My colleagues will put a decoration on our table to the one who have a birthday, if one have a round-birthday (20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60) we will collect some money, if not then it’s only a small things as an Aufmerksamkeit.
We always use the same decoration over and over again, after one birthday it will goes to our “recycle” box. Even our Herzlichen Glückwunsch either already re-tape like 100000 times or some alphabet already tear off or the fact that it only cost us 1 Euro to buy a new one, none of us did it haha that’s how Nachhaltig we are.
Obviously when I came back I already know someone or sometwossss should have schmuck mein Tisch otherwise I guarantee we would have such a bad atmosphere in the office 😉 #Better don’t messed up with my birthday.
What I didn’t expect however, is they did have a new decorations, literally someone bought something?!?! #Very surprised! I called it the Hawaii decorations from Claudia as our new Gelande 🙂
To which I have to tear off and move the Hawaii to Monica’s Gelande haha #Nachhaltig
One week before the due day, that’s when it hits me, my Marniversary is around the corner! #Panicked, what will I do this year? At the same time, my sister is currently in Germany so the thought of celebrate it with her + Schwager + Moti appears naturally. My original idea was like this, I went to their place on 25th of August for the weekend, work from home on Monday-the Marniversary.
Shortly before the weekend comes, I decided to cancel it as they are having family time while me… busy with my own event. I’d be back to Dortmund on Sunday instead. What, where, who? Haven’t plan any of it!
One by one, email the Cupcakes store, texted the 3 friends I gained in Dortmund haha definitely in the thema! 3 Years in DE = 3 friends. Hmmm… what could be the decoration for the photo purposes? let me bastelt something 🙂 #DIY
My family always says when you have a birthday you need to eat noodle as it represents long life usw. I couldn’t think of other place other than Ippin Ramen. Few reasons: Located in the city center, Silvia for sure will be lost if the restaurant is not in the center. Felicia works there, it’s easier to request something like “can you please put this cake on the fridge”. Andrea loves Ramen. OK! the where is safe.
One important detail is missing, MY CAKE!!! I called the cupcake store, wrote to other places, receiving no reply. Googled the cake shop that opens on Monday…only to receive… so many closed! Damn!
However, I’m not despair, near my home there’s a place called Oma Rosa. I could come on Sunday right before they closed. One of their Menu interest me, it’s called Törtchen Tapas. It’s a small portion of a cake, precisely 1/4 portion from a 12cm diameter cake. There were 6 different cakes left on the Theke so I took all of it.
Fiuhhh! Planning took quite a toll on me or Felicia haha as I consulted her many times about it but everything is manageable in the end 😉 Cakes + Decorations + Place are all gesichert.
What next? Feli asked if there will be a dress code, yaissss! Let’s do this! Totally! Informed the group the night before only if they want they should dress in any color that exists on a German Flag. Silvia suggested a red lipstick, acceptable too! I have all colors on me, they do too! all come with a German color-ish. Andrea wore red + black + blonde hair + German accent haha she’s a complete package. Silvia had a yellow shoulder bag #on point! Feli wore red top. Me so Happy!!!!
We started before Felicia arrived otherwise we all be Hangry, not good to start Marniversary #wink
She arrived when we were on the middle of our Ramen eating 🙂 cakes + picture time!
Won’t be a Marniversary without a Marniversary thing 🙂 I really called it like this, it has a name in my own dictionarlyn 😉
After we finished with the food and cakes, we went to Hbf. Why?!?! as long as my face still there, it’ll be a tourist spot!
Thank you Girls for spending my 3 years birthday in Germany! See you in my 4 years 🙂 yes girls! we will do it every year now, it’s always something to celebrate. Adding one more beautiful day in a year is not bad heyyyy.
P.S: the Sombrero from Andrea now serve the purpose als one of my wall decorations 🙂
I couldn’t join Andrea’s birthday in Portugal as her birthday was in May where the Brückentag ist and everyone in Nordwest already booked their holiday. I was the last woman standing, guarding all the office belongings, colleagues should be grateful I didn’t trash it #devil laughs.
The Nachträglich celebration happened on a Saturday 10th of June. She loves Ramen, it goes without a say, the where is clear, our Little Tokyo. Thanks to Anu, I got some more recommendations on where to eat. I can trust her judgement, she’s the type of person who knows exactly where + what to eat.
We planned to arrive at lunch time for our Ramen experience. Took the RE Bahn at 11:09 which delayed to 11:14ish #no surprise. I forget on which stops came a man with his dog sitting on the other side from our seat. We were sitting in a 4 sit kind of chair bzw. in the middle area. This man always talks, thankfully not to us, rather to the person next to him #bless their heart.
