21st Birthday with Boyfriend!

BF helping me with my sandals

Birthday cake from Sister.

Heheh. So, on 18th April 2009, before BF came to fetch me, sister bought me a birthday cake. My family gave me red packets and besides that, Mom gave me a very meaningful gift – a “21st” logo pendant. I’ve always wanted that and few years ago, I told Mom about it. Surprisingly she told me that even when I didn’t ask that from her, she already knew I wanted it and had already bought the pendant long ago. I felt really touched when she gave it to me and I gave her a big fat hug. Mom’s always the best.. but besides her, I know I can count on my BF too!

My beautiful toes specially designed for that day (with help from sister)

Taken on the way to Marina Square

BF was very mysterious and he gave me a lot of suspenses on that actual day (oh, many thoughtful surprises too. read on!). I can’t believe how amazing he is as a Boyfriend (I’m sure he makes a good husband material too!). He always put in a lot of effort to make me feel special especially during such significant ocassion. I always feel that he’s very different from other guys.. he does thing very differently and he’s a man way beyond my imagination at some point of time.

Anyway, BF reached my place at about 3:15pm and he looked all exhausted and sweaty. I thought it was because of the hot weather and the journey from his place to my place and hence the look. However, I noticed something was missing – he didn’t carry anything with him (my gifts???). I knew he had it all hided somewhere. I was totally confused and had mixed feelings coz’ I didn’t know what was he up to.

We took a cab from my lobby and he told the taxi driver to take us to Marina Square. Again, I felt weird. “Why are we going there?” I asked BF. He said he planned to take me for dinner in the evening but as it was still early, he wanted to bring me there for shopping first (of course, it comes with those cheeky expression). I was like “Huh?! On such an important occasion, you bringing me for shopping?!” I was speechless but in my heart, I knew he had it all planned.

When we reached the Taxi Stand, he said he needed to go get something and when we took the escalator up, he brought me to another direction leading to the Pan Pacific Hotel. He told me since it was still early, he decided to bring me there to chill as his friend had recommended him that there was a newly opened cafe/pub in that hotel. I was like “Really meh?! You booked a hotel room is it!!!” He just kept giving me those cheeky (and of course, very cute!) expression and kept grinning away. I was totally stunned when we stood infront of the reception. HE REALLY BOOKED A HOTEL ROOM IN PAN PACIFIC! After all the check-in procedures (had to register myself too), we proceed to 16th floor. When we were in the lift, I had an unexplainable feeling.. I felt so excited, so loved, so speechless.. It was just so unbelievable and I couldn’t even put them into words. It felt like as though I was floating in the air with almost a suffocated feeling of being choaked with the “Love Air” surrounded me.

When we reached 16th floor, he asked me to wait outside and not go in with him. He needed to set up the video camera (to record my retarded surprised look LOL) and to make sure everything was ok-ay inside. I waited impatiently outside the door and couldn’t stop pacing up and down.. Geessshh. When he finally invited me and closed my eyes with his hands, I felt very nervous and definitely anxious to see what was going to unfold. When I saw it, I was astounded, really.

Look at the bed! See how much effort he has put in, ALONE!!

I teared when I saw the bed.. the balloons.. the rose petals.. the gifts.. the overall layout. I couldn’t believe he did it all himself without any help or ideas from anybody. He actually went to check-in himself earlier at about 1pm by cab (he spent a lot on cabs.. probably close to $80) and decorated the bed and made sure everything was ok-ay and he came to fetch me after that. That explained his sweaty and exhausted look! He is just so amazing!

Of course, such a beautiful bed had to be matched with a beautiful lady. Hence, the photo above. LOL. I was too busy exploring the room and telling him how sweet he was that I took a while to notice his gift. I first read the card and when I read it half-way, I teared again! When I opened the gift, I teared again! I teared because BF isn’t working now but he’s always so generous when comes to pampering me. He never think twice when he needed to buy me something. Even a S$6.00 magazine would stopped him.. but spending a bomb on me didn’t.

