Netmoirs of A Solemn Rover

Bro’s Birthday, 2012 Among Other Things

We both woke up late, it was already past noon, and our plans is still on - watching an apocalyptic movie, 2012 on a non-apocalyptic day in Tropicana City Mall! Bee got coupons of Subway, and we both get 6-inchers and pay only drinks and extras. It was a quickie though as we were only half hour away to screening. Since we were both fast eaters, we made it early to the queue. There weren't that many visitors as maybe it was still early in the noon. Our show eventually starts at 2pm. I...

Sis Birthday Weekend

This is my first time celebrating my sister's birthday since 10 long years! I did not see her grow up and in an instant she is now a grown up dame. It was much of a family gathering and for the first time we are complete with Yen in our circle as well. My sis invited 6 of her besties. Dave however couldn't make it because of his EP. Too bad he can't have his regular dose of sugarcane this time. As for relatives, only Tiffie, Wooi & Chloe with Uncle Choo & Aunt Siew Moi attended. My...

Yorkshireman Visit

A Yorkshireman visit - was actually the second Mat Salleh visit to my house, and they are both Brits but they don't know each other. It was Chong Mei's (my cousin) boyfriend made this visit today. They were supposed to attend Granny's birthday yesterday but they both FFK-ed big time because of travelling woes. This Yorkshireman Mat Salleh is far more adventurous than my own buddy. He ate almost anything served on the table. Good on you matey, (or Josh F). Had a chance to mingle and do...

Belated Birthday

Happy birthday to me. I am 31 now, old and penniless haha. Well, I had things for a change this year, and it was the opportunity to celebrate my birthday with my family after 10 long years in hiatus. I missed the days of celebrating birthdays in England with my buddies. I never forget the memories of celebrating my birthday there during the peak of the summer where we were free to roam with our polo shirts and khaki pants grilling BBQ or satays in the open air at the compound of my house. Damn....

Keng Woo & Cherrie’s Visit

Keng Woo & Cherrie Li visited my little Cybertron today. He is smart enough not to get lost as my housing area does not actually appear in the GPS. My Google Earth plottings that he printed out proved handy at last. Armed with his DSLR, his visit is not just meeting me up but also to look and admire my Transformers collection. This couple is the second guest that visited my humble little home. Mom fixed lunch and desserts for them, and boy they were full. We never leave our guest with...

Farewell Dinner at Morgans Brasserie

I did a research before booking a table in Morgans Brasserie in Princess Street, Plymouth. The whole idea is to dine in a place that all of us never dine before. I hook up Sugarvine, one of the best review site for eating out in Devon & Cornwall. After scouring around infos, I filtered through based on recommendation and pricing. Luckily though, the informative site does feature menus for us to look at. My eyes was pinned to Morgans Brasserie as the ambience from the photos looks very...

When Guys Meetup

When guys meetup, they talk and bitch like women too, from science to politics, from women to sex, from war to terrorism, from food to bed, from machine to engine, from gadgets to computers, from hobbies to interests, from movies to soap? Lucky no soap involved. The gang meet up to 'celebrate' our Dave's homecoming, after leaving the country for 3 months to pursue his yachtmastership, and he passed (congrats) and bow he back, but being nicknamed Silverback; while having a penchant on...

Positano Get-Together

Everyone going Italian today to celebrate Big Daddy Dave aka Drakko's birthday. We booked a long table of 12 right in the heart of the dining room. Ours was the biggest and the noisiest and pity the waiters taking too long to wait for people to arrive and also taking orders. It was nearly an hour apart! Since have just gotten my 40D not more than a month, I am bringing them with me to test shoot 'moving' objects. During the blogging of this entry I have already discovered AI Servo mode and...

Brunch & Football

Brunch and football doesn't go so well cos I ain't a big fan of football now. What kept me focused was the food instead of the plasma screen right at my face. As the guys got carried away with football, we shared our new year experience. Well, at least they had great fun celebrating and getting pissed. Mine was so plain boring. We were so close of not having the champagne toast if not because we had a sudden change of mind. Oh whatever, I hope this year will be the year where my luck...

Christmas 2007

Merry X'mas to all. Its a quite X'mas for the gang down in Plymouth as there were only 3 of us this year. Sounds pathetic that's the true fact that our gang is slowly dwindling in numbers due to shifting of jobs & career seeking and among other personal commitments as well. But that doesn't mean we cannot have some fun right? We gathered at Dave's for a simple meal, a movie and some lite gaming. Its only 3 so there's not much you can do about it. I let some of my simple pics be...