Blog’s down again. Totally sick of it. Maybe I should just change back to a blogger hosting site instead. It’s unfair to me if we’re paying for it and they say that my blog is generating too much traffic when it’s the same as when I’m using blogger.
I’ll think about it and try to solve the problem.
Well anyways, yesterday some of us went to celebrate Melvin’s birthday. A little belated but it’s good if he enjoyed it.
WeiQin and I arrived at Orchard at around 4pm. We had to buy Melvin’s birthday present and finally settled on a Border’s gift card. Meanwhile, we were trying so hard to restrain ourselves from buying books. I really wanted to get the new Dan Brown book.
After that, we went to shop around Orchard. We found pieces of clothes that we really liked but the queue for the fitting room was really long and it dampened our shopping mood. In the end, we had to give them up. Right now, I’m still thinking about that neon pink cotton shirt at Forever 21. I’ll pick it up some time! Don’t let it get off the shelves yet, PLEASE!
We met up with the rest at Swensen’s in Orchard ION. GuoBin, HanWee and ShunYu were already in the queue. WeiQin and I could have actually went to queue first! But we have no idea where Swensen’s is ><” It wasn’t actually a long wait though we were waiting for 13 people in total. Meanwhile, we took a picture of the girls! (:
Well, there’s a reason why Jolene isn’t inside. She’s late!
We finally made it into Swensen’s near 6pm. GuoBin, HanWee and ShunYu sat together. Jaslyn, CheeWee, ZhiPeng and his friend sat at the other. The rest of us which includes Jolene, Jeannette, WeiQin, Melvin and JiaJie sat at the other.
Jeannette and I hit the cake trays immediately. Got some Tiramisu, cheesecakes, brownies and Chocolate Fondue marshmallows. A pity I didn’t take any pictures because it’s really good! Well, my phone is still in the repair so there won’t be any pictures until … I get it back. Meanwhile, bear with my wordy blog posts!
I couldn’t believe that I was already half full after I finished the cakes. Next, we went to get some ice-cream! 5 scoops of ice cream were all it takes to finish it all up. I got some Rocky Road, Sticky Chewy Chocolate, Yam, Cookies and Cream and .. Blackforest I think. I can’t really remember. Then we got some really nice toppings. The best part is that you can add a whole lot of toppings without having to pay more.
I mean its a buffet!
Added Almond slices, almond bits, mini oreas, crispy cookies, peanuts, marshmallow and chocolate fudge and many others.
While eating, we had a good chat and joked around. The combination of JiaJie and Melvin leads to a hell lot of laughter. JiaJie was commenting that Swensen’s workers have a lot of arm strength because for the whole day they have to scoop ice cream for the customers then he did that exaggerated action of it. We just continued laughing like crazy.
Melvin then fabricated this story of Jolene and WeiQin minimizing time while queuing. So the story was that while waiting for their turn to get ice cream, they finished their cakes on their plates. After that they queued again and ate the ice cream they gotten. So the process continues. Well, the truth was that they only gt a serving(5 scoops) of ice cream. Placed the plate on the table and went to get cakes. The only reason why he made up this story was because they spent a long time getting them.
In the process, Jolene received many calls. One of them was from YiWen. All of us were trying to guess who was the caller. Melvin and I thought it was Joyce while WeiQin guessed correctly. Then Melvin guessed that the conversation was about baking. WeiQin heard something about washing while I concluded that the caller was trying to get help to remove some stain or something. So in the end, Jolene revealed the answers and WeiQin and I were right. Melvin then continued saying “That’s why guys can never understand girls” which sent all of us laughing.
Anyways, the winner of this entire buffet competition was GuoBin who managed to eat up to 30 scoops of icecream. Melvin, JiaJie and Shunyu managed to have 15 scoops. WeiQin had 11 while Jolene had 8. I had an unofficial of 8 where the 3 scoops were finished by Jeannette in the end. I have no idea how much scoops the other table had but they were the ultimate winner because after we stopped eating, they were still eating.
While waiting for them, we were bored and played Zhong Ji Mi Ma. I have no idea what’s the name of the game in English but the point of the game is to avoid guessing the number. Jaslyn was the one who came up with the number and the contestants were Melvin, JiaJie, Jolene, WeiQin, Jeannette and me. The punishment was this cheesecake mixed with salt, melted sorbet and a few drops of chocolate, mixed with salivas of others.
Somehow, Melvin and JiaJie managed to escape from it and it ended up with either Jeannette or me. Jeannette guessed 13 and I managed to escape in scraped pieces. Jolene was commenting that she has never seen me so stressed up, not even during Preliminary examinations. Well, so Jeannette had to reap what she “sowed” because the mixture was mainly made by her. Here’s a picture of her eating that awful mixture.
She commented that it was almost tasteless with everything mixed together.
At the end, we took a picture all together!
13 people, nothing less!
The girls except Jaslyn then went to have a short shopping session. I wanted to get some flats but couldn’t find any that I fancied. Then we hit the shops selling accessories as WeiQin wanted to get bangles.
I was just walking around in Diva, when this really cute bracelet caught my eye! It had a lot of animals. I remembered there was a giraffe and most importantly a penguin! There was even a matching necklace. Now I was thinking I should have gotten it! In the end I got 6 pairs of really cute earrings (:
Sorry for the blur image, this is what my phone can offer right now. Ain’t the penguin and frog ones really cute? There was another set that has kittens, dogs and other animals but I couldn’t afford it. Spending $32 on earrings in one shot, I just couldn’t do it. After that, Jolene and Jeannette left to find the others while WeiQin and I went home. A last picture we asked a passerby to help us take (:















































