Saturday, July 11, 2009

Dawn's 1st Birthday Party on 11 July 2009

Dawn turns 1 year old on 16 July. To celebrate her big day, we decided to hold a party for her. To accomodate all our guests, we intend to book the BBQ pit & the function room together. However, the function room is fully booked today as 1 of the resident is holding his/her ROM party there. Thus, we had to hold 2 parties instead.

Today's party is held at the BBQ pit & it's for Kel's colleagues & friends. Instead of doing the BBQ ourselves as per the previous times, we decided to order the GSS Barbeque Special from Stamford Catering Services. In addition, we also hired a chef from Stamford to bbq for us. This would give us more time to socialise with our guests. The menu tonight consists of :

Starter
- Tangy coleslaw with sultanas

International Fruit Salad
(Variety of honeydew, red apple, green apple, pineapple & mango, lightly tossed with mayonnaise)

On the Grill (Raw)
- Oriental style smoked chicken kebab
- Crushed black pepper minute steak
- Kaffir lime & lemon grass seabass fillet
- Fresh prawn on skewer
- Spicy devil squid on skewer
- Otak otak wrapped in coconut leaf
- Warm portbello mushroom with daikon radish

Chef's Special Condiments
- Exotic black pepper sauce
- Lime vinaigrette

D.I.Y Corner
- Traditional laksa lemak
(Ingredients of bean sprouts, sliced fishcake, eggs, tau pok, laksa leaves, served with sambal chilli)

Hot Food Feast
- Cheese baked rice with walnuts & shredded parsley
- Curry chicken with potatoes
- Garlic butter bruschetta

Sweet Tempetations
- Assorted mini pastries
- Chilled almond jelly with peach & pineapple

Beverage Corner
- Refreshing fruit punch
































The BBQ buffet



























The chef hard at work

While waiting for our guests, we took some pics.



























Family pic



























Dawn & Kel

Afterwards, our photographer - Ricky suggested that we went to the playground to get some shots of Dawn.


































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Then we were joined by my sis.



















Pris. Dawn is holding the ang pao which Pris & Koon Peng gave her.
































Koon Peng & Pris



















Kat













































Daryl & Pris



















Koon Peng, Pris & Kat. Pity that my mum didn't come.

Then we tried to take some pics together with Daryl.













































However, he's not being co-operative even though Pris tried to bribe him with her mobile. In the end, we gave up & took 1 more pic, without Daryl.



















Afterwards, we followed Daryl to another playground for more pic taking.















































































Daryl



























Daryl & Pris
































Me kissing Dawn

After the pic taking, we went back to the BBQ pit to await our guests.















































































Me & Dawn















































































Dawn



























Mini family pic



















Me & Dawn welcoming the guests



















Me & Dawn with Josephine



















Jason's mum, Xiao Xuan, Cherie & May



















Darren



















Dawn receiving her present from Ara's wife



















Ara's wife



















Michelle & her kids



















Alan, Ara's wife & Ara



















Johnny, Boon Chay, Jason & Boon Chay's friend



















Steven's wife, Steven, Josephine & Josephine's hubby



















Boon Chay & Johnny



















Rashidi & family. For some reason, Dawn is very fascinated with his son. :p



















Joon Fock & his family. See how camera shy his younger son is.













































Andy giving Dawn her ang pao



















Cherie, Andy's wife, Andy & Andy's brother



















Josephine & her hubby





















































Pris



















Kelvin & Alan



















Ara, Teow Ban, Michael, Michael's wife & Ara's wife



















Henry & family



















Tianwen, Jason & Tony

Halfway into the party, it started to drizzle! As we had to find shelter for our guests, Kel went to ask the security guards whether they can open up the function room for us since no one is using it at the moment. After calling the chairman & getting his consent, the guard opened up the function room for us.



































































































































Dawn sitting on 1 of the tables in the function room while we scrambled to bring the food in.



















Henry



















Daryl with Henry



















Jacqueline & Willie



















Jason & Jason's aunty

The party ended at about 10pm when we had to vacant the function room. As we don't have a birthday cake for today's party, all our guests were given a small cake as a gift.
































I hope that all our guests enjoyed themselves despite the rain. :)

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