Appreciate ME now & avoid the rush later: HAPPY 21ST XIANGXIANG! =)

WARNING!!!!!!!!
PHOTOS INTENSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BECAUSE...........................

*drums roll*

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IT'S SOMEONE'S BIG BIG BIG 21ST!!!!!!!!!! *woots!*

Dun say I never warn you.

Best to drop all your work and concentrate here. *HAH!*

Let's start from Sunday's morning...

Woke up super early (after only 4 hours of sleep! *tsk tsk*) to have breakfast with momsie at loyang point.

Went home and baked yummylicious chocolate chip muffins...

Which taste simply heavenly... (of course lah! Must see who the baker is! ME lah, duh!!!)

Slacked abit while waiting for the muffins to be baked...

Finally Xiang returned my smses, and I headed out to hand him his big big birthday present...

Show u guys the process of making it...

Developed LOADS of past photos, and I realised I overdeveloped cos the frame can only fit in so many. And so many more are left untouched. *tsk tsk*

The half-finished product...

And viola! The add-in cool portrait of the birthday boy. Neatly done by Celes using photoshop. *hah!*

I like it so much lah! Now I can understand how Lester and Shalyn felt when they did the same thing for me. Simply adore that kinda feeling when I received that kind of present, so I want my close friends to have the same feeling as I had. =)

Anyway, cos the frame is tooooo huge to carry around (somemore must handle with LOTS of care!), I drove over to his place to give him.

His reaction was...I dunno...pleasantly shocked? Speechless? Super duper touched? You ask him. =)

Some random shots...can scroll past them if you like, or if you dare...

The back view of the new car...ugly right??? Looks like a carbon copy of Mazda cars...

Me being silly with the soft toys while waiting for someone...

Okie.

Before meeting them for dinner to celebrate his 21st, I visited my ah ma in CGH. This time round is my maternal grandma, while the previous time was my paternal grandma. *sigh*

Suddenly realised that my wai po is so old and frail already! *shakes head*

Stayed for a while and I had to leave.

But no worries...my wai po is fine! Still going strong... =)

Now... Comes the main point of this post, and where all the hot and sizzling pics behold! *hehs*

All thanks to Hui and her meticulous planning, we reserved a table at My Secret Garden, located at Middle Road in a very secretive corner whereby not many will give a second look when they walk past it. That's why it's called My Secret Garden. And it's soooooo xiang's style. Cos he's always being so mysterious and secretive when asked about his scandals. *HAH!*

Anyway, it was a total new experience for all of us, and I'm dying to share it with you peeps. *hee*

At the entrance...

The menu, which I think, is quite cui...Not a match to the restaurant's atas image...

A page inside the menu. Nice.

The prices are rather steep, but the service and food will offset it. For sure.

The owner of the restaurant, Ronny, came over and mingled with us for a few times. He's quite friendly, humourous and all, and the best part?

His eyes are not situated on top of his head, i.e. he didnt 'look down' on us just becos we're young or something. Unlike other people I can think of.

So he came over and joked around abit while we waited for our food to arrive.

There were ten of us, and we ordered:

Starters - Calamari rings, mixed platter (spring rolls & samosas) and chicken wings.

Main courses - 1 rib-eye steak, 3 beef tenderloins, 1 salmon steak, 2 oxtails, 2 spicy crayfish and scallop spaghetti plus 1 other creamy spaghetti which I dunno what it is (pai seh) and,

Beverages - countless (*ahem* Non-alcoholic ones okie.)

Dessert - His 'birthday cakes'.

Total cost - Abt $470. His persistent and insistent treat to us, after us attempting to stuff our cash to him. *tsk tsk* THANKS XIANG~!

My medium-well beef tenderloin with potato, broccoli and red wine sauce... *yummy*

X's medium-rare rib-eye steak with potato, broccoli and red wine sauce...*yummyyumz*

Peimun's salmon steak... Not bad too. =)

Didnt get a chance to take the starters and the other delicacies... If you want to see, go order it yourself. *hehs*

While waiting for our food to be served...

Minmin and me =)

Me and shou xing gong =)

All of us... =)

Dinner was simply fantastic, and before we knew it, it was time for dessert...

Actually, a plot between the manager and Hui was already planned beforehand.

As it was the rule of the restaurant not to bring in outside food, we can't have birthday cake from elsewhere, and MYSG does not offer birthday cakes as well.

But the manager was very nice indeed. He offered his help to make the occasion as special as it can be. =)

The plan went like this...

After clearing our fully wiped-out plates, the waiters switched off all the lights in the restaurant (luckily there were only us!), and all of us, except the birthday boy, knew what was happening and acted blur.

He was like, what happened huh? Short circuit?!?

Nah...

When it was all dark and gloomy, there came a romantic 'Happy Birthday' music and one of the waiter approached our table slowly with a special 3-in-1 dessert.

I believed Xiang tried to blink back his tears of joy. Or was I seeing things? *HAH!*

The whole process was simply...overwhelming. I didnt even know got such a dramatic scene loh!

Well done Hui and Ronny and staff of MYSG! =)

The 'birthday cake', which is actually 3 separate desserts put together: (from left) Brownie Mud Slice with ice-cream, Tiramisu, and Hot Date with vanilla ice-cream. I tell you, the Hot Date is simply beyond words. 10 thumbs-up from all of us. =)