The Christening ...

The school holidays are over and poor wifey has to wake up early to get the boys ready for school again. And on top of that she's not feeling all that well. I think I passed on my sickness to her. Bad me! I hope she gets well soon cos I don't like seeing her fall sick. And she's as stubborn as I am when it comes to going to the doctors. Well, if she gets any worse by the time I head home, I'm going to drag her to the clinic.

The weekend was kinda bitters sweet for some personal reasons that I'm not going to publish for the world to read ... hehehe ... Let's just say that I'm glad the weekend is over. And that's an absolutely strange statement to be coming from one who adores the weekends. Well, I'm looking forward to next weekend though ... LOL!

My other best buddy, Sean had his baby's baptism celebration on Saturday. It was a pretty last minute thing for me cos my good old buddy only informed me the Wednesday before that the baptism would be on Saturday. That brought about the task of looking for a suitable gift. To be honest, I've never bought anyone baptism gifts before so I was lost as to what to get.

I was thinking about getting a playstation 3 for the little fellow but then he's a wee bit too young to be playing console games just yet ... hehehe ... In the end, after searching a few complexes over the next three days, wifey and me finally found something we thought would be suitable and even then it was late on Friday night. By the time we got home, we were too tired to wrap the gift so we left it for the next morning.

And as usual, Saturday's were meant for sleeping in a little late but the baptism was at 12.00pm followed by a Chinese lunch in a hotel in the capital. So, there we were in the morning scrambling to wrap the gift with me trying to figure out how to make a baptism card in an hour or so. Worse still, my printer at home was on the blink and I had to resort to actually making a card the old fashioned way, by hand!

I had to quietly go and borrow my younger boys crayons, color pencils, glue sticks, scissors, whatnots and then start my 'masterpiece'. Boy, was it tough. I may work in advertising and am fully qualified and trained to come up with mock ups and stuff at work but that was with the help of a computer and printer not forgetting my trusty illustrator and photoshop softwares to back me up. While I have both the softwares at home, without a working printer, it would be pointless.

So, I had to resort to the traditional method of making the card. I haven't worked 'manually' on any designs in a really long time and it took me quite a while to finally come up with something that could pass off as a card! And it look pretty decent if I do say so myself ... hehehe ... As tedious as it was making the card from scratch, it was actually such fun working in 'free hand' mode though I'd gladly stick to my trusty old illustrator and photoshop anytime ... LOL!

The baptism and lunch went well, though my buddy Adrian and me were not fully satisfied with the food. Don't get me wrong, the food was great. Our buddy Sean pick a great place for the lunch. It was a sit down Chinese lunch with a variety of dishes and when I say variety, I mean about 150 variations with an all you could eat theme thrown into it. Now, of cos both Adrian and me didn't know that when we sat down to eat.

The initial set of food came in pretty small portions and I was kinda surprised cos we have 15 people to a table and my first impressions were that the food would not be enough. So, everyone was kind wary about taking too much and being labeled as gluttons. But 40 minutes later, we find out it's an all you can eat Chinese lunch and they have 150 different dishes we could order from. Darn, now they tell us. LOL! No wonder the portions were small cos we could order as much as we liked.

Everyone at the table breathe a sign of relief and that was when the lunch picked up five notches with everyone ordering this and that till the waiters came and told us to stop ordering for a bit cos of a backlog of orders. Apparently they couldn't cope with our orders ... hahaha ... Well, the restaurant starts its lunch offering at 12.00pm and closes at 2.30pm but we only arrived there around 1.20pm after the baptism and the fact that we found out about the all you can eat thing a little too late made it all the more difficult to try many more dishes. Maybe next time.

Yes, we plan to go there again soon ... hehehe ... and this time I intend to try at least 100 dishes just for myself and I'll even go early ... LOL! But all in all, we all had fun and that's the thing that matters most. I don't have much pictures of the event cos I was too busy eating but here's a little pix of the cute baby in question :D

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