Birthday Babble

It's August the eight My Mother's birthday!!

Anyway this year, I thought I would do something different for her, rather than give her a cook book for her birthday like I have done for the past half a decade or so.......because firstly me giving my mum a cook book for her birthday again is pretty cliche and stale and secondly because my mum never ever cook any of the dishes featured in the cookbooks I've given her, she only reads through them every year and says"Someday I'll cook so and so Dish for you...." and Guess What? It's been 5 years Mum and I'm still waiting for your sheperd's pie.....oh and the crab meat fried rice...oh and the sweet and sour soup ...oh,oh and not forgetting the pasta dishes you promised to cook...

So after wrecking my head for a week, I still could'nt think of anything that would be suitable for my mum and that would be in my budget as well.I mean...sure,I know my mum love diamonds and stuff,what female doesn't?But I would probably have to sell a gallon of blood and a limb or major organ or two to be able to buy anything with diamonds in them.Then it hit me... I would buy her lunch at some fancy restaurant on her birthday because not only was this more practical, my mum could choose whaever she wanted to have and I did'nt have to try and read her mind to decide what she likes......so I brought her to the newly renovated Jack's Place at Bukit Panjang Plaza.

Now Jack's place used to be a pretty respectable restuarant back in the old days(circa 1980-early 1990s) and my family would patronise the place on special like birthdays and etc.....although the standard of the place has dropped over the years....it remains a sentimental favorite of my family's...so I thought it would be a suitable Choice. Anyways..... I had the steak with Mushroom sauce and Lobster Bisque whil My mum ordered the grilled bonless chicken with barbeque sauce and seafood chowder and I even threw in a half dozen of expensive,high grade escargots to sweeten the deal....then the bill came and let's just say I would have to work 3 back breaking days in F&N to be able to afford that meal.....but being the generous and filial son I was, I foot every cent of the bill and even left a 40 cents tip for the waitress....my generosity is boundless....

At the end of the day, My Mum received a Ice-cream cake from Swensens courtesy of my brother, a handphone worth $700 bucks from my dad and a lunch treat from me....not too shabby I guess...

Two days ago I recived an sms from my F&N colleague and my friend,Gavyn's crush(One of the 100 others..hahaha)...Jamie.Jamie is a really small and petite girl.....a really nice fella who's fun to crap with(she's damn funny when she's stressed.....she walks around the office, mumbling "Growl..Growl" like like mad tiny tiger cub..) So anyways she says that she misses me and my crapping and just basically checking on how I'm doing nowadays,etc.....Its been 7 weeks since I left F&N and I probably would'nt have bothered doing something like this....so I thought that was pretty nice and thoughtful of her.......awwwww......(although she was laughing at me when I said I was selling tupperware now)

Still got my Sales Management project to finish........darn it....have to interview my dad tommorrow when we could be out clebrating National Day and having fun outdoors...Growl...Growl..