When mid-year comes around, it has been a yearly ritual for me to throw a birthday celebration and document it somewhere somehow on this blog.

Ushering in the 1st of July with the company of my friends and family serves as a reminder to me of how blessed I am to have these special bunch in my life.

Birthday eve 

Despite being occupied and busy with everyone's respective schedules, I made it a point to meet up with the ones dear to me (and the ones whom I've not seen for a long time!) on the eve of my birthday. 

What could be a better reason for catching up for a sit down gathering over yummy food & some drinks?   

BIRTHDAYS.   

For the ones reading TheJessicat.com for a long time now, you have seen me grow (or perhaps even grow with me!) from the birthdays I spent as an innocent high-school kid, to an angsty scene-punk teenager up until my party-hard days as a young adult. 

For the new readers out there, hiya! The archive of all the birthdays I've spent are here

A birthday kiss! One of the many birthday presents he showered me with this year 

That's another one 

They were lovely. Couldn't help it 😀

Despite being still baked from last night's waywardness, I made it to my birthday celebration at Antipodean Cafe @ Bangsar, albeit a tad late. 

It was great to see how all my (early) guests were already talking and made friends amongst each other!   

The 12 of us at dinner!

I called upon the waiter to bring out the food-for-sharing I ordered on top of our individual main meals at the table.  

Had chosen 2 bowls of Potato Salad, 2 bowls of Spinach & Mushroom Alfredo Pasta and 2 plates of Rendang Chicken Satay for all!

The thought of these delights makes me wanna go there again! 😀

Chit-chatting & catching up over dinner! 

So glad to see KK & Chia Li! 

Loads of laughter too! 

Current housemates X former housemates!

Neither of us could finish the food left on the table 

Finishing our individual portions was hard enough, let alone finishing the food-for-sharing.

I was really stuffed  Half of my Smoked Salmon Omelette had to go to waste argh.

But then again, all of us had space for the delicious Chocolate Indulgence birthday cake teehee!

Did someone say…. CAAAAAAAAAKE? 

Thank you so much, Antipodean Cafe for a good night!  Also, much love to all my wonderful guests who turned up & spent time with me on my birthday eve dinner 

It meant a lot to me to see all of you tonight despite my last minute invitation. I've been enduring lots of trouble recently; handling depression as a victim of an in-house theft and busy shifting into my new apartment.

Thank you so much for all your presents too! 

Sorry, some of the presents were somewhere else at the time I snapped this photo! T_T

More piccies of the night :

The other half Konzycakes and I 

My gurlies, Pamela & Venessa

Going all the way back since high school – Kok Kwan & Chia Li 

My beautiful buddy Anis who's always there for me 

Daaaaaaazzzaaa Darryl! My kittyboy Chivas' guardian angel 

The last few that stayed till the end!

Enroute to Zouk in Sam's car!

Just before midnight, we adjourned to the after-party! I was given a guestlist for my birthday thanks to Zouk 

Being the EDM-kaki I am, I decided to hold it in Zouk Mainroom in conjunction with LOUD's Blink & Goldfish's 2nd Year Anniversary. Wootwoot! 

Music was fabulous

My guests & I got into Zouk Mainroom and I popped open a Johnnie Walker Black Label for the night.

Let's fire away! 

Tonight's beats consisted of lots of electronica big room, trance, house, dubstep & mixed turntablism

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSa1sM_nwiI

Thanks to theboyf, he recorded some footage of the night.

(Watch it for the audio & only some bits of us dancing – the lighting was inadequate duh!) 🙂

The DJs went on mercilessly with their epic drops & beats

Here are some of the photos from the after-party.

Bombs away!

My EDM music kakis – in trance we believe!

And one metalhead in the background photobombing us LOL

Wootwoot!

My babe Evelyn and I! 

How time flies! We celebrated a joint birthday together right here in Zouk in 2009!

Spent the rest of the night headbanging & popping

Although not a fan of EDM music, Anis was such a great sport too!

Pammy & I in our element 

Finally Edwin appeared! We thought he dropped dead after last night's shenanigans :O

But so glad to see you are fine & ACTUALLY turned up to my party!

Joanne & I!

I think this is our 1st time partying together… for ONCE & not seeing each other in classrooms!

Drop it like it's hot!

We go a looooong way back, ey? 😀

So have Sam & I 😀 😀

A "childhood friends" photo! My Penang-kiaaaaaaas!

My couzzies Shaun & Meng dropped by too!

Ohhh hello Yong Sern! 😀 😀

I love my friends.

Moar people!

Throughout the night, my phone has been buzzing non-stop

& each birthday wish made me smile! Thank you to all of you! 

Just like every year, none of of my guests allowed the birthday girl to go home sober. 

Who made this rule anyway? You must be a sadistic prick or an alcoholic! 🙁

My 1st Flaming Lamborghini thanks to Pammy! 

My 2nd Flaming Lamborghini thanks to Venessa 

And all the other glasses of whiskey I had to skull 

I reckon I was pretty wasted, according to the stories that the rest recounted to me the next morning.

Apparently they mentioned I landed in a mamak and ordered Neslo. No memory found whatsoever 

Don't remember this photo at all. Geez!

Every birthday turned out a memorable one to me; this is no exception. 

