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happy belated birthday baby~*
:)




didn't get a chance to wish you on this space earlier
for reasons you and i both know..




finally after 2 days of being tired from running around to get stuff,
especially when singapore's weather has been such a bitch lately
getting stressed over deciding on a place/co-ordinating with his friends, (some of which i bearly knew nor had their contacts)
trying to keep everything a surprise from sxc. (i found out last night he prefers it in this order compared to csx -____-")
and nearly getting heart attacks cos that stupid boy kept nearly spoiling my surprise eg. nearly seeing the receipt for his present in my wallet and looking at my inbox where the msgs from my discussions with his friends were still in)
and 2 nights of not having proper sleep (more like hardly enough sleep)
the whole birthday celebration turned out to be a success. :)

the present/materials for decoration and what-nots

my "workshop" for the night cos there's not enough floor space in my room.

had to paint the cake box black first

huge-ass paintbrush

yes, i really really want to stress on how bloody big it is

just one more for the record. :P

it might seem easy but painting the whole box black took quite some time
had to keep touching up here and there.

next, to doubleside-tape all the wooden alphabets.

old school poster paints!!

after getting rainbowfied.

the aftermath of all the painting
it was actually much messier with splotches of pain here and there but i overturned the newspaper to make it look nicer =X

now i know that poster paint doesn't stick to styrofoam well

kinda artistic-looking no?

initially i thought we weren't meeting the night before his b'day
but since he wanted to see me, (of course i wanted to see him too cos i wanted to be the first to wish him (: )
project "happy csx day" had to be put on a halt
and off to coronation plaza it was
cabbed over in order to make it by 11.45pm (reached at 11.50pm though)


at 12am.
birthday boy with his budget b'day cake.

making his wish

one more shot before..

blowing out the candles

kaya pandan cake is good. (i'm not saying that just because i bought it)

looking damn tired/haggard/unglam
but enjoying my cake :)

here's a whole lot of cole & xiang.
:)
(i realize the background compliments the colours of our tops)

after that he gave me a ride back home,
and back to work it was.

got a few of our photos printed but i only ended up using 2 in the end
i especially love that photo of him in my full face helmet
he looks so retarded/stupid/lame/goddamn funny with his pose and all
but yet i always find myself smiling and feeling very happy whenever i look at it
i don't know, he just looks so damn adorable to me
=X

the many many strings of coloured rafia paper i cut out to use as stuffings

used golden rafia paper to line the inside of the box
and placed the presents inside
time this picture was taken - 1.14am

time this picture was taken - 3.59am!!!!
who would have known it would take so long to cut out alphabets to form a birthday message?
halfway through i was feeling so tired that my mind went blank
i would set out to find a particular alphabet
look at the very messy stack of magazine cutouts i had (forgot to take a pic of that)
and then just stare at them blankly because i forgot what alphabet i was looking for
the letter "v" being particularly hard to find
and i needed to find the letters in different colours and styles cos i didn't want to have repeats of the same font/colour/style together in the same word.
throughout i knew i was taking a long time but i forced myself not to look at the time
cos the more i know how late it was, the more disheartened i'd feel
so after 2 painstaking hours and 45 mins,
tadah..!!

and just when you thought the "nightmare" had ended
another 47 minutes of glue-ing was to come.

arranged the present into a better formation,

put in the stuffings and styrofoam decorations,

and the decorating of the box is finally complete!!

but let's not forget the piece de resistance (insert-french-accent),
the ribbon!!
i head meant for the ribbon to go around the box from all 4 sides,
but unfortunately the length i bought was too short
so no choice la hor? =X

i think my ribbon looks okay for a person who can't tie nice bows for nuts
:P

time this last picture was taken - 5.41am
i only managed to get to sleep around 6.30am
and had to get up for school at 7.15am
so for the whole of 15th aug i was running on only 45minutes of sleep,
so do excuse the huge-ass eyebags.. =X

xiang was supposed to pick me up after school
but he was still at home sleeping by the time school was up
so i headed over to his place and waited for him to get ready
unfortunately something had to happen that made me really upset
i was tired/had spent to much effort/period-ing only to find out he had hid something from me
baby, you know that i trust you,
i just felt really disappointed that you didn't even tell me about it at all.