Then the train got fuller, one girl sitting next to me with a rainbow bag. I noticed there was many people with Pride make up or dressed up colorfully. This man, out of nowhere ask her if she is a lesbian due to her Regenbogen Tasche. Before I could grasp, Andrea tilt her head, saying some sentence to confront him. I knew, right there and then I understood the question correctly. Seeing my friend stood up for her, I don’t want to feel FOMO, showed him my Phone, proudly said “ich habe auch Regenbogen Bildschirm, und?” he came with another question “bist du auch Lesbisch?” “was für eine Frage ist das? wenn ja, was ist das mit dir zu tun?” “ich habe nur gefragt, meine Mutter immer sagt, immer fragen immer fragen” we didn’t continue the conversation anymore. It was my first experience on confronting someone’s 🙂 #i am proud of myself for doing it.
There is really something going on! I saw a boy holding a “Free Hugs” sign, ofc I rushed to hug him, followed by asking “what happening here?” He said “Christopher Street Day” It’s indeed a Pride, only they called it CSD. We chose the right date Andrea! #So HAPPY!
Back to our Ramen Lunch, I provide 2 options for each eating section. Andrea will have to choose one, yes people! it is like a TikTok Challenge which doesn’t involve any challenge, there is no ZONK options as I also want to eat.
First place, she chose Takumi, yeay! it’s my favorite! We went there during lunch time…meaning one hour waiting in line is expected…heyyy we are not in a hurry! We witness a potential date for the two people in front of us. They came by themselves, he turns to her “are you from here?” während they small talked, we eavesdropping 😉 in the end they speak Mandarin to one another aha! now I’m the only one who do the job hihihi
There was only one table available outside, makes matter worse, this potential date was in front of us, Verdammt! I asked Andrea “should I speak to them in Chinese to not take that table?” Thankfully they were pointed to the sit inside, ours too! but we asked for that outside table. We have a German here who really want to feel the sun 😉
Since we are not ready for the next station, we went to Altstadt to join the Pride crowd. We liked it! There is a guy with glitter on his face, I asked “where did you get the glitter?” “there is one lady who sold it for 2 Euro, oh wait wait” he tried to rub the glitter to my face haha #didn’t work I saw a guy gave another guy a sticker, eitss! me too! me want that, gimme gimme gimme.
Not gonna lie, at some point, the heat starts to strike us, we need to separate from the crowd for a while to go to our next desert station. Andrea chose Soboro, sadly, it was closed T.T , the second options was 850 meters away. But she found the Frozen Yoghurt place called Tenten right next to Soboro, let’s go! not bad ehhh! We definitely need to sit and refresh ourselves 🙂
Andrea remembered the Alt Beer which her Oma still drinks every evening. Yais! we need to have that too! Off to Uerige Beer, had one glass each then proceed to take the Schnapps in the Window thingy. There is no Rhabarber Schnaps, only one type, Killepitsch. 10 minutes after, I could feel, I was definitely under the influence.
Ooopsss what time is it? Dinner is around the corner 😀 Remember when I said Anu knows what to eat in each Restaurant? Andrea chose Hitchoq, they had one special Menu only on Saturday called Chicken and Waffle. Little did I knew, it was only from 12-17 PM, Anu didn’t informed me 🙁 well, to be honest, I also didn’t check it. We arrived there around 19PM. Verdammt!
Okay, not the end of the world, we chose another menu to share. A lawyer and a supply chain manager, yet both of us don’t understand what’s the meaning of 1,5kg of Drumstick chicken thighs. Hmmm that sounds good, we could do that +3 Beilage, bring it! In short, we couldn’t.
We skip the cake from Hitchoq because there was only Cheesecake and Andrea doesn’t really like it so we didn’t have any cake, we only have Toffifee from Rewe. She said I should make an ice cube out of Toffifee tray haha that’s why the tray now is lay low on my fridge 😉
We ate the Toffifee on the other side of the Rhine, saw the sunset then took the train back to Dortmund.
From the time we eat lunch until we finish dinner it was more or even more than 8 working hours but we can handle this kind of “working” 😀
I really had a good time planning this TikTok Challenge, choosing the restaurant and enjoying the food with you.
We are our each other first friend in Dortmund back to year 2020.
To a never ending friend. Cheers to us!
I hope you like my nachträglich birthday arrangement #another memories to cherish between us 🙂
Well well well, Halloween is something that I should say it could be improve, I don’t really like the idea that we have to dressed up as certain characters and than that outfit will become a waste in our wardrobe, I always want to wear sth that I already have or even if I need to buy new stuff, I still could wear that after the halloween. I actually don’t have any plan and don’t know what to dressed up as, I’ve done pirates, superwoman, athena and I really have no clue what I’m gonna be next, until our German friend-Andreas asked me few months before even Halloween “If you’re a Disney pricess, what are you?” and hmmm that question really stayed in my mind for so long, I even listed who are Disney princess out there but none of them got me, not Frozen, not Rapunzel, not Snow White etc until!!! Princess Venelloppe from Wreck-It Ralph showed on my screen laptop!
Yep that girl is a Princess!See, she has a princess dress
But I ain’t wearing that, I choose her normal green outfit because I already have green jaket and black skirt, not exactly the same but as long as the color match it won’t matter. So, even few months before Halloween, I already know what I will be 🙂
However, I didn’t wear it as a Halloween celebration. I wore the clothes though…just not on Halloween on……. #wait for it 😉
As I already forgot about Halloween and prepare that I won’t celebrate it this year, another flyer just came on the Hungover Games group chat and that is a flyer that our Russian friend-Nikita sabotage.
