We had a belated birthday celebrations for The Married Soldier and settled for the first round of celebrations - Dim Sum lunch at Dragon Gate Restaurant at Harbourfront Centre. Arriving at around 12 noon, we began ordering those tiny baskets of dim sum and starting chatting and cracking jokes over the food, which includes all sorts of prawn and meat dumplings, chicken feet in sauce, soups, vegetables, fried carrot cakes, desserts, lots of tea. They all tallied up to over 30 plates or baskets and very full stomachs when lunch finally ended at 2.30pm.
The gals in the VIP group were itching to go for some shopping at VivoCity next door so the men in the group went off to find electronic games to browse at. The guys moved in to the various outlets which sell computer and console games, talking about Fallout 3, Little Big Planet, Heavenly Sword, etc before settling down back at Harbourfront Centre's MacDonald to wait for nearly one hour before the gals came back with their shopping bounties in hand.
Originally, the group wanted to go to West Coast Park's MacDonald for afternoon tea but eventually decided on going to The Changed Man's house to slack in the lethargic hours of the evening so we hopped over to Cold Storage and stashed up on tidbits and drinks and left in the various vehicles to the destination.
Inside The Changed Man's house, the Playstation 3 was dragged out and everyone started to gather around to watch the guys take turn to play the games. I was cajoled into playing Little Big Planet - the game with the brown sack-like doll and I was really bad with those console games as I was not used to using the console controllers (am more of a mouse and click person). So my character inside ended up the entertainer of the afternoon as he struggled to climb those skateboards for races and to jump onto and hang onto dear life those biscuit-looking things on ropes to clear two adventures, collecting stickers and bonuses and laughing at the strange dialogues in-game.
We had a short dinner of orange juice, cakes, sushi and potatoes chips at around 9pm before one of the gals started lamenting we had missed out the West Coast Park portion of the celebrations. Without any violent objections from the rest of the VIPs, we moved off again to West Coast Park for a night stroll. On reaching there, it was unsurprisingly crowded because it was Deepavali and there were many groups of people on the grass, having picnics and even playing with sparklers. The whole group took a leisurely walk through the park, talking about their year-end trips to various parts of the world and about what they intend to buy over there.
Celebrations finally ended at around 10.30pm and everyone headed home for a good night's rest. No photos were taken because the birthday boy always did not like photo-taking to interrupt with the day's activities.
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