birthday

yesterday was my birthday.

the most touching thing that happened yesterday was that my grandgodmother (i.e. my mum's godmother) and grandgodfather drove all the way to hougang from tanglin halt (a rough estimation would be near queensway or the ikea at alexandria)

she came all the way here with her little granddaughter, only 20 months, just to deliver me a twenty dollar angbao. she really tengs me a lot

my actual grandmother didn't even gave me so much as a call. even the insurance company gave me a nice card.


anyway, had a real celebration today. i actually had a one-to-one "consultation" (don't know if you can call it that) with mrs lim. but she let me reschedule because of my birthday. thank you very much mrs lim.

we went to dhoby gaut to eat at astons and watch a movie, district 9. which i thought was good, and jelena and wenhui thought was VERY bad.

anyway, astons is quite overated, i think. maybe for that price range in that area in particular, that's why it stood out. but i don't really think that the long queues do any justice.

anyway, we went to orchard central, which is like this really fancy art gallery slash fashion high class shop thing. the best part was that the chairs were very comfortable.
we sat there for 15 minutes before the girls and yang decided to leave to "shop at taka"

they came back with takkin and kenghong and got me a cake. actually they went to a lot of trouble to hide the cake, which i proceeded to ruin the hiding by saying "the cake ar" in my usual loud and obnoxious voice. Jelena replied "at least he's not that stupid."

the cake was an "oreo cheese cake" with like a whole pack of strawberries on top. like if you took out the box it would all fall down, that much. i haven't tasted the cake yet because we lacked a plate or even tissues. but i ate like more than 6 strawberries so that the box has enough space for me to close. and takkin thinks that strawberries grows on trees. thanks very much for the cake everyone!

then we watched district 9. which was 2 hours long and quite draggy at the beginning, only when the action starts then quite exciting and i use the term exciting loosely.

thanks to all who made my birthday so special, mum, dad, bro, ah ma, ah gong, jelena, kenghong, zheng yang, wenhui, takkin, edmund and everyone else!

editor's note: i tasted the cake just now and the oreo part tastes a bit weird, like coffee or something, the cheese cake is actually pretty good.

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