Photos: Shirley’s birthday 2010
Place: TGI Fridays, The Gardens Midvalley KL.
Date: 12th June 2010
Photos:
Speak no evil
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The cake
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The chilli sauce
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The grilled lamb chop
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The girls
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The girls and one guy
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The over-photoshopped-photo of a girl.
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The table at the side
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The backdrop of TGI Fridays
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The poor little birthday girl who had to come by KTM because her bf is a bit busy on that day. (Next time tell us earlier so we can go fetch)
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The challenge: Blow it!!! Blow it!!!
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The crazy look. @.@
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The celebration (I like his hat)
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The slice of cake
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My Ferrari
The day I became 10 days older…
Was the day when people looked upon my Facebook and my Friendster profile and ‘thought’ it was my birthday. Yup… Crazy me decided to change the birthday date of these 2 online sites to 6th of February, 10 days earlier than the real date of 16th February.
Rather than…
And so come 6th February…
~Hey… Regardless of the wrong date, I really do appreciate all your wishes… Hahaha… Especially LeiHong’s one… Finish PhD earlier… Of course I also want… But feels like impossible…~
Why did I do this? There are 2 reasons…
i) Read back what happened last year… Part 1 (now no longer protected but still really a bit too erm… sentimental… Hahaha) and Part 2
ii) I wanted to see how many people were dependent upon Facebook and Friendster to know other people’s birthday.
So after a bit of analysis, I finally compiled all the data collected.
A total of 40 people sent me wishes on these 2 days
Out of the 40 people… 22 of them sent me on the 6th of February… Now that means that 55% of those I know actually are dependent upon these 2 sites for birthday information.
So that sort of sums up how many of us are reliant on these sites for other people’s birthday. Actually I do think that we should have our own ways to remind us of other people’s birthday 
So… I’ll be implementing KeaiSinn’s way of saving phone number, contact’s name and birthdates on the contact list of the phone… And then consistently make backups on my laptop…
So how did this year’s big day go?
Well… The celebration started off even before the month of February itself… When my family brought me to makan those crabs… It was early since I had to get back to KL before the day itself… And the same happened last year too… Had my celebration with my family days or sometimes weeks before the real date… So celebrating early isn’t something weird to me…
Now due to the change in the days on Fb and Friendster… I’ve received sms and calls to go out on 6th itself… Most notably by SingYee and LeiHong… And we went to Alamanda to watch Red Cliff 2 and to makan dinner (I drove of course)…
Well… The big thing I wasn’t expecting was that they bought a few cakes and also sang the birthday song in Pizza Hut… Owwwhhh touched Thanks girls…
~Me thinking it was a celebration with Pizza only~
~LeiHong insisting in serving me…~
~But she gave me the smallest slice… 
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~After a while, out came a variety of cakes…~
~Lit with candles somemore~
~Alan is embarrassed and touched~
~But he blew anyway ~
~Cuz SingYee said she’ll feed him if he do~
Red Cliff 2 was nice by the way… The usage of strategy in the battles are just nice… I enjoyed it even though I haven’t watch the 1st one… (Just watched in 3 days ago)…
After the movie, I bring the girls to this nice place in Putrajaya which I don’t know the name… Perhaps to thank them lor…
What place you ask???
