We’ll make this Le Short and Le Sweet. We are sibeh busy now preparing for tonight’s partayyyy and we can barely contain our excitements! *squeeeeeeeee* (sibeh busy still got time to write blog post hor? anyhoo.)
Le Food Table sans food. We will bring out Le Food when Le Party begins to ensure Le Food be Le Fresh for all Le Slugphiles.
Le Thousands of Le Googly Sluggy Eyeballz. Okay maybe not thousands, we exaggerates. Is it only in Le Hundreds. But all we handmake one hokay, dun play-play.
Le Bouquet from LE TWO QUEENS! In shape of Le Garden Slug!! *Le Swoon* Le Eye Stalks are made out of a real plant. Sibeh creative leh, we loves! <3 Two Queens ah Two Queens, why y’all so sweeeeeetttt? We will cry one leh :’) *sniffles*
Le Love Missive from Le Two Queens. HOMG they’ve even caught on to Le Lingo! *Le Double Swoon*
Le Party Packs, Le Door Gifts and Le Miscellaneous Party Items.
Le Prizes. Whatchy’all been waitin’ for, riiiiight?
I guess it’s going to become Le Sluggy Tradition now, to throw youse a Slugalicious party once a year to celebrate our birthday.
We turned five on 8 December 2011, however, we were too busy watching Le Turkey TV to organise something for youse, our dearest and darlingest Slugphiles. We knew we weren’t gonna be able to get away with it, so we consulted Le Stars in Le Eastern Sky and picked Le Most Auspicious date to celebrate — Wednesday, 4 January 2012. That’s like, merely a few days away! (RSVP details available after a few more paragraphs of mindless drivel. Or scroll down lah if you can’t wait >.< )
Can you believe it? That we’ve been around for five whole years? ‘Coz we can’t believe it ourselves.
We opened Le Shoppe on 8 December 2006. We completely forgot about our 1st birthday. Our 2nd birthday went by just as quietly. We wrote a teary post (probably one of our best posts ever) on how we wouldn’t trade you for a million dollars. We decided to celebrate our 3rd because good things come in threes, right? And finally last year, we decided to celebrate with a bang. It was the single most memorable night for us last year. Many of youse came by to share love and laughs, and we hope you’ll do the same again!
So here we are, Le Five Years Old. Awsum artwork by Mishal “Noodle” Slug
Le TGS Fan Night 2012 Le Date & Le Time: Wednesday 4 January 2012, registration starts at 6.30pm
Le Theme: Come dressed in Sluggy Olive Green or Sluggy Yellow! (refer to our awsum logo for reference).
What can we has other than everyone dressed in green and yellow? Here iz what we can has.
We can has all your favourite foodses and drinkses.
We can has Le Painstakingly Handmade Door-gift for each of youse.
What are they? They are Le Googly Sluggy Eyeballz of coz!
This is how you put it on. It’ll go perfectly with your Sluggy Olive Green and/or Sluggy Yellow outfit. Trust us Le Fashionista Slugs. Le Googly Sluggy Eyeballz sans pupils on Le Joseph Slug’s hemsem head
We can has Le Awsum Hug Ticket for each of youse! Basically you can go up to anyone at the party, present them with this ticket to redeem a hug. (Now everybody say, “Awwwwww….”). Yep, that’s us. Always doing our bit to spread Le Loves.
Three lucky (randomly chosen) people will get a special “golden ticket” each, which allows them to redeem a special hug such as:
• Le Bear Hug
• Le Hug With Kiss
• Le Snuggle
*many excites!*
Now remember to keep Le Hug Ticket with you, because we shall be using Le Ticket Serial Number for Le Lucky Draw Prizes! Le Exciting neh! Ooh how Le Clever we are.
We can has special guests like Le Ice Cream Man and Le Tarot Card Reader.
We can has good, clean, dorky-adorable games like Le Treasure Hunt, Le “Banned Words” and Le Broken Telephone Line.
Don’t look at me, I’ve no idea what a Broken Telephone Line game is. It is all planned by Le Young Slugs as they will be taking charge of Le Fan Night. Le Old Slugs will simply meander around all night doing what we do best – pretending to act like bossly bosses.
