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Bi Shan’s 25th Birthday Celebration
March 07th, 2010 | Author: gabriel

It all started with a 2kg Snoopy Cake… But end up, the Snoopy Cake wasn’t there at all..

Here’s the story:

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Bi Shan threw herself a birthday party cause Deon ordered a 2KG Snoopy Birthday Cake for her… The both of them can’t finish the 2KG cake all by themselves so, she invited her friends in SG and even ordered extra stuffs for us – KFC, Pizza Hut, Canadian Pizza, Pastamania, Dessert Wine, etc.

 

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So, in her party, there are basically two groups of people.. One, more towards Bishan’s friends. Another one, more towards Deon’s friends

 

bishan's-friends Actually for me, I know most of Deon’s friends cause they were from NTU – my seniors. But they are closer to my sister though, Grace, as they were her juniors. haha..

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Anyway, we just mingled, chatted and eat the food we see in her house while Deon and his friends played board games.

IMG_1487 He has this big collection of board games! He even has a starcraft board game… OMG.. lol. Apparently, it was so complicated that it became a display set.. Haha..

Then finally, the birthday cake! Well, the Snoopy Cake didn’t turn up cause the cake shop just didn’t do them.. Maybe it was too complicated?? But the thing is, they didn’t even inform that they are not going to prepare the 2KG Snoopy Cake for them. End up, there’s a 2 X 1Kg Ice Cream Cake from Swensen’s.

birthday-cakes And tada! Surprise!!

surprise Okay fine.. There isn’t really much of a surprise since she threw herself her own party. She even put the candles on the cake herself… We’re quite bad guests actually.. We keep demanding her to prepare drinks for us.. Haha..

Anyhow, she still enjoyed herself.. Can see from her happy face…

IMG_1498The cake was quite good. Did I mention that her place is very nice too?

All the girls at her place…

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And all the guys..

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Christmas Celebration & Ian’s Birthday @ Hougang
December 20th, 2009 | Author: gabriel

My first actual Christmas celebration in Singapore, celebrated with Ipoh Mali peeps. Have brought over the Ipoh give-exchange tradition over here, where we bought presents for each other. You can see the collection of presents under the Christmas Tree below.

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At the same time, Ian’s birthday falls on the 27th December and we celebrated his birthday together in this joyous occasion. Melanie (Ian’s gf) was the main organizer where she prepared and bought most of the things. We had turkey, spaghetti, roast pork and lots of booze! haha

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While waiting for the complete arrival of guests, we had some nice group pictures…

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Some, were anxious to look for their presents.

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After our nice and fulfilling meal, we just talked and chilled out.. The atmosphere was soaked in christmas songs but the TV had football matches in it. Liverpool, Man U  and Arsenal matches, back to back.. hahah.

There were drinking sessions…

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Partying & singing sessions…

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And of course, since it’s Ian’s Birthday Celebration too, we had a birthday session for him too!

 

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We made the two of them did some stunts which I won’t be revealing here. But those who knows, well.. you know.

Here’s to Ian with the ladies.

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Anyway, the ‘best’ part is up next – the opening of presents!

There were two parts to the give exchange. First part is where each of us buy a present approx $10 and we exchange them via a ‘musical chair’ concept.

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We passed the presents around until the music stops playing and get the keep the present in front of us. The present I’ve gotten was from Chin Zwen where she bought a Kitty Vacuum Cleaner.

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The second part is where we bought individual gifts for each other. Residents of the house bought a present each for each other and some are actually enjoying the gift of giving…

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And shouting…

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Then, there are gifts from the house… They bought lots of food supplies..

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I’ve received quite a bit from my friends – from post it notes to slippers to mattress protectors.opened-presents

A very fun and Christmas-ey night. With the usual Ipoh-Gang..

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With an interesting ‘crazy’ picture…

 

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But there’s missing Yin Sin in there.. She went back home to spend some time with her family…

Nevertheless, next thing to look forward to – Christmas Celebration with my family!

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Von’s 24th Birthday Barbeque
November 22nd, 2009 | Author: gabriel

Another weekend and another birthday celebration for our ol’ friend; Yvonne Hui.

Initially, we wanted to have the BBQ place at East Coast Park but we it was fully booked… Luckily Yvonne stays in a condo and she can book a BBQ pit by the pool side, and it’s covered with a dome on top of us..

