frenchie celebrates his 22nd b'day

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Oh yes, I've turned 22 today (yes, why am i still saying "today" although its 3.21am on the morning of 24th of july). Well technically it is still my bday in europe i.e. "france" coz there's a 7 hrs delay in the time where malaysia is GMT+7 and France currently is GMT+0 (instead of the first half of the year where its GMT+1). Now, let's put all the technicalities aside and find out more what had happened on this beautiful day, the 23rd of July 2005.


3pm - 5.30pm
Started the day off by having tea with one of my close friends, Zin from my college @ LUCT. We met up at KLCC for tea @ Dome. Had a roastbeef sandwich on foccacia bread, ice lemon tea and a tiramisu cake. Deliciousss, it was quite like heaven eating this meal. Got a present from Zin, of which i now feel really shy / touched or something coz he really didn't have to get a present for me.

5.30pm - 7.30pm
Met up with Albert at KLCC shortly after tea with Zin, we headed off for "The CURVE" where we went to meet up with Maman, Deena, Lin and Agung. It was suppose to be a pre'bday dinner drink / tea session kinda thing (supposedly we're suppose to have dinner tomorrow sunday at a seafood restaurant together with fariz & ziyad). But somehow, it was a surprise kinda thing where they went out and got a cake from Secret Recipe for me. Well, it wasn't that easy really, Maman had to ask me to join him to shop for a while coz we were already at Starbucks. So i followed him n Agung to shop for soft toy for Lin's bday. While the girls told me that they were gonna go to the ladies, which they secretly went to secret recipe to get this marhemallow cake.
Oh well, the usual bday song (dang, i was super shy / embarrassed at this moment) coz ... well, 22 y/o celebrating a bday + cake??? c'mon... anyways - we ajourned the tea session at around 7.30, Albert & I went to 1U to get sum stuffs & bumped into Jovan and Suren.

8.30pm - 10.00pm
Came back home to send the leftover of the cake into the fridge. Picked up Fariz @ Flamingo Hotel (Fariz - half japanese / malay - APIIT x-collegemate). Fariz had this Elken seminar there, so yea... we headed off to Hartamas.

10.30pm - 2.00am
Arrived at Hartamas, while Albert & Fariz went around scouting for chicks, i went to find my cousin Mikael (half french - half malay), told him to be there to celebr8 this together. Found him n our friends (kevin & olivier both from france). Sat down with them and waited for Albert, wow he took a looong time!

Kelly came 5 mins later and she joined us for a short while, and wow she LOVED that 8 inches of love. Yes, i'm talking about the HOTDOG stall, she had this famous TEXAS Chili dog, and she loved every inch of it. LOL And oh yeah, Philip of hitz.fm Ford Escape Cruisers came to drop by and say happy birthday. Wow, all that travelling from Astro after his cross just for that...
Was talking to Mikael about his idea of a new reality tv show, was quite impressed really. And Kevin was shisha'ing non stop :P Olivier too, wow i was sitting in between two chimneys!!! Kevin is 17, Olivier 18 and Mikael 17. These guys are pros in POOL. Yes, gonna have a re-match against them, especially Kevin, he's the pro in POOL. Yes, we're goin to Subang Asia Cafe or 1U pool place one of these days.

Efie & Ruzy of 8TV (ruzy one of the hosts on 8TV) together with Omar & Rosheen (omar one of the tv hosts on Astro) arrived just after midnight and joined us for the celebration. Rosheen is my collegemate @ LUCT, and Efie used to be one of my colleagues at Xfresh AMP Radio.
Had a great time with these guys, loads to catch up, but of course the environment was a bit loud, everyone was a bit tired as they were hosting this SMK Kepong Prom Night @ Cititel this evening. Yes, for sure will be going out with them one of these nights to catch up and perhaps a BBQ dinner.

Played pool with Mikael, Kevin & Olivier where we were playing 2 on 2. Teamed up with Mikael and guess what...we lost! Can't blame anyone really, my head was turning around, was super tired, and the cue that i got is damaged and it was the only one available. I was super embarrassed in this game as Kevin got to see my weaknesses in pool, i bet im not that bad normally. ermm...must've been the food, drinks and cakes...had too much for the day.
That's about it for today, one of the best B'day i've ever had since 2000 - 2005. Actually, this is the only bday celebration i've ever had since then, apart from last year's burger king outing with a few officemates and friends.

Thanks to everyone for coming, and making the time and effort to be there. It was truly a blast, could have been better, but we humans...its human nature that when we have something, we always want more of it. But i guess, we should be happy with what we have now and look forward to a better future.

Although a few of my friends that i expected to be there couldn't make it today, well it was a blast and could have been better with them around. But once again, everyone is from different places, as in there are those friends from 8TV (Efie, Ruzy), colleagues from Xfresh (Omar, Albert), hitz.fm (Philip & Pietro), LUCT (Rosheen, Kelly Zin), APIIT (Fariz, Maman, Deena, Lin, Agung), LFKL (Mikael, Kevin, Olivier)...with this amount of people, all from different groups and not knowing each other is kinda hard to manage if they all came at the same time. But that was not the case, so it was fine.

Great day, will remember it for a long long time, more updates on my bday celebration will be up soon as those who couldn't make it for today will meet up with them soon, one of these days.
Would have been great to have everyone there tonight, great time! Thanks guys.
Thank you once again, and all the SMS's and e-mails, greeting cards. Now its time to reply to those...woohoo!!!

Shaz...xxx
24th July 2005 @ 3.58am

posted by Shaz @ 7/24/2005 04:29:00 AM