PAELLA! SANGRIA! FISH EYE LENS!

it is my pre birthday day!! today had been fantastic. what an excellent prelude to tmr. hhaha.

i had my market research submission today. so that was like one huge burden off my back already. and it was good. it went well at least. apart from the fact that i had 12weeks of tuitorial that i had to hand up. so after being in sch for a mere 30mins, i actually took the bus home again to pick my nonexistent tuitorial notes up. haha. min had to lend me hers and i had to get everything printed out. thank God for technology. for harddisks. haha. lovely.

i begged for the car and drove myself down to sch again to hand everything up. they were all waiting for me to get back to sch so we could all go for my birthday lunch. anywhere i wanted. and since we had the car, we were invincible. hur hur. we could get ourselves anywhere we wanted. so yayy! and since i was wearing my spanish bullfighting shirt, i felt like spanish food! my paella! and my sangria! and i read from jans blog that they had all that i wanted at this spanish restaurant at clarke quay called the tapas tree. so we trooped down. yayyyy!! :):):)


the tapas tree.

i was so so excited. i mean.. paella know! and sangria! ooohhhhhhhh... thats like a pinch of heaven on earth! ahhh.....despite the ridiculous price tag attached to it, i dont think i honestly could be bothered. i had to get my sangria. hur hur. the rest just had to go along with me. hahaha. how i love birthdays.




my sangria!! yayyy!!! :):):):):)


potatoes chorizo. zarzuella. garlic shrimps. tapas werent fantastic. bahh..


the very disappointing paella velanciana. who adds ham chunks and boiled eggs in their paella man! bahh.

i shall show you what good spanish food is like. hur hur. el gores in barce.


this is what i call true spanish food. the paella velanciana we had in barcelona.


baby octopus.


tapas in barce, spain.


and yes, of course, our heavenly sangria. sigh.. how i miss thee.




Sunand! major boobies alert. haha.





everyone!


dress for the occasion. aha!


the dreaded bill. we actually only ordered food for 2. look how much it cost us. imagine we ordered for 5. darn.

i had to get the car back by 4. so i dropped the girls off in town, fetched cat for her interview at demsey, waited and went back to my place after. i always have these long chats with cat. aha. chat cat. chats, cat in french. ahha. sorry, out of point. so anyway, we laid in bed for over 3 hours talking just about anything. it was good. i love days like these. sigh..

so since its prebirthday day, and that my tmr would be jammed packed with everything ben and christine was planning, i had to find time for my wala yes? i called lionel and kevin down with me. happiness. i love closeknit walaing. haha. makes me happy. ;) and since jason knew it was my birthday. drinks were endless once again. hur hur. i love jason. haha. i dont think id ever be able to emphasize that enough. haha. so it was all good. and yyong decided to surprise me! for the past 4 years, she had been trying with all her might to be the first to wish me happy birthday. hahaha. so yayy! she came down too.


told you drinks were endless. they were piling on top of each other. hur hur..


kevin said i wouldnt be getting a present this year.. :(




~if only they had a hoegaarden bday cake. haha.


birthday hugs. :) sweet.


it was jason's godsis' birthday. and they had thewhole deal as well. cake and all. and she came over and gave me a hugeass slice of it. good stuff.


my first present! not really, but my first present on the actual day. haha! lionel darling got me a fish eye lens camera! how cool is that! i couldnt stop saying 'the fish eye lens camera' all night. hahaha. very happy indeed. :):):)




jason started bringing birthday shots. i had like 2 tequila shots with him. zain brought out an excellent shot of chocolate martini. it was so so good. even tho it tasted very much like baileys tho. and this other one that was so spicy that burned my throat. its like chivas x a million times worse. yes, that bad. and of course. i had my kevin would got me my favourite butterscotch. honestly, when it comes to alcohol, kevin knows me best. hur hur hur. oh darlings. what a night. what a prelude. it was fantastic :) now i could really sleep soundly wihtout tossing and turning in bed in anticipation to what ben had planned for tmr. hahahha.. soundly.. very very soundly. hahaha...


oh wala!