Of Food and Presents

Ah, one year has passed by and I'm celebrating my second birthday since I started blogging. My birthdays in the past has always been celebrated in somewhat muted manner. Celebrating in getting older is not something I will ever get used to in my current lifetime.

This year, I get to have a birthday lunch (first time, previously always dinner and supper) with my lunch mates. Doryfish suggested this restaurant called OXO... which according to her, was once so popular that you won't even be able to get menu to order things!

All of us ordered set lunches which we can select soup or salad, main course, dessert and tea or coffee.

Mushroom soup... acceptable

Salad... don't know what it taste like, but it seems to be same as the one in my main course and it doesn't taste nice loh...

Bread sticks... just crunchy... no taste at all

Dunno what it is... but it's so filled with sesame seeds that it's actually bitter!

Don't know exact name, but it consists of chicken and lamb... Doryfish claimed it's quite nice... but it's definitely filling!... RM22.90

Chicken thingy... this dish is quite nice, got a taste of it when KY generously offered a piece... should be tried... RM16.90

My order... the taste is not bad, but it's basically sandwich filled with chicken floss loh and the salad is not good and the potatoes have skin (which is normal, but I don't like those), and it's definitely not worth the price... RM22.90

The redeeming value of the set lunch :P... the cake is okay but the cookie is really nice loh... you just can't screw up with sweet things :P

Tea... none of us ordered coffee though...

Another photo of the dessert... this cake has a brownie on top!

My birthday card... it's been years since I last got one of them... not counting the one gave by my company of course, which brings me to the attention that I still haven't got my vouchers from my company this year lah... canceled due to cost down? Anyway, see the picture above, apparently, I'm loved a lot!

My birthday gift! Very nice! I'm always spending money to buy novels every month, so this is definitely the second most useful gift I've ever got... the most useful gift is of course hard, cold cash, which I get from my parents every year :P. Once when I was in my early teens, my relative gave me a book because she know that I love to read, but I never finish reading it because it's super boring... so, nice thinking guys and gals!

The guy next door...

The girls opposite the street...

The restaurant...

And then, night came and another friend come and asked me out for dinner! Never have I had lunch and dinner with friends on my birthday!

Of course, it was not really a birthday treat... it's more like catching up kind of dinner... we just had dinner in a food court. We ate from 9pm till almost 12 midnight! Well, that's because by 10.30 pm, when we finished our dinner, another friend came and join us for dinner... so, I had a really long dinner that night!

My laksa... how I missed you... okay, I could have eaten this anytime I want, but the nearest food court is 5km away from my house... why travel when I have a restaurant just across the street? :P

'Loh bak"... much, much better than the stupid, gross pasembur...

Oysters! See those oysters?

Herbal duck noodles... doesn't look very nice and it's put on top of a broken plastic basket... who uses that kind of tools for food?

My very shy friend...

And I got a free ticket from GSC! Okay, I have always got a free ticket from GSC on the month of my birthday, but I have never used it since it's applicable only for movies with asterisk which means movies that are already on the silver screen for more than a week and since I have always watched any new movies in the first week, I was unable to use it. This month I think there're quite a few movies I haven't watched that are with asterisk. Gonna to watch it this weekend.

Still waiting for the free KFC and McD vouchers from company and amazing cash from parents!