About last weekend

This break from work is slowly turning into a busy one, not that I mind as long as there is not work involved ;)

We attended a birthday/ BBQ garden party last weekend, and also hosted a dinner at our place!

Garden BBQ party

Doris and Thean (D&T) were our ex neighbours and we were also ex connect group mates from church.  We keep in touch even though we are no longer neighbours and no longer in the same CG.  They had organised a BBQ for a small group of friends and we were invited.  On top of it, Doris planned a little surprise birthday for her hubby Thean.  

When we arrived, we all were amazed at how beautiful their little garden is.  All the colours of the different plants, seriously puts us to shame haha.  Although we need to clarify that they have fake grass so they don't have the problem of mowing their lawn every other weekend.  That said, all the potted plants line the circumference of the patch of fake grass very nicely and each pot has been watered with love.

Party hats on!

For that afternoon we were asked to dress up in either flowery or funky clothes.  We were given party hats and had even more colourful balloons to set the atmosphere.  Overall a very successful and colourful garden BBQ.

Unfortunately K had no flowery nor funky clothes.
He turned up in as-normal-as-can-be-clothes ;)

Sonia & Doris

With Sonia showing her face

The balloons fitted into the colour scheme very well

A pic with the shy birthday boy.  Had to convince him to sit amongst the girls and hold a balloon too

Smile

Just the girls

 

A shot of the boys

Who refused to hold balloons but the cooking utensils to show their manliness lol

Clearing up.  This shot was taken close to 8pm where the sky was still bright.

A group shot taken by K

So that was Sunday afternoon.  The evening prior, we invited the usual gang over: Jixian, Rongxuan and Lawrence (now affectionately referred to as Lolly).  I thought we could do with some company in our house and offered to cook dinner.  I always go back to one of my favourite recipes from my aunt: claypot chicken rice.  This recipe can never go wrong and again it didn't let our guests down.  They really loved the flavours of the chicken.  For dessert, Jixian made green tea creme brûlée.  Very professional, he even brought a handheld torch to flame the sugar!  It was very yummy.  We had dinner in the garden and sat till about 8ish where someone commented it was getting a bit cold and so we adjourned inside and watched a movie (it was really gruesome; lots of chasing and fighting and killing..).  Lolly left before the movie ended to catch his train and Jixian and Rongxuan left close to midnight.  A simple affair at home with good friends for company :)