New Zealand Natural Turns 5

 

Last Tuesday, New Zealand Natural celebrated their 5th year in Malaysia. Now with 12 outlets in total, it seems they only can become bigger in years to come. Being their interactive agency, we were invited to attend their anniversary celebration held at the Waterfront of Desa Parkcity. There was a jazz band, celebrities, good food...and of course UNLIMITED ICE CREAM!

 

There were games and prizes to be won as well. Integricity seemed to "clean house" when it came to the question and answer sessions (we should right? Since we did their stuff). Either that or no one really wanted to participate. There was also a treasure hunt to find hidden ice cream cups, a "guess the flavor" competition, as well as a New Zealand Haka war dance competition.

 

 

There was quite a turn out considering it was a work day..

 

 

The jazz band

 

 

Terence being fed ice-cream by a celebrity in "Guess the flavor" contest.

Can you spot the ninja? hehe..

 

Warren & Alex does the Haka war dance

 

 

"...to 5 great years!" - Yao Han, Kevin & Paul

 

 

The cake

 

 

NZN's latest Christmas Sundae creation

CONGRATS NEW ZEALAND NATURAL!!

Just looking at the pictures above, you can tell we had a good time. Who knew that having 3 scoops of ice-cream and finger food could last me till dinner time. =)

Dear Mom...

You make the sun shine on a cloudy day
When I'm sick you kiss the pain away
Your tender voice took away my fears
Your hand that wiped away my tears
The love you give so honest and pure
Keeping me forever safe and secure
You make flowers bloom in the spring
It was you who fixed my broken wing
Mom because of you I now know love
My guardian angel from above

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!

I MISS YOU...I LOVE YOU!

The Birthday Bash

I know, this is my second birthday bash this year but like I mentioned the first one wasn't my idea as I had this one in mind. But anyway, last night was awesome. It was a combined birthday with my friend Suzanne so she brought her friends and I brought mine. Of course it became a melting pot where people get to know new people as well.

So...how can a birthday bash be complete without alcohol right? Well, Me and Suzanne initially got everyone 20 jugs of beer (which is about a barrel). Suzanne's friends then got another 2 bottles of whiskey and a bottle of champagne (...I think or was it white wine?). Apart from that, friends kept buying us drinks. I had 4 flamings (2 shared and 2 solo), beers and a shot of tequila! Needless to say, at the end, both of us KOed. I was so drunk that I didn't even know the girls dragged me into the ladies toilet for me to puke. Imagine the 2 host puking side by side!! Hahah...luckily there isn't any pictures of that :p

These are some scenes from last night's madness...

Suzanne and I

The Spice Girls??

Tequila shot

My forth flaming...

...and the outcome of that..

All in all, the party was a success. They all accomplished their mission of getting Suzanne and I drunk. Although I cannot remember the last few moments of the night, I hoped everyone had fun last night. Again, thanks to all who came...you really complete my night. I heard some people are already looking forward to next year's birthday bash! LOL.

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My Waikiki Birthday

It was supposed to be a quiet birthday, nothing was planned. Then Jek brilliantly asked "So...no beers tonight ah?" I told him that I got nothing planed yet. He then organized a "session" since it was my birthday...and coincidently, there was a Carlsberg event happening that night as well. So I thought to myself "Hmmm...since I got nothing planned yet...so why not?" Immediately, Jek sent an email to everyone to organise a birthday/beer session that night. I then called my friends (if you're reading this and was not invited, I'm really sorry...it was really last minute) to come join me and my colleagues. Well I must say, I am so blessed to have many friends who turned up just because it was my birthday. So to everyone who came, "THANK YOU! YOU MEAN THE WORLD TO ME!"

The night was a blast and I had like 3 Flaming Lamborghinis and countless mugs of beer! I'm amazed that I was still standing and able to drive myself all the way back home. However, once I got home, I just crashed. Probably the alcohol took sometime to kick in. So here are some photos taken during that night in no particular order...

This is my third Flaming ok!...dun pray pray!

What?...still standing what...it's not my fault!

Gee...from wanting a quiet night to this?? Totally something random but I'm glad it did happen because I had an awesome time. The reason I didn't want to do anything because I'm actually saving it for a bigger (and wilder?) combined one with my friend Suzanne sometime middle of the month...that one is going to be massive as the last time we had a combined birthday was during our 21st birthday...and boy that was really one to remember.

*Click here for more pictures from that night

3 Birthdays, A Wedding & A Cultural Event

It has been a rather busy weekend for me. It started out on Friday night, where there were 2 of my friends who were celebrating their birthdays on the same day. After work, I met up with Ashley and some friends for dinner in an Italian restaurant called Caff Restaurant (* links to a random blog site) at Bandar Puteri Puchong, which coincidently happens to be owned by one of her friend. The food was not bad at all, but it was located in a rather secluded area, so not many people know about it. Needless to say, it was still fun when the alcohol came by.

