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Another year older, another year wiser

October has always been my favourite month because it's my birthday month :) but ever since stepping into this job more than a year ago, October is now one of my busiest months at work.  For the past three weeks it has been just work, home, sleep on repeat mode.  On quarter end months I try not to meet up with friends and have no social life for a bit but of course I had to make some exceptions in October... let me recap.


The weekend before...

Hubby K booked us tickets to the musical Aladdin, upon my request months ago because I thought it would make a fun night out.  Before that I booked us a theatre dinner at a French tapas place in Soho, a 10 minute walk away from Prince Edward Theatre.    The musical exceeded my expectations in terms of the set and props, and oh that genie.  He was soooo good!  I loved every minute of it and would totally watch it again.

Dinner before theatre


Can you tell I was very excited about the musical?

And I had a surprise birthday mail all the way from Singapore which made me smile



On my actual birthday...

Gabby brought Bella-chan down to my office to meet me for my birthday lunch which was really sweet of her.  That night I had another round of birthday meal with my core group of Singaporean and Malaysian friends.  I chose a teppanyaki dinner at Beni Hana in Piccadilly.   This chain started in the US and both K and I stumbled upon one of their branches at Malibu beach last summer and thoroughly enjoyed our meal.  I've been meaning to visit their branch here and so decided to do a birthday meal.  Fun fact, K told me that Beni Hana was actually mentioned in the Wolf of Wall Street movie.



This was our chef for the night, who told us he has cooked for many famous people here in this restaurant, one of which is Angelina Jolie.  To which all of us asked "was she here with Brad Pitt??"

Rachel bought me a huge birthday cake which I had to bring to work to share the next day.  It was impossible for us to finish it that night.

We haven't had teppanyaki for a while and that night was enjoyable.  Only wished we didn't leave the restaurant smelling of our dinner, but oh well, a small price to pay for yummy food.

And then work was super crazy busy... thank God for a supportive hubby who cooked dinner almost every night and picked me up from the nearest tube station.  The days all went past in a mish-mash of blur and I couldn't wait for the weekends.

Two weekends ago, I had a belated birthday meal with my girlfriends by Tower Bridge.  See it was also our farewell meal with Kine, who is going back to Norway soon and I thought we should have it by an iconic place, none other than the Tower Bridge.  It's not too far from where we all live, and I suggested taking some farewell pics by the bridge after our meal.

Lunch






Crossing the bridge with my BFF

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