Bon Anniversaire

Woke up this morning after noon ( rare for me! ) to find a slew of messages beeping on my cellphone. Unlike so many others, I actually cut my line off when i sleep at night. Bleary-eyed I stared at it with a half-smile. It's my birthday and I'm entitled to sleep late if I want to after all. :)

Though I think poor Charming Calvin went frantic calling since he needed validation during his last-minute shopping for souvenirs on the way back.

Reading my previous posts, you'd be thinking that I'd gone for an all-nighter pub-crawl boozing till I was sloshed out of my mind. But you - and the police who waved me down early this morning - would have been wrong. Honestly I didn't touch a drop of alcohol all day long :) All pure wholesome living.

And maybe some wild partying, shoplifting and blatant gossip.


Coffee only I swear!
What I did have was a karaoke birthday in the afternoon. Meant to be a surprise bash I'm sure but in my close-knit group of bros ( and hos? ), it's become something close to a mandatory celebration! Or else someone's gonna get hurt.

And possibly throw a hissy fit.

And I'm not talking about myself. :)

So to the karaoke joint we went to dig up various psychedelic hip-hop / club-mix hits for Jaunty Jared, weepy sentimental Mando-pop for the sops and a curious mixture of Kylie / Madonna / Abba hits for the rest of the gay boys. Not to mention the prerequisite Downtown by Petula Clark for Lanky Lex. A peculiar choice - think retro black-and-white images as she sashays across a 1950s stage - but I'm starting to think he might be the long awaited reincarnation of that old-time crooner.

Then it was off for several hours of coffee and drinks at Jaya One with Genial Graham and Janvier. At the end of which we managed to talk a certain someone into making off with a coffee cup. Nothing like petty thievery on a birthday to celebrate :)


Coffee yum.
And then after ruling out another drunken night with gyrating boys at the Marketplace, surprisingly had an all-nighter chat with Fabulous Felix and Strapping Shane where we covered topics ranging from random adultery to groping foreplay. An Oprah heart-to-heart fortunately spiced up with my acerbic tongue ( and Felix's scandalous bedtime stories! ). Rehashed several events that had occurred in the past year with multiple flashback scenes while I learnt a couple of stories I hadn't been privy to before.

So I wasn't too surprised to be stopped by the police on the way back at 5 in the morning. Just a civil hello and a nod sufficed to allay the cop's suspicions though. Enough to finally have my birthday wish to have a McBreakfast at 5. Always been curious to see who else had hash browns at such an ungodly hour. Turns out itinerant students, drunken pubcrawlers and factory girls drop by for a bite.

Hence my late morning today.