This place…
~Nice right?~
and also where you can see this…
~A bit less nice~
But really thanks to this bunch of girls for celebrating…
Then there is the celebration in lab when Crystale baked a cake… It was nice… And her hobby was baking… Cuz lately she’s been baking a lot…
~Thanks dear labmates…~
And then there was another group whom called me out… But I think its better if I don’t say who these people are here… Because they seemed to be a bit agitated for the change of dates…
And cuz of that I’m also quite hurt
Anyway… Thanks to you too…
~Celebrated at Pit Stop at Seri Kembangan area~
~It might have been simple but I thought it was sweet~
~Making my wish~
But regardless of how agitated you may be… I will still want to say that I really enjoy that night out as well… Thanks
Thanks to everyone that wished me as well
Tired, Lost, Discouraged
Recently a lot of things have clouded my mind… I feel tired, lost and discouraged… My whole week was filled with ups and downs… Felt as if a lot of things happened in a short time… Even felt hard to sleep at times… Lost the peace within myself… Lost to the fear within me… Can’t seem to get back the silence within me without my head thinking of things…
The wrong timed visit to South City
It was suppose to be a day for me to study… A day for me to remember what I was taught… But my love to play music got me running the other way… And a friend’s call for help brought me to South City… Thinking of getting a keyboard… And then having lunch… That was the plan… But not only did the South City ToyCity shop closed down… The friend whom I was meeting came with her boyfriend by which I left them two together (Since they seemed to lack quality time together)… Feeling hungry, tired… and a bit depressed… Ate my late lunch and started reading… Didn’t really know how much got into my head…
The day I strived for my paper and realizing the truth of something
I got myself into the mood I had for the paper… But on the same morning… I learned of something from a good friend that made me numb once more… How do you understand what you feel…? That was the dilemma within me… I got a deadline for the thing I had to do… But the deadline is coming soon… And I wasn’t prepared… Knowing the truth got my mind occupied even though I was suppose to study…
~While your head is occupied with matters till the point where you felt lost… Even view such as this feels unimportant.~
The day I had my paper… And realized that I didn’t really understand
I sat there looking at the paper… Some answer I could… Some I couldn’t… It was cold… And I was tired… I got through it without thinking much… But didn’t managed to finished the questions… And then I look back… What did I really understand from the whole thing…? I didn’t think so… What have I been doing then… The thought still lingers in my head.
The night when we celebrated birthday… Being Alan…
The birthday was supposed to be cancelled at one point but someone brought it alive again… Thanks to her… And the place of meet seemed to be a bit desolated… And noone seemed to know where it is… Everyone didn’t managed to get there without asking where it was… And being Alan… I did another thing which I think was quite ordinary this time… Made a special gift for the birthday girl…
~Happy Birthday~
~The place we had the celebration… Gasoline, Mines… Yup there is one opened there… Its just hard to find…~
The trip to Jusco Balakong and the accident there
Rammed into the automated gate for Jusco Balakong… Miraculously, the glass didn’t break… The brake of the car didn’t seemed to function at the time… And we hit the gate… Going under it… Thinking negatively… The gate may be costing a lot… And all of us shooked up… Noone really had the mood for anything else… But thinking positively… I guess we must all thanked God that we noticed the brake wasn’t functioning and only hit the gate… And not realizing it while speeding on the highway and then finding out the brake wasn’t working… And thanked God some more that the brake didn’t really work while we hit it… Or the inertia might have caused the windshield to break hurting all of us…
The day when things got really busy and the night when I talked my heart out to a friend.
Considering the week I’ve been through, there was a day when I was busy the whole day… Running in and out of the lab… From the time I arrived till the time I actually ended everything… Around 6.30pm… It was tiring… But then… Thats what I’m supposed to do… Met up with a friend that night that cleared a lot of doubts from my mind… Really appreciate her support and care and advice… It made my mind clearer as to what had to be done… But clear things never seemed to last…
The day when I got scolded by my co-supervisor…
Made a big mistake recently… Scolded by my co-supervisor… He scrapped off an essential component of my project… I can see he’s really frustfrated at me… Really sorry… I didn’t know… And that got me thinking again… Did I choose the correct way?
The day we had lunch… And the night I learned something else…
I really treasured the times we had lunch… And you should understand that I called you out for lunch for a reason… I wondered if you have noticed it… Or you’re just feeling that it’s a friend calling… I hadn’t done much… And at the moment I couldn’t do much… And I did what I thought I could do… There is a reason behind all the things I’ve done…
And then the night I learned something else… That what I did may not be successful this time… The deadline is almost up… And I understand that I’m not going to make it… I couldn’t sleep that night… Felt bad deep down…
Looking at the cross
I looked up upon the cross during the mass at chapel, trying to find the peace within me… The peace that I thought I had lost… I still couldn’t find it… I still felt my life is in a mess… Sorry to those who asked we what was wrong but I couldn’t answer… There’s just too many things I felt that I couldn’t share out with others yet… Perhaps its cuz of fear of breaking down in front of them… And fear once more… Why am I fearful…? If I was brave enough… Could I have changed the things that happened?
I hope I can find my way soon…