my initial plan after school was to go back to my place to get the car,
head down to one of four best wanton mee places that i had researched online (because wanton mee is his most fav food)
and the head over to the cathay to collect the tickets i had booked online for love guru


but because while waiting for him to be ready to leave
and also cos we were trying to clarify the matter
it left us with no time for wanton mee
so we went to the cathay straight to collect tickets,
back to my place to get the car
and rushed back to the cathay.

there wasn't enough time for a proper meal
so we had to settle for finger food
a very hungry shixiang.

he started eating without me :(

wanted to ask him to take a picture of me too
but he was in such a hurry to eat
so i had to make do with a picture of just my food. o.0
"happy box" meal from shi lin chicken.

love guru was a very lame/slack-stick-humour/what-else-can-you-expect-from-mike-meyers kind of show.
at least it was funny and jessica alba was in it?
hah


he kept wanting to know where dinner was
the only hint i gave him was thompson
which was much fun because he was really dying to know and i was never going to tell him.
so we drove to thompson plaza to kill time since dinner was only at 7pm.
the birthday boy

his girlfriend

we walked around thompson for abit
even both went to shit at the same time. HAH!
then to sin ming to look at a few bike shops
and back to thompson for dinner.
all the while he thought dinner was just gonna be the 2 of us,
because we originally agreed to keep his actual b'day to just between us
so when we got to miss clarity,
the reservation for a table of 10 kinda gave itself away.
but unfortunately,
EVERYBODY ELSE WAS LATE.
-_________________-"
so it was just the 2 of us sitting there for a pretty long time
and by the time all who was supposed to be there had arrived it was 8.20pm (reservation was at 7pm)
so much for surprises
*kua kua kua*

my lychee drink which was not bad.

baby's seafood risotto thingy which was good

one of his friend's main course

my creamy pork pasta which was alright only

why so far away baby?

his friends
top L-R = gavin, aaron, birthday boy, daniel
bottom L-R = wei cheun, andrew, benjamin
people missing from picture = me (obviously cos i was taking the picture), daniel's gf (because it was an all guy photo) and garrick (who left us early for prata).

someone so happy sial

after dinner it was er ren si jie time
and we drove to sentosa to go to the beach (the last time we went to the beach together was the day before we got together which is a long time ago)
and open his present.


what is this,
he made me carry his present all the way to the beach
and i was in peep-toe heels mind you
and they don't go well with beaches. :p

ever since he saw the box at my place when we went to get the car,
that boy was ever so curious about what was inside.
every time we were in the car driving
he would keep looking back at the box (which was sitting innocently in the backseat)
full of anticipation and wanting to know.
haha

we found a nice spot under some trees near cafe del mar

he was so excited,
he kept asking me to take pictures of him with the box

pulling the ribbon..

pulling up the lid..

"what's that?"

he actually likes the box and the message more than he likes the present.
o.0

sx is the kinda guy who hardly emotes
and it's so so so difficult to make him so happy such that when you look at him you can actually see and feel the happiness coming out from him
trust me, i've tried to many many times
he would tell me he's happy but i could never feel the happiness.
til that moment after the above picture was taken.
he came beside me gave me a really big and tight hug
and you could see it oozing in his eyes and and his face.
the whole moment was so beautiful, so serene
i guess it might have been because it was the first time i saw him so happy
and i was really happy that i made him that happy
or maybe because at that moment i felt all that hard effort put in was really worth it
but i cried.
happy tears rolling down my face. (i am tearing as i am typing this)
i almost never get so happy that i cry
and even when i do i just tear or 1-2 tears escape.
but this time i was crying many many tears.
i really can't explain it
he should be the one crying right?
but the whole thing was just really really so beautiful,
i really couldn't help myself.
i think our relationship has reached a new level.
:)

he took a picture of the message he loved so much
(that picture of him is so stupid yet cute right? =X)

us by the beach tired but very very happy.

after that it was home sweet home
he ended up staying over
and we got to sleep in each other's arms.
the poorboy was not feeling well and was feverish by the time we got back.
but all in all,
it was a happy ending.
:)




i love you shixiang chen.
and i hope you loved everything from 15th aug 12:00:00am
all the way to 11:59:59pm. (and of course everything before and after as well :p)
*many many hugs and kisses*
love
your girl,
nicole.