Here’s what the card says:

Dearest Wifey,

A very HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY TO YOU! You’re 21 now and officially an adult. Don’t you feel honored to celebrate this special once-in-a-lifetime occasion with me? Well, I’m sure you do.

I hope you like the surprises I planned for you and the gift. It took me a lot of efforts and careful considerations to plan your birthday so eventfully. Haha. Sometimes I ask myself why am I doing so much for you and spending so much money to make you happy. The answer is simple. It’s because I truly LOVE you and am so deeply in love with you that spending so much on you is nothing to me. What is most important to me is to see that sweet smile of yours and the tears of joy streaming down your pretty face.

Well, this is one of the most important occasions in life and I want you to remember this moment forever. We will definitely have more of such important celebrations in years to come.

We’ve been together for almost 3 years now and may our love for each other get stronger each day. Each new day is a new learning experience for us to adapt to each other and we must always be willing to learn each other’s way of doing things so we may live together peacefully. And I do want to tie the knot with you one day too. You’ve been such a big part of my life and I LOVE you so much that no words can describe.

Well, to conclude, I wish you happiness, good health and may you find your direction in life soon.

Once again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

Love,
Hubby

Isn’t he the sweetest man on earth? I have to agree that, yes, I LOVE EVERYTHING HE HAD DONE FOR ME!! This 21st birthday couldn’t get any better without him. He made it all possible – special, memorable and most importantly, his presence and his efforts! It was a great moment with him as I could feel as though we were like married couple already.

After reading the card, I sat on the bed and started to unwrap the gift. I wasn’t very sure what it was and I thought it could be some gaming console… I was, again, stunned when I saw what he bought. It was just so RIGHT ON TIME!

He bought me a new CAMERA! It was just so right on time as my current camera is giving me a lot of cranky problems.. it gets so hot (almost able to cook an egg) when I used it for a short while. Anyway, BF bought me a Fujifilm Finepix J150w Camera. The features were good, better than my current one! He knows I love gadgets! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT!

I know if he had more money to spend, he would probably buy me a DSLR camera or some sorts.. But hey, this camera already cost him almost S$300! What a big hole in his pocket. Hotel almost S$200 a night.. plus the camera.. plus cab fares… up to this point, he spent almost S$600!!!

Loving us!

As I knew he would spend a lot and coincidentally, I wanted to buy him his favorite PS3 games, I took this chance to give it to him as well. In addition, I handmade a very lovely poster for him (not of scrapbooking design though!).

Him reading my handmade poster

When I gave the gift to him, he wasn’t sure what it was. He thought it was some books (weird guess!). But apprently, part of his brain he knew it was some games…. When he opened it up, he was delighted! From his look I knew he was happy. Very happy (I hope. Hehehe). I bought him a PS3 Skate and Skate 2. His wish to have it but couldn’t bear to part that kind of money for those stuffs and so, wifey was there to grant his wish!

See! He is VERY HAPPY!

Tsk tsk. It was indeed a very happy day for us both.

Well, he was also telling me that he would like to bring me out for dinner and had already reserved a table. It cost about S$120. As I thought it would be nice to have a in-room dining experience, I told him he should actually cancel the reservation and we should just eat-in instead. However, as the menu didn’t really attract us (especially the prices), I decided to dine at a restaurant in Marina Square instead. After which, we could also get back early to the hotel and relax. Help save cost too! Gees.

We chose Billy Bombers (my favorite!) and I had an enjoyable dinner there with him. It already cost about S$70.

We had Cheese Fries, Sirloin Steak and Chicken + Ribs. Very yummylicious. Now I’m craving for their cheese fries again.. sinfully yummy.

