Life as we don't know it

It has been awhile hasn't it? I'm now 25.

Sunday, March 23, 2014 @ 12:35 PM PERMALINK

Since the last time I've written anything here, I've turned 25.

Yes, I know I've been intent on telling people that I'm only 21 when the truth is, I've hit the dreaded quarter century mark. I feel like society dictates that when you are 25, you are a real adult. It isn't one of those bullshit birthday things where you are considered an 'adult' on your 18th birthday because you can legally drink alcohol or when you turned 21 and were supposed to given the keys to life (or legally required to vote)

If only 25 was as simple as turning 18 or 21. 25 is the time when people start looking at you to have your life together. When they look to see if they can decipher if you have a plan for your future. People around you are getting married and having children. They have stable jobs and plans to go far in the companies they are working at. Some people have plans to buy flats or cars.

Me? I think I need to start working on what insurance policy to purchase.

25 is a confusing age. It feels like you are old enough to have your life together yet it also feels like you have so much of your life ahead of you. It seems like the age where your past seems like it's so far behind you yet you can still remember events from way back that seem like they just happened yesterday.

You are old enough to have history that you have to bring up by saying '7 years ago....' yet these memories don't feel as old as you'd expect them to feel. Sometimes I can remember them with shocking clarity. I sometimes wonder why my brain thinks it is important to remember who drank soya bean milk when we were out drinking 10 years ago. Or what colour someone's hair was 9 years ago.

Anyway, back to turning 25. I wasn't very excited to celebrate hitting this confusing milestone so this is what happened instead.

Ale & Beat rallied two other troop members to surprise me at dinner on Valentine's Day, where we ate at Gary Kim's and I tried Almond Tea with a fresh egg. I'd drink it again, even if it looks like an alien is about to hatch from it.

Birthdays are never really a big deal at home so my mum bought me dinner and my sister bought me mini cupcakes.

I also made use of my off day to check Chye Seng Huat out with Abby before heading to Bartini Kitchen for dinner with the rest of the girls. As it turns out, the chef at Bartini is an ex colleague of mine (I guess being old enough to have ex colleagues has its perks) and he gave us a 20% discount and free shots - what a sweetheart.

While I figure out what I'm supposed to do with being an adult.. If anyone asks, just tell them I'm 21. It'll be our little secret. ;)

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Bern's 22nd birthday celebration

Friday, December 16, 2011 @ 2:21 AM PERMALINK

Berns is the youngest of our group. While 2 of us are already turning 23, she has just turned 22! D:
We were going to have dinner at Hard Rock but as it turned out, it was closed for a private function. (Just our luck) Poor Abby and Berns got stuck in traffic and had a hard time finding parking and we had to wait awhile to get a table so it was a pretty rough start.

When we finally did get seated, we were starving and gobbled up all the food (so no pictures, sorry)

The ribs were really good and value for money ($17.80) for two slabs of ribs and wedges. We had mushroom caps as well but those were kind of pathetic. It was $7.80 for 5 tiny caps. Either way, the food at NYDC is still pretty good and the service staff very polite (although they have a weird policy where only senior staff can take orders which makes things kind of slow)

After NYDC, we stood outside Wheelock for abit while deciding to do Secret Santa this year. We attempted to draw the lots while standing in the middle of town and making up rules.

We finally decided that:
1. (Obviously) We couldnt draw ourselves
2. Couples couldn't draw each other's names

Gladys brought out her semi-pro and kept asking us if we wanted to take pictures. We kept declining and she eventually decided that this was the best look for her : Tourist.

Failed attempts at getting proper names for our secret santa gifts

Bong the bird is not amused.

We finally found decided to stop being annoying in the middle of Orchard Road and got seats at Pacific Plaza's Starbucks and tried to sort out the details. (We are a very persistant bunch of people) We tried over and over again before we finally got all the names in order.

The key to presents!

Once that was settled, Abby and Berns amused themselves with Abby's new favourite Iphone app, Doddle Sketch.

Busy at work..

This is the final product of what she was up to:

Chuckles also had a birthday party for her. It was supposed to be a suprise, but well, we (more specifically Gladys) spoilt it.

I was on deco duty because Abby's flight to Korea got bumped up and spent the day blowing balloons while watching National Geographic with my mother.

Chuckles finally drove to my place and picked me up, we stopped for brown paper to wrap Bern's present.

I struggled with Bern's 3 part present for a good 30 minutes while the boys prepared the food for the steamboat & hot plate grill. It was not easy wrapping 3 very differently shaped boxes into one neat package and I failed terribly.

Chuckles has a friend that was really professional at cooking in a steamboat and on a induction plate. I've never eaten so much at a steamboat before and I really enjoyed it.

All our food!