This year seem to a year full of surprises with 63 facebook wall bdae wishes + 5 email bdae wishes + 30 sms bdae wishes + lot of verbal wishes! 1 cake cutted on 29/01 & 2 cakes cutted on 31/01 and all 3 cakes came to me of a total surprise to me!
I organised a Room Warming Party with my uni clique, LDPians on 29th Jan 2010 before the weekend march in! We've a Night Picnic Session behind SSC (by the walkway) just in front of the scenic night scene from NTU to jurong Island! Ramanan had to leave just when we started the picnic and the crowd started to get bigger with more ldpians joining in. Sitting by the picnic mats were...Sean, Roy, Zhimin, Jasmine, Hui Qun, Yun Qing, Gerry, Ma Jie, Xie Wei, He Shu, Boon Yen, Yuli, Shah Kiat and Swee Tim! I had prepared my only-know-how-to-bake-that brownies with vanilla ice-cream (in which goes with sean's vodka is nice nice), cakes, titbits, ice lemon tea-ju hua tea-green tea drinks, my favourite brown brother dessert/light wine, a whole chicken and ... Eating and chatting with the light breeze blowing onto our faces! so nice! Sean also dare me to pop a 1/4 cup full of gin in! I did it but it was 'spicy' as in burining my throat! Soon grace here with her handmade cookies and a pack of biscotti for me too! And the climate came when Christopher (little chris) and Huang Xu appeared with a bengawan solo coffee cake with lighted candles from the back! Ahhhh! Surprises! I really didn't foresee this will take place. Indeed, touched my heart! And all of them sang the bdae songs in english, chinese & malay...My smile was like swaying from right to left trying to give the biggest and nicest smile to appreciate everyone efforts while trying my very best to keep my tears inside the eyes. In LDP tradition set last year, the bdae girl/boy must sing bdae song to themselves! So...Happy Birthday to me...and so more...! After the caking cutting ceremony, everyone ate the cake and soon let's pack and go on to the next programme! Some have to leave...
We then marched to my Hall 4 Room through the SSC stairway, along the nanyang lake and in front of Yunnan Garden and still up the stairs to the 5th level! Here my room! I've prepared the lucky draw presents from 1st to 10th prizes. Here we were...getting the excited abt which prizes they were getting just like X'mas! After that, all simply just chill-out at the room with HTHT session and susan came! Abt 1.30pm we went back our room and i got my new roomie for the night, Yan Li! hahaha!
On the actual day (31/01), I decided to turn up for the NYC camp Day 2. And didn't expect them to have a bdae celebration for the bdae babies! So the whole camp sang bdae song to me and another girl from other group! Before that, at the introduction session with my fantastic team, Rojak, everyone reveal their age... and I announced:" Since you are turning 21 this coming date...I'm 23 today!" in which shocked all of them! I didn't regret going to the camp as it was so much fun. My team excel in a team planning exercise of planning a 6 mth activities with a beneficary and getting a sponsor of $5,000 in just 3 hours.
After the camp, heading home and after mummy's home-cooked dinner with a range of my favourites, Zhimin appeared with Kailin and Norman with a cake at my doorsteps! Wow! That's the 3rd surprise! And ahhh! Chocolate Indulgence! my 2nd favourites of four leaves cakes! 1st is Coco Delight. They really shock me! Kailin and Norman went off 1st and me and zhimin had HTHT session! She also helped me to design my Guestbook for my Room Warming.
All should be curious why I try to discourage the idea of bdae gift giving after 21st bdae. To me, I feel after the large expenses for 21st bdae gifts to friends...there's no need to give anymore as all are grown-ups adults le! Jus a simple dinner or a simple cake or preferrably a simple card...will have the same effects as the gfts! This gift-giving culture might worsen friendships in a long term...I mean to me....! hahah!
All in all, I've a happy satisfying excellent marvellous fantastic 23rd Birthday! Really enjoyable, really surprising, really interesting and really touching! =D Thanks each and everyone!
Room Warming cum 1st Surprise Celebration facebook album:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=198985&id=647364967&l=c891868f46
NYC Recruitment Camp 2nd Surprise Celebration facebook album:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=199019&id=647364967&l=4867ea3788
3rd Surprised Celebration by zhimin & kailin and a surprise gift from grace facebook album:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=199020&id=647364967&l=cd28e660b9
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