Le Food, Le Drinks, Le Music and Le Good-Looking Slugs are all on da house, yo. So chop-chop-kalipok fasterly RSVP as we’ve only got space for 60-odd Slugphiles.
HOW TO LE RSVP
• Limited to the first 60 peoples
• RSVP by Monday 2 Jan 2012 5.00pm to justask@thegardenslug.com with the subject “TGS Fan Night 2012″.
• Include your name & contact number – limited to 1pax per reservation. (So if you’re coming in a group, each of you has to RSVP individually hokay? Dun be lazy.)
• You may also RSVP via SMS to 9225-7913
CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YA!! Le K and Le Thanx and Le Bye!
For the uninitiated, we shall translate our inscrutable slugspeak for you:
hemsem = handsome
oktober = october
slugbabies = young slugs below the age of 25
Slugspeak is so cryptic even Google Translate cannot helpch you. We know this because we tried. [click on image to enlarge]
Google thinks it’s German. German??!?! Pfffft.
Anyhoo.
We celebrated many a Slug birthday this month.
The first Slug birthday was Mathew Slug’s. But because you went to Bangkok without us to celebrate your birthday, dear Mathew boy, you no can has 15 seconds of fame on this here Slug-pimping slug blog. HNG!! Happy birthday nonetheless. *tosses hair*
There was a double celebration for Havard Slug and Ankit Slug.
This is neither Havard nor Ankit, by the way. This is Joseph Slug shamelessly hijacking posing with a birthday cake that’s not his. Joe may be hemsem but he is neither a slugbaby nor an October baby. JOE YOU HAVE TO WAIT TILL DECEMBER HOKAY? PATIENNNNNNCE!!!!
The real birthday boys.
L-R: Havard Slug & Ankit Slug.
You may not always see Havard Slug, hemsem as he is, because he is one of our Kitchen Slugs and as far as Kitchen Slugs go, they are usually, um, in the kitchen. He may make appearances for his fanbase on special request, though. Kindly submit your requests via telepathy. Thank you.
We also celebrated Shawn Slug’s birthday last week.
No shameless cake-hijacking this time ’round.
Legend has it that Shawn Slug ate a record-breaking two plates of fried rice, seven pieces of KFC, two chicken pies, and two pieces of birthday cake. In one sitting.
One cannot help but wonder where all the food goes. We joke that one day Shawn Slug may eat us to the poorhouse. *uncomfortable laughter*
Some of the Young Slugs played a good prank on Shawn Slug on his birthday, but we’ll let you ask Shawn about that personally when you see him HEHE
Just in case you were thinking we were too lazy (and/or brain-dead) to come up with a proper (and/or witty) title for this blog post. You are absolutely right.
Many of youse have asked “Hey it’s been five years now, what are your plans for expansion? Please please please open a branch at Woodlands/ Hougang/ Bukit Timah/ Malaysia/ India/ Siberia…”
If you know any of us at all, you would know we are simple Slugs. You would know we weren’t looking to be billionaires (with great money comes great responsibility and great stress). You would know all we wanted was a comfortable place of our own, where we can serve rustic, hearty fare, and make people happy. You would know how we put our heart (and soul and blood/ sweat/ tears, yes even after all these years. Hey it rhymes!) into our food, our service, our staff selection, our smiles. The idea of branching or franchising, to us simple Slugs, makes us worry about the dilution of our heartfelt-ness in everything we do.
It would be silly of us to completely rule it out though (so you Slugphiles in Woodlands/ Hougang/ Siberia etc etc… may still have hope) but for now, we’re putting the idea of ‘branching out’ into our “Someday/Maybe” folder. ((And boy do we love our parentheses today))
Expanding we are, though, just not quite in the direction one might expect. We may not have officially announced it (but, um, I suppose this counts as an official announcement?) but sekretly, in the background, we have been working very hard on our Catering arm.
OK la, it’s not such a big sekret. It’s just that our blog posts haven’t quite caught up with all the events we’ve been catering at. We have been engaged for many a happy house party, corporate event, and product launch. We might blog about the entire process someday (which we find absolutely thrilling #food_nerds_r_us) from menu creation, to logistics & layout planning, and how we draw up all our blueprints on re-used A4 paper.