His real birthday is exactly on Oct 26th but since people had Halloween plan etc so he moved his party to the following week but using the same exact poster as what Cages made.
I was thinking, as my costume won’t be exactly the same like Princess Venelloppe, I need to team up with the other character so I will look like somewhat similar with her. I need to team up with Fix-It Felix Jr and Wreck-It Ralph itself!
For Fix-It Felix Jr it’s easy, we have friend named Felix so he should be it and Felix’s outfit is not that hard, only blau. The trick is to find Ralph and I had to sabotage Nikita’s original idea and asked him to be Ralph haha
Lucky me! They both were agree to be Ralph and Felix, for Felix it’s not be a problem, he just made a shirt with his name, cap with FF logo. For Ralph, Nikita was quiet frustrated as he can’t find the correct outfit and I was worried if he wasn’t Ralph then we are missing the main character so it doesn’t really work. But really thanks to Nikita, he found the similar one and he was willing to take my advise and be Ralph on his own birthday.
And here we are “Wreck-It Ralph 3” DIY version 😉
Some people are really on the other level, the amount of time they spent on make up on their face, hair style and outfit itself, just amazed me! Thorben wore his 550 RMB costume twice so yeay! now he can say that his costume price was 275 RMB and sounds more make sense 😉
Happy birthday and thank you Nikita for letting me sabotage your tarzan or fat Thor idea and chose Ralph instead. FYI people, it’s Nikita himself that said he wanted to be fat Thor, so don’t blame it on me 😉
I will not say I live in Shanghai if there’s nothing going on on the weekend 😉 yeap another party is happening… this time is for Jonathan!
So…. Dennis created a group chat (obviously) for Jonathan’s surprise birthday party, from his descriptions it will be a pink party as we all need to wear pink. If not, he will prepare pink bow tie and we just need to wear sth that will fit on with the bow tie.
I have the pink dress that I haven’t wear before but I’ll be super pink…. I doubted to wear it but then it’s the theme anyway soooo here I am, pink earrings and white hand bag with pink pattern and the next things I knew, I was otw to El Luchador Xintiandi. Dennis said that we need to be there at 7:30, I arrived slightly before 7:30 to my surprise Dennis was there, heh? I thought he suppose to take Jonathan to El Luchador but why is he doing here? turns out they living quiet close with Xintiandi so Dennis went back home, pick up Jonathan and go back here to meet us.
To my surprise! the guest wasn’t wearing pink! I was the pinkest among all! Most of them were wearing either black or white with the pink bow tie some of them wear pink but not like super pink like me! I was like damn it damn it damn it! I really take Dennis advice wayyyy too seriously 😉 But then later on there were 3 girls that wear pink wohooo yeah girls! 4 of us were the one that actually follow the theme!
Because we arrived earlier so we trying to help Dennis with the decorations, Tom tried to make a puppy out of a balloons which is at least he tried but then it didn’t work, so we saved one last balloon and put a bow tie on it and who knows turns out this balloon will be used like this haha
Cody kept saying that he’s thirsty and he wants to buy water and I kept saying no to him hahaha I said Jonathan will be here soon! so he kept holding his thirsty feeling for quite some time 🙁 sorry Cody!
Up to the point where Jonathan for real almost arrived so we gathered on the front of El Luchador, squatting! Yeah Jo, my legs hurt yo haha
and then surpriseee! Jonathan finally here! and he’s wearing PINK! wohoooo and so does Dennis, I mean he’s the one that suggested everyone to wear pink so he’d better be 😉 he really clueless and blind (quote from Dennis) he really can’t see that we were many peoples squatting in front of El Luchador #face palm!
after that….. Cody said “I’m hungry, I want to eat, let’s eat somewhere” hahaha suddenly Cody together with 6 other guys already decided that they want to eat else where and so I followed them and there we were separated with the bday boy. One of them, I think it was Henry said “Oh look at us, it looks like we were having a bachelor party” (because all of them wearing the bow tie) but then he looked at me….”plus one stripper” haha!
We walked passed Xintiandi and I pointed at Shake Shack Burger and Nicolas didn’t say anything so ok we went on to Hong Kong Plaza and I pointed at Pizza Hut and again Nicolas says nothing, finally we stopped at Xinjiang Restaurant. I’m not against it, I just don’t eat lamb so I said to not order that much lamb and… when we actually sit down and order the food and the food came, Nicolas said that he prefer burger or American food and I was “YOU DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING!” rawwrrrrr! and the following dish came one by one, Cody said to me “oh this is lamb” so I didn’t eat that. Chen was the one that ordered the food for us so he said that he only ordered one lamb dish. The next dish came and Eden said “this is the lamb, that one is beef” and I looked at Cody, “Codddyyyyyy!” haha and for the next dish Cody really asked the staff what is this and he said “chicken, beef, vegetables” hahaha yes Cody thank you 😉
Since I was with 7 guys so it looks like Snow White and 7 dwarfs and someone I forgot who had an idea of a game. And the game was “creating a pick up line to me” and since I’m the only women so I got to decide which one is my favorite and my fav was Cody’s and his pick up line was “I like honey because it tastes like you” hahaha Eden also good, “You are so hot that I’m melting” haha Nicolas was saying in spanish, yeah for sure I understand that!
