dinner with miffy

took a zillon years just to log in to blogspot....

last night i was invited to "miffy's" bday dinner at centrestage... a new restaurant at the half-baked renovated marina square. the whole shopping centre was in 3/4 renovation and the other 1/4 was open.... but i think they should just open the place when EVERYTHING has been fully renovated.... just looks very half-baked and i don't think i would want to go back there until it is done.

anyway, centrestage is one of the 6 new restaurants at marina, and miffy did the graphics for that certain one.... there is another restaurant called "six & seven" simply because that lot for the restaurant is 6 & 7.... wow. thought i could see the new menu design that miffy is doing for the owner but apparently its not out yet so, oh well. she seemed very hesistant and vague about who she invited for her dinner but i thought it was just a small quiet dinner for a few close friends. i did not expect her to book tables for 30 people!!! and she said that a lot of people backed out in the end.. but from the crowd that turned up, there seemed to be about.... 20 people?? not too bad what... i thought like only 8 people were going to turn up.

i was basically the first to arrive at the place, though i was like... 15 mins late. so i just sat at this sofa nearby and messaged c.m.i. who was supposed to go for this dinner as well, but he was rushing some work that night, and stuck in his office with his 2 super stressed out bosses and the office dog. haiz.. and ah zai?? no sound no nothing from him for almost 1 and a half weeks. the last i saw and heard from him was when he came down with a flu. anyway, c.m.i. assured me that ah zai will re-surface again when he is well. i really hope so cause i thought something might have happened to him.

after 5 mins of waiting, miffy appeared with chee keong (i think thats how to spell his name) the fireman whom i have met a few times and this other guy whose name i cant remember but he is a primary school teacher. the funny thing about these 2 guys is that, both have been chatting on msn for a YEAR and last night was the first time they have ever physically met. i thought it sounded very SDU, but it turned out that the fireman was interested in learning kayaking (correct sp or not??) and miffy knew the teacher (who seems to also teach kayaking outside) and gave the fireman his contact. ooooooooooooohhhhh......

anyway, as we sat down and chatted for a while, this guy (whose name i also cannot remember) who looked a bit like chrissy-poo from SI (but not bad looking lar) sat down at our table. he is miffy's friend from aussieland and somehow they knew each other from another aussie friend and blah blah blah. he was speaking in this aussie accent which i thought was a bit irritating since he was a chinese but it turned out that he is born there and he came to Singapore to work for his internship. He studies medicine apparently. He was also wearing this brown suit jacket over his casual t-shirt. hmmm...

slowly, our table turned into the "we-dun-have-a-clique-and-dun-know-anyone-else-so-we-are-sitting-together" group, as another guy called Zhihao, from Maris stella sec previously knew our mutual friends like Hans, Jiaming and Shushen. So we all sat and chatted together as the aussie guy started asking around what does everyone do and small talk. It was quite entertaining as he was extremely amused with the fireman cause he just ran 10km before coming to this dinner. of course he went back to the station to bathe and change first. today, the fireman is going for his 20km cycling session from MacRichie Reservoir to Bukit Timah. Wah... so exciting...

This other group of girls appeared and miffy thought i could join them and be more comfortable with that group but i noticed that they are already a clique of their own, so it would not be so nice for me to barge inside. so i stayed put at my quite interesting table. Dinner was biffet style of pizza, salad, 3 different types of pasta and sushi. Sushi?? everyone was flabbergasted to see the sushi on the table but anyhow we just ate whatever was in front of us. hope the whole buffet wasnt too ex for miffy..... oh, she also passed me my belated bday and xmas gift. it was a cute pink swarovski crystal-led snauzher pendant, that could also hang as a hp strap. she wanted me to wear the pendant for her there to make her happy but i hung it on my phone instead. heh...

finally got her to open her present that i bought and she seemed to like what i got.... its a bag from this brand called ness.... funny name but its a posh looking bag that both of us could not figure how to carry! but nevermind la, just be creative can already.

they finished the night with a chocolate cake that looked extremely messy after it was cut and the rest went off to thumper in goodwood (heh heh ridz...) for some drinks. didnt join them as i was still a little high on my drowsy medication earlier in the day so i just went straight home. it was also a night where i ate all the food that was not good for my throat and i swear i can feel the after effects now... haiz.... bleh

what a boring sunday afternoon...................