Ad is 30!

Yes, in a flesh, Ad is 30! So the big question is.... WHAT'S the PROGRAM?????

All the pressure of creating a memorable day fell onto my shoulders. Not wanting to "shoulder" all that responsibilities, I asked the bday boy if there was anything, anything in the world that he wanted to do on his big day. He thought about it for a few days and wanted to go "overseas". So the most natural place to head to was Ubin! hee.... Its been a long long time since we've been there, it would be fun to just hang out with nature and eat ubin seafood for dinner. After making some calls, I realised that most of our kakis had something on or could only make it really late on a saturady. So traveling great distance to get to ubin seems like not too good a choice.

We have a common friend asking us WHY ubin on his bday. ha ha ha.... Then, we carried out a lengthy conversation on what could beat ubin and creatively, she found out that our boy hasn't been to the Night Safari! Imagine that! At age 30, Ad has yet to visit one of Singapore's top tourist "night" spot.... *tsk* *tsk*

So it was decided, we'll go explore night safari with the bday boy, which suddenly seems alot more appealing than taking the bump boat ride and ubin seafood dinner.

so how exciting is that for a 30th bday celebration eh? only so so if you asked me... but but but.....

on the eve of his bday, exactly 12hours before he turns 30, I had an incredibly feasible and fun idea for celebrating his bday! hee.... I would throw a surprise bday party for him in our house! I'm sure I surprised quite a few people with my super last min invitation to the party. I quickly sent out loads of sms, called a few that I thought was "safe" to talk on the phone. And the adrenaline built up was scary, I could almost go on adrenaline instead of food. hee...

So this was the plan:

evening:
I'll get party decorations & drinks for the party, must clean up the house also....

night
7pm: Jen & Ad to meet Em & Al for pre-dinner shopping
9pm: JenAd, Em, Al, A, Ja & Ca to have dinner
11pm: A, Ja & Ca to go to JenAd house to open the house for the rest of the folks
Em & Al to "send" JenAd home with a BIG detour hee hee.....

1115pm:
Ad's colleagues will get ready for choc fondue together with E.
B & E to bring icebox with ice for all the drinks!
M to get snacks.
J to bring duck.... dun ask me why....
T to bring yummy choc cake (which we forgot to cut.... eeks sorry!)
everyone to pinch in to decorate the house, blow up the ballons, doodle on all the glass in the house. All in 30mins!

midnight: bday boy to return home to his surprise!

This plan sounds excellent right? Everyone seems so ready to chip in, the mood was HIGH. mins before meeting Ad, I had to psy myself to behave NORMALLY, not to sms excessively, not to be sneaky about anything! but HOW not to???

*excited*

Co-incidentally, Ad had a great pre-bday dinner thanks to Em & her new job hee... she brought us to Brazil, a great MEAT restaurant, Ad's favourite was their beef. Here's how MUCH food he has on his plate.... yes, its that FULL all the time!


here's the rest of the folks:

Em & Al, who gave us the big big treat. Thank YOU Thank YOU!


Mr. A here is trying to decide how much to take... hmm....


these two are the critical people here who is going to open JenAd house for the rest of the folks for the surprise party heh....

and here's my healthy looking plate heh.... lots of GREENS (because the man with the meat on skewer guy hasnt visited me yet.... :(( )


So, we had dinner as planned, JenAd house was opened and all the guest streamed in without a hitch, we had the detour required by visiting Aldric. He's super CUTE!

So after some photo-taking session with this cute baby, we took another slight detour to the petrol kiosk hee... I sent Ad to check out the prices of drinks in SPC, if they were indeed cheaper than Esso/Mobile. Reluctantly, he got out of the car with a super LOOOONNNNGGGG face. Not sure if it was because he was tired. Or it was because he was wondering about his BIRTHDAY hee...

I took this time of absence to make a call to check if everyone is INSIDE the house. It would be funny to find them outside the house, along the corridor or at the carpark.... then it'll b going, "hey, what are you guys doing here?" ha ha ha....

This was when I realised that ALOT of Ad's colleagues were not IN yet! *panic*
We're 5mins away from home and they are just turning in from PIE. I had to sneak a word to Al, the driver to drive sssssslllloooooooooowwwwwllllllyyyyyy

I had to pray so hard that all is INSIDE the house, no one in the carpark, no one in the stairwells nor the corridor PLEASE!

I called Ja when we reached the carpark with a fake conversation. She was on the other side mumbling a totally different set of stuff from me! ha ha ha.... it was quite hilarious. hee.... at the last moment, she told me to stall for 3mins! Because Ad's colleagues just rang the door bell as we spoke!

WHAT a close shave! Thank god we din MEET them in the lift landing ha ha ha... wonder if they were smart enough to take the other lift hee....

So, I had to sneak the stalling info the Al again. We spent 1min deliberating if we should use a coupon for parking their car, another 30secs deciding WHICH type of coupon to use, 30secs looking for the coupons, 30 secs tearing the coupons, checking the dates to make sure its correct and 30secs slowly emerging from the car, locking it and double checking if its safely locked and finally, reach the lift landing..... *phew* got some time allowance.

While in the lift, I started digging for stuff in my tiny bag in a decoil to take the camera out of my bag hee.... (I think my acting and script writing is getting really GOOD, I should consider a career in TCS someday....). As usual, Ad opened the door to our house and..... here's the first shot:


The door was open to a dark house, with a tinge of BO in the air (because all these jokers did not turn on the aircon! They were afraid to let Ad suspect that someone was in the house... ha ha ha.....). With the corridor lights, we can see bits of the birthday streamers, party decorations darting across the living room.....





So WHERE are the "surprise" crew members? I got a surprise to be greeted by an empty house fill with ballons and party streamers.... I had to look really hard to find them.




not only were they being creative with the decorations, even the decorations has their own decorations.... see to understand what I mean heh....




