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Another Birthday, Another Year

In the past I never mentioned my birthday to people. Usually Arthur, Rui, or Sai would help me setup something small, or I would just join my birthday with someone else's (Justin) who's birthday was pretty close. I decided to dive a bit more into event planning this year.

I have to say thanks to Wincy and her group of friends. Monday night they totally setup a great dinner for me. We went down to Wan Chai and bought some live sea food. They took it upstairs to the restaurant on the 2nd floor and had them cook it. Oh we had a feast of seafood, including lobster, scallops, and something that in Chinese that translates to "peeing shrimp". We hung out at Ah Hung's house in Kennedy Town until about 2am then I went home. Some people in that group of friends are married already. One of them brought their child out, Oscar. He's a cute kid, probably can do some child modelling. The parents were taking advantage of my English all night with him.

On my actual birthday My parents were the first to call me to wish me a happy birthday, next was Tiffany she only lost by an hour. But they all figured that I spent the previous night out late so they wanted to give me some sleep time.

Wincy's group really took the stress off of the first night's event. The second night was a different story. I had spent some time looking for a place in which I can host a dinner for 20 people. I was a little surprised myself at the number of people I managed to get together. I finally went back to Kaya, a korean restaurant across from Times Square, to work out a deal with the directing manager Susan. Susan has always been nice to me, I really appreciate the help and she's going to get me a membership card as well. It was a bit stressful because I had 6 people cancel on me towards the event time. I spent so much time creating a menu based on a count of 18 people. I had reserved the space and told everyone an approximate price the day before. Lets see, Huhu ended up with an important business dinner, Natsumi was sick, and the rest of the people just decided to cancel. Terrance was back in town and he was nice enough to showup to wish me a happy birthday, and Tiffany brought her cousin Cat out, whom I met before partying at Volar. It turned out really well, I recieved a styling hoodie from Tiff and Andrew, a nice business pen from Kevin.

I've offically stepped into the world of the metrosexual. Tiff recommend a charcoal mud mask product from Origins. I spent the morning with Joyce cleaning our faces and applying the mud mask. I felt a tingling sensation when I put it on but I don't know if it really has helped. Joyce also surprised me with a gift I've been waiting a long time for, a wallet. Strange maybe, but for a while I thought about going back to using a wallet but I didn't want to go buy one for myself. Though she must have spent a pretty penny buying it since it is a Burberry wallet. Her birthday is right around the corner so I'll see if I can pick up something for her in Japan.

My trip has been confirmed, I picked up a ticket for $3110 HKD to and from Narita airport (Tokyo). I'm setting up my schedule now with everyone, if any wants me to pick up something from Japan you'd better tell me soon.

I'm a little tired from my badminton game today so I'm going to stop here. Thanks to everyone for showing up this year for my birthday. A few friends from Canada remembered as well and left me messages. Sai actually called during my Korean dinner party which was a pleasant surprise.

Despite all my problem life is going well, I have good family, good friends both in Canada and in Hong Kong, plus I managed to pick up my overdue pay from Multiplex today.

Labels: Birthdays

posted by Tempest7 @ 21:41