Turning Twenty

It was a great birthday!
I haven't quite recovered from all the O-week madness so i guess my body didn't have a routine to be thrown out of.
What have i been up to?
Monday night I felt like going out (and basically a break from IH) so ended up spontaneously going to Bennett's Lane Jazz Club. Kind of isolated and the musicians talked like they were on some kind of speed (or from another planet, same difference) but the music was mostly good. No complaints about the chivalrous company either!

Tuesday Night: What was touted as Games Night after Oppie's Floor Supper was revealed as a grand master plan for Jeannie's Surprise Party. I guess i expected Kai to bring CC and Ken and Izy over 'cos i DID live with them for a year. What i didn't expect was the number of people that eventually arrived.

first flow of people whom i thought was it. before the cake and like 20 other people arrived! p.s: already v touched at this point.

random people shots - wish i'd taken another proper photo... but i was busy getting hugs!

I was very touched by my O-weekers and my O-week group (yes, the freshers) who not only came to the forgotten side that is Avenue to wish me at midnight, but also took the trouble to get me presents! So Shweeeet! I really do love them even though all i could manage was the gigantic grin plastered on my face. Tears were honestly somewhere behind it all.

genuine surprise, really! Brunetti's cake which Dam-o chose! =) thank you to whoever paid!

For some untold reason, I got a massive amount of pigs this birthday. Thanks to the O-weekers who will never let me forget my name - Jeannie Pig. 5 different piggy presents: earrings, a cushion, a clock, a photo frame and piggy mugs. *OTT guys* And CC got me the Piglet too. Apart from that, my Stella friends got me Kenzo perfume while Damien, Kee and 24 got me Morgan perfume.

(-_-") there's a message to be gotten from it all. i am a SmeLLy Pig.
A special thank you to Ck, Veron and Jason who hosted my surprise party in their apartment. Thanks for letting me mess it up, make noise in it, herd about 40 people inside and also for making you sleep later at my expense. Big *HuGz*! if it's any consolation, i'll lend you my sugar, i AM your neighbour.

Well, they all left at 3.00 am. Which is perfect timing for my 9 am class! I did attend all my lectures and tutes though, which i am supremely proud of.

Birthday dinner was a place i've wanted to try out for a while - Bimbo's on Brunswick Street. $4 pizzas baby! And really yummy ones too! Plus chocolate pizzas. Yum yum! Noone in the group complained about the slight squishiness (it's hard to find seats in a pub) cos the pizzas made up for it. So i can definitely foresee going back there! didn't take any photos of the pizzas - No! Warrants another trip to photograph the salmon pizza and Blonde Bimbo's Deluxe Ale! Anyway, there were like 16 of us.. Thanks for coming! Extra special mention to Kee Win for calling from Malaysia - while at work! Miss you lots! big *HuGz*We forgot to take a nice group photo - but it was strange enough taking photos around all those after office people. And reading the menu was a challenge in itself cos it was sort of dark there. We stood out a mile - the only Asians in the joint squinting over a menu using our phones to illuminate the words.

The plan was to go to San Churro for the best chocolate ever but everyone wanted to head to the night market cos it was the last night so i obligingly followed. It was, as Eddie loves to say, an IH reunion cos we kept bumping into IHers past and present everywhere we went. First time i didn't spend any money on food but ended up with a cigarette burn on my hand [stupid bitch! another reason to hate smokers! if anything, you could've at least held it more carefully], a plastic ring that cost me laundry money and a $2.50 kimono as a birthday present. [thanks kenny] Random, but awesome!

Finally, poker night at the really beautiful Verve 20 -01. Makes me jealous i didn't move out!
I have to get ready for Commencement Dinner soon. Free booze at high table = 2nd round of birthday celebrations = it's time to get WaStEd!!
but i'll be good, i promise.

Love to all the world and thank you for a wonderful 20th birthday! I really appreciate every single well wish i had and the presents are an added bonus. Growing older is fine with me if i can feel this loved. =)

and yes, i'll drink to that