May Weekends 1

Because this month is quite the birthday month. Not to mention that every single weekend this month there seems to be something on! First for the Labour Weekend there was the Music Camp. That was a good trip overall. The following week was the Camland trip, short but great nevertheless. Then for the Wesak Weekend it started with birthday celebrations before some time-out and time alone with the Chief. The next two weeks prove to be busy too!

Cave-weekend-time necessary, although we don't think there'll be time for that till sometime next month.

So the Wesak Weekend began on Friday with a dinner with batchmates, otousan, the Chief and us to celebrate otousan's birthday. Surpringly for all our visits to Coliseum, otousan had never eaten there before - so for his birthday he wanted to be adventurous a bit and have his birthday dinner with the batchmates there. It was a bit adventurous indeed, as no one except us knew where the place was. We'd planned to meet at Sogo first and then walk down to Coliseum, it seemed the easiest way.

Admittedly it's been over a year since we've been there and so the experience was somewhat new again for us. For everyone else, there were Kodak moments whatwith the look of surprise on their faces...

Captain Ho: Are you all ready to order?
Everyone: Just a moment ya. (Browses menu.)
-couple of minutes later-
Everyone: Okay, we're ready.
(Captain Ho walks away.)

Asides for the bread-and-butter set and the mix-up of our steak, the food was still good and filling.

We'd to rush off after that to head for Jin's birthday, which was celebrated at Frangipani. We've never considered eating here as we heard that food there is slightly more than we would consider forking out for a meal. :P Take a look at their menu from their website! However, the decor at Frangipani was cozy - the kind of atmosphere you'd have a candlelight dinner, soft music and whispered conversations. After dinner it was upstairs to the bar for drinks and cake. We basically chilled out and help ourselves to the vodka (Frangipani brand vodka, unbelievable!). Must say that the bar looks much better now after renovations.

Saturday we celebrated both otousan and 'Vin's birthday at Jarrod & Rawlins 1 Utama with the gang. Otousan, 'Vin, Germ, Jo', Puddy, Esteban, lad, NJAPF, Juangtis, Juangti, Chief and us had a long table all to ourselves, and instead of ordering separate dishes we basically ordered almost all the pork in sight - sausages, knuckles, ham. The food was just. So. Mouthwateringly. Good.

Enough was ordered to go around for everyone, but there's just one particular sausage to be warned about - the Dynamite. This spicy sausage needs to be eaten last else it'll overpower all taste buds that you can't taste anything else.

While confectionary dolls seem to be becoming a tradition, this time Pikachu suffered terribly by 'Vin's hands. Immediately after showing up on the cake Pikachu was beheaded - accidentally, we're sure, even tho' 'Vin had had a fork jokingly poking near Pikachu's neck. This before the birthday song was even sung.

The birthday song did catch the attention of Shuku and Jer, who were dining at Oriental Cravings. Which came in rather handy, as she could then help us take the group photographs. :P

The night ended with us all having drinks at Deutsches Gasthaus 2, where attempts at beer-drinking Il Divo shots were made...