Yep, that's right, the 28th December 2009 is the 22nd birthday for Jordan. What?! No no, not for Jordan Wang, his birthday was earlier in November. Today's birthday boy is Jordan Chong! Happy birthday Jordan =)
We're gonna go out for dinner tonight to celebrate Jordan's birthday, finally you're coming out our side of the 'world', the real world, the no-longer-a-kid side of the world, hehe. The plan is to meet at Xizhimen at 7pm and find the restaurant. This is a complete nightmare, what I mean is to find few people in the huge Beijing city is just insane. We plan to meet at the subway station but due to the poor reception underground, the miscommunication between different people and the misinterpretation of the meeting place, we ended up wondering around just trying to find people. Anson, Jordan and I met up first and then our mission began with trying to find Josi and Gerard. Sigh..... Don't even wanna remind myself of the horrible experience of finding people in Beijing subway stations, just wanna say, OMG, Beijing is too huge!
Finally we met up with Jordan Chong at the restaurant, Fucheng (the logo looks kinda like a swear word though, hoho), a hot pot restaurant. To our surprise, there's such a huge group for Jordan's dinner, a lot of them which we don't know of, and most of them are AIESECers. It was impossible to fit all the people on one table, which the largest one is for a table of 12 people. We managed to fit 16 people onto the 12-people table and 6 people had to move to a smaller table. Getting through introduction and ordering the menu were a big challenge, soon Karina and I gave up in trying to get people order so we just took over the lead, wakaka, we will make the order! Karina recommended to get a pot with two shared flavours, one for spicy and one for curry, this suit everyone right?? Thanks to Karina for the great recommendation, I actually really liked the curry flavour hot pot.
Jordan Chong was so excited and happy today. He's too happy that he just remembers to keep drinking but forgot about eating, Karina and I got so worried about him for drinking so many of the strong shots (Chinese herbal alcohol). Poor Josi as well, for not liking hotpot at the first place, she then had to leave the dining table and went to buy her own dinner.
Birthday is such a special day, for the birthday person as well as for everyone. I think it's one of the only days where a birthday person can be a little bit more over the line or extremely happy without friends having comments. I like birthdays. Although I never celebrate it too big or anything fancy, but having a reason to gather my friends together is happy enough for me. We didn't finish and leave restaurant until after 10pm and we are one of the last people there. Something about the shopping centre that I must mention though: the carton figure respresentative of the shopping centre and the theme. The theme of the shopping centre is underwater sea world, which is quite ok. But the thing is, the biggest issue, the biggest problem, the most revolting thing is the sculptures they have inside the shopping centre. On the top of every elevator, there are two turtle-looking-thing. Well, in fact, they are turtles I'm sure, but the thing is they're turtles with hair! The turtles are wearing wigs!!!! How abnormal and insane was this?! Everytime we saw the turtles, we just couldn't stop wondering, 'WHY ON EARTH would any designer do this'? Then we tried taking off the wig, man, the turtles look even worse!!! >_<
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