Joanne's Bday

Just finished organizing Joanne's Bday last Sunday, had BBQ at my house. Was planning to give a surprise to her..however, due to "someone" who is not very good in lying, the cat was somehow out of the bag. Joanne knew that there's something going on and actually played along with it. Hai......in the end......there's not much of a surprise...but in the end...we had fun! :)

We basically started to plan for her birthday when she went back to Msia. As usual, the type of bday party really gave us headache due to the unpredictable weather here in Adelaide. Luckily it was pretty hot and sunny on that day we had decided to have the party on. So....started to search for the presents in Swarovski on a Mon..if I'm not wrong. Spent about 1 and a half there....the crystals are so shiny that my eyes were almost blind after spending so much time there deciding on which crystal to get for dear Joanne. At last, the three of us (Erbert, Teck Heng and me) have decided to buy this little butterfly on a platform. It's really pretty especially when the crystal is placed on a mirror and there's reflection coming out.......wow....!!! I saw this teddy bear in the shop that is soooooooooooooooooooo cute....!!! I liked it a lot.....it's basically a teddy bear sitting down playing with a train..!!! but it's very expensive too....no $$ to buy it. Hrm......probably make it as a early christmas present just like what Michelle did......not a bad idea oh!!! :)

Then on Friday....went to Central market with the rest of the gang to buy food for the big BBQ at my hse. Wow....the amount of food that we bought..it's enough to feed more than just 15 ppl I reckon. However, as we are thinking of bbq for the whole day...so the amount of food should be enough to last the whole day. However, expectations is always never going to match with reality. Anyway, the marinated pork chop, chicken wings and lamb chop were very nice. We used up about half a bottle of the soya sauce (it's not those typical bottle of soya sauce...the one that we bought is like a 2 litre of milk sold in Woolies or coles)...so imaging using half of the bottle.....!!! We put in honey, garlic, all purpose seasoning powder like there's no tomorrow....but the effect was seriously very strong. The food cooked the next day tasted very very delicious. Personally I liked the chicken wings...followed by the pork chop and the lamb chop. However, it's very troublesome to eat the chicken wings...so in the end I prefer to eat the pork chop more. hahaha..!!! All of us stayed up to about 4 in the morning marinating the food and baking cake for Joanne. Guess what....we did what we've said ages ago to Joanne...-------GREEN PEA CAKE!!! Basically it's butter cake...but we laid down a layer of green peas in between two layers of butter cake and on the top of the cake we used green peas to spell out " Jo 21". Personally I think that this cake is very special and gross as well because I don't like to eat green peas just like Joanne. The next day when everybody got a piece of the cake, ppl were scrapping out the green peas cause it's seriously not nice to eat butter cake with green peas...trust me...you won't want to try it!! I can understand why Joanne doesn't like green pea that much!!!

So...the next day was pretty much full on. Teck Heng, Erbert, Wern Jiunn and Min Min had to wake up a about 8 in the morning to start running errands for Joanne surprise BBQ. Lucky me woke up at about 10 in the morning. Don't need to wake up that early since the whole event is at my house...hahaha...that's the good thing about having an event at your house. :P

It's was pretty hot on Sun......so a nice day for BBQ. Joanne wore a black blouse that is bare at the back. So all of us were throwing in green peas into her blouse through that big hole at the back there. :) After the BBQ....we went into the house to play games. Casey who just came back from Melbourne introduced 2 funny games into our group. It's called "WATERMELON" and "5 Actions Game". The games were really funny as the participants would have to do different hand actions and they have to be very quick in terms of changing from one hand action to another. For people like me who is a bit slow in the mind...well....was losing for the first few rounds...and the penalty for that is eating RAW GREEN PEAs.......eiw......disgusting...!!! I swallowed about 3-4 peas...and seriosuly I don't like it. :(

Then Joanne and Min Min had to go dinner with their aunt. So the remaining people continue to bbq...!!! After the second round of bbq...we went out for coffee. Till then...all of us were very tired as we din have enough sleep for the past few days. We went back home at about 1 in the morning after coffee. :) Anyway, I hope that Joanne had a great time that day and also like the present that we gave her. It might not be a big bulky present...but the bottle of stars that we made together was very meaningful. I won't mind getting one for my next birtday...!! *hint! hint!*

Hey...I got my MP3 player yesterday. WEnt out with Daphne and Michelle and finally...my mp3 player is solid in my hands now. hahaha......oooppppsss....sorry...it's a Mp4 player. It's pretty small but it can play music, MTV and you can even look at pictures with it. The only thing is that the screen is really small...so would really have to strain the eyes a bit if you are looking for details in the MTV or pictures. but overall I love my player a lot...!! Thanks mum...this seriously is nice! BEen using it today and still figuring out the features of my player at the moment. :)

I think I better stop for now...it's getting a bit long for this entry...!! and at last.....I'm HAVING HOLIDAYS NOW...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!