Saturday, April 25, 2009

Happy 27th Birthday to Peter!

Met my SIM mates for dinner on Tuesday, main reason is to celebrate the 2nd eldest person in our group - Mr Peter's 27th birthday! Had dinner at Kuishin-Bo located at Suntec City, the food there is excellent, it is an authentic Japanese Buffet Restaurant with a wide range of food including salmon, seafood and crab, which alone is worth the price because it is real fresh, only bad price is maybe the price is a little steep, weekdays still $40 per head, but once in a while is still ok. Got chance must go again.

We simply had so much laughter during the dinner, as we always have back in the days we were studying together, so much laughter i can sense the lady of a couple sitting just beside us kept listening to our conversation and jokes. And even listened to our comments on the food we took, how every time when we say this dish is good, and we began "snatching" before it runs out, and in the next moment, you see the guy leaving the table and returns with, yes you guessed it, the item we almost started a war because of it, is definitely not a coincidence. And how i can spot everything is because i was sitting at a diagonal angle to them and can actually see their every move rather clearly.

Halfway through dinner when the 27 years old birthday boy began to chat with the 28 years old 大姐 in our group about, coincidentally, applications for HDB flats, because the both of them happened to apply for it around the same time, and the two of them were chatting more and more about the balloting, how it works, the hidden secrets of HDB applications, I and Liyao were looking at each other and said "你会不会觉得我们好像老了, 现在吃饭的话题都是在讲申请房子", we deeply felt it is no secret that time really have passed us.

And a usual group of 5 turns out only 4 could make it for dinner, as our Apple friend is still working. So after dinner i drove them over to her workplace to find her, which we only know is around UE Square near Clarke Quay area. Because we don't know the exact address, and she wasn't picking up our calls, we 兜了几个圈子 and finally decided to just stop by any side of the road that is convenient and not blocking the traffic, and just wait. Then the phone call came, and when it ended, guess where we stopped? ... Directly in front of her company, just only on opposite roads. Wa really 应验了 this saying: "众里寻她千百度, 蓦然回首, 那人却在灯火阑珊处". (sounds weird ...)

And lastly what's a birthday without cutting the birthday cake? But this was going to be no ordinary cake cutting, because we could not go too far off from Apple's workplace in case she had to be called back, our options were limited. So limited till the extent everyone got out and we cut it ... at the rear outside of the car. Liyao suggested cutting it inside the car but i was =.=" with the idea. This really goes down as one of the more memorable places to cut any birthday cake - by the side of the road. The birthday boy was disappointed too, as once the cake was cut, Apple immediately received call to go back office and that was about it for the short birthday celebration. We had the cake and packed up and that was the day.