Sue's posts with tag: birthday
|  | We had a special night out the other day when Mark treated Mummy and our family to yummy Jap food at the Esplanade. Really had a good time just walking along the riverfront afterwards, enjoying precious family moments together. And the food at Ichiban Boshi was excellent! |
 I had a really wonderful birthday despite spending it half bent over in pain. God was merciful and good, as usual :). My family celebrated on Sunday with my lovely aunt getting yummy steak for us all to eat, it was a feast! And my mum made a nice orange chiffon cake.On Wednesday itself I was very touched. My mum and Mark had already taken such good care of me this wee. rushing to the A&E with me on Monday night and wheeling me around the hospital for my x ray. On Tuesday Mark came over and we watched Gilmore Girls :). The next day he came at noon - pretending to buy in food for me, but it turned out he had cooked a dish for me - Basil Chicken Surprise! Very yummy. Then he sliced strawberries to eat with ice cream for dessert :). Then I found out he had been plotting with my best friend so that they would turn up at the birthday dinner he had arranged to bring my family out to that night. I was too ill and in pain to go, though... but was so touched that they were all making the arrangements, especially since my best friend has a baby and it took lots of coordination on her part to come. So he ordered Indian food in and we all had a yummy meal. All this after he had already surprised me a few weeks earlier by pretending to go and meet his friends when he had actually booked tickets to watch the King and I! I was overjoyed. My future husband is one of great surprises :)! My sister Andrea printed photos of the family and mounted them on a frame for the new house. And I got a beautiful card from Shen, my sister in Florida.
Thanks dear :) and to everyone, and most of all to God. Am grateful for yet another year of life He's graciously chosen to give, and for each breathe that I take, it's all from Him :).
| | We celebrated Mark's birthday yesterday with a surprise at Settler's Cafe, Holland V. Turned out it really was a surprise! Thought he might have detected something suspicious along the way but it wasn't so. Even more a surprise as I navigated him to the front door of the cafe, only to realise that a whole bunch of youth were standing outside the door! It soon dawned upon me that Galvs had thought we were coming from the back, and he and Char and Joshua were anxiously waiting at the back door for us to walk in. Haha. Nevertheless, Mark was still surprised. Neither he nor the group realised that he was there till we were about a metre away.
I thought it was really sweet for people like Joshua to come tho he was busy and Galvs and Charmaine though he'll be in ICT the whole week. And of course, the guys - people extremely close to his heart, Mark's WG the Trailblazers, and a few of the WEB girls Mark knows more. My mum baked his favourite chocolate cake, and I resurrected my tiramisu after not having baked it for sometime :)
I have realised what joy there is in planning something for someone you love. It really is a great joy, and lots of fun! Happy Birthday, Dear :) Love you! |
| | We had a marvelous time celebrating New Year's Eve, and also Janine's 2nd birthday (on Jan 3rd), with Fengxing and Kevin. Janine was in an extremely good mood and I felt so happy seeing her have so much fun. She played with the party kit I gave her and also enjoyed the cute cake my mum baked for her.
Then Fengxing sent Janine off to bed and she, Kevin, Mark and myself had an exciting (some may say either brave or crazy) time driving down to Marina to watch the fireworks. Kevin has a great internal radar for detecting the best place to view fireworks amidst the throngs of people. And the even craziest thing is that they brought along the Monopoly set and we set it up and played Mompoly right in the middle of the crowd, to the envy of many little children around us! Mark and I are touched by Fengxing and Kevin's generosity in opening their place always to us and for the fun we have together and how they drove us all the way to watch the fireworks. It was a wonderful way to spend New Year's Eve - with close friends we can have fun with. |
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