Birthday celebrations!

Checked in at the hotel yesterday around 1pm+ but only managed to have a temporary room as the one we wanted (with king size bed) wasn't available yet. The reception gave us one room which was uncleaned so we changed to another one. Played games in the room while we waited but it was until I called twice till 4pm then we managed to check in finally to our room. Quite pissed with their service coz I had to keep calling, and repeating myself several times before someone attended to me.

Finally settled down and played more games while watching tv. Had snacks we bought earlier and thus not hungry until almost 7pm. Walked out to the Tiong Bahru food market and ate there, plus buying some satays and chicken wings back for supper. Din expect it was so near the hotel as I still thought we need to take a bus there. The new food market was very spacious but quite warm. We had to queue for the fried hokkien mee, the fish balls soup and dessert. The food was still quite nice... should be coming back for more soon.

After shower, we had our supper (or dinner part 2) then played more games and its almost 12 midnight. The game begins!! Web had placed my presents on the bedside table when we checked in. Little did I expect I had to play some games before I could open the presents one by one. Anyway its still quite fun but tiring!!

The games went like this... The presents were tagged from nos. 1-6, but I had to throw 2 dices to determine which one to open. Its not as simple as I had to throw double of one no. (eg 2-2) before I could open present no. 2. If I din manage to, I had to choose my penalty or forefeit from the scrolls of papers.


I was lucky to have thrown double 4s on my 1st try and double 2s after a few tried but subsequently went through all the 10 penalties. The penalties include: 1. 33 situps; 2. 33 hops; 3. Write 33 words starting and ending with "s"; 4. Hold breath for 33 seconds 5. "Ah" continously for 33 seconds in 2 attempts; 6. Win 33 times in scissors-paper-stone; 7. Flip "head" of the coin for 33 times; 8. Read a paragraph in 33 secs; 9. Choose two "3" cards from a pile of 10 cards (only two 3s in the deck); 10. Click stopwatch to stop at 3 secs 3x millisecs. And I finally got my presents!!


I was telling Web his birthday is after mine so be prepared for worse challenges!! To think that he can actually think of such stuff. He also spent 6 hrs last thursday getting all my presents from various parts of Sg! He went to AMK, Bishan, PS, Suntec, Bugis... and find it quite fun! Ya I agree getting presents can be quite fun coz you never know how much it will mean to the other person.

Slept almost around 3am while we chatted and watched tv. Woke up feeling quite tired as not enough sleep obviously. Had breakfast (included) and din eat much coz I dun find quite alot of varieties at the Melting Pot Cafe. We had requested for late check out but they said occupancy is high so we only extended till 1pm. Took a bus back to Orchard and surprised that its damn crowded even on a Monday. Took train home and started unpacking and finally settled down to load all my pictures. Going off for dinner later with sis as she wanted to give me a treat.

Time for a break now...