While we were having our dinner, I kept looking at the time because the cutting cake was on 9PM and we were still eating at that time, when we checked the group chat, the cake was already being cut! huaaa 🙁
We were back to El Luchador again and we sang “happy birthday” as our entry 😉
See the background! that’s us!
We’re back again!
I asked Jonathan where is the cake? and he said the rainbow cake already spread and given all the way, of course! who wouldn’t want to miss a rainbow cake! #not pointing to the Snow White and Seven Dwarfs. Don’t get me wrong, we (at least me and I hope they did too) really had a funny time on our dinner, disregard the food, my 7 dwarfs are sooooo funny. I think it was Nicolas the one who said “Marlyn, you can be a stripper for the gays” followed by Henry said “yeah when you and the pole came, we all gonna focus to the pole” hahaha you guys are hilarious! But I still blame on you Nicolas for not saying anything to any of the place that I pointed out 😉
Then we were split up again, some are going to KTV and some are going to another party, while me, I chose to go home 🙂 before we split, Cody said “We need to take picture with Jonathan” and Eden use his bubble gun so we had a bubble effect on our picture, nice one!
Thank you Dennis for inviting me to Jonathan’s surprise party, I am glad to meet your cool friends and meet Cody again!
Happy birthday to you Jonathan! thanks for a nice evening, you are for sure “a star is born” <3
And the night wouldn’t be complete without the group picture! Here we are! the Pink-ish crew 😉
It was Marina’s bday yesterday, Sunday 12th of May and she wrote “I’d love to just have a casual brunch with friends” but I don’t think that how it works girl 😉 you know what?
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Because Thorben got her the present of learning how to bake with one of professional head chef that got used to do pastry for industrial level, the one and only Tessa! Tim also helped Marina to do all the cakes but they are such a good student that followed every instructions from the teacher until they realized that it was too much like TOO freaking much.
But I really don’t see where is the issue of baking too much? And Thorben said because their fridge is not enough to contain all the cakes!
See the German engineering in here? Upside down bowl, pickle jar haha and this is only one side of the fridge 😉
They baked and baked and baked for nearly 7 hours, from morning until sunset. So the bday brunch plan got fast forward to one day before which is eating all the cakes plan 😉
For me, I don’t see any problem at all and not surprise because I know Marina bakes a lot before, their eclair was awesome!! They really did a good job! Here’s the video before you see the final products!
And then I came to her place on Saturday, the guest were me-Boramy and later on Brendan. I never ate that much eclair in my life, it’s awesome! I think I had enough eclair until end of this year 😉 so it means I still can eat some more mwahaha still 7 months to go!
We were there until midnight 00:00 and Happy Birthday to Marina!
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The real and planned birthday brunch is here! Liquid Laundry!
Followed by Viva Ibiza party at the W hotel, Luis arranged the table for us there 🙂 we were so excited to go there…. but before going there… what did we do? We went back to Marina’s home to eat all the eclairs 😉
However, the waiter from Liquid Laundry came and say happy birthday to Marina and brought her the pancakes! we were laughing because we all want to leave but then she got a dessert 😉 it’s still a lovely pancake! I helped Marina to eat it #Marlyn is so helpful
After eating the eclairs at Marina’s, we head out to W hotel! Viva Ibiza and Luis Pena here we come!!! We brought the eclairs there haha I think they really got every way they could to get rid of it ASAP! Don’t worry you will finish it sooner or later 😉
At some point Thorben told me “You can tell Luis that he can bring the cake soon” so yeap!!! there will be another cake!!! within this two days I think I ate more cake than I had last year!!
Luis had to kick out another guy that was sitting on our table that not his guest so that it will be good for the pictures 😉 haha and what cake that Marina got?!?! Chocolate cake!!!
And here is the pictures after Luis kick out some random guy that occupied our table ehemmmm move 8!@#ch!
Marina, if I can guess probably this was your favourite present:
AWESOME Marina! 3rd place of Triathlon 😉 So proud of you!! #strong Marina
Happy happy birthday Marina! Yesterday was awesome! Your birthday literally is the birthday with the most dessert possible! #and I allowed it haha! and you’re the birthday girl that baked her own cake! usually, we-the guest were the one that should prepare the cake but not in your case 😉 thanks for providing dessert for all of us 😉
Marina, thank you for inviting me, not only for your birthday but for every time you bake something, I really like and appreciate it. Going to your apartment is some kind of nutritional improvement for me and I always have a good time with you #oopss also Thorben! haha 😉
First of May, Labor day but another person’s birthday who is that?! It’s Eiman! Why would you born on a National Holiday?!?! let me be specific, 17.5 people need to cancel their plan and attend your birthday party, very thoughtful of you 😉 you made this little baby awake until his sleeping time #poor baby
On Jovita’s Bruch it was the first time Eiman aka E (see below pic of why I should call her E) went to FOGO and she said “oh this is a good place as I need to find a place for my birthday” and where did she had her birthday? NOT FOGO!
