THE 27TH BIRTHDAY BASH @ CARAMELA

This year I organised to have my 27th birthday bash at a Greek restaurant called Caramela. Caramela in Greek means Lolly. The restuarant is based in Bexley North. I always seem to find the weirdest places haha Well this one actually came highly recommended by my Greek teacher Maria.

I had prebooked for 30 people and confirmed it 2 days before the event. The plan on the night was for Tugcen to pick me up. Since the party started at 8pm, I told her to be at my house at 7pm. I knew she would be slightly late and hence this was giving us plently of time. You see Bexley North from my place is 15 minutes by the M5.

So I'm ready and waiting and waiting and waiting. It's 7:20pm. I call her to see what's happening. Apparently Nazila is coming with us as well and they are just about ready. So I'm thinking they would arrive to my place at 7:30pm. Which isn't too bad. We still have plently of time to get there.

7:50pm they arrive at my place! What the ??? Apparently Nazila was putting on her jewellery. Who the fuck thats an hour to put on jewellery? Well it seems Nazila does! I could have strangled that girl by this stage.

I had people messaging and calling to see where I was. It's bad enough I had Amy throwing a big tantrum as she doesn't know how to get to the venue. For fucks sake woman pull out a street directory. It can't be that bad. In the end we convince her to go pick up Oishii so they can come together.

So were driving along and as we are about to reach the M5, Nazila who was sitting in the front seat turns around and screams at me " So what time does your thing end?". God I felt like I was getting interrogated for something. She sounded pretty disgusted LOL

So we arrive to the venue - Caramela. Some people have already arrived. The restaurant slash bar wasn't open as yet so they asked us to go wait in the outside bar. This place looked dodgy enough haha. I walk out to spot a whole group of people sitting there. Meanwhile abusive phone calls are coming from others saying they are sitting in the car park and I snobbed them off LOL

Eventually we all enter the restaurant and I seriously need a drink by this stage.

The below photo is a venue shot of Caramela's restaurant"

Fouad aka Fred tells me this place looks like a bar from one of Turkan Soray films. I can't stop laughing as its quite true. Turkan is like the Sophia Loren of Turkey. Her old movies which were filmed in the 60's have bars lookng like this. Too funny.

Now we walk in and the waiter has stuffed up my booking. He gave me a table for 20 rather than 30. What idiot doesnt understand 30? We some how manage to squeeze in by joining various tables.

I hit the bar with Murat for a drink. We start our random photos:

Above - Fred & Tracey

Hakz,NV & Nurcan

Above - Special Guest - Josh & NV

Now let me explain this. My friend Fouad aka Fred has been trying to make one of my birthday parties for the last 6 years. It's taken him 6 years to come to ONE of my birthdays haha

Above - Fatat, NV & Fred

Now comes the embarrassing part. I had a few to drink on an empty stomach. The worst part was I wasn't drunk. At least if I was drunk, I would have a good excuse. I went to take a photo with Nazila and some how fell through the gap between my chair and her chair. My ass landed flat on to the ground. Being embarrassed and in pain I still got back up for a photo. haha Let's just say the chairs were those fold out chairs that weren't that stable!

Above - NV (in pain) & Nazila

This caused a massive laughing fit for one?????

Above - Having a MASSIVE laughing fit

Another special guest at this year's birthday was AMY. Amy and I worked at Access Testing Centre a few years ago. Even though we don't see each other that much we still keep in touch. Note that's Christine's tits in the background!

The below photo kills me. Josh scroffing down something and Eleni making a point? Who Knows...

One of my birthday presents organised by Oishii this year was a calendar of photos taken on my 2007 Trip. The front page was taken in Tuscany. There was however a slight problem the company that made the calendar printed the entire calender upside down haha I'm telling you it only happens to me.

Now this calendar caused a huge fuss. You see there was 2 calendars. A serious one with all the nice pictures and one naughty one that featured half of the Mykonos photos. As much as I tried to hide the calendars, they were distributed around.


Entertainment started with some samba dancers:

Some how some of my people ended up on the dancer floor. I can see Ronya & Tony in the below pic:

I think Eleni got pretty excited and got up to join?

More photo shoot session with the group in the corner:

Above - Hakz & Nurcan

Above - Susan & NV

It was going so well until Fred brough a bottle of white wine. I think it was down hill from there. I remember drinking most of it and being tipsy haha

The below picture shows why:

Plus Nez who knows my weak spot hit me up with Cocopops and Baileys:

I think that's my hangover breakfast tomorrow morning haha

Meanwhile I get a phone call. It's Caramela restuarant. It's the guy that I made a booking with. I can't hear him too well so I walk outside only to bump into him. He informs me that the waiters showed us to the wrong tables and infact the tables on the dancefloor were ours. He offers to move us but at this point of time I cant be fucked so I tell him to leave it and serve dinner as people are starving.

Eventually the food meat platter comes out:

The mezes were quite disappointing as there was only like 2 types and not enough to share around. Usually any Greek restaurant you go to, you are swimming in mezes. Oh well I suppose at the end of the day you come to have a good time and not fuss over food too much.

Meanwhile the Asian table were at the outside bar because they found cheaper drinks there. By the time they came back in the food was cold.


Meanwhile Nez cornered me for a photo:

The bellydancer finally comes out and yes the entire table scream to get me up. Some how I end up on the dance floor:

We continue taking photos:

Above - Murat, Nazila, NV, Tugcen & Nez

The night slowly comes to an end as the Asian table decides to storm out. Gus decides to stick around a bit more with us. Mainly to perve on the hot waitresses that are barely wearing anything. Who can blame him?

I think we leave the restuarant around 1am to start arguing outside where to go. Murat convinces us to go to Burwood. Where as Nazila is screaming for Kings X.

So we end up at Burwood to realise all the cafes are closing. Even Georges Cafe wont accept us. So we do the next best thing - Burwood Park. We sit at Burwood Park for a good hour while I sober up. Some where in between apparently I kept screaming to see Tugcen and Nazila kiss. haha Did the kiss happen? Well I'll leave that one to your imagination.

Above - Recovering at Burwood Park - NV, Nazila & Murat.

That's too another birthday. Till next time. Thanks to all that came and for the lovely presents

:)