| | Hey everyone! haven't updated since my birthday so I think I'll talk about that. Basically it was GREAT!!!  Thanks everyone for making it such an awesome weekend!
Friday - Went downstairs in the morning opened my cards and present, got a digital camera and I  it! Can expect lots of pics on the site now! After I'd opened my present from parents my next door neighbour who is more like an Aunt to me, brought me a bottle of champagne, which seemed really weird as I hardly drink at all and 2 cards!
School was a quite fun, everyone was really nice to me though! Got a card from Lorna which was really kind, thanks! I felt pretty bad as I didn't get her one though as our birthdays are on the same day. Bob bought me a delicious cake from Tesco's and Amy gave me a really funny card and Mulan on DVD! wohoo! thanks so much, you rock!
After school I went home and checked out my Mulan DVD then got ready to go round Tamsins to celebrate her birthday. Was really fun at Tamsins, had some delicious pizza's (cheese and tomato, meat feast and bbq with bbq sauce instead of tomato puree) and had a great conversation with Tamsin, Hannah, Chris, Josie, Alex and Sophie as usual! When I got there we exchanged presents. I gave Tamsin a peacock bag with sequins which I was really happy had finally arrived as I was worrying it wouldn't get there on time, I ordered it off the net you see.
Tamsin, Sophie and Chris however gave me an absolutely amazing present which I am still so excited about! It's a machine with a pen and pad that lets you write in Chinese and it comes up on the computer, it helps me to the learn the language and speaks back to me! It's so cool! Only problem is all the instructions are in Chinese lol! but that's getting sorted. I got back to my house around 12.00 after a really cool night! When I left Tamsin gave me a big tub of raisins hehe and when I got home there was an 18 balloon for me but as I have said before as Ellie knows so well, I'm easily pleased! btw Happy Birthday Tamsin!!!
Saturday was a really cool day too. First great thing was that I had NO work!!! wohoo! but that didn't stop me from going to MK did it now, no it most certainly didn't.
Went with mum and sis, Ellie my sis, wanted to buy me a birthday present so who was I to stop her lol. Looked around the olde DVD shops for some bargains, Caroline knows just how important that is! Finally found a great deal in HMV buy one get one free, so my sis bought me Taeguki and In the Mood for Love. Also had to find a present that Grandma could get and found this great little disc that plays any region DVD on a PS2 oh yeah!
I then met up with Angus when he was on his lunch break which was fun and interesting, as are most convo's with Angy lol.
When I got home I tested out the discs and had lunch, didn't want a lot so as to not spoil my appetite later.
Spent most of the rest of the day cleaning up and making the house look respectable for later on. Before I knew it, it was time for me to get ready for my party, didn't want to be late like the last years hehe.
On the way to Royal Lido restaurant, we picked up Caroline and Chris. When we got into the restaurant, there were 3 tables linked together for us with a spinny thing in the middle of each, perfect.
Because there were so many of us though, it would take ages to order so we basically had a lucky dip, the staff recommended that they just brought some of the best food on offer. The staff were brilliant that night, so friendly and welcoming, the food was amazing! I think everyone would agree. While we waited for the duck *drools* I opened my presents, I absolutely love all the presents I got! Tamsin, Sophie and Chris got me some really cool chopsticks with faces, hehe. Mel, Hannah, Mike and Cerise gave me an enormous stick with possibly the sweetest marshmallows I have ever tasted on, a bag full of white chocolate with hundreds and thousands on, some bubbles in mini champagne bottles, a cool ancient warrior model, 30 Ferror Rocher (my fave chocs!) and a gift card from HMV to buy Unleashed on DVD. Ali bought me a brilliant red model of a Chinese Dragon. Matt got me a massive Toblerone mmmm. Bob got me a wicked Chinese poster. Alex got me Koma on DVD!, Em and Adam got me Ong Bak on DVD! at long last I have seen it! It's brilliant! and crazy as is Koma. Chris got me Escape from Hong Kong Island on DVD! wohoo, looking forward to seeing that, keep thinking it's called Escape from Monkey Island though haha. Angus got me a portable Monopoly game lol, looks like we'll have to play that eh Monopoly gang, you know who you are. Caroline got me a picture of Sasha Behar aka Maya Sharma from Corrie! with her autograph! and gift vouchers for HMV and Virgin. DVD shopping I go! Nicky, Chris, Glenn, DJ and Ellie gave me money and Steve got me a cool giant novelty pencil even though he didn't come to my party. Thanks everyone!!!
At the restaurant I had lots of Chinese Tea and some of the food we had included Crispy Peking Duck, Seaweed with Cinamon (I think), Chicken and Chilli, Spare Ribs with BBQ Sauce, Won Ton, Prawn Crackers, Chicken Satay on Skewer, Chinese Style Chicken Curry, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Egg Fried Rice, Noodles and so much more! Damn, I've made myself exceedingly hungry.
After the meal I was completely stuffed but the staff brought me over an ice cream/cake with choclate and strawberry sauce with a candle and lolly in and sung Happy Bithday to me. Was really kind of them, i laughed quite a bit that I blew out the candle while they were singing lol. I felt so incredibly full, it was so good, I ate as much as possible but just couldn't finish it and shared it with the others.
After the party Em, Adam, Caroline, Mel, Bob, Ali, Chris and I went back to mine for cake and champagne. Got home, got sung Happy Birthday again lol, had a photo of us all taken, played some Tekken 5, then watched Ong Bak! wohoo!
Great film, some amzing stunts, really rubbish plot though and we love the crazy evil old guy with the strange fake voice lol!
We then walked Caroline home and Ali went too, when we got back to mine, we attempted to watch Old Boy but fell asleep lol, all pretty shattered! hehe.
Sunday was lazy day, didn't do much apart from watch TV, eat cake, do some art and watch Mulan! and Koma!
So just want to thank you all for coming to my party, had a great time, thanks for the pressies, all too kind. I would say that this has been the best birthday I've ever had because all of you are just the best bunch of friends I've ever had and Nick luvs you all!!!
btw my apologies if I sounded like a bit of a spoilt brat, I promise you I'm not. Pics coming later! |
