21st in Dublin & London

MY 21st in DUBLIN& LONDON
I'm not going to bother with the dates since it's been too longg. But these are the kind of things that you will want to blog about because in a few years, heck, even a year from now, I know that I will not be able to wipe that smile off my face, looking back at these things.
Anyway, my friends in Dublin celebrated my birthday a week before the real one as I was going to London on the 10th of Oct. Normally Jie comes to Dublin for my birthday but this year we tried something different.
I wasn't aware of the surprise at first, but I guess things got a lil fishy and you get suspicious. What surprised me the most was the amount of people who were present. Alvin and Elijah were having their house warming on the very same day so they made it a 'double celebration' (which was part of the reason why there were so many people in the first place!)
My birthday cake, baked by Catherine, Hui Xin, Wan Lin, and Yvonne.

White chocolate and berries!All my favourite!

That is not usually how I hold a knife to cut cake but somehow, people always catch things like that on camera.


My cake and the awesome bakers!


Alvin's and Elijah's place is equipped with Wii and xbox (i think).

Half of us busy with the wii.We had a singing competition between the guys and the girls.
With voices like Rachel's and YiYun's it's not hard to guess which team had the better score!

L-R: Alvin, me, HuiXin, Kevinder, Mehul.


Me in my birthday present. Probably the most expensive dress I've ever owned.


'Me to You' birthday card from Hui Xin. a.k.a. biggest card I've ever owned. lol.

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BIRTHDAY DINNER @ LAUNCESTON PLACE

As every year, Jie will take me to somewhere nice for my birthday dinner. And every year, Daddy Ong will ring Jie up just to remind him to do so! Sadly, not for this year's birthday which falls on the 10.10.10!!

Pre-appetizers. Some crackers and Veloute.

US enjoying our Veloute.
Food:


My first time ever having rabbit as a main. It is handsdown one of the tastiest meat I have tasted and I wouldn't mind having more. Just don't remind me that I'm having a 'bunny' for dinner.

And as every year, Jie will do something special and somewhat surprising for my birthday. This year, he made a card for me. That's right he MADE the card.

I thought the external part of the card was great until I opened the card and was shocked to see a home-made 3D Forever Friends bear extending his arms towards me!!
Never knew he was such a creative and artsy person!

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BIRTHDAY PARTY @ NO.9



Me birthday cake.


Helena, Michelle and Soraya busy with the wii.


The girls and I.


The guys and I.
Yes, there were alot of people. The most touching of all was to know people like Jonson, Grace, Stanley and Wee Joee who traveled all the way to London for this!


The great chefs.


Me and my yummy cake.Thank goodness there was to cake-in-face/cake-in-hair ordeal.

21 shots for the 21 year old!


The weird things I did halfway through the 21 shots. lol.


The Mallorca Gang!


My new soft toy, given the name Khong Chiu cause apparently he looks like the bear/ the bear looks like him. Thankiu Helena, Agnes, Loong!


And yea, it certainly ended well.Hopefully everyone had as much fun as I did though.
3 birthday celebrations but somehow I don't feel any older compared to the previous year. Which I presume is a good sign. =]
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I just got back from Copenhagen. Time to replenish sleeping hours and burn away the food we excessively indulged.