May Weekends 3

Friday started off with bowling, something we haven't done for ages! 'Course, bowling means doing the Happy Hour at 1U's bowling alley where it's RM24 an hour per lane - but oddly enough we were charged the normal price instead. Otousan didn't press the matter and so we have no idea what happened there. Anyways, otousan, Germ, Lemon, Chief and us managed to get two games down before calling it a night - as Happy Hour starts at 11pm (and we were there past 11pm) it was 12.30am when we were done.

While it isn't like we were good bowlers to begin with, ages of no playing showed when we all struggled to get a 100 point game. Aiks. Still, it was fun as we got to see how Germ bowled as if she had a personal vendetta against the bowling pins (we always flinch when she's about to throw the ball!) and how Chief's bowling ball always unerringly head for the centre of the lane (even when aiming for a single pin at the side).

The birthday month continued with two more birthdays to celebrate on Saturday, first one being Apollo's and the second, HuiLin's.

Apollo's party was planned out by by the brutally efficient SK - karaoke at Neway in the morning, swimming in the afternoon and potlock dinner at night. As we had Hui Lin's dinner party at night we opted to join only for the karoake. First time at Neway 1 Utama, and we must say that the song selections, at least, English song selections, aren't as wide as that at Red Box. Still, the place was rather spacious and with four wireless mikes and a decent sound system (once we figured out how to turn down the music volume and solved that blasted feedback problem) we'd a great time.

And while we knew that the Chief can sing well (plus the Chief's did well in choir back in school before) this was the first time we heard the Chief sing. Whoa. Can we swoon? Yes, we can swoon.

HuiLin's party was planned at Thai Inspired at Jaya One. Food was good, but what tickled us was that, while the theme for HuiLin's birthday was 'floral', we never expected the restaurant to be rather floral too. The cutlery had lotus motifs, the curtains had stitchings of little flowers, the napkin held in a ribbon with a lotus.

Winner of the floral theme dress-up went to lad. Because of the buttons.

After dinner we all decided to try Divino for the wine. Most of their stock comes from Denise, and we had the staff there recommend us a strong chiraz and a nice chardonnay. Although quiet and cozy, the place's air-conditioning wasn't working so it got a tad hot lounging on leather seats. There was also a lack of clientele, which for now we could attribute to the place still being new. The time we spent at Divino was on discussing upcoming birthday plans and themes.

We could get a form preprinted for following birthdays at this rate. Probably something along the lines of:
Preferred OC:
Preferred choice of food:
Suggested birthday theme:
Hearing some of the suggested themes, we were seriously contemplating getting a simple white shirt, and with every birthday theme we'll print out something appropriate and iron it onto the shirt. Like with this floral theme we'd have printed out a cute simple tulip and iron it onto the pocket, or something.

Anyways that's it for the May birthdays, and as far as we know Lemon's birthday is up next with a theme of black with a hairstyle-that-is-not-your-usual-hairstyle.