Birthday Weekend

Flew home on thursday for my mum's birthday party on the friday and mine on the saturday...took some amazingly beautiful photos, but agonisingly lost my camera on saturday night...cannot describe how gutted i am...probably as gutted that someone must have found it and decided to keep it...anyway...

friday night went for lovely meal with mum and a few of her friends in sheffield (god this hard without photos...)

saturday day went with Stoney (mate from malaysia) and my bro to see sheffield united...and we finally broke the parkes curse and we won...i had a great photo of the second goal just as it went in but will have to settle for a website one. also through the powers of facebook managed to meet up with a really good mate from school, who i havent seen in, blimey, 10 years? cue lovely photo in pub car park of me and simon.

saturday night id hired out a cafe/bar that is owned by a very good and old friend jasmin (no 'e' thank you very much). i guess its always weird putting yourself out there and organising something quasi official...what if nobody turns up?!! its difficult to block out the fact that youre going to look like a right puddin if its empty, and i this has probably stopped me doing this in the past, anyway, (do i say anyway too much??..can i have a thesaurus next year?) i plumped to organise a 'party. in the end, loads turned up and nearly reached the maximum allowed for the venue, so that was a relief to say the least, saw friends i havent see in years, about 7 old friends from malaysia drove from the four corners of the uk to come, which was briliant. again, some beautiful photos which was lost at rock city afterwards (i suspect 'dancing' to foo fighters...dave grohl owes me a new camera)...but in hindsight maybe it was best to lose the 3 minutes drunken helium balloon fuelled semi emotional (read 'aaahh luuuvvvvvvvve ev'rybuuddy') monologue to video..anyway, some did take photos...so here goes...