We cannot have done any of these without our wonderful team of Young Slugs — (just so you know, Old Slugs = Sophia, Joseph and Sharon. Everyone else are Young Slugs, regardless of mortal age.)
Meet some of the newer additions to Team Slug Power: introducing Mishal, Mathew, Havard and Simin.
Grabbing a quick bite before transforming into Professional Butlers at the Adidas x Stella McCartney launch at Marina Bay Sands, 6 October 2011 (which was supposed to be the point of this post. Sorry it took quite a bit of waffling before we got here. Hehe)
Our smart-looking Slug Butlers, er, butler’d around with trays of savouries, sweets, and beverages.
A tray of savoury characters.
Another tray of savoury characters.
A tray of sweets.
Replete with beverages to suit (almost) every taste ~ Bersano Conte Baldino Prosecco, Santa Vittorio Still Water, and a TGS-made refreshing iced matcha tea with a hint of yuzu citron
Mishal Slug looking sweet as the Savouries Butler
Havard Slug looking hemsem as the Beverage Butler
And not forgetting our hardworking Kitchen Slugs who slave away in the kitchen, reproducing all the canapés we serve at such wonderful events.
More catering photos and blog posts to come. If you’d like to find out more about what we can do for you re. catering, contact our Director of Food Communication & Design, Sophia Slug at sophia [at] thegardenslug [dot] com . She is quite the friendly, dun worry.
Every year we show our support for PinkDot by putting up a poster or two, blogging about it, and maybe sponsoring something or other.
This year, we are going to do something different. We are coming out, and we are making a statement.
The Garden Slug is closing shop today, a Saturday, to support The Freedom To Love by having the entire team attend PinkDot. Yes, all twenty of us will be there.
This. Is. BIG. Hokay? ‘Coz we never, never, never, never, ever close shop on a SATURDAY, yo.
We are proud to say that our team of Slugs comprises smart & passionate people from all walks of life, we welcome anyone as long as they’re willing to work hard. Same goes for the way we treat our customers – we don’t care whether you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or heterosexual. We welcome you without discrimination. (Oh, except when you have noisy, unruly children we really wish you’d go away. But ah well, even rude, ugly children shouldn’t be discriminated against. Here’s to democracy & having the freedom to breed.)
We’re also really excited about today because we are taking this opportunity to make this a team outing!
We have ourselves some awsum pink t-shirts
We printed and ironed-on the t-shirt artwork ourselves. Actually the printer ran out of ink, but we think it looks kinda trendy
We’re also sponsoring a Pink Drink for the event. The first 2,000 registrants will get our homemade sekret recipe Pink Drink HEHE, so come early!
We hope to see some if not all of you today too. Seriously, dude, it’s 2011. We reckon we no longer have to “fight” for acceptance, and that most Singaporeans are really cool about having lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and heterosexual family members. No seriously, a lot of you have straight friends & family and you sekretly (or openly) think they’re kinda weird and gross right? Listen to us – don’t be a**hole. Straight people were born that way, okay?
See you at Hong Lim Park today (Saturday, 18/6/2011) @ 5.00pm!
“Ah’ve hurrrd people say that… Too much of anything is no good for you bebeh…”
Thanks for putting together this very sexy video of Joseph “Hunky” Slug, er, a turkey being carved, Mayor Hansel, Nicholas, Weiru & Hans. Much loves xoxo
OK OK so we’re a little behind on the slug pr0n. We put out a teaser and then we kept quiet for, like, almost three weeks. That’s almost unforgivable. What could we possibly be so busy with, right? Apart from cooking, cleaning, serving, smiling, staffing, scheduling, catering, renovating, innovating, hiring, eating, drinking, don’t thinking… I mean, yah, not like we have a lot to do.
Hokay, cut to the chase. Here’s what happened on our mega-memorable first ever outdoorsy sluggy store outing! All photos taken by our very talented Terry Slug.
In the first of our seven-episode miniseries, we start off with the very exciting departure from mainland Singapore.
In the next episode of Sweaty Slug Pr0n, we’ll be showing “The Boat Ride”. Stay tuned, slugphiles!
HEHE
