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Last week, I TURNED 22!!
I wasn't too excited about it, mostly because I was having a bad week; and well, 22 seemed really really old. So on the note, I was just planning on having a simple dinner with the family & the best friend at a simple cafe or something. But I should know better, with the amazing parents & friends I have, it can never be just that simple :)
I had to go to college for lectures in the afternoon. And then like an hour before dinner time, when I suggested Japan Centre Cafe or Basuba (a shared table concept Thai restaurant with amazing food), my parents thought I was nuts because 1) Would have to queue for both, 2) it was my birthday!
Ended up settling on Nobu so I hurriedly called them up and luckily they could squeeze us in so last minute. Was quite funny too, cos when I gave them my number, they already had my name in their client list hahahaha.
Tuna Tataki & Rock Shrimp Tempura
Sushi & Sashimi Platters
I usually order the cod fish miso (which is their signature dish, and fantastic btw) but decided to try a karage instead so Jia had the cod fish miso (and i pinched)
my birthday "cake" - i took like forever to think of how to phrase my wish, and then took forever to make the wish because that's just how long my wish was. the other 3 said I'm very greedy :(
♥
And then Jia suggested that we go for a drink. She told me that her friend told her about this really cool bar situated on the top of Primrose Hill & that you could see the whole of London from there. So I agreed and off we went. I asked her if we'd have to hike up Primrose Hill but she said that we would drop right at the bar, and I believed her, no more questions asked.
When we got there though, she shouted surprise together with a few of my other pals! I had been duped! There was no bar, we DID have to hike up the hill (in my 4 inch heels no less) but it was AMAZING. Breath taking view of the entire london it it's night lights; favourite cake; rose wine & chardonnay and the best damn company :) Wished D were there, it would have been EVEN more perfect than it already was :)
No idea what the jokers were doing.
they bought me my favourite strawberry cake from patisserie valerie & i really finished 3/4 of it by myself like a pig. they were tres shocked at the speed i was stuffing it into my mouth, haha UNGLAM.
more of all of us (minus whoever was taking each picture)
sem & jason play hightide/haidai
jason, wayniq, aruno.
love you bestie! and thanks to all my pals! super touched :)
OH OH OH and on midnight of my birthday Singapore time, the boy asked me to check my email :)
Turns out he had BAKED me a chocolate fondant cake! OMG. He has never, ever ever baked in his life, ever ever ever. And I thought it was so sweet he made an effort to (practice a few times and then finally) bake me a birthday cake, especially because I couldn't be there. This is by far, the best birthday cake ever, better than the Chanel cake they designed me for my 21st! I loved it, and was really so damn touched, and I know I'm lucky :)
Last year's cake.
And then on my birthday itself, I woke up to "Happy Birthday to my Princess" ; a very sweet card & a big bouquet of sunflowers (which are my fave flowers!) ♥ ♥ ♥
Anyway, I won't be in London town for the next few days. Going to take a short relaxing getaway! I've got a few posts queued to go onto my tumblr. I'll also be twittering little updates & pictures onto my twitter everyday from my BB! :)
Have a good week y'all!
Been back in London for a week+ now! The weather has been surprisingly perfect, really! I know it's summer now so the sunshine shouldn't surprise me, but for awhile there, I just couldn't get my head around to accepting that not everyday is a miserable, dreary, cold, blistering, rainy day.
The weather was so amazing in fact, that it seemed like a sin to just keep going shopping or watching telly so I decided to plan for a picnic with the pals at Regent Park. We had carrot cake, sushi, kueh lapis, green tea, beer, tapioca chips, yupi burger and all sorts of other singaporean snacks :)
Jason chasing the squirrel and Jia trying to entice/imitate?? the squirrel, very amusing indeed.
And then the boys left for house viewing so the girls started doing what we do best.
Yes, camwhoring (Krystle, Me & Jia)
Loook at the lovely sunshine! (excuse the narcissism, heehee)
The best things about picnics in London are the complete lack of ants/mosquitoes and the windiness (read: no humidity, sweating)!
And then Sem finished work and came down to join us!
Jia makes new friends & the boys have an afternoon siesta?
Making daisy chains
The boys called us lame, then decided to join in when we were halfway through, but ended up finishing the daisy chains faster than us!!!!
All of us (minus Karmeng who was taking the photos and refused to wear the daisy chain, and Zach who made his daisy chain for Chong Lin, very sweet!) If I didn't know better, I'd think it's St Patricks Day or something, with all the greens!
photo frenzy, note that the photos below were taken around 8pm and the sun was still out, wonderfully fantastic! we stayed at the park for like, five hours!
started playing with the colour accent on jia's cam
the look on jason's face pretty much sums up our afternoon in the park: absolute bliss!
That day was actually a kinda emotional and difficult one for me, but my pals really made my day! Thanks, you guys, for making me laugh and smile :) Good thing I wasn't home alone emo-ing! Anyway we left the park around 830 and headed over to Mai Sushi for dinner :)
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Other than that, my parents have been in London with me because they practically had to "drag me back here themselves" or I would have stayed in Singapore for... forever, really. So yes, Parents + Good weather = London more bearable = Less Homesickness. Notice I say less homesickness, that means I'm still homesick but not as much. I know, my friends tell me I'm full of shit all the time, I've just only been back here two weeks whilst they haven't even gone home in months and I'm still complaining so much!
Cupcakes at Westfield's Mall
I'm kinda in the pattern of waking up around noon everyday, going for a yummy lunch and then shopping till dinner time. Head home after dinner for some television or ichat with the boy, and then sleeping around 3am. Repeat the following day.
Yums
Touristy shots with the Mother at Piccadilly Circus, Shopping at Regent Street
Watched Sister Act, the new musical produced by Whoopi Goldberg, showing at the London Palladium. Started off a bit dry, but turned out to be as funny as promised, and highly entertaining :) Expected them to do "I will follow you" cos I thought that was the movie's theme song, but they didn't - instead they featured "a brand new score by 8 time Oscar winner Alan Menken whose credits include Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and most recently the hit movie Enchanted."
Another random day of shopping in Sloane Street & Kings Road
Lounging in Hyde Park
Random picture of random man that Mummy saw and thought was very funny cos he was posing and posing half naked and just looked hilarious really.
Dinner at a cute french beeeestro bistro
Shopping at David Mayer Naman- they practically closed the shop for Daddy but there were no womenswear and i was bored and stuck inside.
Personal shopping haha
Mummy's turn
Tired at the end of the day
One of the days we had high tea at Liberty's
Patisserie Valerie for my favourite strawberry gateaux and milkshake
Lunch at Caviar House & Prunier, so expensive but oh so damn delicious
We pretty much have fallen into a pattern of doing the same things everday- shop, eat soak up the sun and watch musicals once in a while ( Billy Elliot tomorrow, yay!) Yup, so my days have kinda been rolled one into another so much so that I've kinda lost track of which day I do. But hey that's what my twitter is for I guess- to help me keep track of the little details :)
