fingerfries: June 2006

Surprise Birthday Cookout

Surprise! My friends threw me a BBQ pool party for my birthday. I am really touched by the amount of thought, effort and planning that had taken place in organising this event. It's pretty amazing! They had it perfected right down to the finest details - the best cut of meat from the early morning TTDI market, the menu & drink list, the kamdar table cloth, the ikea serviettes and the pink aprons. And all this time, trying to keep it a secret from me!

It was great to spend the day with you peeps. You guys made growing older kinda fun!

I absolutely loved the personalised menu! It's a nice tribute to all our pups who were unable to make it to the party

at the barbie

This sweetie bartender makes the meanest cocktails

This homemade tiramisu is seriously *yummy*

Yes, i'm finally turning one!

Out of the Dinosaur ages

Yay! i am now interneted during daylight hours which means i am finally out of the dinosaur ages. My office has revised its policy a few days ago and is now allowing us access to the world wide web. Almost immediately, my colleagues and i started to IM each other on MSN messenger and searching for cute emoticons. And it's funny how we now communicate via MSN instead of our office emails like we used to do.

With the advent of the internet, will I be more productive at work? So far, the internet has been quite useful as i have been updating myself with the happenings on and off pitch of the World Cup 2006. I am sure i'll be more productive after the World Cup season.

And since i'm writing about dinosaurs, here's a real funny one from Gary Larson -

Slippery Senorita Birthday

At Slippery Senoritas with my favourite bunch of colleagues. Look what I got for my 18th birthday (Yes, the card does say 18) ?? It's a stickerbook!! In line with the World Cup mood, they got me a six-pack of footballers as well (erm... I mean a packet of stickers of football players). Too bad that the footballers were neither the yummy hairpulling footballers or the ones that i can actually name.

Slippery Senoritas - the food's not exciting, the drinks aren't cheap and the waitstaff are quite blur, but on the brighter side, you can get takeaways from the pizza place next door and its a great place to watch the matches during this World Cup season.

World Cup Fever

I have just caught the bug! It's World Cup time ... time to spend a month watching 22 men chasing after the one ball on the football field. Let's hope this season's World Cup will see a display of matches filled with excitement, goals and good looking men!

Here are my World Cup 2006 favourite team picks :

England : because everyone else loves England, I'm jumping on the bandwagon
Australia : for sentimental reasons
Sweden : What can i say? I like Swede men
Germany : According to a friend, home ground advantage pushes a team one and a half rounds further
Brazil : historical favourites ... because history always repeats itself
Angola : this sad country's maiden appearance in the World Cup. Supportlah

On Friendships

As i watched the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2006 at Souled Out waiting excitedly for the first World Cup 2006 match to begin (Germany v Costa Rica, the Germans won 4:2 *yay*), I received a phone call from PL. She says she just saw Roberto Baggio on TV. She wanted to tell me that reminded her of World Cup 1994 when i was so starstruck over Baggio i stuck a picture of Baggio on my pencil case. And now, many years later, after the pencil case and the picture of that great footballer has long ago disappeared, i am so glad that our friendship stays true till this day.

Here's to friendships of a lifetime

I am so lucky to have the great friends that i have. But sometimes i can't help but to wonder, which hurts more - the loss of a friendship, or the realisation that there never was a friendship?

The Great Singapore ...

Rocked down south to Sg recently on the First Coach to seekout great buys at the Great Singapore Sale and for a great birthday celebration.

It was my first time on First Coach. It turned out to be a very pleasant coachride, with the coach departing punctually at 7.30 am (it's early i know... *yawn*). The coach was clean and the seats were comfy, i could recline and plonk my foot up onto a footrest. Although the coach was full, the passengers were all well-behaved and were quick at the reststop and there were no snorers or screaming kids. I'd definitely recommend the First Coach to travel down. My only complaint was that i could not purchase my ticket online and the ticket had to be collected at least 3 days before the date of travel. A big thanks to Lis who booked and collected my ticket. You're such a darling!

It was the first weekend of the Great Singapore Sale. And along the shopping paradise of Orchard Road, mobs and mobs of Singaporeans and tourists filled the malls in a buying frenzy. The sales were great! Too bad i didn't have that unlimited spending capacity.

Some pics of the weekend :

Dinner @ Sage, the Restaurant at Robertson Walk. This cozy little restaurant was definitely a great idea! *yummy*

Grr... it's COLD @ Eski Bar. Freezing in Singapore's first subzero temperature bar. Luckily we were provided with these eski warmers, if not, i would have been frozen in that dress!