Simplicity at its finest is NOT what i would depict how my life was, nor would i suggest the continuation of my naivety however, as my life escalates into complexity, i hope to keep my optimistic hindsight on life in order to live. Just live. My personal ordeal is to live with no regrets, as though i will die tomorrow. I follow the path that will lead me to who I want to be: someone who people can confide in, to go to when they are in their deepest hour; that's who I want to be. That is my aim in life. Hobbies and interests make my path more flamboyant and enticing, while my family, pet, and friends are the reasons for my existence; the reasons why i try and improve myself. My lack of self motivation for change may be quite obvious, but it doesn't mean that improvement did not occur. It may be so petite, so small, that it's practically invisible, but i guarantee you, i do try. Indefinitely.



Blog By EGO BOX

Sunday 5 September 2010

eating your worth

Last Sunday was my birthday dinner at TK Something BBQ, located at Canley Vale. Big thanks to Kelly, Sarina, Edim, Eric, Thanh, Jessica, Ian, Shirley L., Mark, Susan, Linh, Minhky, Joes and Danny for coming and indulging themselves with me. 

To be honest, $26.50 for a Korean BBQ buffet is a tad expensive, but hey, the food wasn't so bad and the desserts were really good too. Well, amateur food critics, like myself, wouldn't know the difference between good food and bad food, but according to Shirley, she said that the desserts wasn't the best. Well, she'd know best since she's tried a lot of desserts before. But that's okay; since I'm not a food critic, as long as it's edible, I don't mind eating it =). It was also a shame that we couldn't move all the tables together. Somehow, I have the tendency to choose restaurants which separates people *sigh*. It wasn't that the table can't be moved, but the ventilation machines above the tables that couldn't be moved. We were given 3 tables, where the 1st table had 6 people, 2nd table had 5, and the last table had 4. Although the table I was sitting at had 6 people, and although Eric was ordering quite a lot of food, compared to the table of boys next to us, it was nothing. Apparently, they at least ordered 4x plates of each type of meat/seafood. You'd think it's impossible, but 1. they're boys, and 2. if you knew them as well as I did, you will know it's definitely possible.

So a couple of things happened that I thought was intriguing: 

  1. Eric likes ordering a lot of food, then again, all guys do.
  2. Kelly really likes putting food on the grill even if there's no space left.
  3. Although Eric and I were making Edim eat a lot, he still beat me and finished eating before me, which was a first.
Edim said he was eating on behalf of Derek as well lol. Well, I was quite proud of him to eat so much and managed to finish before me as well. Honestly, I wish I finished eating the desserts as well but I need to leave space for the cake. Unfortunately, it wasn't mango because mangoes aren't in season during Winter, and if I was to order a mango cake, it would've been expensive. Speaking of cakes, Thanh and I had a short and funny conversation during dinner. 

Thanh: Is your cake the shape of a meme?
Fiona: How can you get a cake shaped into a meme?
Thanh: It's meme.
Fiona: I said meme.
Thanh: Ah, well there's all sorts of memes.
Fiona: What's an example of a shape of a meme?
Thanh: You.
Fiona: Ah. It's too expensive.
Thanh: So you're calling yourself cheap?
Fiona first had a confused look on her face, then started laughing a couple of seconds later.
Fiona: Yeah, I'm cheap.

I think the most interesting and memorable thing about the dinner was when we were lighting up my cake. What happened was that I wanted to light up my own candles, but Eric also wanted to light then up too. I blew out his match sticks, and he blew out mine. The process repeated a couple of times. Then the others, like Kelly and Minhky, joined in in blowing out my matchsticks before I could even light up the candles. Shirley tried to help me light it up, but it didn't really work. There was one time when I tried to protect the candles from being blown out  by covering it from the others, as I lift up my hands, it created a small breeze which blew out the candles *sigh* lol. After a couple of minutes of futile attempts in lighting up the candles, the others finally stopped hindering and allowed me to light it up, make my wish and blow out the candles. The situation was pretty funny. I felt helpless, but I couldn't help laugh along with everyone else =).

It was unfortunately that a couple of people couldn't make it, but many thanks to those who did. I especially want to thank Jessica, for baking me mango-flavoured cupcakes, penguin shaped lollies and card; Susan, for baking me home-made vegan chocolate cookies and the drawing of me; Cindy, for coming to see me although she couldn't make it to the dinner, for the bouquet of flowers and the card; Sarina, for the adorable plushie which she said reminded her of me; Thanh, for coming even though he was sick; and Linh for driving me home and letting me put my presents into her car. I would also like to thank Mum for buying me the cake.

I had a great time eating and spending time with everyone. I hope everyone enjoyed  themselves as well =). Once again, THANK YOU FOR COMING!

PS. I would like to thank Paz and MG for their birthday presents. They got me gifts even though they couldn't make it to dinner.
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