#First Request (I should call her “E” from now on)
And she gave me the very absurd instruction ever!
Didn’t mentioned the name of the road, which floor and she didn’t even create a group chat made me a bit skeptic is it really a birthday party? or is it some kind of prank show and I’ll be the only one that come?!
Later on she sent me the real invitation saying that “she only made it for me” which I know she said the same things and just copy and paste to the other 17+ people, see! this is what happen when you don’t have a group chat you need to forward the same message one by one, you really have so much time don’t you? 😉 but….this invitation is not sincere invitation, it followed by another request.
#Second Request. Yeap I need to wear black dress
I thought that she will also wear black dress so we kind of sisters but then she was wearing a very flowerish dress possible then why did you suggested me to wear black dress then? I could wear my Mickey Mouse hoody instead as we were not wearing matching type of dress!
Even with the formal invitation she didn’t mentioned that Highline is located on the 6th floor of Ascott Hotel and I went to Hong Kong Plaza asking the information “How can I go to 6th floor” (because I was counting the floor and it was only 4th level, how can I go to 6th floor?!?!” and she looked at me and said “We only have 4th floor” mwahaha yes I know I can count! but she told me that I need to take the hotel elevator accross the street. And where was E while I was lost? having her champagne or whatever drink it is, she even ignored my message 🙁 boooo
But anyway due to my intelligence 😉 I made it to 6th floor and met her! the birthday girl! We were on the rooftop before the dinner start. Highline put a round sofa and the guest divided into two sections, colleague and non-colleague of her hahaha. But for the sake of the picture we were kind of “blend” 😉
Highline Rooftop
I was talking with E’s new roomies Davide about Ramadhan as E will start her fasting on Monday and I was tempted to try at least the first day. I know what Ramadhan is that we cannot eat and drink from sunrise until sunset. I said to her that I can not not to eat but for drink I need to drink, I can try the first day and E said “Well, that’s not Ramadhan” followed by Davide “It’s only your personal diet” haha but I think I’ll try, I will support you on your first day! I won’t come to your place to eat at 2AM so relax! hahaha Davide hasn’t gave me the spare key yet 😉
Then it was dinner time, E already chose the menu before, it was a set dinner which all good! I didn’t even pay attention to what is what because all food was gone fast, I was sitting with a very good eater! featuring Costa Rica guy Ivan, Brazilian girl Roberta and two Italians Paolo and Giulia (Sorry if any mispelled name, again, E didn’t create a group chat so I have no idea how to write all of your name) all I can remember was the duck was the winner! Winner winner duck dinner 😉
After dinner, Highline gave E a birthday cake which is only two slices of lemon cake actually. OK, to be fair the cake is tall and thick but two slices yo! I mean… when the cake arrived and they sang happy birthday to E, I was on the other side of the table and our good eaters group was looking at each other “That’s it?” and the waitress or waiter (maybe Martin) gave another slice to us and Roberta said “Is it all for me?” so… we have to share this one slice of cake among 4 of us! (Paolo doesn’t eat sweet) the cake is good but come on one slice yo! It’s good that Phil and Julia prepare another proper for 17.5 people kind of cake 😉
I was talking with Ivan and Roberta and with Ivan we went on the same path like student here and then working, we even started our master and graduated at the same time. With Roberta omg this is so amazing! she gave me the very best tips of not getting robbed in Brazil but among all tips I like the story of her when she almost get robbed on the bus the most hahaha when some guy approach her and saying “Give me your phone” she shouted “Give me a kiss” hahahaha so that everyone on the bus looked at her and what a coincidence that the bus stopped at the bus station and opened the door and she just ran away hahaha owh girl! that’s the best!
Followed by E’s colleague named Gary which apparently we always missed each other even though we were on the same place at the same time. We were on E’s apartment when she had halloween party back in 2017, we were on Cages for England world cup and finally we talked on her birthday in year 2019. See you in two years from now then! hahaha
Thank you for having me E! I even wear the black dress (See I followed your request! what else do you need my queen? haha)
Have a good year ahead, let’s do our skydiving but please pay attention to my insurance 😉
Last but not least, don’t put your moments only 3 days viewable so that I don’t need to ask you for below picture 😉 hahaha!
Even! when I specifically asked she still gave me another request!
