Mambo 02 Jun 10
After tonight, I can proudly say that Garry is not the only one who can organize surprise birthdays for friends, ha.
Ok maybe for me to organize a surprise birthday dinner for Cat was not really that difficult, but I think the element of making sure everything and everybody was on the dot could be rather difficult. In fact I almost got annoyed that the boys were going to be late when I specifically capitalized the words "DON'T BE LATE" on my mass sms sent out. Luckily, Cat herself was slightly late.
The planning kind of started yesterday. On my way to meet my date for dinner, I called a few of them up and I suddenly felt a challenge to just organize a simple surprise dinner for her. Nothing much but just a gathering of friends that she would not have expected.
And so I started calling up people while waiting for my date to arrive, and it was more or less settled, with a little bit of fine tuning.
Speaking of my date... well, I am just glad he enjoyed watching Shrek 4. It is really my pleasure to be able to cheer him up. :)
When I reached home, I saw Cat on msn and just said casually that I wanted to eat in a restaurant for dinner before Mambo instead of the usual foodcourt every week, and to avoid suspicions that there might be an arrangement of sorts, I immediately told her to ask Gerard and Marcus for dinner too and casually said that I had already asked Ben but he could not make it. Then, knowing she'd ask Jasmine for dinner too, I sent Marcus, Gerard and Jasmine an sms that they should not let the cat out of the bag. (punk intended) Poor Ben later on complained that he was waiting for her sms too but she did not ask him. Well, I had to make it as realistic as possible just like any other more mundane Wed night dinner right? Ha.
And when I finally decided on Jack's Place, I smsed out to everybody and a simple surprise plan was set out in motion.
When I reached Jack's Place first, (having placed a reservation for 12 much earlier on in the day) I told the staffs that I would just be asking for a table for 2 first and would then later be taking the reserved tables. So when Cat finally reached, and we went in for dinner, she was completely in the dark, and I sent out the sms "Target acquired" to those already at Great World City, ha.
As we just finished ordering, Ben called to say they were all ready, and I made an excuse to take a private call and went out to meet them, lighted up the cake that Jasmine bought, and made Marcus start singing the birthday song on the way in. (since he has the loudest voice)
And yup, she was indeed surprised! Mission accomplished, haha!
After which we all - Ben, Marcus, Gerard, Jasmine, Kevin, Sam, Aaron, (yup! The dearly missed Aaron Tan back from Australia for a break!) myself and Cat - moved to the bigger table. And the other 2 surprise guests - Chock and Petrina - joined us shortly after as well.
Dinner was great and we were the last group to actually leave the restaurant, not realizing the passing of time with such a nice gathering of good old friends.
And as we progressed on to Zouk, the night was still undone as the boys brought 2 bottles of alcohol and we proceeded to the back river to finish them, with Marcus leading everybody to cheer Cat. (somebody came up with a new word in the midst of all the drinking, I think it was Pet, by saying that she had not started 'cheersing' Cat yet) By the time we got inside Zouk to Members' Bar, Cat was already quite gone. In fact, they actually ordered another 2 trays of drinks just to force feed Cat further but she was already passing out blissfully in the toilet.
It took all of us quite awhile to coax her out and I even had to activate Sofian because she was asking for him for awhile. (???) But by the time he arrived, we managed to get her out. And as we drank the 2 trays of drinks to her birthday as she was knocked out away, we wondered if she would ever recover enough to actually go to the dancefloor.
From my own experience of my 21st birthday when I had also slept blissfully dead drunk in the toilet, (not in Zouk, but back then, my friends took longer to coax me out. I think it was more than an hour, lol!) I highly doubt so. And furthermore, Jasmine got kind of drunk too, after Vernon (long time no see!) made her drink XTT with him. So finally after some time of a failed attempt to sober Cat up, with Jasmine also drunk, between the boys and I, we sent the 2 gals back home.
Ben, Gerard and I were peeing everywhere around Cat's block as we could not contain our urgency any longer. And even funnier was when I was trying to coax Cat into sobering up by purposely being highly annoying and talking gibberish to her non-stop, Ben had the misfortune of being just beside us and said "Not to be rude Kes, but you are rather irritating" LOL! Well... that was the point wasn't it? That I could be annoying and irritating enough to wake her up, ha! It failed though. -.-
But we did managed to get her home anyway and after Cat was Jasmine and then the 4 of us actually went back to Zouk. And back there, it seemed everybody had enjoyed the night. Must be all the alcohol. Even Kevin was drunk, luckily this time Royston was sober enough to help send him back, which I made sure that was the case before finally ending the night (after Marcus had his dose of dancing to Bad Romance, which never failed to impress me) and going back home with the boys.
For the past week that my new Mambo friend, whose identity is now known after Gerard tricked me last week into revealing it, was away in Itay enjoying himself, I really miss the late night chats, ha. Seems he is the only one who can stay up till as late (considering sometimes till 5am also... as early? Ha.) as I can and chat with me too.