After the dinner, we went around shopping. Apparently the supermarket there had closed long ago, we had no choice but to proceed to 7-Eleven to grab some wine and snacks (ripped off prices… grrr). When we went back to the hotel, BF was very mysterious again. He asked me to stay in the toilet till he asked me to go out. I wasn’t sure at that moment what was going on.. but later could feel that he was actually preparing a cake! And yes, that was what he was doing! He bought me a cake and he gave me another surprise with it!

I was very shocked because initially when we were in the hotel before dinner, I still asked him if there was any fridge in the hotel room. He told me there was none and I felt weird but didn’t think too much about it.. But apparently, he was LYING! He HID the cake in there and I was so foolish to believe at that point of time that there were no fridge! Now I know next time I should rummage all corners…… He is that cunning. Ohmigosh. But I was very elated again and I think I teared again too! Couldn’t remember how many times I teared exactly coz’ that day was really emotional (in a happy way).

See, I told you, I WAS ELATED!!

We spent a night together like old married couples and had mac delivery the next morning! Check-out at 3PM and headed home!

The interior of the hotel.. GORGEOUS!

I still couldn’t really believe what had happened on my 21st birthday and things he had prepared and the feelings are just so surreal. I couldn’t imagine how a guy wouldn’t complain a single bit when spending too much on his GF.. especially when he isn’t working and have no savings.. For this special occasion, he had already spend near S$800 I believe. He’s so awesome and I couldn’t believe how many times had we almost lost one another unintentionally. It was so foolish. Relationship’s never easy if you thought it is.. especially when you’re so committed to it. We’ve come this far and have always been planning about our future. I really do hope that one fine day we’ll tie the knot and may we have many kids! Soon time passes, we’ll have many grand kids.. I don’t know how words can describe my love for him but yes, if he ever pop that question, I’ll say “I DO!” Sounds very desperate, I know. But I believe I’ve found the man I want to spend the rest of my life with.. to celebrate every single occasions with him, to spend every of my birthday with him and to have him by my side forever.

Thank You, Baby for making this 21st birthday of mine a perfect one. I appreciate all you had done.. all the efforts you had put in and how tedious it was. I know as I can see and can feel it. You’re such a perfect man. Boy, I wish time would stop at that point of time so we can enjoy it longer than we could. It was amazing, really. Totally incredible that even until now, I could still feel I just stepped into the hotel and all the surprises you had given me. It was totally fabulous.. out of my world. You’re the BEST and I love you truly, madly, deeply. xoxo.

Now, this fabulous photo shall end my beautiful entry. Tee-hee.

Next up, meeting Christina for belated celebration!
More of a catch-up session!
This Thursday, 23.04.09.

21st Birthday Celebration with Friends

So yessss. Finally get to meet up with the girls yesterday! It’s nice to know that since we graduated from elementary school, we are still taking the efforts to meet at least 3-4 times every year to celebrate each other’s birthday as well as to catch up. We’ve all know each other for 10 years already! How time flies!

First I met up with Cx at Plaza Singapura coz’ I needed to buy something at Daiso and Spotlight. Hk and Dean were busy and hence couldn’t meet us up earlier. I could actually spend more but coz’ of tight budget, I only managed to get 1 item from Spotlight and some stuffs from Daiso. Geesshhh. In addition, I came to realized that both Cx and Hk loves scrapbooking too. We’ve decided to arrange to meet up again probably in May/June to go shopping for some scrapbooking necessity and scrap together.

After which, we headed to Fortunte Cuisine at Sunset Way (Clementi) for steamboat and charcoal BBQ buffet! As Cx and me reached earlier, we went in first. However, when Cx reserved the table, she was not told that there were 2 different seating areas – 1 indoor with aircon which you are not able to BBQ, and another would be outdoor seats where you can BBQ. We were given indoor seats and when Hk and Dean came, we changed to outdoor’s.

