beers!

last night we had a mini farewell party for edward at charlie’s corner at aroozoo. correction: edward organized the farewell party for himself (his treat!)

just a few days ago dearest and i walked past the changi village’s charlie’s corner with alfred and we saw erdinger. we both love erdinger, so i was mentally telling myself that i’m so going to have an erdinger during the farewell.

but when i saw the menu last night, i changed my mind. cos i saw little creatures!

dearest and i tried little creature when we were at wild rocket for my birthday dinner. i just did my lasik then so i couldn’t drink. but i took a sip anyway and i loved it! it has this pleasant refreshing taste to it.

and look at the label – an angel… so cute right!

so last night i ordered little creature. ah siong (friend of edward – dunno whether he is the owner or not but he definitely calls the shots there) who is an avid beer drinker, wasn’t tat impressed with my choice and tried to recommend other beers. but i was insistent – the beer was meaningful to me! hahaha… and ah siong said little creature is made from lychee**. so that’s where the refreshing taste came from.

good beer for me!

before they served me the little creature, i had a sip of this ‘girly’ beer (only 4% alcohol content!)

and it was. NICE! it comes in a series of different fruity flavours. i tried the grape first and because the alcohol content was so low, i thought it was just sparkling juice! so when i finished the little creature, i had the raspberry flavoured timmermans. woohoo! nice…

perfect beer for those who didn’t want to get high/drunk. hehe…

after drinking 2 bottles, the alcoholic guys wanted to make me drink another bottle again. i refused (why get myself so drunk on a weekday?) and the next thing i know, someone placed a glass of bubbly drink in front of me. i refused to drink until ah siong quietly told me “non-alcoholic”… haha… and so i drank it, and everyone else thought it was some cider beer. woohoo…

must go there again and try other beers next time. heard that can get discount.

 

**[edited]: J sent me a link to the Little Creatures showing its range of beers. And, no! it’s not lychee… argh… cheated. LOL. must try the pale ale next time…

an unlucky night

so i attended a colleague’s wedding dinner earlier. the venue is orchid country club.

we sat down at our table, alice on my left, jason on my right. jason asked if we want red wine and i said yes. then the waitress came by to take our orders for drinks. the young indian girl repeated after mik “coke HAR?”

mik and i looked at each other, and had a slightly bad impression of the waitress.

moments later, the waitress served us our drinks. and the outside of my glass was stained with small droplets of red wine. while wiping them off with my napkin, i commented to jason that their service wasn’t really good and these red wine could have dripped on my dress.

when we were having our second dish, jason asked for a 2nd glass of red wine (i’ve only had 2 sips from mine so far). the indian waitress served the red wine, and in a split second, i saw another glass of red wine topple over from her tray.

AND THEN I HAVE RED WINE SPILL OVER MY DRESS!!!

damn it, and i let out a small shout which attracted the attention of the 4 or 5 tables surrounding me.

i felt like scolding the waitress, but she’s just a young gal (maybe 19/20?). so i got up to the washroom instead. the waitress mumbled sorry and ran off to put down her tray and i saw another waiter running out saying that he’s going to bring wet tissue.

hello? do you think wet tissue can wipe away red wine? it probably can’t wipe away orange juice, let alone red wine…

so there i was, at the wash basin, with one side of my dress lifted up and placed under running water. didn’t help at all.

then the indian gal came into the toilet with a jug of sparkling water – soda water she says… and started to drench my dress with soda water and scrubbing the stains away. 10 min later another lady (possibly PR) came in to check on the progress and concluded that the soda water isn’t going to help much.

in the end, i resorted to wearing alice’s dress (which she had worn in the day before changing into her evening dress) and have the OCC wash my dress and deliver it to my home another day.

throughout the whole time, the indian waitress apologized a few times. it didn’t sound very apologetic, but each time i told her it’s ok. in the end, i even asked her to go back to work but she said she had to wait for the lady (who had left to find a shawl for me). while we were all in the toilet waiting, the indian waitress started crying.

sigh… shouldn’t i be the to cry? my dress is ruined and i missed a good half hour of the dinner. and i didn’t raise my voice or blame her at all. so why cry? later others think i bully her.

what a sway night right? in the end, i even had to tell the lady to comfort the indian waitress, that it’s ok. ????

the lady took my address and phone number – she’s going to send my dress for laundry and deliver it to my house, and if the dress cannot be salvaged, i will be compensated. so now, let’s see how OCC will deal with this eventually. i do hope the dress can be cleaned and i’m expecting them to do some other compensation as well. given that i didn’t give them a hard time for making such a big mistake, they better do a solid service recovery!

let’s wait and see.

in the meantime, no more red wine for me. white wine will be better because it won’t leave behind a bad stain. HAHA…

so sway!!

the birthday chronicles – part 1

16 May Friday

 

went to topone with colleagues. in my five years in the same workplace, this is the first time that they have celebrated my birthday with cake & gathering. it’s the first time that this group has gone out together, first time that this group has gone singing together. was quite a fun night, smuggling food in, singing strange old hokkien songs, messing around with the cake and basically having silly fun.

 

alright! picture-time…

 

 the cake that the chaps bought me:

 

everyone had a hard time keeping the candle flames going so we all fumbled for some time:

 

this is a pretend-to-make-a-wish pose. we were all too excited about lighting up the candles that we forgot about birthday wishes:

 

then another blunder – there was no knife to cut the cake! so the girls went to ask the topone people, and guess what they gave us? a HUGE knife – not exactly a parang, but definitely huge enough to cause fatal harm to any living thing. in view of our muslim colleagues, we ditched the knife and resorted to plastic forks.

let’s dig in!

see how EL loves the ice-cream cake? haha

 

see how we mutilated the poor cake…

 

then it was time for presents!

 

finally, some random pictures of us singing…

 

thank you all who took time to fill my 2008 birthday with fun memories…