Singaporeans).

Ended Saturday late cos Utd had a late kick-off, slept at nearly 4am and woke up before 7am to go pray for Qingming festival.. I always look forward to this day, it's really great to see so many families coming together to pray.. But the choking smoke also made me think about global warming for a while. But it's tradition, what to do. And anyway, though burning of incense paper does contribute CO2 to destroy the depleting Ozone further, it is really nothing as compared to industrialisation and sorts..

After praying, went for lunch with family. Wanted to go Vliage at China Square Central but it was closed! Thing is, it doesn't looked like it was close, with all the lights and stuff. BUt the shutter was down, nobody was inside. Asked around and the shopowners around there said they were still opened the night before! Crap.. Anyway, headed down to Marina Sq for Jap food on Sis' recommendation. My sis live some mid-high life on the food front. She and her friends always go some good restaurant for food one. Haha, the power (spending) of unmarried, working young adults. Anyway, lunch was good, some exquisite Jap food.. The price also quite nice. Sis footed the bill. Hmm, somebody got a pay rise! =x

Dinner was at Bugis with the Gang! Whee.. Steamboat buffet at Liang Seah Street.. Chongqing super spicy steamboat. We ordered the 'weakest' degree of spiciness and it was already choking. Imagine "ma la" (as in numb-spiciness).. But the bad bad part of it all is everyone was late, (including myself) but somebody topped it off by being 2 hours late. No names here, Mel can make a guess. Correct answer will earn you a kaya toast treat, courtesy of the culprit. Hahaha.. Anyway, dinner with them is always good. Kaiyi brought his new girlfriend to meet us too. Towards the end of the makan session, Gab and I just whacked the prawn.. This was the best part..

Ziling: Eh, you guys still want to eat anything? Want then go and take..
Gab (standing up): Ok, I go take..
Few of us started giggling. (Are we surprised who volunteered to take more food.. keke)
Ziling: What you all want to eat.
Gab & Me (together): Prawn lor...
We burst into laughter. Then told Ziling it was a 'duh' qn. Haha. Steamboat finale is eat prawn until u drop silly one leh... Hehehe..

And so the day was spent eating myself silly and wondering when I can start running again to shed some weight. And booked in extremely tired and I just zonked out almost immediately.

Thank you Mel and Jo for making overseas call to wish me. Albeit bad timing cos their calls clashed. Haha. Next yr you two make booking ok? Lol.. Thanks to Dil for sms-ing from overseas. And the numerous well-wishers, whom I reckon half of them got reminders from Friendster. Hehe.. Thanks Budd for remembering to sms after coming back from Nippon. And yeah budd, one year has passed so damn fast. I'm looking forward to my next birthday and hoping it will go even faster this year, but just for this year. =p

Thank You pple.