Us before eating

The whole process of having steamboat + BBQ outdoor was very uncomfortable as it was really hot (no fan and no wind!). At the end of the dining, we were all sweaty and sticky. Grrrr. But the food was great and service was EXCELLENT. We can choose 2 types of soup base and hence we chose 1 tom yum and 1 chicken soup (as recommended by the staff). The varierty was good enough and the meat were fresh. There were sashimi/sushi and some dessert. Apparently, I was a little disappointed with the dessert coz’ by the time we finished our steamboat (we took only 2 rounds) at around 9+pm, the dessert were almost all gone. The cakes were left only 1 each and I thought the service could be better such that if they were about to close, or not replenishing the buffet table etc, they should have informed us. Hehehh. I know I sound like a typical Singaporean, but no choice! Imagine if we didn’t have any birthday cake to replace on that day, what could we eat after dinner for dessert?? Empty plates and bowls?? lol!

Surprisingly, they bought me a birthday cake too and it’s my favorite.. MANGO and fruits of course! When they took it out, about to sing me a birthday song etc, the nice Aunty D _ _ _ s (whom we got familiar with on that day), came to ask who’s birthday and she started calling us  “mei nu” (“pretty girl” in chinese) and wished me Happy Birthday. The Aunty was very kind and she even asked us for our contact number. She showed us a picture of a dessert she made – some Jelly with Mango, lime, etc and she told us that she would make it for us and will contact us when it’s done. The picture itself looks very yummy. I’m sure the dessert in real would taste heavenly!

When the girls started singing me a birthday song, the table behind us joined in too! It was rather hilarious for strangers to do that.. Heheh. So embarrassing. Anyway, as we couldn’t finish the cake, we cut half of it and gave it to the Aunty and her colleagues. From her face, I know she was happy. Haha!

Cx scrapbooked a birthday poster (whatever you call it) and they shared to buy the S$100 Faceshop vouchers for me! How sweetttt! The Faceshop voucher’s actually in my Birthday Wishlist in my blog. How observant eh? lol

We sat around and talked and at about 10pm or so, we decided to head back to Bukit Panjang Plaza’s Starbucks to chill.

Us on the bus

We took many photos there, crazied and chatted!

Hk and I

Dean and I

Cx and I

Us being crazy

Them trying to KISS me! LOL.

Crazy bunch of girls. Like Monkeys! LOL

There were more photos but didn’t upload it all coz’ I’m lazy to edit/resize them. lol.

Anyway, here’s a short little message for you girls! Thank you all for always taking an effort to meet up despite us not in the same school since 10 years ago. As we all grow older, our interests and group of friends are different but I am so glad no matter how different our lifestyle might be, we are still remembering each other. I’m so grateful to have a bunch of girls like you all and thanks for the crazy night (as always). Thank you all for the gifts and well wishes and may our friendship last for a lifetime. I hope we will still meet up occasionally not just for birthday celebration! ^^ Thank you again and I love you all!

xoxo. Cheers to our friendship!

UP NEXT: 21st Birthday Celebration with Baby!

Birthday wishlist Part 2

Today, I realized besides those there were listed previously HERE, I noticed I need this 3 too. Especially there is this one thing I need desperately.

• Aaron Kwok De Show Reel Live In Concert 09 tickets!!!!! (Even the cheapest one I won’t even mind!)
• Movie tickets
• Restaurant vouchers
• Travel vouchers

Heheh, 21st birthday leh. I didn’t and will not throw a party so why not splurge a little bit more on me??? LOL. Need my postal address or not? Comment this entry with your email or contact number ok? Especially if you are Bill Gates or something. Hohohohohoooo

Celebrating Cx’s birthday & my new addiction – GOSSIP GIRL!

When the girls met up with me for my Birthday celebration 1 month ago, we have decided that this year we shall not buy any gifts for one another and just a meet-up, catching up with one another will do. Hence, we decided that for CX’s birthday, we would have steamboat at Geral’s house.