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And that’s when the guys work hard together to ‘conjure’ the most important thing for the day…

 

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Hot Blazing Fire!

And thus, the BBQ session begins..

We had lots of food – chicken wings, lamb chops, chicken chops, ikan pari, sausages, otak-otak, chocolate banana, marshmallows, satays, etc.

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We had roles to play in order to make this bbq happen.

Jit-Vern and myself are the ‘chefs’. We took turn to look after the food.
Yee Weng is the person who is supposed to put food into the pit.. Then Yvonne will butter them up. She’s the butter-er.
Then Ian is supposed to keep the charcoal hot and burning.

We even have our own apron for the chefs. haha

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Everyone had lots of fun eating, chatting and getting together…

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See that person crowned at the centre of the below picture? That’s our birthday gurl. She’s being ‘crowned’ as the queenof the day.. haha

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After filling our stomach, we headed up to her apartment where he chill out more and of course, to sing her her birthday song and to eat cake!

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And for the rest of the night, we played ‘polar bear’ game… Saboteur… and of course, with lots of booze and drinks and chips.

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Birthday Celebration @ Pu Tien
November 09th, 2009 | Author: gabriel

Had a small birthday dinner celebration with Elaine and the guys at Jurong Point last night. It was very difficult to ‘secure’ their time and most of them are busy with FYP and exams. A big thank you to Ela ine for organizing this and getting people to come.. =)
So happened that night I was to stay overnight in NTU as I will be going to Bukit Batok the next morning. Much nearer to travel from NTU instead of Hougang. Took the opportunity to meet up with them in Jurong Point where they Shaun made reservations to Pu Tien for dinner.

It’s my first time in Pu Tien although I’ve heard of the place quite a few times before that. It’s the Chinese restaurant kind and they ordered a lot of types of dishes.

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Actually, it’s been a while since we hang out.. The last time was the house warming a few weeks ago. Anyway, this time round they self-decorated the cake…

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As you can see, there’s a number of nicely decorated ‘shits’ down there and the writing says “Happy Sai Birthday”
At the sides, they added in their ‘signatures’

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And their gift for me.. A $50 G2000 gift voucher. Haha

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Anyway, thanks guys for spending the time out for the night. =)

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Combined Birthday Celebration (Gab & Ferdi)
October 31st, 2009 | Author: gabriel

To ‘commemorate’ the birthday celebrations of all the Ipoh October babies in SG, we set a date on the 30th Oct for a mass celebration. The celebration is for myself, Ferdinand Peter and Pinkie. But Pinkie couldn’t join us as she has some family matters to attend to back in KL..
Anyway, our celebration started of with a small group of 8 for dinner (plus Bishan who joined after dinner)  in Bugis Junction where we ate at NYDC.

 

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We ate a variety of different western food such as lamb stew, chicken chop, baked pasta, spaghetti, sandwich and pizza. I ordered a sandwich served with German sausage in between. This is the ‘appetizer’ to the main event – we headed for Karaoke at kSuite @ Iluma, the new shopping mall next to Bugis Street. There was an addition of 6 more people. It feels like hanging out in Ipoh again where out of 15 of us, only 3 are non-Ipoh and that’s because they are the plus ones. It was thanks to Susan who managed to get us a free room with no rates but provided we ordered alcohol/open bottle at our ‘party’. 

KSuite is one of the better karaokes I’ve been to. The room is quite big with 4 mics and two screens. The song selection screen is a stand-touch-screen-panel and is quite user friendly. There is also a mini-room with a computer inside where you can surf the net and play many pre-installed games. Can even facebook there…

We started singing from 11pm and lasted all the way until 4am. haha.. We had a ‘karaoke rehearsal session’ in the house a few nights before using youtube. We even printed out cheat sheets aka ‘pinyin lyrics’ for some chinese songs cause most of us can’t read mandarin. The session was fun and many went crazy as you can see from the video below.

 

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We had a good time of dancing, singing… We even dance the Wondergirls – Nobody song… And did some impromptu ‘yam seng’ when there was a very long draggy note in the song….

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Halfway through, they brought out the birthday cakes to celebrate me and Ferdi’s birthday.

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All of us had a great time there.. Thanks for organizing and planning it!

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