Flowers for the birthday gal

Lovely gesture from my company on everyone's birthday.

Another year older!

Our birthdays were spent in Vietnam this year.

Had a sumptuous French dinner at L' En Tete, tucked in a quiet corner of Nguyen Thai Binh / Calmette Street in district 1, followed by grooving to the alternative rock performed by live singers at the Acoustic Bar (which I will write about soon).

awfully chocolate cake that's not awful

It has been a long time since I cut a cake on my birthday and I wanted to buy one for both of us. "awfully chocolate" came to my mind but I realised that I'll not have time to collect it on Fri evening.

Actually, my sister had the same thing on her mind too. It was so nice of her to make a trip to Jalan Kuras to buy the cake for me. What a nice surprise! Thank you my dear sister! The cake was not a disappointment but we knew we had better - Lana Cake from Greenwood Avenue. "Choc A Bloc" is probably the next one I'll try.

"The Best Steak Anywhere" ?

Went to Morton's The Steakhouse (as expected) for our birthday dinner last night.

Some steakhouses present raw beef cuts to their customers on chopping boards placed on push carts. Over at Morton's, raw beef cuts, fish, half dead lobster, uncooked veggies, pre-prepared desserts were laid on huge trays for the waiters to present to each table - not sure if this makes menu reading any easier?

Tables reserved for birthday celebrations had a personalised menu each that included a line "Happy Birthday! 18th January 2008" and some confetti scattered all over the table.

Dinner was sumptuous with lobster bisque, filet mignon, wild mushroom, jumbo asparagus & warm chocolate cake with ice-cream. Actually, "The Best Steak Anywhere" is the restaurant's slogan. It was easy to sink my teeth into the beef steak as it felt soft but powdery - not as tender as I expected it to be.

There were candle lights on each table but don't expect the restaurant to be a quiet one like any other fine dining restaurant. It was actually quite noisy and waiters went around to at least 6 tables (including our table) to sing "Happy Birthday". Its amazing that there were so many people sharing the same birthday in a single restaurant!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME !!!

"Another year older, another year wiser" - the usual saying I would use on everyone's birthday. Indeed, after having lived for another year, one ought to be wiser after having learnt another 365 days worth of lessons!

I've taken a day off from work (never believed in working on my birthday) & its gonna be a lazy morning while waiting to catch a flight back to Singapore. Zzz has planned something for our birthday dinner (yes, its his birthday too!) and he's keeping me in suspense about the venue (though I think I have some clues about it).