Poker Tournament

We celebrated Drakey's birthday with lunch instead of our usual Saturday night dinner because he wanted to go for a charity poker tournament that evening... but without any plans for the night, everyone tagged along to the poker tournament and ended up signing up for it.... apart from yours truly as I wasn't feeling up for it... (ok fine fine... I was tired, lazy and chicken out of it... :( bleh...)

But anyway... Drake, Bin Bin, Mr Yeo, Naveen and Aldric all signed up for the tournament...

And surprise surprise... Bin Bin, Drake and Naveen all got into the final round at the main table of the tournament!!!

Bin Bin looking really stressed in the final table, trying hard to concentrate on her game with a drunk Mr Yeo providing distraction to everyone!!!

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Bin Bin won the whole tournament!!! Woohoo... She took home the top prize of a 32" Sony LCD flat screen TV!!!

Way to go girl!! Girl Power!! (In fact, there was another girl who finished 3rd in the tournament!!)

P/s. Bin Bin - If you do sell the TV, this post is dedicated to you so that there's evidence you won a poker tournament before and beating 70+ other players on the way!!!

Drakey and Naveen finished a credible 7th (£50 Selfridges voucher and a mp3 player) and 10th (a bottle of champagne and a mp3 player) respectively...

Wow... Guess our weekly poker sessions standards are not that bad after all with 3 in the top 10!!!

Drakey's (Pre)-Birthday

Since Bin Bin and I won't be around this coming weekend to celebrate Drakey's birthday, we decided to have a pre-celebration for him...

We went for lunch at the Athenaeum in Mayfair...

And the day before, Rui and I went shopping for his birthday gift...

Ok ok... I know it's not good to give people shoes according to Chinese beliefs... but Karen was quite sure that he's not superstitious... so... we went ahead to get him Adidas football shoes (Well, football shoes lessons that I got from Rui: When it comes to football shoes, Adidas reign over Nike)

And oops... we actually got him a cake... but unfortunately we forgot to bring it to the restaurant!!! Oh well... so we had to cut the cake some other time...

So after dinner on Sunday evening... we had the cake cutting ceremony... I wonder what wish did he make... erm... to be a big shot banker??? :P (Or perhaps that everyone at Thame Road won't kick him out of the house in future?? hehehe....)

Aaaawwwww.... see how happy he is to cut his cake... just like a little boy!!!

Well... Happy Be-early Birthday Drakey aka Drag!!! Hope you had a good time over the weekend and sorry that I won't be around this weekend!

Bon Jovi Concert

YES... you read correctly... I went for the Bon Jovi concert!!! (What?? For someone who doesn't have a single English song on her iTunes?? I know, I know... even Sook Leen who bumped into me at the concert was surprised to see me there...)

Well... Veni, vidi, vici...

Everyone hanging around (and the guys making fools of themselves by entertaining each other with the bags of peanuts that they bought) while waiting for the actual concert to start... Well, I said actual because they have some performance by this band called The Feeling as a filler...

And yes... finally... the concert took off with the song Lost Highway... hehehe... since I didn't know a single Bon Jovi song prior to the concert, I thought I should do my homework... so I downloaded their greatest hits and their latest album Lost Highway... and I have been listening to the 28 songs daily during my commute to and from work...

AND...

I'm proud to say that I actually know more songs than everyone else cuz all of them are only familiar with Bon Jovi's classics and not the songs from their latest album...

Hehehehehe :P

The stage was really pretty especially once the sun set and the lighting effects came on...

And oh...

Hehehe... a tired Mr Yeo sitting down on the floor not even halfway through the concert... guess it's because we have the standing tickets and have been standing since 6pm!

Thought it was funny how excited the crowd got every time they sang one of their classics like "It's My Life", "Livin' on a Prayer", "Always" etc...

Just see the video below... everyone was singing and dancing along...

Whereas when they sang songs from their latest album, the crowd pretty much went silent!!!

After two encores... they finally closed the curtain down...

And my my my... look at the crowd trying to get home... somehow... we ended up going in the wrong direction and walked to another station instead of Twickenham... and it was a really really long walk...

I did enjoy the concert... it has been a while since I went for one... but.. I felt quite exhausted at the end of the night... sigh... signs of old age when I can no longer jump up and down throughout the whole concert without feeling tired!!!

My lucky star...

The Spain hero who won a £45 pot for me!!!

Yipeeee!!!

Hehehe... not to mention, he's pretty good looking as well... :P

Chocolate

I've never been a fan of chocolate... yes, you heard me right... I don't like chocolate!!!

But, everyone else that I know LOVES chocolate (everyone says... who doesn't???) and so...

I've ventured out of my comfort zone of making tiramisu... and challenged myself to make an edible chocolate cake...

Well... I would rate my attempt to be fair... managed to make the cake really moist... (I somehow got the idea that if I put a pan of water in the oven while I bake it, then the cake would stay moist!!!)

The verdict: It was more fun baking and decorating it rather than eating the cake itself... I'm still not a converted fan of chocolate... it's a good thing that everyone else loves chocolate and they happily finished up the cake for me...