It was the 1st of November, Saturday night, and it was YB Lim Jia Ye’s 26th birthday. A big day for a man who has been churning our tax reports almost 95% of his life since he started working.

That's my birthday boy!

And it was a great evening, with almost everyone from the Brotherhood except for Khai Shyuan attending the gathering. He promised to come back from Singapore but he took a rain cheque at the very last minute.

Khai Shyuan the God of Wealth...

Oh how I missed that guy.

Remembering those days where I stayed with him for 1 whole month in the same room on the same bed… the locomotive snores every night… so romantic… that tummy that feels even better than Slumberland…

Nevermind.

Libra Cocktalk House

Jia Ye’s birthday bash, although held at our usual Brotherhood Outpost – Libra Cocktail House @ Jonker Street, wasn’t quite usual in terms of the treatment and the amount of alcohol dosage he got that evening. He’s a lucky lad and I’ll tell you why.

First of all, about 5 days before that day, I got an usual tinker from a good old friend of mine who’s currently studying in the US. It was Sin Ting, Jia Ye’s sweetheart.

Seriously, the first thing I intended to ask her when I first saw her message on MSN was like – Hey, can you give me 4 numbers? I’d like to buy the Lottery (whack Magnum, 1+3D and Toto all at once). Cos it was just really unusual. Been having her on my contact list for years and I hardly chat with her more than 5 times.

But I didn’t. (If I did I could have stroke the lottery already… sigh.)

Instead I asked what I could do for her and she went on and asked me whether I could do her a favor and help her buy a cake for Jia Ye for his birthday.

Sorry Sin Ting, I asked Serina to help check out the whole menu in Secret Recipe and we couldn’t find anything Vanilla. So she helped chose Chocolate Cheese.

Chocolate Cheese

Second, Alice, our friend from Singapore, came all the way from the island country back to Melaka and baked Jiaye a wonderful, tasty, mouth-watering cheesecake.

The white one is the Cheese Cake Alice baked...

Lucky lad. I wonder whether anyone would bake a cake for me on my next birthday?

Third, He was amazing. I’ve known this guy for years now and I didn’t know he’s got such tolerance for alcohol.

First it was the Beers.

Yam Seng!

He didn’t quite felt anything though.

No problemo.

James and Yong Ming couldn’t believe it.

What? Not drunk yet?

So we gave him another Flaming 911.

Flaming 911

Didn’t work out.

No problemo.

Then Cartoon (the girl in black) came to the rescue with continuous dosages of Tequila Pop, Beers, and shots of various Spirits and Vodka. If my figures were correct I think there were at least 4 to 5 drinks all at one shot, all trying to make Jia Ye go.

Shots for you to go!

We were all excited when he picked up the bucket. We thought we saw it coming….

He's Coming... He's Coming...

Until nothing came out except for a burp.

False Alarm.

He took a deep breath, and he was all okay again.

Still No Problemo...

Shit.

But as a consolation, we manage to witness the Indian side of Jia Ye that evening. Since the drinks, he was doing that Indian head dance all night long.

I want to move it move it!

Move it to the Right!

Move it to the left!

Move it to the side!

But all in all it was a great gathering, and it was fun being able to catch up with my buddies. Even Sin Ting managed to teleport to Malacca to join us!

Group Photo with Sinting

Happy Belated Birthday Jia Ye.