Dear's 30th Bdae Bash!

i arranged a surprised party for gx. he has requested that he wanted a quiet bdae as he dun find that there's anything special to celebrate. As usual, I DUN LISTEN! he's used to it but i bet he tot that since i am so sick, and looked can't be bothered to move at all, dun think he suspected anything. esp that i am so sick thru the week. but i have made arrangements since sept! mum was sweet to have cooked up some very army-like colour dishes (esp the vegy dish) for his son-in-law's bdae. Thank goodness aunt k and aunt s helped cos i was too sick to help out! mum bought killer-sized prawns! they were as huge as my palm! bro calls it a hybrid - lobster-prawn.

i actually enrolled for a xmas log cake class that beautifully set on 25th oct but last minute they shifted the class away to nov.... so it spoilt my planning of using the log cake for his bdae cake. so that saved me from having to bake cupcakes to go with the small logcake. cos it was a log cake, i planned an army themed party for gx. everyone was to wear green or army prints. since i got all the props for the cake - plastic grass, army toy soldiers, chocolate rocks... i was lucky to have gone to secret recipe for dinner and decided to use their plain cake to decorate. instead of a chocolate cake i opt for my favourite white chocolate macadamia nut cake.

just before gx turns up at mum's place after his badminton game, i did the first part of decor with nesa and twins! we laid plastic leafs i got from meidiay supermarket around the cake. these leaves are used by japanese to decorate the food. then we wrapped up the soldiers legs with aluminium foil, cos these guys are gog onto the cake, just wanted to make the cake safe for consuming! i got the matching candle from spotlight. chocolate rocks was from daiso! the kids enjoyed placing the soldiers and the rocks! they can't stop munching on the yummy hard rock chocs!

when gx came, bro signalled to everyone and all of us stood in a line behind the door waiting for him! when he stood at the door, my uncle shouted commands! he was shocked and he just stood there with his mouth dropped! when i asked him much later, he said he noticed everyone was in green but couldn't figure out why we were standing there to shock him since what i told him was there's a deepavali gathering. he felt shy too... when he realised its his surprised bdae party. got him to change into his swiss army tee!

i was glad i brought his army-printed hats over. the twins were having fun esp when they were trying to put both hats on their dad. as usual Aunt A came most prepared! dressed green from head to toe! she even borrowed my cousin W's army hat! she's the most on one in our family!

from next week, mum's place will have a big interior change. the fish tank will be gone... so will all the fishes... think bro will be sad... but i guess its time... also the table-tennis table was out for the last time... it gog too... so the boys opened it up for a last game.

i bought 2 sets of soldiers and one set came with a map and some props. so i took it out for the kids to play. L came with all his toy guns! boys will be boys! for the first time i see L sat down to play with the small toy soldiers!

got the cake on the map and threw in more chocolate rocks. then the kids helped to place the soldiers all over the map. tot it looked quite cute! gx tot the soldiers were made of chocolate! these were darker in colour than the ones they played with eariler! and of cos they were kept separately cos these were used for decorating! GX tot the cake came decorated and was surprise that it was done by me and my cousins!

i got army-matching plates for gx. the camouflaged ones were very ex! he said he felt nervous when the family sang him the bdae song! cos its almost 25++pax singing for one! its gx first time celebrating his bdae with my family even thou he's been in the family for 3 years!

half-way thru the song, L moved in to pick up the soldiers that are on the map and plonked it onto the cake. he didnt stop at 1...! it was quite funny to see him shift almost all the soldiers that were near him onto the side of the cake. the twins just looked at him in shock! cos they helped to decor the cake and was just looking at L in disbelief! i tot the cake looked more real like a battleground after L's work of art!

i always love the part when all the little ones try to blow the candles together and the more difficlut task was holding the knife together trying to cut the cake. But its fun! thats why i love celebrating my bdae! besides the cake, i got him a little toy as a present. something that i chanced upon when he wanted me to look for shuttlecock for his badminton session. he was complaining that its his first transformer but why did i get the bad guy... HOW WOULD I KNOW! for me it transforms into a tank, so it matched my themed party i was throwing! but of cos, he still likes it and yah play with it!!!

on sunday, as i mentioned in my earlier post, we had a lazy start for the day and went ikea. while i stayed with mum, he went to attend a wedding dinner. he went to Hans to get his bdae cake to celebrate with his parents. Upper thomson Hans apparently opens 24hrs now! i got the skinny candles from caneles and he told his mum that it was trick candles! candles that will relight... haha, he didnt believe it wasnt when i told him ITS NOT trick candles!

his favourite bdae present is something very big and he is happy his wish came true. we are planning to go shopping for more shirts, esp a cuff-linked shirt and my plans was for him to change his glasses! but these has to wait till i feel better!