We held an early celebration for mummy dearest's birthday as I will be away in KL for a conference during her birthday. We usually celebrate it within the family with a simple dinner + cake. This year, we held a birthday bash for her while keeping her in the dark :) The plan was first conceived when I was looking at the calender and realised that I'll be out of town. So, I whatsapp my lil bro to coordinate his schedule for an early birthday celebration ... then we realised that it was her 50th birthday (opps, revealing her age!), so one thing led to another and then we decided to have a surprise birthday bash :) We had to come up with a plan to get her out of the house & my brilliant lil bro came up with the ingenious excuse.
I dunno whether to laugh or cry, lol! So, at the end of the day, we engaged Aunt Emily's help. Her sisters were all informed of the party beforehand and all kept her in the dark while providing me with information based on their phone conversations, haha! So, on the day itself, Leecher drove to CCK to fetch her, on the pretext of sending her to Aunt Emily's place to look at a gigantic fish ornament (she's into fishes recently!).
This time round, I ordered from Neo Garden. The guys came over early & set up the place. Nowadays HDB corridor very small & we have to eat into my neighbours' front door.
Wanted to order the mini buffet initially, then decided to just heck it and order a min 30 pax buffet as it came with food warmers. I even bought ta-bao boxes for all my relatives to pack the food back for dinner, haha!
Mummy dearest @ the buffet table trying out the dishes.
The birthday cake that I very kiasu-ish ordered from Pine Garden 1 month ago, sponsored by lil brother.
Very pleased with the fantastic job! HUAT AR!
Leecher lighting the 5 big candles that we got. We wanted to get 50 candles, but think we will have a hard time lighting them up, so decided to abandon the idea and make do with 5 big candles instead.
Birthday girl with her rice bucket birthday cake :)
The love ones in my life :)
with her sisters.
Singing birthday song, making a wish (but she looked like she's praying!) and blowing out the candles. She chided us for not "informing" her earlier, so she can come in a nicer outfit, lol!
Being the 4D lovers, the aunties went to count the no. of gold and bet on the numbers later.
Everyone got so excited at counting the gold coins that they started to crowd around the table, lol! Have to double-count to make sure that the number is correct somemore.
Faced with the daunting task of how-to-cut-the-cake-next.
3-layer lychee martini cake :) This was enough to feed 45 pax, so everyone got quite a portion of cake to take home.
with 5th auntie & uncle who came slightly later.
Thank you everyone for coming and helping me to coordinate the surprise birthday party :) Really appreciate it *winks* You guys are the best!
And to my mummy dearest ~ may you stay happy & healthy always, have more inspiration for your 4D betting and HUAT ar!
