{"id":9652,"date":"2009-06-16T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/16\/birthday-birthday\/"},"modified":"2009-06-16T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T13:03:00","slug":"birthday-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/16\/birthday-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"birthday birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a very festive person; I typically spend my birthdays with my close friends, and with my family on the weekend when everyone&#8217;s free. <\/p>\n<p>I have an amusing story to tell actually- me and my friends went to play LAN at Gaming Giants Katong where we are regulars and very friendly with the staff. That day, however, the regular staff weren&#8217;t in and there was a grumpy middle-aged lady being an absolute pain in the ass. She was pissed off that I had a muffin with me (it was a birthday muffin, and it was in a paper bag!) and was like &#8220;NO OUTSIDE FOOD AND DRINKS&#8221; in that annoying middle-aged-and-unreasonable-pain-in-the-ass voice. I offered to put it in my friend&#8217;s bag, but my friend got unnecessarily worked up and asked the woman if she had a problem and if that was the way to treat regular customers (in a rather scathing and condescending manner). She actually threatened to call the police, which I found rather amusing.<\/p>\n<p>So we walked down the road and went to HIGH, which is a higher-end LAN shop owned by a friend&#8217;s friend that&#8217;s got a bit of a &#8220;Club&#8221; vibe, with a nicely stocked bar and pool tables and a cosy atmosphere. We never actually did go there because we were regulars at GG, but thought we&#8217;d give it a try. We balked at the $10 registration fee but were told that $4 of it was free gaming and $4 was discount off the drinks, so it was really just $2 registration fee. And the best part- free LAN and drink on your birthday. We played for a good 7-8 hours xD<\/p>\n<p>Ah. Then I had supper with more friends at Simpang Bedok, and dinner with my family the next day. Simple and pleasant.<\/p>\n<p>I fell terribly ill over the next couple of days and am only just recovering now x_x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a very festive person; I typically spend my birthdays with my close friends, and with my family on the weekend when everyone&#8217;s free. I have an amusing story to tell actually- me and my friends went to play LAN at Gaming Giants Katong where we are regulars and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-2vG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}