"You don't laugh first-lar.
Let me sing until finish first"
Mom
This year, sakura came
earlier than predicted and it was just a few days before my
birthday.
That
was what my Mom said to me when I called her on midnight of my
birthday. As she answered the call, the first thing she did was to sing
the birthday song to me. As I was laughing, she told me not to laugh
'coz she wanna finish off the song *awwww*
That
is why she is the best Mom in this whole universe. I guess not many
people can claim that they had their Mom singing them a birthday song,
even though they are already reached more than a-quarter-century old.
Anyone does not know this
rabbit from Line? WinD says it looks exactly like me =.=
My birthday present from Mr
Santa, which I found it on my bed on the morning of my
birthday.
A pair of blue slacks and white belt from American Eagles!
A week towards my birthday, I was actually emoing 'coz the weather
forecast predicted weather to be bad over the weekend. It is not often
to have your birthday fall on weekends; so to find out that the weather
is gonna spoil the party is not great at all. It was predicted that
there would be big storm, strong winds and the most rainfall of the year
on Sunday, on which my birthday fall. So anticlimax, right?
So,
I started praying to all the Gods available. That is one thing amazing
about being a Malaysian 'coz the number of Gods around you are just
aplenty. I just prayed and hope miracle will happen to the weather to
whatever God I managed to think of lol!
Lunch was at Cafè La Bohème, an Italian restaurant in Shibuya.
This Italian restaurant
is renowned for producing unique decors and not skimping on the
experience.
Italian lunch!
Lunch set comes with a decent sized salad of the day.
As well as a bowl of soup.
Here comes the main -
Melanzane (tomato and eggplant) pasta. I later requested the waiter to
grate some fresh Parmesan cheese onto it.
And two scopes of
vanilla and chocolate ice cream for dessert.
Back
to my mission to save the bad weather from happening on my birthday.
Well, it is not often that the weather forecast here in Japan gets their
prediction totally wrong. It happens, but rarely; maybe once in every
few months. However, I mentioned that I prayed to all the Gods
available, right?
And guess what? It worked!!!
Yoyogi Park, on a beautiful Sunday.
The water features in the
park is back, indicating the end of winter and spring is
here.
Sakura came and gone, and
the shots are sprouting out from the sakura trees.
Some primitive kids playing
with water on the pond lol! Anyway, did you spot the mini rainbow next
to the fountain?
Picnic, dating, camping,
napping, etc. It was just a perfect day for anything at the
park.
This is my first time
spotting this place, which is the playground for doggies.
They are divided into two
area, one for small and medium dogs, which the other for huge
dogs.
Pine trees spotted in Yoyogi Park!
Yoyogi
Park was so packed; it easily outnumbered the people in Shibuya. What I
noticed was there were more foreigners than the Japanese there. There
was one group, whom I have no idea where they came from. That huge group
had almost a couple of hundred of people gathering together and had
picnic, played with their musical instrument and danced. The atmosphere
at the park was simply amazing.
Anyway, this is my second straight year spending my birthday at Yoyogi Park. Last year, it was during the hanami event by MSAJ. But I guess it was still better than a couple of years ago. Back then, I spent my birthday at the mangrove forest in Matang lol!
After
the short stroll at the park, the next stop was for some tea-time
dessert at Nakameguro. Yup, the spot where I went to see the night sakura a couple of weeks earlier. The stop was Patisserie Potager,
a unique pastry shop which specialises in vegetable-based sweets and
desserts. Among their popular tempting creations are avocado cheesecake,
buckwheat chai mousse, arugula jelly with black-sesame and soy-milk
mousse, and daikon (radish) and yuzu mousse wrapped in chocolate.
There is a
twenty-seat open-air terrace cafe in front of the shop where you can
relax with a cup of tea or coffee along with your sweets.
Carrot choco flan (shortcrust pastry), the most popular menu.
Short stroll along Meguro
River after tea time. The sakura trees are now green.
Dinner was at Gyukaku, which specialises in Japanese BBQ dining.
Guess what? There is a branch in One Utama as well!
Different kinds of meat,
including the cow's tongue on the left.
Ice cream puff and pineapple
juice to wrap off the wonderful dinner.
As
you can see, my birthday was all about eating non-stop haha! Again,
there goes my diet plan. But never mind. Diet starts tomorrow lol!
Lastly,
a big thank you to everyone who sent me messages everywhere - Facebook,
Skype, Line, Whatsapps, iPhone, etc. There were more than 100 messages
in Facebook alone. Yes, that is when the time of the year when your
Facebook Wall get conteng-ed like nobody's business. You will
never get that on other time, not even the New Year or Christmas or even
CNY. And guess what, I just remember that I still have not replied my
birthday messages for last year's part haha! I am wondering, would you
guys mind if I do it together with this years' messages haha!
Screen shots of the messages from Facebook.
From
the many wishes, I reliased they gave me quite a number of nicknames -
elephant, giraffe, big bird, cookie monster, monkey, panjang, si tinggi,
dino, senpai haha! By the way, the best wish of the year goes to ... my
junior HY a.k.a siao kia with the message ""hey old friend!! haPPy bIRthDAy ya!! big big liao ya! dont prank ppl on 1st april anymore ya! LOL"
Anyway,
my birthday wish is very simple. Next year, instead of sending me more
than a hundred messages, why not you guys turn them into a dollar note
instead. I'll turn a year older, a hundred doller richer, it makes me
happy, it makes you happy, and the whole world will be happy.
Simple, isn't it?
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