Birthdays, Leaving Dos and Staff Party!

This month has been a very busy one for us! First off, it was Zaheer's 30th birthday!!! It happened to fall on a work day so he had to blow the candles out at school. It was such a delicious cake- white chocolate and vanilla sponge with cream.

Simi and Salome (our very good friends) had taken the keys off me this morning as they had a 'special delivery' for Zaheer when he got back from school. I was intrigued and slightly apprehensive as to what could be soooo massive that it had to be delivered to our house. Well the minute we got home we were greeted with this:

(I think Zaheer liked it is probably an understatement)

His very own football table! Yusuf was probably more excited than Zaheer was!

After that I decided to take him out instead off cooking at home and finally get to spend some money on him! (I saved up this year!) Normally I get the money off him for his birthday meal (plus present!) so it doesnt really feel like I'm giving him something but this time it was all on me! (Well to a limit...) So on his 30th birthday we went to watch................................

It was such an AWESOME film!! I had been dying to see this (so had Yusuf). I loved the other 2 and couldnt believe it had been 11 years since Toy Story 2 came out. But this film was just as good as the rest. A perfect ending I thought.

(I even went all out with the popcorn!! It was his 30th..........)

We then went to Kimchis which is a Korean restaurant (I think) and the food is just gorgeous but Zaheer last minute decided he wanted a good old curry so we went to Tandoor instead. The food here is always good and it is a beautiful restaurant- something that is quite rare in Brunei!

(Yusuf having fun with his poppadom)

I haven't actually bought Zaheer a present just yet but it is one in the making so he will (eventually) get it.

The day after Simi had organised a joint Leaving Do and Birthday at the Palm Garden Hotel.

Some good friends of ours will be leaving in July (don't go Clare!! Sob sob) and it was a good way of celebrating their time here.

Zaheer also got another birthday cake!

It was a really fun evening. The food was delicious and the company was a lot of fun. We are really going to miss our friends. I suppose that is one of the bad things about being an expat.

Then on the weekend it was the Staff Party!! I had really been looking forward to this just because of the Shooting Stars sketch.

It was organised by Rob and Scott and was the funniest thing I had seen in ages. They even made their own A-Team trailer which was just so so funny! They had us in stitches and it was just such a good start to the night. The food was cooked by Tandoor and was delicious. Overall it was a brilliant evening.

And that was the recap of the last couple of weeks. My next post will probably be the final one before we leave for the UK (yaaaaaaaaaay!!) on the 9th July.