Club30 Welcomes JY

Rack o' Ribs, swiped from williamnyk on Flickr.

Woke up early on Saturday morning only to be greeted by a ladder and rag. Mum suddenly had an attack of spring cleaning and wanted me to clean the fans and windows. Guess it's good to reduce the levels of dust in my room. I'm sneezing less now. Nothing works up an appetite more than manual labour. Some time mid-morning, I went out for a bowl of fish paste noodles. Also stopped by the neighbourhood bakery to get some bread for mum. Saw how the pastry chef worked. Lovely long locks and a hair band with no hair net. I'd be no surprise to find his tresses in the finished products. Rushed home to shower as we had to attend a wedding mass at 11:30am. LDP was a tad jammed, nut luckily we made it on time. SK attended the ceremony while wearing a soft neck brace (she was involved in a car accident). I still think she should have accessorized it with a brooch or wrapped a faux fur stole around it. :P. One of the biggest turn outs a wedding mass I had ever seen. But I suspect that it was due to the fact that the newly-weds did not plan a dinner banquet, only a luncheon after the ceremony. The buffet spread was quite good, but I had to abstain from most of the food because they were mostly deep-fried stuff or high in cholesterol (damn you LDL!). Headed home after having our fill. Rested a while and showered before heading out to JY's birthday bash at Morganfield's, The Pavillion.

Upon arrival, we met up with Apollo at Onitsuka Tiger to help him resolve a life and death issue-- which pair of shoes to buy. After settling that, we headed to the dinner venue. On the way there, I bumped into P.O.M. He actually recognized my Suneo face. And luckily I identified him correctly too, else it would have been embarrassing. He rushed off to watch a movie, and I continued on. We were the first to arrive. A table for twenty pax was laid out. They arranged it like a medieval banquet table with no break in between. Ugh, I hate those orientations. By eight o' clock, the last of the guests had arrived. Lateness due to the heavy rains no doubt. SK, Apollo and I were so hungry that we started first with a B.L.T. salad and later followed through with a full rack of Jim Beam baby ribs. Not bad, but the meat didn't taste all that porky. For drinks we had long island iced teas. The liquor content was high, but the coponsition wasn't all that great. Sat in the vicinity of Carpe Diem, Legolas, DanielH, Adrienz and KennethC. Also met TJ who knows KH from nearly ten years ago on Fridae. Such a small world. By playing musical chairs, we got to talk to nearly everyone. Service wasn't bad, but it was marred with some ugly incidents of food mix ups and the fact that they don't even have a mop to clean up spills.



The birthday cake was Death by Chocolate from Just Heavenly. A very heaty cake! And it had a weird decoration. After removing the candles, the cake actually looked like a Nigerian version of Kon from the manga "Bleach". SK purposely ordered a coffee to go with it. Janvier was nice enough to pass me a belated birthday gift-- "Children of Dune", the missing book in my "Dune" series. Adrienz also finally passed SK the abstract sketch that he did for her. Had been sitting in his store room for years! At the end of the evening, we took a rare group photo and called it a night. Bloody took me half an hour to jam out from B3 to Jalan Raja Chulan. Ugh. By the time I reached home, it was already past midnight. Showered again and slept. A rarity for me to shower three times in a day. Haha.