Hmm,, yes, i'm a century old. Unlike many other women, i don't find aging a dreadful thing. Why would you find it so when you feel more complete every year? Two years before i didn't have Yida and DaTing, one year before i didn't have MuFFin but this year i have them all plus a 4 room HDB! My every year wish last time was for my relapse not to recur but this year, i never make any wish. I have come to terms with my old ailment, what will come will come. ^_^
The earliest present i received was from Aunt E. She treated me to French fine dining with her husband. It was at Saint Pierre (you can go search the name in yahoo for her location). The dinner was a real once in a life time experience. You will get people to pull your chair for you to sit kind. Too high class for people ilke me who fold their legs up on chair. HHahaha. A trolley of red, white wine and champagne will greet you and the waiter would ask for your preference. I'm really not a red wine lover so i just shut up and acted as if i knew what he was talking (with french ascent). I let my uncle did all the wine talking and we've got a 1989 french red wine (Don't ask me wat name was it). A mega size menu was sent to us and although there were translation, i don't really know what exactly was in that dish of the menu. So again, i let the 'experts' decide. My aunt decided on degustation menu which means you get to taste everything on the menu but in small portion. How cool was that? It was a whooping 9 course dinner with exquisite presentation plus taste. It was awesome and so was the bill. $769 bucks for a 3-person dinner. =x
My parents would give me hongbao every year so there was no exception. On my actual birthday, i chose to attend school coz i love the lecturer. Not that he was handsome (he was so old man!), but his unique way of teaching. Adding much more 'flavours' than other typical lecturers. Plus, he would tell us what was expected of the lectures. Very often, he would make the class laugh. lol. So that explained. Anyway, Yida was begging me not to go school that day. Bad me insisted so he said he would go for plan B then. We were supposed to meet at 9pm but my sch ended early at 830pm. So i loitered around Tiong Bahru Plaza and kept calling Yida to hurry him. AT 9pm, there were no sign of him! I got real pissed lo! HOw can he be late on MY BIRTHDAY? So sincere right?
Arghhhh.... I called and called and called. All he would say was "reaching soon". Then he just explained "You will know why later." ARGHH... Seriously, i was too pissed to be surprise by any surprise. ANd best of it was my hp was dying. ARGHH... he appeared at 930pm and i had waited for an hour. I joined him in the cab. ANd he handed me this cake and wished me "Happy Birthday!" I can't switch my mood with a snap of a finger. So i just hear his explanations.
He baked the cake. HE baked two actually. One for trial and the other for real. He borrowed my uncle's oven and got almost whole of my family over to 'support' him. HE got the kids and adult to taste. My anger was making him nervous and all, he kept telling my mum,"DIe liao la, Yanting sure v v v v angry..... " My mum backed him up u know? She said,"If she dares to be angry, ask her to talk to her mum!" FWAH..... Win liao lo.... seem like i'm e big bully! So the reason that he was late not coz he baked two cakes but some glitches along the way. The frosting he made, melted when put on the cake. He went into panick mode coz it kinda destroyed the look of it. So my uncle's wife then quickly layer melted chocolate to camouflage the frosting residue. That caused him an hour late.
He used my cake 'box' and all my other equipments to bake a cake for me! haha sound funny. The moment he saw me, he gave me the 'please dun be angry mood.' WAhahahahhaa
Due to the fact that he left me loitering around for an hr, i ate alot of junk food. Thus, i only have a small piece of the cake. It tasted heavenly. He told me," Let the last man in your life to bake you the first cake." FWAH....i tell you, i'm touched to tears!!!!
We went to Mr Bean opposite Parklane to have his dinner. My treat! Hee! I was worried about not walking MuFFin for two days will cause her to accumulate too much energy. Wanted to go home right after the dinner and he refused aggressively! So no choice lo, we went for pool till 1am. During the session, he kept checking his hp. Out of curiousity, i asked who was he msging. He claimed that he was checking on the reception in that area. Hmm i just tot it was funny of him to do that but nv suspect anything. Then he got a call which was asking where he was. I still didn't smell anything fishy till i saw April and Eugene walking past the glass plane. FWAH! Surprise!!!! They came and delivered me my present! So sweet of them to purposely come all the way from Jurong to Parklane. They actually came down right after Eugene's ice hockey practice. Many thanks to their sweet thoughts! They gave me a big box with many small boxes inside. Two of those boxes contained creepy crawlers that looked real! It was a HUGE beetle and a fly. I saw the beetle first and instinctly shut the box back again. EEkks! My hair stand lo! THe rest of the boxes were opened with caution, far away from me. lol. Here's all the boxes in the big black box!
Check out those creepy crawlers! (pic stolen from mytenfingers.blogspot.com)
After all the boxes were investigated, April then pulled out my actual present.
Here! My first coach! Wahahhaha. The pouch is real useful when i dun wan to bring my bulky wallet. My hp can fit inside with all the necessary stuff! hee! Thanks again!
Not to forget the special gift Iris and Ben gave me.
I received these in my mail box! It was fanstantic! We watched these two show in a day! Hee.. love those movies! Thanks for these thoughtful gifts!
Ben's drawing of muf at the back of envelope! So nice isn't it? Heehee
I love love all presents given to me on my birthday! Thank you to all my friends who wished me Happy Birthday through sms too! Big thank you again!
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3/20/2008 06:26:00 PM
