My first Malaysian birthday

Yesterdays birthday turned out to be better than expected. I'm not much for celebrating my birthday really and as I've barely just arrived, I thought the day would just go by unnoticed. My cousin managed to find out about my birthday though and planned to go out for a dinner so we went to the Pavillion in Bukit Bintang along with some of her friends. On the way there, I got some suprise calls from people wanting to congratulate me on my birthday. Very unexpected as very few have gotten my Malaysian number! In the confusion of boarding the bus and not recognising the number, my mind went blank and I totally forgot the names of the callers! Somewhat embarassing... Or actually very embarassing, so I just want to apologize to Auntie Maya for the total blackout. If you're reading this, I'll come over with a brand new refrigerator magnet for your collection as compensation! :P

The restaurant we went to was a funny place as the interior was a mix of Arabic and South American and the food was mostly Mexican and western. Only the waiters reminded of Malaysia. The food was REALLY good though, so it was definately nice! Not to mention the chocolate milk shake! Awesome! As for the finale, they had bought birthday cup cakes that was supposedly the best in town (at least according to some...) and could only be bought at the Pavillion (hence the choice of place I guess...). I have to admit they were really good cup cakes though! I had two and it made me stay up all night! I guess it was made of 90% sugar or something...

It was good though as I found out when I got home that our Internet connection was fast enough to stream the football games from the Champions League. I guess having 100Mbit/sec in Sweden makes you a bit spoiled. Just becuase streams on youtube doesn't stream instantly, I just assumed that it would not be up to streaming a game live. I was happy to be wrong though as the Arsenal - Barcelona games was well worth to stay up for! Definately a great game if you like watching football! So.. a nice game to round out a great night made my first birthday in Malaysia a very nice one!



Abe, my Malaysian nickname


A Birthday Happy to me!


The gang


Oh, btw... this will soon turn into a home improvement blog as I seem to never get finished with my room. I think the house was built like 15 years ago and it shows... The paint has started to loosen from the walls, so now I need to go buy some putty to fill in the holes... I wouldn't be surprised to find a birds nest hiding behind the wall eventually either....