My 33rd *gasp* Birthday!

I can't believe i'm 33! It sounds SO OLD!!

Anyways, last week was a crazy week of hectic work and single-mom-hood. So, by the time, Friday rolled by, I was really looking forward to doing nothing. So, I didn't do much planning for my birthday. In fact, on Saturday, i even forgot that it was THE day and got ready for work. What a dork, i know!

After feeding Tyler(always a joy!!), as I was cleaning up, i heard the doorbell go and was nicely surprised by Damith, Addy and Sabrina. They even brought coffee! This is what i call service! I had marching orders to get changed and get into the car. No questions! Didn't stop me from asking though.. hehehehe.. The best part was, Tyler didn't even get to come. Damith was babysitting! Now, that's a treat!!!

I was then treated to a relaxing pedi and mani session where i decided to be a little radical and went for bright blue nail polish!! Why not?! I was quite pleased with it! Addy went with some fiery red and Sabrina went for subtle purple(boring!). We looked like the american flag with a tinge of purple!


Pics of our nails!

After that, we went for a spot of lunch at Le Peep, which was very satisfying before we headed home to relief Damith. We found them cuddling on the Love Sack. So cute!


Tyler and baby whisperer Damith..

The rest of the day, I spent feeding and playing with Tyler. We even made it out to the park!


Tyler checking out the other kids at the park

Soon it was time to get ready for my big "surprise" party(i found out about it). The babysitter(Tyler's daycare teacher) came by and after a short briefing, i was out the door. We went to celebrate at a Chinese Restaurant where Addy works. There were about 15 of us and as always the usual banters and goofing about kept me well entertained.

Group picture


My lovely cake

I was even presented a nice cake with endless candles(they must think i'm much older) and some very lovely gifts like a Coach gift certificate and even matching bowls!!

And to satisfy my other love in life, they then took me to La Rumba for some salsa action. Salsa dancing that is! They had a live band and i danced the night away. At some point of the night, the group decided that we should all do Tequila shots. I even thought i could do 2!! All I have to say is, dancing drunk takes up lots of compute power!!!



Our first shot..


And our second..


At La Rumba

We left after La Rumba closed and headed off to my house so that my babysitter could be relieved. I don't remember much after that, so if you want the whole story, you should ask those who were awake.. :)

Anyways, i just wanted to thanks all my friends for making my birthday such a fun one!! Here are some pictures!

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Check out what Tyler is eating these days..

This is proof that Tyler is my son. Go Fried Chicken!!

To encourage more table food, i started introducing Tyler to any food that we eat. He seemed to be a little intrigued with chicked legs, but unfortunately not enough!

Chinese New Year Banquet

After a week of getting over jet lag with Tyler, he's finally back on the right time zone. I'm also finally conscious enough to realize that I am missing my Chinese New Year banquet.

So, a quick chat with my fellow foodie(he's a real one), we booked ourselves a table at JJ's Chinese Restaurant. My first choice of restaurant was Orchid Pavilion but it closed. :(

We had about 14 people from all kinds of food adventurousness background, so I had to throw in some lemon chicken, mu shu chicken amongst more traditional fish maw soup and sea cucumber stew so that some people won't go home hungry.

Food was OK, Orchid Pavilion was much better.

Gong Xi Gong Xi

If you don't understand the words above, then it doesn't apply to you! Ha!

Here's Tyler and I wishing you a Prosperous and Happy Ox Year!!


Tyler wearing his Chinese costume, a gift from Aunt Shirley(my aunt)


Tyler and Mommy both in Chinese garb..


Uncle Steffen wants to be Chinese too, but his nose doesn't quite make it!

Happy Chinese New Year to all!!

Hello! We arrived home today from our 2.5 weeks of Sri Lanka / India adventure. So, i'm hoping to blog in the next few days!

In the mean time, Have a HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!

New Year's Party

Apart from my exciting New Year's Eve celebration in New York City in 2000, i can't remember ever having a memorable New Year's eve. It's always low key and frankly, boring.

This year, it history threatened to repeat itself. After humming and hawwing for the longest time, i decided that, heck, I'd throw a party myself. And to help us pass time easier, i decided I'd hold New Year's Eve Murder Mystery!

A few hours of search on the internet equipped me with a good Murder Mystery kit and my party was on its way. Usually these parties take weeks to plan. I only had 2 days. So, lots of things were sorta compromised like costumes and printed-snail-mail invitations.

With Alan's help, I also transformed my house into 1920's Supper Club. It was not as good as I wanted, but good enough! Alan also made an awesome Auld Lang Syne with shooting sound track.


Alan and Tyler outside my "Ruby Room"


My sad attempt for a flapper look! :(

On New Year's eve, everybody arrived and Alan who was the moderator got the show started. The murder struck at 12(fake time) am and e were soon suspecting anybody and everybody.


Some food and some clues...


Interrogation time in the Ruby Room..


Tyler helping out with some mystery solving

It's a good thing i had Emilio as my co-investigator..

Interesting findings??

After a few hours of questioning and clues, we were soon coming up with our own ideas about the murder which we presented to Alan.

Alan the excellent Moderator

Once everybody had handed in their answers, Alan read out everybody's answer and then the real answer and the killer was handcuffed!

The Killer!!!

Everybody thought the game was kinda interesting and since nobody had done it before, all of us had ideas about making it better next time! :)

We spent the rest of the time to midnight just chit chatting and at about 12, Steffen broke open the champagne and we tuned in to Dick Clark's New Year show and cheered in the new year with champagne!!

Champagne and poppers! Happy New Year!

Happy New Year 2009

Just a quick wish : HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

We've just finished with our New Year party. Had a Murder Mystery Night as we waited for the New Year to arrive. Tyler is obviously asleep..

More on that in the next blog. Now, it's zzzzzzzzzzz time.. :)