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Lisa And Ema's Birthday Bash!

Be forewarned; this entry is extremely picture-intensive. Those who know me will know how much I enjoy tormenting dial-up users with the picture-crazy entries in my blogs. To the people who whine and complain about the slow load-up times - TOUGH. Get broadband. If you already have it, think of upgrading your package. It's obviously not fast enough. Anyway. In this entry I'll let the pictures do the narrating. Believe me, there's enough to write a novel (even more, perhaps, seeing as I didn't post all the pictures I took). These pictures were taken with my trusty Cybershot P10 - I received it when my Dad brought it up to Sheffield for me, together with tonnes of other stuff. Thanks, Dad!


Yesterday, we held a "suprise" birthday party for Lisa and Ema at Ranmaru's kitchen in the Endcliffe Vale Flats. The celebrations were for Lisa's 21st birthday and Ema's 2oth birthday. The decorations seen in this picture were courtesy of Kanako, who provided the balloons and did a great job with the signs.


After Suresh stalled Lisa for almost an hour to allow us time to decorate the place and cook the food, our first guest of honour was here! We hid in the darkened kitchen and sprang our surprise on her the moment she stepped into the kitchen! She never expected it - and it shows! Success!!! We didn't get any tears of joy from her, though...hahaha!


Surprise, surprise! Guest-of-Honour Number 2 gets the same reception! Ema's reaction was even more pronounced than Lisa's! This picture is definitely my favourite! Look at her reaction when she is showered with confetti and paper streamers!


From left (top) - myself and Wei Jin. From left (bottom) - Ema, Rexanna, Lisa, Hiromi and Yoko.


The ladies of the party! From left - Hiromi, Yoko, Tina, Nessa, Lisa, Jessica, Rexanna, Sunhee, Kanako and Ema. Yuki is trying to fit himself into the picture just behind them - nice try! Haha... Should have just pushed your way through, man!


"We Want You!" To clean up after us, anyway. Myself and Sohan.


Mini-group pic! From left - Kanako, Wei Jin, myself, Hiromi and Sohan.


Medics unite! The first-year medics (and coincidentally, the only medics at the party) pose for a picture! From left - Jessica, Rexanna, Lisa, myself, Sohan and Suresh.


Mastermind of the party - Suresh. He did a great job organizing the party, but an even better job at cooking the dish he contributed - lamb rogan josh! It was extremely delicious, albeit atherosclerosis-inducing...haha!


Another of our cooks - Sohan. The spaghetti bolognaise he cooked was superb! We want seconds!


Wei Jin's head is temporarily converted into a mobile dining table for me! Hahaha! However, it also looks like I'm about to eat Wei Jin's brains fresh out of his head - very disturbing indeed!


From left - Nessa, myself, Kanako and Ben.


The two birthday girls and their birthday cake. We didn't put the number of candles to correspond with their age, though - the explanation being the reasoning that the blaze would set off the fire alarms! The cake was ultimately used for a food-fight, in which everyone had cake smeared onto their faces by the time it ended. The kitchen resembled a war-zone at that point, with cake dotting the walls and splattered all over the floor.


This is a good time to learn their names - I can't make it any clearer than that! Hahaha! Lisa and Ema (no prizes for guessing who's who) pose with their namecards that were used to decorate the kitchen. We told them to take the cards home as additional 'presents' from us!


A very nicely placed group picture! Wei Jin and Sohan have identical poses - are they practicing cheerleading or something? Haha! We should have made more space for Rexanna, though. Her disembodied head seems rather out of place!

posted by yong chen @ 8:54 PM