After putting off our little barbie due to the unavailability of our favourite Pit #76, we finally got down to it on 22 Sept. It was a bloody hot day but praise God for the fine weather He blessed us with closer to the evening - no sun, no rain and LOTS of wind.
We started off the evening at about 5.30, me starting the fire and getting my fingers singed to a nice pinkish colour in the process, Penny putting up the hammock we bought from Ho Chi Minh ages ago (much to Velouria's delight, she spent most of the evening lounging there). My mum prepared all the food as usual, with chix wings, pork chops, satay, kebabs, sotong, crabs and even whole scallops still in their shells. The whole merry troupe (my bro's friends - Jason, Sharon and Masuka-chan, and then my bro and abang Elfie) arrived at about 6pm so we started the session quite early. 
Penny wasn't feeling very well so she spent most of the time lying on the straw mat, enjoiyng the live worship music from Pit #75. She even had to give her favourite crabs a miss and only downed a few roasted shitake. Apart from that, she was burning sparklers with Vel.
Towards the end, we lit the birthday 'bun' that my mum made for my bro. Birthday cakes are so passe and we didn't have enough time to order a agar-agar cake for him (our original intention was to get him one in the form of Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants since he bears such an uncanny resemblance to the silly starfish). Only one section of the bun had filling in it, so the rest was used to make garlic bread since my mum had forgotten to buy bread after preparing the spread (getting old).
We were all quite stuffed as the night wore on. I decided to call it quits after downing my fourth can of Pepsi Twist. It's been quite a while since I had so much carbonated beverage in me. We cleared up and decided to call it a night.
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