Here's Ad in his happy dance...


But these two young gentlemen does not seem very impressed....


Guess who's the centre of attention in the end?????

Yup, Ginger the cat stole the show for the night.....
it was the first time we have a 4-legged animal in the house, maybe the last, because I was sneezing like crazy the next day from possibly an allergy to its fur. :(

more cat-nips:

might be her first time seeing fish food through a glass, wonder if she'll try her claws at my nemos when she's alone with them. Her stares were intense! Perhaps she prefers freshwater diet to marine fish hee....


here she is, causing quite a stir in the games room, where the boys are tackling tough HALO mission. Having Ginger purring at the motion game doesnt really help them advance forward much. Ha Ha Ha....


erhm, I'm not sure if Ginger is really so intelligent to play scissors, paper, stone or that whoever that hand was, is seriously DRUNK! ha ha ha.....

More of the rest of the party:
Here's super tired Al, relaxing at the "sleep" corner of the house in his super relac-jack clothes hee....


all the glass in the house had graffiti on them. Including the fish tank! pity it's not easily captured on picture, but what the hack, here's one:


the fondue....


the relac-jacks....


the bday boy doing a choc-spoon-number:


the man with the duck... or is HE the duck??? hhmmmm......


After a night of surprise, laughter, dancing, gaming, relaxing Ad's bday has just STARTED! ha ha ha.....

Plans for the actual day celebrations carried on as planned, dinner with T & R, Ja & Ca at PS Cafe in Dempsy road. The cafe is nicely decorated with a great sit down chitchat ambience. T & R arrived at PS Cafe at 6pm and were shocked to discovered that they are fully BOOKED for the night! Aww.... after all that anticipation, of dining there. Just before they left the cafe, they spotted a lounging area, which was still suitable for dining and was available. super COOL!


the most retro looking table ornament. somehow the printed flowers with the ball-like tea-light holder turns the table super nostalgic.


if you look closely enough, you might be able to spot celebrity-actress-emcee Sharon Au in the background, hair tied up in two pony tails like a little girl hee...

At 830pm, after our dinner, we quickly drive off towards our destination of the NIGHT SAFARI! Yeah, arrived at 9pm, did not get lost due to the great navigational skills of Ca.


We got onto the tram after watching the not so exciting show....


Recalling my previous experience in the night safari was not really exciting. Because, I can hardly ever see any animals in those glass displays..... I think they all hide away from ME! *bleah*

Fortunately, for us this trip, we saw almost ALL of the animals in the safari. Hee... Bday Boy Luck? maybe.

Unfortunately, these animals are flesh-shy, oops, flAsh-shy, so it was not possible to capture their presence on our camera.

In the flying squirrel cage, it took us a while to find the squirrel on top of a branch along with another 6-10 patrons in the cage. We starred at it for a while, it did not moved nor show any intentions of flying, bored, we started to shuffle along... Out of the blue, it FLEW!

Not only did it flew, it flew and landed on someone's HEAD! ha ha ha.... right before our eyes! That poor fella must have gotton a fright. No, I mean the flying squirrel being frighten out of his skin....(who cares about the fella who was hit on the head??? homo sapiens, we've got tonnes of them around). That squirrel quickly scurried up another tree trunk, a much taller one this time and it looks as if it REALLY mean to STAY up there for a while. Still recovering from the pantene-shampooed hair maybe? ha ha ha...

just as we figured out what happened in that spilt seconds, we felt as if we've witness a much better performance than that rehearsed by the trainers hee hee.... One comment from the crowd made:

"that was worth my ticket money for the night!"

How true it is...

We saw most of the safari and headed back to the entrance/exit at midnight. There, was a space were visitors can pay S$10 to take a picture with the safari's animals.... So we did not hesitate to be generous with our photo-taking:


you can pay US S$10/view k? hee....







So its past midnight of Ad's bday, you think we'll stop here? NO!

Al & Em offered supper & cake after our safari experience and sure, we headed up towards their place. We parked the car and decide to walk over to their place without displaying any coupons... cos got bday boy mah, so lucky the whole, can see so many different animals in the night safari, surely, we wont be so "lucky" to get caught by the summon officer?

Just as we were walking towards the staircase of the carpark, we saw the summon guy!!!!! ARGH!!! Straightaway without any hesitation, all 4 of us made an illegal instant U-turn in our steps in the carpark and headed towards our car! Super HENG sia.... I tried to dig for the night parking coupons but failed to locate one... :( So we had to call for reinforcements.... Al came down with his car keys to rescue us!!!! YEAH!

We tore the night coupon in style right infront of the summon officer's EYES and left the carpark in style as well!


Yeah, we made it to eat the yummy fresh cream mango cake, chicken nuggets n wings and best of all, COKE! ha ha ha


And you think we're done celebrating? NO! We've still got a choc-fudge cake from T remember?????
So we brought it to lunch with our church mates and held another celebration there! ha ha ha.....


looks good eh? it taste GREAT!


And you think we're done after eating the cake??? HALO?????

The gang came over to our place and inline with the IR concept from our garmen, we held a xbox gaming corner:


and a MJ table hee....


and the luckiest boy of the night:

He just keep winning! This hand was a self-touch super limit game of half-color, two animals, one wind, one big card 6 doubles in total. He WIN!

yes yes.... its really the end now. After 48hrs of non-stop action. our boy has celebrated his 30th big day more than anyone that I know.

not bad for the 12th hour effort eh?*grin*

Hey guys, thank you for making this celebration so memorable, for being so supportive, for being so responsive to the super last min preparations hee....

YOU ARE the BEST!

Happy 30th Birthday Darling Ad. *muaks*