Ashley the birthday girl

Group pic...

After dinner, I had to head down all the way to The Loft on Heritage Row for another birthday celebration. This time, it was my old friend Elaine's party. Well, you don't think you can expect to go to a place like The Loft on your birthday and come out standing do you? That was exactly what happend to Elaine. Well Elaine, I hoped you had a blast that night....if you remember the last parts of it..hehe..

2 posers - Elaine & I

Alice, Jek, Me & Elaine

"Nooooo...not another one!!"

Saturday night. There was another birthday gathering. Well actually, it's a belated birthday gathering for Lyn, since her birthday was actually last week. You see...some people celebrate her birthday in Krabi by the beach (tsk tsk..), so she had to do it on Saturday night at WIP @ BSC. It was fun seeing her unwrapping her presents..

The many faces of Lyn

All of us @ WIP

Sunday morning, I picked Lyn up from her place and we went down to KLPAC for their Open Day. They had loads of cultural performances and workshops from morning way up till 5PM. Unfortunatly, both Lyn and myself can't stay that long as we both had other plans. The highlight of the day was definately the tour of KLPAC, where we got to go backstage and see what goes on behind the scenes during performances. We went up to the lighting room, the locker rooms and even up on the catwalk area high above!

Lyn & I @ KLPAC

Click here to view pictures taken @ KLPAC Open Day

Later that night, I had a wedding dinner to attend. My ex-classmate Julian got married, and their wedding reception was held at JW Marriott hotel in Kuala Lumpur. Congrats Julian & Alesia! It was also sort of a mini high school reunion too as I caught up with a lot of my ex-classmates and friends.

Us with the bride & groom

Mini high school reunion??

Phew!....so that was my weekend. Next up, it's my brother's wedding. So looking forward to another busy weekend again...so stay tuned for that.

Absolut Alcoholic

As some of you may already know, I have a stash of alcohol in my room. Yes yes, I do collect them, but NO I don't drink them except for occasions. Well, my latest addition to the collection was this limited edition Absolut Disco bottle, which is this year's holiday packaging. Thanks Jill for getting me this. The cool thing about this, is it can be used as a "disco ball" which can be hung from the ceiling.

Look how the bottle reflects light...cool!
(pic from absolut.com)

Behold my alcohol stash in my room!

Ok, so now I got a few unopened bottles and also a few opened ones...

Opened bottles:
Chivas Regal 12 Years (3/4 bottle)
Absolut Raspberri (1/4 bottle)
Absolut Citron (1/4 bottle)

Unopened bottles:
Absolut Disco (Absolut Vodka - 1 Litre)
Absolut Mandarin (1 Litre)
Jack Daniels (1 Litre)
Bacardi Limon (1 Litre)
Glenfiddich Single Malt 15 Years (1 Litre)
Appleton Jamaican Rum (500ml)

So as you can see if anyone needs someone to bring the booze as ammunition to a party, you know who to look for right?....so do I hear more invites to parties soon?? *wink*

NYE 2007: The Aftermath

This is a follow up from the previous post, featuring pictures of us and the star of the night Zara, after the celebrations ended on NYE. Pictures courtesy of Rozell.








...it just goes to show what an overdose of alcohol can do to you...hehe!

NYE 2007

Last Monday night, it's not only NYE, it was also Zara's birthday. So obviously, it's a double reason to celebrate (and drink!). Seeing that everyone will be at the major countdown hotspots in the Klang Valley, we actually wanted to have a small celebration with a group of friends at Zara's place. But after giving a lot of thought about the mess and cleaning up the aftermath, we decided to have it at a bar/bistro called Studio-X who is runned by one of Zara's friends in Taman Desa. Well, having it there means that we do not have to get stuck in traffic, suffocate amongst the sea of humans....and most importantly....CHEAP ALCOHOL! It's also very near Zara's place so she can't use the excuse that she has to drive back...because technically...she can even walk back (if she can walk by the end of the night that is..)

Here are the pics from that night:

This is Zara the birthday girl...now still cute..wait till later

Zoey and Su Ann

Zara, Jean & I

Rozell & I

Jean & Evie

Zara blowing....the candles

Counting down...

...a toast to 2008!

Zara in action

"....please let this be my last drink..."

"What?!! One more??!!!!" - Not so cute now eh? =p

Well it was a rather fun and "quiet" night. We didn't see fireworks go off because we were seeing our own"fireworks" already when the lights became fuzzy and blurry...Zara..hope you had a blast...and yea..this is pay back for what you done to me on my birthday!...revenge is sweet!

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