However, I found my 23rd to be a "transition" from my usual party-rocking ones to a slightly more mature, chilled & relaxed one. 

Chilled? Relaxed? Really? 

My dishevelled & intoxicated self begs to differ.

Obviously, I'm referring to the birthday dinner I held at Antipodean 😀 

That one was a very relaxed, mellowed & "old woman" one, methinks. How unbecoming of me!

But then.. there's always the after-party.

Don't think I'll ever get tired of it! 😛   

Happy Birthday to me! Till next year 😀

Friday night was beyond exhilarating. My fangirl life is complete.

I was an arms length away from one of my favourite, renowned DJs in the world. Ranked World #16, he is none other than the Dutch hottie Sander Van Doorn!

Let’s get this party started!

We shook hands and he autographed my hand!

SVD -Looks like I’ll never wash the back of my hand again 😛

As he was signing my hand with his lil Sharpie marker, I told him he was awesome.

He looked up & gave me a million dollar smile. I swooned. Sander is adorable! 

Okay. Enough with the gushing 😀

Sander Van Doorn’s gig was scheduled at 2am, and opening for him was DJ Terrence C.

Picture taken during Terrence C’s set

I attended the event with my gurlie & fave rave-kaki, Pammy 

Yay yay! We be partying with Sander Van Doorn

As if we never have enough of raves!

Nope, never. Bring ALL the world class DJs and we’ll be there.

When the clock hit 2 in the morning, the crowd became so rowdy!

Everyone had to get a closer look at Sander, to give him a high-five, to shake his hand, to get photos of him, to just be right in fronta him!

I was squashed, elbowed, and jostled against the uproarious crowd.

But was loving it. After all, that’s how a mosh pit should be; what’s a loud, crazy crowd made of if not for its unrestrained hustling?

Sander droppin’ it sick

He got the crowd so wild with his rambunctious spinning

The level of energy went 10 notches higher as Sander rocked the house with ‘Koko’

He also spun a few popular favorites like ‘Rattle’ by the Bingo Players

We love you Sander! 

Birds eye view : taken from upstairs in the VIP section

Deadmau5 spotted amongst the crowd! 😛

It’s a little different raving in the VIP area as no one really jumps madly.

So I went downstairs again to join a group of friends I spotted from the top!

How Ash & I would probably look during the day

How we look during the night 😛 😛

Keep it going till the sun comes up, Sander!

The night ended on a high note. What can I say?

Best Friday the 13th ever.

Got home at 7am, smiling myself to sleep. Indeed a night to remember

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Probably kinda late, but what went down in Febuary?

Another EDM powerhouse, Hardwell! Leaning more to Electro & Progressive music, the Dutch-born DJ is certainly on top of his game!

Ranked at World #24, Hardwell has pretty wicked tracks under his belt 

Hardwell acknowledging his fans

Hardwell dropping his co-track, ‘Zero 76’ that he made with Tiesto

I went there with my usual rave-kakis to watch him perform live.

Neither of us could miss watching this talented DJ spin that thang! 

My gurls Venessa & Pamela

The other half & I

My party peeps for the night

My gurlie Pam & I 

Bumped into more buddies! Kelly & Cherina

We went crazy

Arms waved furiously in the air, heads banged in unison and the entire Zouk mainroom was escalated into a hub of energy!

Hardwell dropped his ‘Encoded’ and ‘Cobra’ as well as other popular tracks apart from his own.

Grainy picture of Hardwell from my phone

Only 23 years old, he has been making waves, collaborating with EDM giants and not forgetting releasing Top Tenners on Beatport!

So ecstatic to finally meet him 🙂

Boyfie and I were drenched with perspiration

Epic night with Hardwell indeed

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Back in December, we had Ferry Corsten perform for us right in the middle of our city that never sleeps.

Everyone was in the Christmas mood & ready to Get Merry with Ferry!

It made my night watching Ferry Corsten take the night to full swing right before my very eyes.

Having him as part of my wallpapers for the past year and now seeing him in the flesh?

Indescribable. ‘Nuff said. 

Take it away Ferry!

Watch him roll!

Ferry upped our party-mood way off the ground as he blasted his popular mixes ‘Punk’, ‘Feel It’, ‘Holding On’ and ‘Into the Dark’

Don’t stop! The party enthusiasts haven’t gotten enough of being merry with Ferry just yet 

Ferry Corsten at the turntable

Closest photo of mine with Ferry

Thanks for the photos Ed! 😀

Drop the bass & watch us rave!

Hey, it’s not every day you get a world-class DJ performing for you. 

But World #18 DJ Ferry Corsten is right here, right now. So ya better bask in his house & trance beats!

My partypeeps for the night 🙂

Pammy & I again 

What’s that Ferry? You want a toast with your people of tonight? 😀

Why, gladly! 

CHEERS!

*clink*

Wheeeeeee!

Now where ma party peoples at! 😀

Thanks for a great night Ferry!

The pleasure is all ours.

Keep up the good job in bringing international acts & world class titans of the music industry, Zouk!

You certainly know how to make your party people happy campers every night don’tchall? 😀 

And if you want to see more head on over to Black Magic @ Voodoo KL where they have hosted  ELEVATE KL.