We celebrated Jessica's birthday at the central, with the intention of eating at the famous ramen restaurant down at Clarke Quay The Central Level 4, but since it was too crowded, we decided to eat at Manhattan Fish Market instead. Up to date, I would say this would be my 3rd time eating at the same restaurant. The first two were with the secondary sch gang and the AJC 05/04 class peeps. Both of them were at Plaza Sing. It's the church peeps' turn now, consisting of Zh, Andreas, Joshua, me, Fel, Plin, Jeslyn, Eil, Anon Apple and Jessica.

The 1 thing I liked about this outlet was that there wasnt much people, hence not much of a wait. Unlike the one at Plaza Sing, getting a table of 2 would mean waiting for at least 15 minutes. Imagine if it was the 10 of us..! So we went about ordering the food.. Zh and I had the Seafood Giant Platter. Although it explicitedly state that it was meant for 2-3 ppl, we wanted to believe that it was meant for 2 ppl only. After all, we're from the SAF and we can easily make up 4 people. Half an hour later, Zh gave up the battle while I struggled with the last bits of whatever fries and rices was left. Well, at least the fried dory fish, shitake mushrooms, calamari rings and giant prawns were all eaten up..!

Later, we decided to further punish ourselves by going to Liang Court to eat the Japanese ice-cream. I chose a Yuzu (i tink its orange peel) Sorbet while Zh had a Rum and Raisin, which was much better than my selection. Along the way, we bumped into Clinton. Strange thing was that he did mentioned that he was going to join us, but when we found him, he was with his group of JC frens. So ya.. hmm.. caught ya, Clinton.

I decided to divert the whole lot of us away from the fastest route and bring them to the memorable sight for all SAF personnels. Ah, the good old memories of NDP kite flying, how we would walk on the same bridge to hang around at Liang Court for just 15 minutes, like we were so desperate for something that we could find in Seletar Camp. So anyway, Anon Apple wanted to know what so significant about the bridge that I wanted to show them.. Well.. I decided to tell her my version of what the ORD bridge was all about..

" This bridge is to commemorate the very 1st batch of SAF soldiers Singapore has to offer. You see, traditionally, the soldiers will perform a march past over the bridge. Standing on 1 side were the regulars. On the other side were the parents of the soldiers.. So once the soldiers crossed over the bridge, they would have ORD-ed, hence the bridge was named the ORD bridge..."

Well, the bridge was actually built by an architect by the name of George Ord, but let the imagination of an ORD personnel tickle your mind. Happy 19th Birthday, Jessica..! And yes.. we're both 19 for this short period of time... :D