Just started work at Aaron’s aunt’s spa today. Basically did all the weird admin stuff, I think I was doing inventory? Like stock check or something because I was changing stuff like price of product, name of product and number of product. Staring at the screen all day can be quite boring but I think the most difficult part of it all was keeping my back from aching after all the slouching I did in front of the screen. Well, I managed to find ways to amuse myself with the task at hand though, like spotting oxymoron in the products name. I mean "intensivegentle" cleansing mask?!
Ihatethe host of So You Think You Can Dance. What possessed the producer to hire some British chick or some chick with a British accent?! She looks so spastic talking and hosting the damn show. I can’t exactly remember if she was the same host for the first season of So You Think You Can Dance but she seriously ruins the show for me. Hopefully they won’t get some lame ass host for Fever on the Dance Floor like how they got Daniel Ong for Singapore Idol.
I’m too lazy to wait for YH to send me the photos from Saturday so I decided to update first and perhaps maybe edit the entry when she does send me the photos. (YH if you are reading this I’m waiting for the pictures hor!)
We celebrated Yvonne’s birthday last Saturday, a really really belated birthday celebration. Her birthday was like around late September but because it was nearing the exam period, the celebration was put off until after the exams. However, with all the preparation for Velvet etc after our EOYs, we only managed to find time to finally celebrate it for her last Saturday.
We held the celebration at YY’s house. Initially, there was a lot of debate regarding where to host the party. We thought of places like her house, the zoo, sentosa and the list goes on. However, when YY discovered how some of us enjoy going to Seoul Garden to eat and invited us over to her house for a hot plate dinner, we decided that it would be best to hold the party there since everyone would be present. It’s getting quite hard to get everybody together at the same place on the same day since people are getting busier.
Anyway, I went there with Aaron in the pouring rain and luckily I was smart enough to bring a huge ass umbrella with me. To hell with tiny portable umbrellas that cover only half of me, those are for tiny/normal sized people. Huge people like me need big umbrellas to shield against torrential downpours. I think I need to get a pair of waterproof shoes though, seeing as how my flats are constantly getting soaked and when I wear flip flops out, I run the risk of breaking my back. That’s why you see me waddling like an old man when I’m walking around on a rainy day.
Well, we still managed to get to YY’s house in one piece (barely though) and by the time we had reached, the baking of Yvonne’s cake and brownies had already started. I think YY’s mom nearly threw a fit at the whole baking session. Being quite retarded when it comes to baking, I stood out of the way and attempted to cool myself down in her living room. We were supposed to have an orange theme, which is basically whereby everyone wears orange except Yvonne. Haha, however, some people didn’t have orange shirts and some people neglected to inform others to bring orange shirts (Tsk tsk tsk). Thankfully YY had enough shirts to go around and I managed to find a tiny orange shirt, which I can no longer fit into, at home to loan to Darren.
The Bakers. Not a family name but literally the people who baked the cake and brownies. YY should be in the picture too.
Yvonne arrived earlier than we would have liked or expected. I guess you could say that we weren’t entirely prepared to throw her the party yet, with minor details like the card and decorating her cake still unfinished. So we entertained and distracted her with Finding Nemo and by playing with her hair. Of course, I’m sure she knew that something was going on but haha, we somehow enjoyed pretending that she didn’t know what was going. I guess everyone enjoyed the idea of keeping her in the dark and at least she was sporting enough to go ahead and pretend that she didn’t know what was going on. OR at least I think she pretended that she didn’t know what was going on, haha.
Yvonne's new hairdo, take 1!
Yvonne's new hairdo, take 2!
So while she watched the movie, we stealthily wrote messages in her card and artistically cut up the brownies to form a heart shape for her. The original idea was to spell something like HAZARD or YVONNE or SOTONG BALL, but there was either no space on the plate or not enough brownies to form a word. At the same time, the oreo cheese-birthday-cake was being chilled in the freezer and the food for dinner was being prepared.
We finally settled down for dinner soon after the movie ended. Haha, I think we must have consumed millions of calories worth of food because there was quite a spread and the amount of butter used was insane. Dinner was fantastic and I think we got quite inventive with all the egg, tang hun and rice that seemed to have a lot left over. Personally I would have preferred if YY’s parents didn’t come home so early or would have as YY said, found some excuse to go out until we were done, at least with dinner. But, I guessed we still made the best of what we had and I enjoyed it a lot.
After dinner, we cut the cake, opened the presents and made Yvonne put on a fashion show with the clothes we got her for her birthday.
Her new look!
Haha, I think it was rather chaotic getting the atmosphere just right when we sang her the song and got her to walk into the room which was only illuminated with lights from the candles on the cake. We made her pose for a million photos as well as videos that YY and I were taking.
16 years old and 2 months!
Birthday girl with her birthday card.
The cake was delicious but there wasn’t much to go around. I guess that’s a good thing considering how much butter we ate during dinner. We were supposed to play monopoly but somehow ended up hanging out in YY’s room instead. Aaron, Nic and I left soon after with a lift from Nicole’s dad, while the rest waited for Yvonne’s dad to give them a lift. Haha, next on the agenda, Darren’s birthday! Oh oh, and Christmas party at Audrey’s house with gift exchange. Haha, the number of times we had to draw lots just so that everyone picked someone else other than themselves was amusing to say the least.
Orange overload!!!
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The Videos!
Singing happy birthday.
Cutting the cake.
Opening the presents.
Catwalk! Work it!
And of course, one of the crazy moments.
farcical-rants - 9:53 pm - Monday, November 27, 2006
