Birthday goodness!

I'm taking the rest of the week off to visit Quan (my boyfriend). It's his birthday on Wednesday so I'm flying north today so we can do the whole "Yay! Midnight! It's your birthday!"

That's one of my favorite things about birthdays. That moment when the clock strikes 12 and whoever you're with singing happy birthday and close friends calling or tweeting birthday greetings. I'm forever 5 at heart like that.

I had been searching for a great gift and finally found it late last week. I really hope he likes it. He was so thoughtful on my birthday last September so I doubt everything I do now can even compare. Not like it's even a contest, but you know, I want him to have a memorable day since it's our first year together.

Speaking of my birthday, he took me to Singapore for a 4-day weekend. It was the Grandprix season and the city was so alive (more alive and crowded than usual). He's never really been to Singapore and there would be all these cool F1 concerts and parties that would be great to check out. Not to mention local Singaporean food? Best thing ever (well after Indonesian food, of course, but I may be so biased on this one).

Mandatory tourist picture at Marina Bay

Some highlights from the trip:

1. Watching Ludacris and LMFAO

They're some of the artists that kicked off the Grandprix weekend by performing in a massive opening party at the infamous Marina Bay Sands (Shakira, Linkin Park, Charice and many more were also scheduled to perform on the race). We went with some of my Singaporean friends who got us a spot right in front of the stage. People kept pushing us back though and we stayed in the back during LMFAO's set to prevent injuries or me letting out my barbaric Indonesian side by start throwing punches (you get fined a lot for fighting there, if I'm not mistaken.).

We had an amazing time though and Ludacris, especially, was great. Quan and I know almost all the lyrics to Ludacris' old school tracks (oh my God, are we getting OLD?) and could not stop dancing.

Luda!

2. Universal Studio Trip

Because we're 10 and we prefer getting on fun rides than looking at racers oiling their engines, which by the way sound kinky (-_-").

Anyway, we wanted to check it out. I've never been to any other Universal studios and Quan wanted to see what rides they have in the Singapore location. He ended up liking them a lot. I suspect it's because most of the rides there are rollercoasters of some kind. I'm a wuss and rollercoasters freak me out. Apparently he didn't know until this trip, when I begged to not get on both of the Battlestar Galactica rollercoasters and gripped him so tight during The Mummy ride, when you got pulled to the back and dropped a lot.

Mandatory tourist picture in front of Universal sign

Oh hai, Brendan Fraser!

3. Birthday countdown and meeting Nashe

A few hours before I turned 24, I met Nashe for seafood and drinks where she also got introduced to Quan. It's cute introducing your boy to a girl friend because we did the whole "What do you think? He's cute right?" by looking at each other instead of saying it. It's hilarious because when Nashe finally decided he's cool (which strangely happened after we did shots), she was like, "You're a nice guy, be good to her, okay?" LOL.

If Nashe reads this, thank you again for the necklace and pashmina, love.


Another highlight that I will also always remember from this trip is going to my future office in Raffles Place area, feeling nervous as hell before meeting the managing director who would break the news on whether I get my job there or not. The guy came to me with a smile and an offering letter. I remember acting all cool in front of him and everyone else in the office...but then running to Quan who's waiting for me at the park outside and screaming like a maniac. We ended up screaming like maniacs in front of a bunch of people nearby who looked at us all weirdly. Not like we care.

I can honestly say I had the best birthday this year.

And I can't wait to make his birthday special too.