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Birthday celebrations

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Well I havent been blogging very consistantly so heres something I should have blogged about a few days ago. It was my birthday on Friday. Its my first birthday since I have “gone freelancing” so I thought I may be able to get away without doing work. Didnt work out like that with work to be done both on the Friday and also the Saturday. Oh well!!

Friday I actually went back home to my parents place and my Mum made me a lovely steak! Mmmm. On Saturday, I went out for a meal and drinks. The meal was in Ha Ha Bar and Grill in Spinningfields (Manchester). The food was pretty good. I think everyone enjoyed themselves. I had a Seafood Gratin for starter – still not sure what it was but was some sort of seafood “medley” in a pot with cheese and breadcrumbs with some toasted bread. The main I chose was pork chops which were very tasty. I wasnt planning on having dessert but everyone else was so went for Chocolate Brownie – to be honest it was too sweet. My friend opposite had a big T-Bone steak which looked lovely! At the end I opened up presents which included aftershave, body wash pack and some cufflinks. Before the meal I also got a keepfit DVD and one of those abs belt things. Is that a hint that I smell, am scruffy and need to get fit??

Afterwards we went to Dukes 92. Had a drink or 2 there – sat outside under the heaters and was nice and pleasant. Apparently Vernon Kay was in the bar too but I missed him – even though he is about 6″4!! After Dukes 92, we moved on to Deansgate Locks to meet some other friends who were out for someones birthday. We went to Loaf – not been there for years!! It was pretty good and different sort of music with 3 different “areas”. Bumped into a couple gym instructors from my gym and they made me promise I would be in the gym on Monday!! Hehe. Also in the bar was Vernon Kay again – he was following us!! This time I did see him – he certainly is very tall. He was there was some other people and I am guessing its his brother who is also tall and looks quite like him.

Anyway, after a few hours we all decided to call it a night. After a few hours of sleep, I then played football……. in hindsight I should have just stayed in bed!

Birthday meal / Manchester pride

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

It was my friends birthday yesterday and lots of us went out for a meal and some drinks. We went to Tai Wu – almost seems like tradition to have a birthday meal there!! We had a lovely meal including lobster – mmmmmmmm. Afterwards most of us went to the bar Obsidian. It was the birthday girls idea and her thinking was to go somewhere I bit more expensive so she wouldnt get drunk – that didnt work out for her! I only had a couple drinks. One was a cocktail called Basil and Honey Martini. Tasted very nice – couldnt realy taste the alcohol. However it did take ages to make the drinks in general. Especially the more “pretty” drinks which he drew a pattern of a flower in it. I think that particular drink was called Red Gorgeous. I had a little taste of someones and it tasted abit like milkshake and abit like melted ice cream!!

The birthday girl ended up getting quite drunk as ppl bought her drinks and she also had some special shots drink which the bar-staff set on fire as she drank. I know it had sambuca in it but not sure what else. I took a few photos which may appear on the usual places soon – Facebook / Flickr.

Today I met up with some friends and we watched the Manchester Pride parade. I have lived in Manchester for several years but this is the first time I have checked out the parade. I have always been away. The parade was OK – I think it lasted for about an hour or so. It did get abit “same-y” after a while though. The rest of the day we checked out the shops, some ppl came back to my place and we watched some Olympics and then we all went to Pizza Hut.