It's not about the money. It's about sending a message.....

Jag invited me and the team to his 21st birthday bash held on 4th October 2008. He told us that he rented a hall and invited about 250 guests.

In my 29 years, I've never attended such parties before and I didn't know what to expect. In fact, I didn't know this was an "in" thing. I previously saw some photos of someone else's 21st Birthday Bash with multi-tier cake etc.

I guess it was considered an honour to be invited, so I arranged to go after "work" with some of my colleagues.

Now, as I mentioned, this was the first time I was attending someone's 21st Birthday Bash that was as extravagant and opulent as this.

The entrance to the hall

The "kollum" at the entrance

The invitation said it was starting after 7:31 pm (yes, it said that specifically). I left the office at 8:00 pm and when we arrived at the hall, we were informed by the father that he would make his appearance at 8:45 pm.

What followed was like something from a Chinese Wedding. He appeared at the entrance of the hall and there was some kind of music blaring and people will popping streamers etc. He was wearing a coat, then proceeded to wear his sunglasses and then strolled down the red carpet to the stage.

Birthday Boy posing on stage

They had hired a DJ who played music and it was all Tamil/Hindi and I didn't understand a word of it. The DJ was also the emcee for the day, and was speaking Tamil.

I think I was the only Chinese in the whole hall!

The birthday boy called his family on to the stage to cut the birthday cake and take some photos, then next came the relatives.

Friends & Family

And what happened next was kinda bizarre (to me anyway). Each one of the family member's would feed him a small piece of cake, and he would feed them in return. This went on with every one of his family members (parents and sisters) and then continued with the relatives! As I mentioned, this was the first time I've been to something like this so it happens I suppose.

Then it was announced that dinner was served. It was buffet-styled Indian food. Mutton curry, fried chicken etc.

All in all, the Birthday Boy told me they spent about RM 11,000 for the entire bash. How much did I spend my 21st Birthday..... I can't remember.

Decided to head down to Sunway Pyramid today. I haven't been there since construction started on the new wing. I guess it has been at least 1 - 2 years since I've been there.

They have a new parking bay indicators with sensors that turn red when there's a car in the bay.

I think its a great system and will reduce the number of times where we think we see an empty bay, only to speed there and find that there's a Kancil or Kelisa parked.

Pyramid has some kind of concierge service where we were looking at the directory when a lady called Cynthia came up to us to assist us. We wanted to have Fish & Co. and was informed that it has now been taken over by Manhattan Fish Market. I asked her why, and she informed that Fish & Co. wasn't doing very well and were closing down stores.

NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo!!!!! Fish & Co. (IMHO) is so much better than Manhattan Fish Market. Fish & Co. had a lemon butter sauce on their Fish & Chips which tastes so much better than Manhattan's garlic butter sauce.

I noticed there was a Wendy's and decided to try it out. I remember an outlet in Sungai Wang ages ago, then it closed down.

The burger was pretty damn big. I ordered the 3/4 Pounder Triple Wendy's Burger and I don't think I'll be ordering this anymore, maybe the Double Burger is sufficient.

But I think the best thing was the Baked Potato with Cheese & Cheese and the M&M's Frosty, which is supposedly like a milkshake/Flurry.

We bought our tickets for "Eagle Eye" before we proceeded to look for something to eat.

The movie wasn't anything to shout about, it sure wasn't "The Dark Knight" :p

I just checked reviews and it didn't score very well. I guess the next movie to look out for this year would be "Quantum Of Solace" due to be released on 6th November 2008.