sunday night nick organised a gathering for the cedarpoint (thereafter referred to as CP) people. the initial plan was to go ktv-ing...knowing how nick is such a ktv fan haha. the weirdest thing is that all the above people agreed to the outing but when sunday evening came when we all met up in town, half of them decided to go have dinner and hang out somewhere while the other half (nick brit and SS) wanted to go sing! oh well, it's rare that something is organised and since 10 of us were already in town, the singing crew decided to just go along with the rest and forego the singing part.....we can do that another time!

yup, so dinner was at pepper lunch, haha, dinner at lunch. erm...ok anyway, it was fun meeting up as usual, cos i hadn't seen most of them since the last durian party we had at esmond's place, and i hadn't seen nick since the 1st gathering we had that was 4 days after we returned back to singapore. that's quite a long while seriously.....chilling out after dinnner was at The Balcony at the heeren.

initially, 9 of us (minus joey) were seated around the jacuzzi in the open air area. how difficult it was to talk! not to mention how u had to talk loud enough to be heard over the music and noise and bubbling water in the tub. haha. they finally moved us over to the huge white bed with the huge cushions. no, most certainly 10 of us couldn't squeeze onto that huge white bed, so poor ambrose, britmand and esmond had to sit out of the bed. oops. almost everyone had the 1-for-1 beers (yes even reina!! and she can drink more than lionel!). almost everyone but me. i settled for sparkling.....ginger ale hahaha cos i didn't want to start turning and have my head pumping like mad. that always happens when i drink, such embarrassingly low alcohol tolerance i say.

ss and esm drove all of us down to newton for supper. for most of them, supper was just 1 chicken wing (and drumstick). only reina had 2 chicken wings (and drumsticks) and marcus and esmond shared a stingray. it was funny to see how ambrose was so worried about the cleanliness state of his Juice magazine cos reina and i were passing it around reading it haha. when we were leaving, esmond so kindly offered to drive home as many of us as his car could take....so that's marcus (bishan), me (thomson), ambrose (yishun), nick (yew tee) and reina (bukit timah). thanks esmond for the ride home!!!!

on a sidenote, joey told me new news...that 2 of our friends are attached....to each other! i was kinda shocked actually..not that i didn't see it coming because there definitely were hints along the way, but i guess it was more of a natural unconscious reaction given the circumstances...and most importantly, the person involved. but after the inital shock, i'm genuinely happy for both of them because i'm really glad that he's found a girl as sweet, easy going, bubbly, lovable and fun as her :)

baked the boy a cheesecake. oh wait that's a lil wrong. i didn't bake it, cos the last time i baked an oreo cheesecake it tasted burnt -_- so this time, i chose a cheesecake that didn't need to be baked, just refrigerated. except......that i think it wasn't in the fridge long enough. either that or something was wrong with the ingredients ( i think it's the whipped cream, honestly). because after it was out of the fridge for a little while, it started getting soft...way too soft, till it became yogurt texture. so when he ate it, it was actually cheese-yogurt he was having, not the intended cheese-cake. oops my bad! but 1st time trying out this kind of stuff leh.....

we had dinner at hog's breath at chijmes..interesting place, i kinda like it actually. the steak was succulent and yummy but i think the portion was just enormous! top that off with the mudcake....and oh boy, could we barely walk out of the laid-back australian cafe! caught John Tucker must Die at marina square after that, much to the boy's bewilderment (because it's a chick flick and guys don't usually wanna watch such shows, do they?!) haha. but thanks dear for watching it with me!!!

got him a dkny black leather strapped watch for his 23rd. the hours may be ticking away as the seconds go by, but don't keep feeling like u're getting too old!!! u're only 23!