We met up yesterday at BP Plaza NTUC for some groceries shopping. CX overslept (as expected when I couldn’t reach her mobile) and thus only Geral, HK and I did the shopping. We bought quite a number of ingredients and the total bill cost us $50.35! We bought Prawns, Crab-stick, 3 packs of Fishballs (1 normal type, 1 beef ball and 1 chicken ball), Squid, Golden Mushroom, Beef, Dumplings, and etc. After which, we took LRT back to Geral’s house.

First we prepared the soup (which was of the easiest method) by adding the 鸡精块 (not sure what’s it called in English, lol) and 2 chicken bones. Next, we were busy preparing the rest of the ingredients in the kitchen. The outcome was very satisfying and it was simply delicious!

We took a number of photos before and after we ate.

And yes. I had lots of fun with them. We were also suggesting to meet-up for mahjong session next. Hoho.

& guess what? My 3rd driving lesson tomorrow. I pray I won’t stall on the damn road again. -_-

Not to forget, my favorite drama now is GOSSIP GIRL! All thanks to xiaohei for introducing me. I get totally hooked onto this drama. Simply.. sexy. Woohoo! I love SERENA, like.. crazy. HAHA.

The long awaited post is here!

As of title, and as promised, the long awaited post is finally here!

Yes, yes. Quite a outdated entry, but well, I did still blog quite frequently on the past few days to keep you readers entertained, right? ^^

18th April 2008
This day is incredibly wonderful, although the celebration was simple. It was none other than my 20th Birthday Celebration! Like, shat! I now sound so much older. How time flies when I was still 16, 17, 18?? 1 more year and I will be officially an adult. I still feel like a kid now though.. especially with Baby around. tsk.

So basically, I had two types of birthday cakes on this special day. My beloved niece was telling my Mom and sis that they ought to buy me a cake, and she wanted to surprise me with that. How cute and thoughtful she was! She’s only 6 years old, by the way. So, well, above was the cake she chose. Amazingly enough, they all know I love FRUIT CAKES! No coffee, no chocolate, or whatever other flavor, please. Only, FRUITS!

Well, anyway, I had a little birthday celebration at home (cutting of cake), and then I proceed to BF’s place for another round of celebration, which only had both of us..and it was such a romantic night. I appreciate every little effort that he had done for me that day and he is the sweetest man one could have. No special gifts or anything on that day. Just a simple dinner together at home, and some romantic moments together. ^^ Afterall, he bought me a Chihuahua Puppy which costs him a bomb weeks ago before my Birthday.

I merely hinted BF that it would so awesome when I stepped into his house, the floor would be filled with balloons. To my surprised, he went down last minute to minimart to get balloons and blow them up himself. How thoughtful and sweet he was! He was actually busy preparing ingredients and all for our dinner, and when I wanted that something special, he simply went to the extend of getting it for me. I feel so blissed.

Although it didn’t filled the whole floor, I still find that it was really wonderful of him to do such a special thing for me when I merely just hinted him of “how-i-wished-for-certain-things-to-happen” kind of scenerio. I didn’t really mean it nor exactly a must-have for me.. but well, you know.. I was just so speechless of his every little action.

So, here comes the best part. While BF was preparing and cooking, I snapped quite a number of photos – the food, and of course, him.

Our first dish was pasta – cream bacon and spinach. It was BF’s first time preparing this wonderful pasta for me and it tasted 101% perfffectttly delicious! He’s such a great chef.

The Bacons!

While cooking the spinach together with the Bacon.

And, tada! When everything is mixed well with the cream sauce!

The outcome of the most delicious pasta in the world!

Well, seriously, nothing beats home-cooked food! What’s more can you asked for when your beloved darling spent few hours sweating like crazy in the kitchen preparing really delicious food that you craved and loved the most?

So, here’s the big chef concentrating on his cooking.

I love this man like crazy. Ridiculously insane & all over him.

We had some wine and we chatted while we ate our pasta. As soon as BF was done with his pasta, he proceed to prepare the steak.

