its my party and ill cry if i want to...
party time!! well a birthday celebratory outing.. which is kinda the same.. started out with drinks.. 2 for 1 cocktails at the Orbit Lounge .. the revolving kinda made me feel woosy.. although that may have been the alcohol =p it was cool though.. nice for a quiet catch up before the "party".... in the end it was impressive turnout for a random tuesday nite in the middle of the exam period. thanks to everyone who came =) special mention to lingy cos she came after her exam even though she was exhausted.. *hugs* ..

picked up a few ppl along the way, but still had to wait for a lot of ppl who were late (i wont mention names =p) but it was all good in the end, the restaurant didnt seem to care as much as the lady on the phone seemed to imply. it was rather busy for a tuesday nite though.. the food was impressive so i guess that explains why. it was great to see all these ppl together .. i like making ppl meet new people, so ppl ask "oh how do u know so-and-so?" .. and theyll say "i met them at ian's bday" =) .. i tried my best to get around to talk to everyone at least for a while, but there was a lot of ppl who i hadnt seen for a while so there was much catching up to be had. hopefully we wont have to wait till my next bday to catch up again.

as mentioned before the food was really good .. the service was average.. i had to ask 5 times for the bill before it eventually came. *sigh* what ever happened to japanese efficiency? =p after collecting the monies, we were a rather large $50 short of the mark.. weird.. i didnt mind paying though.. i actually considered paying the whole thing, but it woudlve made me fall behind on the mortgage.

afterwards we headed off to gelatissimo to meet up with lingy.. and we went for the 32 flavour option.. omfg.. thats a lot of ice-cream.. it came in two giant martini glasses.. and we all just kinda dug and and were basically guessing which flavor we had with each bite, it was rather amusing =) lotsa fun.. quite filling after a big japanese dinner though.

.. every1 kinda went their separate ways after that.. lotsa hugs all around.. i really like hugs.. they are a great invention. theyre a bit harder to come by than they were back in the old days.. so a hug-laden outing is a fantabulous thing =)

me and julia kinda went thru opening the presents on the long train ride home.. there were a few i hadnt opened yet... i wont go on about what every1 got me.. but of special note was the scarf jel knitted, and the milk photo book khanh got me =) ... i really like getting cards btw.. cos at anytime i can walk down to a store and buy myself lotsa presents.. but it not really the same to write myself a card. often ppl write things in a card which they never had an opportunity to say irl. probly cos it sounds cheesy coming out of ur mouth except at a 21st bday speech or soemthing, but on a card its really sweet =) ive kept every card and letter ive ever gotten in my life, handwritten stuff is so much more personal than emails will ever be, i like to keep them to remind me of things which my brain has long forgotten. the good old days as it were.

i was once in this class full of people with low self-esteem problems (i had a very troubeld childhood).. and one of the activities we did was to anonymously write on a piece of paper sometime nice about each person in the class. it sounded kinda cheesy at the time, and there were always alot of ppl who didnt take it seriously, but i still have all of those pieces of paper at home. they make me smile whenever i have a read... its like random compliments from people who i never knew noticed me.