Celebrations

Had a pretty busy week. Monday was shopping in Bangsar Village; Tuesday was Kin Kin Pan Mee with highschool friends, then shopping at Pavilion with Suat Ling and Jee Wei; Wednesday was a movie marathon of Alvin & The Chipmunks and Did You Hear About The Morgans with Joel at 1Utama; Thursday was meeting up with my dearest Nikki before he left for Edinburgh again; Friday was a supposedly bagel for breakfast, then Wii session with Joel & Zven (the cafe wasn't opened); Saturday was my cousin sister's wedding; Sunday was my twin nieces full moon celebration.

I haven't gotten the pictures from Nikki & Zven yet, so that's for another day =).

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It was my cousin sister's wedding on Saturday. Had to sacrifice my entire day for it, meaning, I couldn't revise respi and haemato PBL that day. Oh well. The morning started with ragging activities of the bridegroom, haha, my cousins' favourite part of any wedding, I guess. They did an elaborated preparation. The house key submerged in iced water (the groom or any of the buddies had to retrieve the key with their foot, yuck!); pure lemon juice jelly (i love jelly but I passed...); steamed pao filled with pork, chili, pepper and wasabi; very bitter herbal tea; Baileys served in milk bottles etc.

To prevent interruption of the process, Walkie-talkies were provided (to the station masters, sucker)! They have had loads of practice prior to this wedding (many siblings).

The winning prize =)

My evil cousins and I

And then they had some tea ceremony (wasn't interesting at all). Finally, my favourite part! Ang Pow!!! Given to the younger relatives =)

Just because this is nice. That's my niece trying to reach her Ah-yi.

I wasn't wearing my contact lens the entire afternoon! And of course, I would never wear glasses for a day like this. Many thanks to my smart ass maid, who inverted my contact lens case, and let all the solution out.

Wedding dinner at Renaissance Hotel, downtown KL. Finally! I could see things so much clearer at night, as I rushed to get new contact lens right after the afternoon session.

My niece, Maya and I.

My brother and I.

The finance manager.

The happy couple.

My highlight of the night. One of the band players was HOT! I don't think he's all that good looking, but he was TALENTED! Hence, the amazing aura and charm that caught my eye.

He could play the saxaphone, clarinet and SING. I found out from my cousin that his name was Sean. I took many pictures of him singing and playing the saxaphone (he looked way sexier playing the saxaphone compared to the clarinet), but my brother deleted them, leaving a couple of pictures for blogging purpose, ishhh.

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Sunday noon, was my twin nieces' full moon celebration at Lemon Garden, Shangri-La. Don't think they were given names yet, haha.

Look at this silly niece of mine, Trisha.

As Zven said, the standard of the food has dropped, but I don't think it was terrible. It wasn't as good, but bearable I guess. However, to pay for the buffet price, I don't think it's worth.

The salad was excellent! I love their ranch and french dressing.

The roast beef used to my favourite of the gourmet section. NOT ANYMORE! The meat wasn't very tender and it wasn't very well marinated. DISAPPOINTED! The roast lamb was just alright.

Fresh oysters. I know many who takes them just to make their money worth (you know who yo are ;p). But i absolutely adore these little shellfish. It's not advisable to take ones that are too large or too tiny. I feel that the large ones are too yucky and they make me want to puke; the tiny ones do not have enough substance to taste. The best ones are of the size in which you can consume and savour it as a whole in one bite! But it cannot be too large to fill your entire oral cavity, although some people can still call the big ones "bite-size". The oral cavity has to have enough room for the fresh and succulent oyster to swivel around. The tobasco sauce at Lemon Garden is also worth mentioning, as cayenne pepper is added into it, making it more flavourful =)

Awesome! Oh yea, and good ones won't give you food poisoning (courtesy of vibrio parahaemolyticus, v.vulnificus etc.).

Dessert!

The white chocolate fountain used to be my favourite spot of the dessert section. Too bad it's not there anymore. The white chocolate fountain has been replaced by a strawberry chocolate fountain. It wasn't disappointing though. I still prefer that over the chocolate fountain. I always find their chocolate too oily and thin- that's for adding too much butter into the mixture!

Didn't take many food pictures, since Lemon Garden is always featured in blogs, and mine's no food blog, and there's nothing special about their food anymore.

One of the twins. The other one just looks the same.

Evil me and my mum. Warning to my cousins: your daughters will grow up to be like me, hehehe.

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In chronological order:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AARON (if you do read my blog, hehe)!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOEL =)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RACHEL (Yong)! Come visit me in Sydney!!!

Peace out!

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