Chief Celebrations 2009: Project El Cerdo

And with two days of birthday celebrations, Sunday was supposed to be a laid back shopping day where all we wanted to do was just get card sleeves from Comics Corner DJ to protect our Bang! cards.

In fact, we'd to rush slightly more as the last two nights of parties meant we had no time to prepare the Chief's birthday card for the Sunday party! Upon waking up we had to rush over the Curve to lunch, to Papier to get more craft stock, and work out a while since we were already there. Tapau'ed dinner for mum, then rushed off to otousan's to pass him the receipt to collect the birthday cake (Mango Cheesecake from Cake Sense!) then home to start working on the Chief's birthday card.

Didn't have time to pass the card to lad or anyone else, so we had to hide the card in the boot and stash the 'best theme costume' present in the backseat, and head off to fetch the Chief on a pretense of shopping (only, unlike the past two days, we did end up buying something, even if it's only card sleeves).

For the past few days we told the Chief that we had specific food cravings (before making our way to the venue). Friday at Basil we told the Chief we wanted mango sticky rice dessert (which we didn't order in the end too!). On Saturday, it was for Western food in a restaurant, not the fast food variety. On Sunday we told the Chief we had cravings for pork, or rather, zhu yok and char siew. And lied that our boss spoke of some place in Jalan Alor having good pork.

Valet parking seemed full at El Cerdo so we had to drive to a car park not too far, and as we entered El Cerdo we wondered just how much the Chief suspected yet another party. Three parties in a row may be a possibility seeing how last year we did two in a row. The Chief was thrown slightly off-guard when we waited at the entrance to be served rather than walk straight in - but this was because we couldn't see our table, heh. El Cerdo was nice enough to give us our own private room...actually it's a large room with few tables, separated by curtains. But still.

Everyone was sporting about the theme! Being the one to fetch the Chief about, we couldn't really dress up to the theme without raising further suspicion, but also because the only piece of clothing we have that has any animal printed on it is a tank top with a picture of a pig.

We had tigers...

Snakes, Egyptian snakes to be more specific...

Reindeer. We mean monkey. Reindeer. Monkey. Reindeer and monkey.

Orangutan!

And a large-ass alligator!

The lighting wasn't good enough for our iXus to take great shots, so we left the job to esteban and lad with DSLRs.

The night went along merrily with assorted sausages, pork steaks, Mango Ribs (yummy!), a paella and an eisbein, and jugs of Tiger beer and sangrias...Not to mention the suckling piglet with the traditional plate-chopping and smashing, and the Happy Birthday (Oink! Oink!) song.

After the present awarding ceremony, the card presenting and the unwrapping, it was time for a stressed Chief to award the Best Costume Award - and the Reindeer gets a pack of animal-shaped cookies from Marks & Spencers!

We think next year we're gonna be in trouble if we keep upping the bar for celebrations...