No longer is Louis considered a “teen” as he is out of the nineteen age, moving into his twenty’s stage in life! For me, I experienced that suddenly change in “oldness” 6 years ago. Yeah I am so old! Probably I am 26 in age, but 16 in mentality and heart. Or probably some friends might argue it should be 6 and not 16. Haha! Okay but that is not the point here. Happy 20th Birthday Louis! Together with some friends, we celebrated his birthday at my place by having steamboat for dinner. The second year running that we are doing the same thing for his birthday. Almost the same friends attended but some, who made it last year, did not make it this year. While Darryl was the new inclusion to the celebration! (While of course, he had the most budget to sponsor. Hehe!) In fact, Darryl sponsored the entire birthday cake for the celebration!

I think the fun thing about having steamboat is that we are able to go out to shop for the food we want to buy. But again for the second year running again, we over bought food. I still find it hard to estimate how much food to buy. Considering that last year we had more big-eaters in the house compared to yesterday. Hence there was quite a lot of uncooked food that I had to keep to cook next time. I was surprised that we managed to finish the cake considering a few of them could not eat due to some personal reasons.

Now I want to thank those who came to help me make the dinner a success, a happy one for Louis. My initiate plan was to have BBQ instead where I invited over 30 friends. But because the pit was not available, that plan was changed to this steamboat. And due to the space constrain in my house, I could not invite that huge number of friends over. Hence I tried to invite back those who were around the last time round too. :) All the photos taken are uploaded to Facebook and can be found under my profile.

“Happy Birthday Louis!“

Earlier in the afternoon, I went to buy the food with Louis, Chee Hoong and Brittany. My mom had already bought some food for us. But I felt it was not enough. So after checking with Louis and Chee Hoong, we decided we needed more. Special thanks to them 3 for following me to buy the food and much of the preparation work. Friends started to arrive later that evening. Got a chance to meet up with my good friend who came despite not knowing many of my other friends. Thanks to my god-sister Amanda for bringing her sister Matilda and cousin Serea over too. And of course thanks to other friends like Edward, Russell and Derrick who joined us too. I believed I mentioned everyone who came!

I did feel quite bad for Chee Hoong because it seemed more like celebrating my birthday rather than co-hosting it with him. He received one present from the group while I received about 4, from individual friends. Nevertheless he mentioned he will be having his own buffet party too on another day. Of course he needs to have another party because this year he will hit the milestone for 21st birthday! Surely he needs a better celebration!

A: Kobe Bryant shirt from Group
B: Tweety Bird from Jiayun
C: Chocolates from Matilda & Serea
D: Photo frame from Derrick’s Mom

And more photos…

Once again, thanks for all who took time off to come and enjoy the celebrations for me!

Have a good start to February!

So I met with everyone yesterday (except Brittany who was still at school) in the afternoon. Together we drove to Sheng Siong supermarket nearby at Serangoon North Ave 5. Then we spent an hour shopping for the food we wanted. Vegetables, pork, chicken, fish balls, cuttlefish balls, fresh prawns, drinks and more. The only food we did not buy from there was beef. We went to Cold Storage at Heartland Mall to buy the beef instead. Because they have the freshest kobe beef from Japan! One packet cost $9.50.

Moment we reached back my place, we started preparing all the food. Special thanks to Sarene who worked so hard in the kitchen to cut all the necessary stuff. Without her, probably no one will get the food prepared so well. My new maid is very bad in the kitchen. (So bad that my mom has already decided to change this maid by next week.) While the rest of us unpacked the food and prepared the soup. Brittany arrived at my house later and became the photographer.

In the end, we realised we over bought the amount of food. Especially much left-over were the straw mushrooms, cuttlefish balls and fish balls. We managed to finish most of the meat except for chicken. Brittany was so full that after she went home, she so wanted to vomit. We still have to reserve space in our stomach for the cake.

But in the end, it was a great experience for me organise this steamboat and we all had a great time!

3 videos uploaded at YouTube.
18 photos uploaded at My Gallery.

Louis actual birthday is on 3rd October, which is also mid-autumn festival day. So an early birthday wish, “Happy Birthday Louis!“