#Third Request
Followed by a voice recorder saying that I need to write Beyonce, Shakira, Princess whatever gezzz! I should’ve stop texting her otherwise her request list is getting longer and longer 😉 and she’s such an ungrateful “Princess” saying “weather are so nice and I can’t believe you’re at home writing story” #facepalm
It started after Thorben helped me moved to my new apartment
and we had brunch at Penta Hotel and two weeks after that it will be his
birthday on 7th of April and he made RSVP for 14 people. His bday
fall on Qingming Holiday even though some people will travelling away but 14
people should be easy to reach considering that I don’t think anybody want to
miss his bday 😉 I mean…why would them?
Then… I think I get used to unlimited list going on and on and on haha another wechat group of 5 people started and the list was for 14 people. So optimistic that he will make 14 out of 5 people 😉 but then this list getting long and longer through the following days. Ben said that he need to reserve the whole place of Penta Hotel instead of a long table. Up until this list blew up for 30+ people and Ben wasn’t so sure if Penta Hotel has chairs for all of us, but then Thorben said “knowing all of you, it will be like this sooner or later so no chair needed”
Expected
And the day arrived! He booked 3 big tables for all of us and we all had chairs 😉 It was all you can eat buffet with no time limits! And to make it better we can also order one additional dish! Penta Hotel is the best!
I was so happy that Stefan brought his son- Nemuun! Look at this cutie! He was just there, eating quietly but at some point he got bored and I tried to talk to him, apparently he doesn’t really want to talk to me mwahaha however I didn’t give up, considering that I already invested my Saturday and Sunday for 2 months in Goethe Institute, I need to speak to him in German! And the result was….it didn’t really work mwahaha but in the end we still managed to play 4 in a row and dopple card game and he was really good on it!
Focus on the kid please
Yep see the kid!
After some time, he wanted to play with his star wars game ALONE! I got rejected! Huaaaa Nemuun 🙁
It was a lot of fun with many new stories, one of them is Giorgio’s “haunted” apartment wuuuuuu it’s getting spooky! Against all odds, nobody want to be his neighbor so he has a whole floor of apartment by himself which is pretty cool for partying but there must be a reason why nobody want to rent it out which is……
Let’s just moving on to something funny when 1 hour of labor turned to 5 hours of labor and 1 person turned to 6 people hahahaha! Yep, Ben and Luis also moved to a new apartment and Thorben said that my stuff is only 1/10 from their stuff! Yes! I don’t have that much stuff then 😉
Luis came late because he’s still doing the unpack but still managed to look gorgeous!
Another funny moment was when Nicole tried to take a
thousand pictures of her 😉 I was talking with Ivy and I heard Nicole said
“take another one, again and again” haha such a job to take your picture!
Hahaha Here’s finally her picture, thanks to Julia and Michelle that patiently
that took it 😉
The…
Photographer…
Involved…
For Her!
Ivy and I also had a good selfie! I was either eating sth or
looking somewhere when I heard my name being called “Marlyn” and I know it’s
selfie time! Haha
Yep I was eating
Cleaned up the desert!
Moving on to Tim, he looks so elegant in his shorts and shirts, he can pull it off with just a simple shirt no wonder he’s a news anchor, therefore I need to say hi to him but either I was too excited or it just need to happen, I spilled the water to his shorts, he was on his phone and he said “bitch” so I feel (read: not really) bad 😉 I need to remind him that it could be worse, it could be a bloody mary, but since I don’t drink so……. It’s only water and it won’t leave stain, well it shouldn’t happened on the first place but it did haha
Rich-Wyatt-Tim
I think we were there until….3PM ish and before we walked to
Zhongshan park which is only at the corner. That day was perfect, weather is
really well cooperate with us, sunny and just nice!
Ben insisted of asking Luis to buy him Frisbee but since Thorben remembered that he has Frisbee so he didn’t let Ben or Luis brought it, in the end he borrowed Frisbee from somewhere and they played it for quite some time 😉 sooo think we owed Ben a “thank you” 😉
Then up until Marina said “let’s make a circle!” and here we
are!
Reality
As if Thorben could predicted already, no chairs needed! And
it’s not so much different from what he expected and reality 😉
Happy happy happy birthday to you Thorben! I’m so glad I can call you my brother, thank you for joining the Spartan exercise last year where I first met you (even though none of us did or will do the real Spartan haha), thank you for all the world cup game that we watched, thank you for all the steak and other food that you cooked for me and the list of thanks to you going on and on and on. There is no words can describe how I genuinely glad that I know you and simply put, you deserve all the best!
P.S: this is not some shitty lame bday wish like when you don’t know what to write to that bday person and just write “wish you all the best” hahaha biatch please 😉
Saturday 23rd Feb marked the born day of our friend, Julia! She celebrated her birthday in a restaurant called RAW and I’m very happy to be able to be part of it. The dinner starts at 8PM and I read the comments for RAW and everyone that went there seems to have a good impression of the place and besides they won the award of best restaurant whatsoever for 3 years in a row perhaps?! and I can’t wait to try the food there. I arrived 5 mins pass 8 and the bday girl was not there yet ahahaha. Here is the special menu that we get 🙂
As for drink, I chose the 3 cocktails one 😉
Due to the bday girl wasn’t arrived yet so there were Jeni, Teru, Nick, JAdam so we started to either re-introduce ourselves or just pick up the conversation from the last time we met which is somewhere sometime in year 2018 haha! First I didn’t see Jovita and Adam but then I saw her and I talked to Jeni “I know her!” and Jeni said “me too but I can’t remember her name, I just remember she is very beautiful” and indeed agree with Jeni that Jovita is very beautiful!
