Happy Birthday ol' Friend

Happy Birthday ol' Friend!

Betcha didn't saw the surprise coming!

Actually we had a few versions to surprise him. But in the end none of the versions were put in used as everything changed in the last minute.

1) Simple: Reach his house at mid-night to surprise him (that was the inital final plan)

why it didn't work out:
Plans change.. please look at plan no. 4

2) Simple + a little element of surprise: I intended to call up Jie Lun's parents so that we could ask them to join XF along in the birthday surprise. So instead of us doing all the work, jie lun's parents can help out to add some element of surprise on the morning of 30th April

why it didn't work out:
I did not have any of Jie Lun's relatives' contact number. I tried to call his house number and hoped that any family would answer the phone instead of him. But according to murphy's law, what goes wrong will go wrong.

3) The "help someone is following me" surprise: I loved this plan, Mei Ling will call up Jie Lun around mid-night to ask for his help. She will lie to him that someone is following her while she's walking back home and that she needs Jie Lun's help to accompany her back home to safety. We will then be waiting elsewhere for the surprise while he comes to find mei ling.

why it didn't work out:
Mei Ling can't act.

4) In the end: Jie Lun called me up for a karaoke session and we ended up at CDANS to sing the night away before we could catch the Man U-barca match. So we (mk,ml,pk,fab,des) gathered at cdans at mid-night, bought a chocolate pound cake together with candles.

And of course.. being off guard, he was caught by surprise..

Happy birthday ol' friend.. happy 21st and grow up please.. hahaha.. =P

If there is one thing I wish for my birthday, I wished that XF could meet up again as one big family, one big basketball team. Not just once, but for a very long time.
But reality would set in, telling me that it would not be very possible.

Maybe we could meet up like once a year? Im planning for a Bangkok + Pattaya Trip at the end of the year.. Who's with me!