Saturday, November 29, 2008

My nephew, Ethan's Bday BBQ

My cousin's kid, Ethan, celebrated his 6th bday on Sat with a BBQ at his place. It has been a long time since I have gone to a BBQ so I was really excited about it.

I have gone to get his present the day before and thanks to LY, I managed to get exactly what he wanted! It is is some new toy that boys seem to be crazy about! I remember standing in Toys R Us and seeing all the little boys around me talk about Bakugan this, Bakugan that ... This was what we got for him, Bakugan Lancher. I also threw in more Bakugan balls.


It was really a kids party! The bday boy is the one in blue. His older sis, Kimberly, is on the left.




My bro, Liu Zheng, Shuan Ying, Me and my sis.



Surprisingly I did not really drink that much .. maybe cos it was straight Cordon Bleu and it was way too strong for me. I had to chase it down with Root Beer ... I know, really weird combination!

The food was really yummy! There were chicken wings, otah, fried rice, beehoon, stingray, sausages, shrimp and satay! I was really stuffed but could have eaten more chicken wings if there were more :P

Can't wait for the next BBQ!!

P.S. Thanks to my cousin Lin Yee for the pics!

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Lions' Charter Nite

This is a very late post ... sorry, but it has just been madness this past week. I can be home but still working at 9+pm till 11+pm.

Anyway, last Sun was my boss' Lions Club of Singapore Zenith Charter Night and he invited me to the dinner they were hosting. D would have gone if there had been a vegetarian option, but unfortunately there wasn't.

The event was held at NUS and in the begining I was thinking of following my cousin, Charmaine's train and bus way but in the end I took the lazy way out and hailed a cab .... cost me $16 :P I was dressed up, so it was $$ well spent.


Their flag.




Going on stage to take their oath. My cousin is the one on the far right.




My boss, the president of the the club, taking the gavel.




Some trophy?




Official certificate.




The flag ... hmm... is there another name for it?




All the different countries' flags where Lions roam.




Woohoo ... ceremony is over! Jordan is 3rd from the right.



Dinner was ok, I thought the same meal we had the next day was slightly better than the actual day's food. The reason we had an extra "free" meal was because there were empty tables and they allowed us to come back they next day to consume it as there was no refunds.

I sat with my my cousin's wife, Melissa, their kids and my 姑妈. Drank alot of free flow beer ... prob would have drank more if my 姑妈 wasn't sitting beside me watching me .. haha

Left b4 midnight as we all had to work the next day ... wouldn't it be nice if my boss had told us we could come in later?

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Frog Legs @ Chinatown!

Since Ben is back this week, we decided to meet up again on Thur for frog leg porridge at this famous Chinatown coffee shop. We actually wanted to go to the one near my place that Evon had recommended but it was too far for KL.

We also invited Kerine, her bf, my sis and her new bf that all my friends wanted to meet. We tried to get him to join us on Sun but he was too shy :P


Each of us had porridge and we shared pork ribs, fried you tiao and some veggies.




And of cos the star of the nite ... frog legs! We actually had 2 pot, one spicy, one not, however, both pics turn out looking the same so I just posted one :P



After dinner, we headed to nearby coffee bean to sit and chit chat. We would have loved to sit longer but they closed at 10.30pm and so we had to leave :(


Yeah! Group pic! Do I need to name names? U can prob guess who's who :P



It was a fun meetup .....wonder when's the next one going to be ....

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Bejing Bound Ben's Back!

Umm .... do I need to explain why I have not been updating much? Fine .... 3 letters ... HKO :)

Anyway, its over for now, so I should be updating more often unless I get pissed off again by dumbass ppl!

So ..... Ben is back for about 2 weeks and so we decided to meet up for dinner. We were planning to go to East Coast but it was too far for KL, plus it was a Sun nite and he had to be up early for sch the next morning. Since he was not joining, we changed location to Serangoon Gardens (it would still be far for him, as he lives in the deserted part of Spore ... ok, I am exaggerating slightly)

Ben came by to pick me up and we made our way to Gardens, wanting to eat at Cafe Cartel. I was dreaming of their BBQ ribs since the afternoon ... however, because of someone we had to change venue ....


This is the "someone" Snowball!



Cafe Cartel does not allow dogs so we had to go to another place that did. Ben, Huiyi, my sis and I waited for a moment b4 Evon joined us but she then said the food here was not good :( We were thinking of changing venues once again but because we did not know where would definitely allow pets, we decided to just stick with where we were at. Its the company, not the food ....

It was surprising that the food was not horrible, I mean, it was not great but I have definitely had worse :)


Fried Baby Squid




Dory Fish with Salad




Chicken with Veggies




Battered Fish with Fries




Umm, some other chicken with Veggies .... its with some pasta cream sauce, not bad.




Waffle with Ice Cream and Banana




Chocolate with Lychee




Brownie with Ice Cream. The brownie was moist and chocolaty



The only thing bad was it was pretty exp. With dessert and drinks, each of us had to pay almost $30 AND they do not serve ice water! "We have mineral water u can pay for ..." Oh well .....

We did not stay out that late as most of us had to work the next day. We are planning another meet up on Thurs, one that KL can make it to :P