My birthday here consisted of 3 parts:
Part 1: Friday Night - GIRLS NIGHT OUT @ Wala Wala in Holland Village. Me and 11 of my best girlfriends here went out to a laid back, live-band bar to have a night 100% free of: testosterone, australian accents, dutch accents, and boys with their "dibs" on certain girls (haha). It was so refreshing, I must say, since we are ALWAYS with the boys. I had a really tasty virgin strawberry margarita. The live band, whose lead singer was an Indian guy who sang beautifully with NO accent (then spoke in Singlish which kind of killed it for all of us) was pretty good! We were their groupies for about 10 minutes while we tried to get them to play some T Swift (Sam hahahaa) and some JT. But they drew the line at Jay Sean. But we were all right with that. (Baby are you down, down, down, down, down?)
BUT we did manage to get them to dedicate "Use Somebody" to "Renee from San Diegoooo" which was pretty cool.
All the girls except Sam and Julie left when it got late, but the 3 of us stayed later, and ended up having the most intense girl talk ever. What would I do without these girls to vent to? Later, we cabbed home. And sam, who wanted to go back to a common room and hang out more, pretty much died when we got in the taxi. But we ran into a drunk Brad and Sarah and Ragna on the way out... lol
Most hilarious moment: Fernanda and Susana meeting us at the MRT wearing HUGE backpacks.
Most memorable moment: Intense girl talk with Sam and Julie :)
Part 2: Saturday Night - Attica & CityAlive.
Surprisingly, Daniel and Roel and David weren't with me at the stroke of midnight for my birthday. And Tommy was in China, of course. What kind of friends are they anyway?? :) Instead, I was with Sam, Yun, Julie, Hilori, John, Amanda, Stephen, Mike Buchs, Norell... We got to Attica and barely got in (the password, said with confidence, is SG UNIGHTED!!!) and got my free bottle of champagne which I had one taste of and almost spit out. So gross. So my friends happily finished the bottle for me, after having a toast to my birthday! We started the dance floor downstairs to "Let's Get It Started" and the great music just kept on playing and playing.. At the stroke of midnight (Hilori was the watch keeper) they all danced around me and "Let It Rock" came on.
Around 2 or so we decided to go check out CityAlive, even though we vowed we wouldn't go to meet the boys, but have them come to us. Wr cabbed over to the street party (with Stephen singing aint no mountain high enough to the driver) and bargained with some RANDOM singaporean guy to buy tickets for $18.50 instead of $19. lol
We got in and to put it nicely...it was kind of a disappointment. Where was all the good music? And all the people? But we met up with the boys anyways and some other exchange students to have some fun dancing in the streets.
David and I went to see the river which was pretty nice. Then came back and I think I was about to die from exhaustion. Roel picked me up to take a picture..and we were filmed on some TV station which was pretty hilarious. Finally, Julie and I had to call it quits, and we cabbed back. It wasn't until the next day that David told me they played Hotel Motel, best song ever.
Line(s) of the night:
"It's her birthday!!!" -Andrew & Alcohol
"Such a buzz kill" - Mike Buchs, in reference to my gargantuan outdated camera I was holding while dancing.
Moment of the Night: Seeing Julie bob up and down while we jumped up and down in a huddle to "Let's Get It Started"
Part 3 - Sunday Night - VANSH INDIAN RESTAURANT @ Singapore Indoor Stadium
Probably the most special part, about 25 of my friends came to my birthday party dinner at Vansh. Did I mention that Indian food is my favorite food now? The food that night rested my case. David and I shared a mushroom curry then topped up with some never ending bowl of rice and naan and gravy and delicious sauces. It was delicious. And an important note is that there was not ONE alcoholic beverage ordered or consumed the whole night there. The DRIEST 21st birthday ever. Right Christina? ..But can I just flash back in time to my pre-singapore life, sitting in my room at home, talking to mom about celebrating my 21st in Singapore on exchange and wondering whether I would even have friends to celebrate with me. And here I find myself surrounded by such amazing people!!
All of the fun Chicago boys came..and of course DDR...and all of my girls! Plus a few more americans and swedes and germans and such. But I can't forget mis mexicanas!! Who really are amazing girls. I absolutely love them to death. Christina and them had gotten me some birthday decorations and some blow things and a tiara (!!!!!!) and a lei! And mentos. Which you can only get away with here in Singapore. Because it is my only vice here, besides Hershey Kisses. It is the closest thing to gum you can get here. So they definitely know me too well. But it was so sweet. And I felt like some Hawaiian queen. And Diana got me an "R" necklace, bless her heart. And I was so excited to wear my dress. I'm pretty sure if I was a piece of clothing, this dress would be me.
Anyways, we had our dinner, I mingled and talked to each group of people and near the end of the night I was a bit disappointed that there wasn't a cake..but I was ready to go home since it seemed everyone was ready too. My friends all kept stalling..telling me to take more pictures, etc. I was oblivious. Then as I was sitting there, they all start singing Happy Birthday and I turn around. And there. Is the most beautiful heart shaped cake for me! Only David knew I wanted a heart shaped cake, and he ordered it for me! I seriously almost cried, I was so happy. It was vanilla, and soooo good. They caked me too, into a slice of cake, as follows with the Mexican tradition, of course (Mordida??)
All in all, I guess I can say that I got to have my cake, and eat it too.
Best moment(s) of the night: Surrounded by friends. Seeing my heart shaped cake. And making a birthday wish.
...I'm 21. And one lucky girl. <3
