Daphnemaia's birthday

On the Monday that just passed, a small group of pingsters, gathered to celebrate Daphnemaia's (a.k.a. the real live Hello Kitty) nth birthday with a dinner at Swenson's. It was really a surprise for her, organized by Uzyn (creator of ping.sg) who sent out an email to some of us.

Dinner was at 7pm and some of them had reached earlier for the surprise element. When Daphne and Sek Ling (Uzyn's girlfriend, Daphne's friend, pingster. Why am I describing every other person?) reached Plaza Singapura, Adam told Sek Ling to bring Daphne to the Hello Kitty sale downstairs since not everybody has reached yet. Daphne was pleasantly distracted and bought for herself among other gifts, ahem, Hello Kitty underwear.

Hello Kitty needs Hello Kitty underwear, ok! By the way, check out the number of Hello Kitty presents Daphne got for her birthday. Items range from handphone accessory to keyboard.

I didn't reach there until 7.30pm when Daphne was already in the restaurant so I don't know how surprised she was to see 4 other very familiar people sitting together at a table in Swenson's.

Birthday girl, Daphne

Rinaz and Farinelli had to leave after a while - rinaz for her yoga session, Farinelli for home. It was a shame because I haven't talked to them for such a long time. Before they left, pictures with Daphne:

Rinaz and Daphne. No idea how chillycraps ended where he was

Daphne with Farinelli

In any case, it was fun meeting the pingsters again. We talked about various stuff, including cracking literally dirty jokes while we were eating. This is the classic joke by Adam that night:

There is a restaurant where beggars usually come in to beg for food. One day, a beggar came in and asked the person at the counter for a toothpick. The person gave it to him. A second beggar came in and asked for another toothpick. The person gave it to him. Soon, a third beggar came in and asked for a straw. Puzzled, the person asked the beggar, "The other two beggars before you asked for a toothpick, why did you ask for a straw?" The beggar replied, "Oh, because somebody vomitted outside and the two of them had already picked out all the solids, so I need a straw to drink up the fluid."

After that we just felt really nauseous.

Because it was running quite late, the birthday cake from Swenson's was brought out.

Daphne with birthday cake, looking very murderous with how she held the knife

The ice-cream cake was, as usual, very very hard:

Be sliced into pieces, you little piece of cake! ... Cut... cut... CUT already, you darn cake!

Farinelli, chillycraps, daphne, Sek Ling, me, Adam

Daphne (not exact words),

If the cake was thrown at me, it'd have bounced off my head!

Daphne at Swenson's waiter,

Your birthday cake very birthday-girl-unfriendly.

It reminded me of Jenny's birthday at Swenson's where we first encountered our first ever very hard birthday cake.

Uzyn, Adrian and Miccheng soon arrived to take the missing places of rinaz and farinelli. They sang the birthday song a second time then proceeded to try and bounce the cake off Daphne's face.

Uzyn, Daphne, Miccheng, Adrian

We tried the joke on the 3 of them but Adrian said he got puked on while on his diving trip. Apparently the person has marvellously good aim because it ended up right in his hair. As such, he was in no way grossed out. But I was feeling very, extremely, nauseous.

At the end, Daphne sent us an SMS thanking us and saying that she was very happy. Glad she enjoyed herself!

Anyone for a toothpick and straw?

View other pictures here and here.

Others entries on daphne's birthday: Adamzhang, arzhou, chillycraps, daphnemaia