Left is when I met Jovita first time on 2018 and right is yesterday, I think if there is ever be a constant, it will be her as she always beautiful all the time 😀
Then the bday girl arrived! Julia looked soooooo gorgeous! <3 #drollinggggg we were all cheered up and Eiman also arrived few minutes after Julia which is quiet surprising as we thought Eiman will arrive like maybe 2 hrs later ahahaha and with this, the dinner is ready to serve! The food was indeed amazing, the truffle was very good, Jovita said she makes it everyday as a breakfast wow! such a luxury! hahaha and the other foods also very good no wonder they won so many awards in a row! even if it’s not so many but winning an awards is not something easy so well done RAW! (I mean for now is a well done for you)
Idk if the two people on the corner was photo-bombed or what? haha
As a cocktail, me, Jovita and Adam started with Aperol Spritz. I talked with Jovita and just found out that she’s an architect! Please design me a homeeee! ahahaha 😉
I don’t know how many beers that Teru already had because I think at some point he was already 50-50, I have no idea if he was aware when he said he will join Eiman for Ramadhan month in April? ahaha it takes a mental preparation to do that, but yeah believe it or not he seems very determined about it. Considering that he was the one that bought saxophone accidentally when he was drunk so let’s see if he will do it 😉
The food came up so fast and we also ate it fast, then we still have the deal for the drinks so we stayed there of course haha. Somehow Eiman, Adam, Alan went for smoke but since Teru is already 50-50 when Eiman asked him to bring her scarf, Teru gave her my scarf, she did say that it’s not hers but Teru already somewhere on the moon so yeah thanks Teru and Eiman for the smokey scarf flavor hahaha that exactly what I ordered 😉
My smokey scarf wouldn’t be possible without you two 😉 #chuckle
I ordered my next cocktail which is Pisco Sour and I have no idea what happened with it as it took more than 1 hour to make it. I did asked the girl many many times probably 6 times and Nick keep reminding me to be calm and he told me that she remembered my order and will bring it shortly but yeah that shortly took forever as if me and RAW was on different planet with a different concept of time, what is up with you guys?!?!?! pffff They became very very slow up to the point that it wasn’t only me that realized it but Julia and the others as well. I was about to write a good review about RAW on bon app but yeah over 1 hour of Pisco Sour made me don’t want to do that.
We, well (read: I) did many things to let the time pass by and not remembered it was from almost one hour- one hour- over one hour to order my second cocktail, we did many pictures and so on but still the drinks has not arrived yet.
We were so ready to just pay the bill and go somewhere due to it will take forever and ever to get the drink but then we realized there was a cake! so we had to stay still and Julia was already hurried us to leave hahaha sorry girl, Eiman had other plan which is you need to get your birthday cake 😉
The cake was delicious! and since it’s not a tart cake so at first Julia thought to just bring it to Revolution and eat there haha yeap this is just described of how hurried she is to leave from RAW, but in the end she didn’t do that and she just cut the cake in the most brutal way possible hahaha and we didn’t even bother to put the cake on the plate we just took it with our hand, yeah! Indonesian way! ahaha We even want to take a picture together again but (again) we didn’t bother, we just want to get out of RAW and took picture outside.
We went to Revolution but due to we didn’t get the table so we moved to La Social! Adam’s friend is the owner of La Social so we got the VIP table and we enter without even waiting (except waiting for the elevator 😉 that kept ringing even though I don’t think we were that heavy hahaha)
Adam ordered a very good passion fruit mojito whatever its called haha and it’s very good indeed!
Up to the point where I need to leave because I have the German class the next day, yes people if you check on calendar it is on Sunday. And I said goodbye to Julia etc and I was like “where is Eiman?” but I realized Adam also gone so I’m convinced they were smoking downstairs and Eiman will always be Eiman, another constant, which is The Most Realistic person ever haha. I said that I have a German class and she said the F word! whaaaaaatttt precisely she said “F!#% it Marlyn, cut the BS, it’s Sunday nobody teach on Sunday? and only Germans speaks German!” hahaha #facepalm, very Eiman!
Well well well, enjoy Ritz Carlton for Julia and thank you so much for inviting me to your birthday, despite all of the drama with the different time zone we had with RAW, it was such a lovely dinner, nice place and nice time with you. I know all these people through you , I don’t know them as long as they know you but agree with your speech that they all wonderful people, I mean look at me ahahaha 😀 (read: that’s not the point)
I wish you a happy birthday, great years for you is just around the corner, all the happiness and happy to have you as my friend 🙂 #Sorry that I was trying to read your speech from your phone, I mean…I’m not a native speaker yo hahaha and I don’t get use to British accent 😉
PS: Photos are taken from Juia, Jeni, Alan, everyone that shared it on the group and the AWESOME Teru (and yes, he made me said that) 😀 hahaha
31st January is the birthday of our dear friend, Brendan!
