I have a person in my life, where i can make fun about, a person whom i can complaint, a person who thinks tht i'm a super duper good girl....( although i'm not, I'm a red horn devil sometimes), a person tht always comment on my dressing sense (he has good dressing sense, i trust his sense, and can follow blindly on his advise on fashion) and a person who proudly tell his wife tht I'm just like his elder daughter..... Wants to know who is this? Of course all my siblings and cousins who are reading this blog already guess the name correctly and should be grinning while reading this. It is not other than my Nathan mama.
Nathan mama is my uncle. He is my mum's youngest brother. We shares a special kind of bonding among ourselves. It is not only me, but can be said the whole bunch of cousins. We are particularly more closed to him compared to my other uncles. This may be due to age gaps or maybe his modern thinking. I think may be cox he is living near to us, so the chances we meet are more compared to my other uncles.
His birthday was on 5th Mac. Last year, it happens tht, all of us including my mum forgot his birthday, Do u know how he reminds us about his birthday??? He just rang all of us personally on mobile, then sing a birthday song, right before we could open the mouth to wish him, he just put down the phone. Can u imagine ? He did this not only to me, but the whole bunch of my cousins. Ha ha ha ha...... He is not 3 or 4 years old...but he is 38 years old uncle....
This year, all of us are more alert of his birthday. Even 1 week before the date, we already starts to remind each other about his birthday. We plan for a surprise birthday party. The plan was..... tell a lie, make him to come all the way from Puchong to Klang, drag him to a restaurant , when everyone was ready, let the waiter brings the cake, and....wat else? Sing a birthday song and cut the cake. The most final thing to do..... ENJOY the Meal...:) Sounds easy right, but actually not tht easy....
Task 1: Tell a lie to him. Ok... what are you going to say? "Hmmm..... i need to talk to you about my future plans?" or " Tonight i have to go to my friend's party, can u pls come over to send me there?" or " Appa wants to see you urgently tonight". To cut the long story short, i somehow able to convince him to come to Klang.
Task 2: Who else would be joining the party? Again i need to call everyone, to conform their arrival. After few call here and there, okey, it would be just 21 people.
Task 3: Food? Hmm...... what should i order? Since it is a suprised party, i need to reserve the food and table earlier. This was the most difficult task. I worried tht i end up ordering lousy food. Anyway, thanks to the chef, he was so helpful in assisting my to get the order. Ops.... i had to order some vegetarian food as well, so again...so much of queries, to make sure tht the food was 100% vegetarian food.
Task 4: Birthday cake.. can u pls buy for me, Valar? I seriously running out of time. Time shows 7.00pm, i'm still haven't finish my shopping in Klang. My sis, gave me a hand on this mater. She help me to get a cake.
Overall, everything was arranged.
The time was running fast. Around 7.30pm, all the other family members starts to gather in home. Although we book the restaurant for 8.00pm, we as usual only reach there at 9.oo pm..ha ha ha ha ......We execute the plan. Had a good time together. Nathan mama was so touched. He was in tears. The last time he cut birthday cake was on his 21st birthday..... basically 17 years back. He was very happy. Once again, " Happy Birthday, mama. May the blessings be."
