An evening I'll never forget...

Before I know it, my birthday dinner, at my place in Klostergårdens, on Saturday is over already. It just seems to be so instantaneous - *poof* it's gone, just like that. It's like weeks of planning and thinking of what food to prepare just for one seemingly-short but a very happy evening - I had the urge of just abolishing the thought of having a dinner during the process 'cos it felt kinda troublesome, especially with the work I have to finish, but the thought of having an "evening of my own" kept me going.

I've never ever organized such a dinner for myself before and I'm glad that I did this time, taking the opportunity of not having to mug for exams when it's my birthday.

Like I told Huimin, even my 21st birthday wasn't so happening (thanks to BS102)... And every year I see my hall mates in NTU getting drunk because they had receive a toast from everyone present. Fortunately, I didn't have to go through all that because it was the exam period, but this time I couldn't escape... thanks to Clement, Kai, and Ben. I'll never forget the Kahlua and the Polish Vodka... and beer with vodka really sucks...

This is from the night before at Sparta when I got the Dunkin' Donuts as my birthday cake...

I'm still very surprised they actually carried the donuts all the way from Berlin to Lund on the train... haha. Thanks!!

So the day of my birthday dinner came... 9 persons including me and I only have 5 sets of dining utensils, 2 chairs and 1 small table. Started to borrow tables, chairs and utensils from neighbours next door, downstairs, upstairs, everywhere.

Everyone wanted to cook something even though I said that I'd do all the food myself, so that night I made buffalo wings and drumsticks (chicken), my specialty 蛋花汤 (basically just soup with scrambled egg, tomatoes, and pork), and rice, while Clement and Huimin did black pepper beef, fried cabbage and Swedish kladkaka, and Kai did his beef rendang! Yukino and Asako were doing something secretive in their room and it turned out to be another "birthday cake". It was actually crepes with fruits in it, and there were 16 layers I heard.

Mariel, on the other hand, brought another surprise for me! She made this HUGE birthday cake with German chocolates in it... So touched....

*the huge birthday card*

Another friend of Huimin (and now of mine too) from London School of Economics (LSE), Yifang, came too. Thanks for coming =)

*that's Yifang from LSE*

Oh man, I'm so gonna remember this night forever, my first "happening" birthday celebration...

*black pepper beef, cabbage, buffalo wings, soup, beef rendang*

*Huimin, Yifang, Yukino, Asako*

*Mariel, Benedict, Kai Hong, Clement*

*Swedish kladkaka and the crepes*

*Glad that everyone enjoyed the dinner*

*Thank you everyone*