When marinating the steak.

Geez, I was drooling away when BF was cooking this.

Oh, and my favorite pack of wedges to go with the steak!

Lastly, it was all well cooked to be served!

We both felt really bloated after two main courses. lol. In fact, I was feeling full when I had the pasta. What’s more? BF surprised me with a birthday cake soon after we finished our dinner.

Written as, “Happy Birthday, Wifey!”

Heehee. BF was simply great at surprising me. He often gave me surprises which made me felt like crying. Which, in fact, there were cases whereby I shed tears. He’s just fond of seeing me in tears!

Well, he did gave me a Birthday card too. Everything was so well-planned and memorable. I love this guy like crazzzyyyy.

So here’s Beanie, sitting on my desk. Geez.

26th April 2008
Singapore Youth Flying Club, Private Pilot License Graduation Ceremony! I am so proud to announce that my Baby was one of them to graduate on that day! His effort has finally been paid off and he is now officially a Private Pilot! I was so honored to be invited to this event and the feeling to see him got his wing was such a tremendous heart-felt happiness for me!

The stage!

I did not really listen to what the Guest-of-Honor had said, but I do know that on that day, there were 37 graduates, which, very fortunately enough, BF was one of them! He was looking all good that day. The most gorgeous man you could ever see there. lol, ok. Pardon me.

So after the ceremony, we were asked to go to the refreshment corner for some small bites.

The weather was a killer though. The area was not air-conditioned and hence we were all sweating like crazy especially BF. I had to wipe away his pearl-like sweat drops especially at the end of the ceremony when we were about to leave. I don’t understand why some people like my BF could sweat so easily, whereas it takes such a long time for me to sweat. Urgh. Weird.

Anyway, we took some photos together before we left. Enjoy!

Spot my handsome BF!

Us.

BF’s beautiful pilot wing.

P.S: I love you, Baby! & congratulations for being the real pilot now! Hee.

27th April 2008
I had a very bad sorethroat on Saturday’s night I guess. I lost my voice like almost totally. I couldn’t even talk and had a hard time trying to say what I want to say. It feels terrible.

I still met up with my girls though. Reason was because I felt really bad if I were to postpone the date again. Afterall, it was a gathering + belated birthday celebration for me. Quite tough to find a date that matched our schedule though.

Well, it was really nice to meet up with them and I feel really wonderful to have them in my life since primary school days. It has been so many years and our friendship is still growing on strong!

We first went to Cineleisure to have our lunch at Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe. Each ordered our main course, and we shared a dessert too. We ordered the same drink – Iced Milk Tea.

I felt really terrible that day for not being able to talk much. I wanted to, but was held back by my subconcious brain that I had no voice to pronounce my words properly. Felt like shat. Thank Goodness that the girls are enjoying themselves too despite me not being able to talk much. lol. But well, I enjoyed myself totally too even just by listening to their “stories”.

Here’s my girls.

And, me with 2 of them!

We chatted for a long time in the cafe. CX shared with us her experiences when she was a student nurse in some hospitals, including Mental Hospital. Very amazing how things worked, and how abortion is done. Felt rather disgusted to hear it though, ha!

After which, we headed to Heerens and Paragon to shop. CX had to leave earlier than us and hence we took a few photos before we left.

I accidentally cuts HK’s face off totally. Whoops!

Ok, these are better! Hee.

Last pic taken before we left.

Had a really fun day with them though it was only a mere few hours.

CX’s birthday is coming up next and we have decided to meet on the 24th May at Geral’s house for steamboat. Can’t wait for that day to arrive.

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Crazily enough, I spent about 2hours+ updating this post. Had a tough time uploading the photos due to my screwed up laptop and internet connection.

Here’s a random photo before I end my post.

Cooked this weeks ago. Baby potatoes with olive oil, garlic, rosmary, etc. Awesome!

Happy Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
to me!

18th April. ^^
More updates coming soon!

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