Here’s the bday boy, Men in (always) Black
He is a Unicorn! last year he had his bday celebrated at UNICO probably that’s where the theme Unicorn came from 😉 who knows and this year we had the “Sssssshhhhhhh” team to bring back the Unicorn 😀 Thanks to the EPIC organizer- Rich, handsome Freddoy and Boramy who organized the party with all the decorations, yummy food and the master plan.
Rich posted on the group that the Unicorn party is ready! and it made me very very not be able to concentrate at work due to I really want to go to the party as fast as I can! haha Rich is always EPIC there’s no other word for him.
Unicorn 2.0
Because the “Sssshhhh” group suddenly getting bigger and bigger, and Brendan started to asking people if we are in Shanghai and could have dinner together, our group manager’s Freddoy said that we need to say something like “we’re busy or we had other plan” and that’s what we did! Aaron said he had football, fancy Anthony said he’s sick and btw he’s really sick but still managed to look so fancy by covering his face with a mask haha, Ben said he’s packing, John said he’s got a date, Raoul said he need to work late blablabla up to the point that we were afraid Brendan will figure it out due to anyone came up with an excuses haha. Then Freddoy gave a very not so easy to understand group rule, I need to read it 3-4 times to understand it haha 😉
Yeah… I somehow kind of understand the rule 🙂
I arrived at Rich’s home then followed by Boramy and Aaron, Boramy prepared the food, I helped them to blew the unicorn, Aaron helped me to put the legs, then followed by Luis, Ben, Marina and Thorben. Rich’s mansion was very well unicorn-ish decorated.
As Boramy putting the food on the table, some people started to eat first while Brendan still nowhere to find, according to Marina it was Ben and Luis that started eating so she followed but Boramy said “NO, eat the bread with this dipping so Brendan didn’t find out that we already started eating” Marina made the cheese dipping looks neat again but then she said to me “No, you can’t have this dipping, it’s already looks nice” phewww 🙁
Proof that Marina ate the food! 😉
THEN! We got a news that Brendan almost arrived, so we need to have a formation to surprise him, we even practiced of how to do it 2 times! haha Boramy met Brendan first and then they came up to Rich’s home where Freddoy was the one that opened the door, and then everyone yelled SURPRISE! while I was shouted WOHOOOO (that was Aaron’s order) 😀
Prepare!
Formation!
SURPRISE!
Is he surprised?
Yeayyy!!! We made it 😀 then we can officially start the party heyyy we are all in black! you need to realize it haha. We started to freely eat the food, drinks, taking pictures, loudly talking because when Brendan arrived me and Marina kept “ssshhhhhh-ing” everyone haha. #Marina is so German! haha
At some point, Thorben started to inhale from the balloon to make chipmunks voice, I tried it but on the first, second, third times I was failed, I don’t know how to do that but in the end I could make it! Marina said that I need to inhale it all the way to the lungs and stomach and then say the magic words! haha I want to keep trying but then we (read: Thorben) need to open the balloons again, I was just watching him and I said “come on Thorben” he said “open this by yourself” and indeed it was not as easy as I thought hahaha! so I just patiently waiting for Thorben’s.
I looked so patient waiting for Thorben’s
Inhale it all the way just like Marina has told me
Voilaaaa!
I remembered once at Nicolas’ home party, Brendan tried to popped out the balloons with me but I always not be able to do that, let’s see if I can popped out the balloons this time. I tried it but I still failed! In the end Brendan just popped it out huaaa let’s try again next time!
It was cake time! cake cake cake! Marina was so German again, she said this is already 9:46 PM! the cake should be cut at 9:45! mwahaha and Boramy realized it and she said “OK, it’s time, it’s time!”
I really had much fun yesterday and I could tell that everyone is having fun also, I hope it’s included Brendan’s colleague, the one that he said there will be dinner but sorry! no dinner was planned on the first place! hahaha.
Boramy-Rich-Brendan
Sick but still fancy Anthony-Aaron-Freddoy
Brendan’s colleague that didn’t know there was no dinner
Ben-Brendan-Luis-Raoul-fancy Anthony
Brendan the UNICORN
Of course the party keep going 😉 on and on and on haha we need to thank to really Rich, Freddoy and Boramy, and most of all we need to say thank to MISSY! she’s sooooo awesome and cute, especially when we were practicing of how to open the door for Brendan’s, she kept opening the door and we were like “MISSY! NOOOO” hahaha
This is Missy, bless her! 🙂
After so many time trying to get the picture with the birthday boy, I finally got one thanks to Thorben’s iPhone! haha
Failed
Failed
Failed
Succeed!
Happy happy happy birthday to you Brendan! I am so glad that I met and know you and thanks for all the trip adventure, party, sports that you brought me into, wish you all the very best! 😀 and please don’t leave Shanghai yet, don’t even try to think about it 😉