Oh well, will just wait for him to be back, ha.
Love,
Kes~
Ok maybe for me to organize a surprise birthday dinner for Cat was not really that difficult, but I think the element of making sure everything and everybody was on the dot could be rather difficult. In fact I almost got annoyed that the boys were going to be late when I specifically capitalized the words "DON'T BE LATE" on my mass sms sent out. Luckily, Cat herself was slightly late.
The planning kind of started yesterday. On my way to meet my date for dinner, I called a few of them up and I suddenly felt a challenge to just organize a simple surprise dinner for her. Nothing much but just a gathering of friends that she would not have expected.
And so I started calling up people while waiting for my date to arrive, and it was more or less settled, with a little bit of fine tuning.
Speaking of my date... well, I am just glad he enjoyed watching Shrek 4. It is really my pleasure to be able to cheer him up. :)
When I reached home, I saw Cat on msn and just said casually that I wanted to eat in a restaurant for dinner before Mambo instead of the usual foodcourt every week, and to avoid suspicions that there might be an arrangement of sorts, I immediately told her to ask Gerard and Marcus for dinner too and casually said that I had already asked Ben but he could not make it. Then, knowing she'd ask Jasmine for dinner too, I sent Marcus, Gerard and Jasmine an sms that they should not let the cat out of the bag. (punk intended) Poor Ben later on complained that he was waiting for her sms too but she did not ask him. Well, I had to make it as realistic as possible just like any other more mundane Wed night dinner right? Ha.
And when I finally decided on Jack's Place, I smsed out to everybody and a simple surprise plan was set out in motion.
When I reached Jack's Place first, (having placed a reservation for 12 much earlier on in the day) I told the staffs that I would just be asking for a table for 2 first and would then later be taking the reserved tables. So when Cat finally reached, and we went in for dinner, she was completely in the dark, and I sent out the sms "Target acquired" to those already at Great World City, ha.
As we just finished ordering, Ben called to say they were all ready, and I made an excuse to take a private call and went out to meet them, lighted up the cake that Jasmine bought, and made Marcus start singing the birthday song on the way in. (since he has the loudest voice)
And yup, she was indeed surprised! Mission accomplished, haha!
After which we all - Ben, Marcus, Gerard, Jasmine, Kevin, Sam, Aaron, (yup! The dearly missed Aaron Tan back from Australia for a break!) myself and Cat - moved to the bigger table. And the other 2 surprise guests - Chock and Petrina - joined us shortly after as well.
Dinner was great and we were the last group to actually leave the restaurant, not realizing the passing of time with such a nice gathering of good old friends.
And as we progressed on to Zouk, the night was still undone as the boys brought 2 bottles of alcohol and we proceeded to the back river to finish them, with Marcus leading everybody to cheer Cat. (somebody came up with a new word in the midst of all the drinking, I think it was Pet, by saying that she had not started 'cheersing' Cat yet) By the time we got inside Zouk to Members' Bar, Cat was already quite gone. In fact, they actually ordered another 2 trays of drinks just to force feed Cat further but she was already passing out blissfully in the toilet.
It took all of us quite awhile to coax her out and I even had to activate Sofian because she was asking for him for awhile. (???) But by the time he arrived, we managed to get her out. And as we drank the 2 trays of drinks to her birthday as she was knocked out away, we wondered if she would ever recover enough to actually go to the dancefloor.
From my own experience of my 21st birthday when I had also slept blissfully dead drunk in the toilet, (not in Zouk, but back then, my friends took longer to coax me out. I think it was more than an hour, lol!) I highly doubt so. And furthermore, Jasmine got kind of drunk too, after Vernon (long time no see!) made her drink XTT with him. So finally after some time of a failed attempt to sober Cat up, with Jasmine also drunk, between the boys and I, we sent the 2 gals back home.
Ben, Gerard and I were peeing everywhere around Cat's block as we could not contain our urgency any longer. And even funnier was when I was trying to coax Cat into sobering up by purposely being highly annoying and talking gibberish to her non-stop, Ben had the misfortune of being just beside us and said "Not to be rude Kes, but you are rather irritating" LOL! Well... that was the point wasn't it? That I could be annoying and irritating enough to wake her up, ha! It failed though. -.-
But we did managed to get her home anyway and after Cat was Jasmine and then the 4 of us actually went back to Zouk. And back there, it seemed everybody had enjoyed the night. Must be all the alcohol. Even Kevin was drunk, luckily this time Royston was sober enough to help send him back, which I made sure that was the case before finally ending the night (after Marcus had his dose of dancing to Bad Romance, which never failed to impress me) and going back home with the boys.
For the past week that my new Mambo friend, whose identity is now known after Gerard tricked me last week into revealing it, was away in Itay enjoying himself, I really miss the late night chats, ha. Seems he is the only one who can stay up till as late (considering sometimes till 5am also... as early? Ha.) as I can and chat with me too.
Oh well, will just wait for him to be back, ha.
Love,
Kes~