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Happy Birthday, my love

Time flies and we found ourselves celebrating K's birthday.  Last year we celebrated it back in Singapore and this year is no exception, more so a milestone birthday for this birthday boy :)

I had arranged a series of surprises for him with friends and family.  In fact today we just wrapped up with a (final) birthday lunch!

It started in Singapore.  We met up with ex-Londoners at Imperial Treasure (if you go to the Paragon branch, please order the peking duck because they don't call it super peking duck for no reason..).  Our best man CL surprised the birthday boy with longevity buns!  This Chinese restaurant does not serve any cakes but said they can serve these birthday buns - one for each of us.  The lovely couple CL and wife even remembered to bring a birthday candle for K.  Too cute.



On the day before K's actual birthday, we celebrated it with his family.  Starting with a hearty meal at Jumbo Seafood @ Dempsey which was oh-so-good.  We definitely had an interesting episode with the restaurant over our plate of otah fried rice but all ended well.  The crabs were massive!  We ended the night with the family tradition of an ice cream cake for K.

With our Jumbo bibs

Family shot

Dissecting the ice cream cake with a chopper lol


On his actual birthday (yes never-ending!), I arranged a little surprise with my family.  We had lunch at grandma's and my brother and sis in law bought a durian cake in the afternoon (Emi Cakes - so yummy, with frozen durian pieces in between fluffy layers of cake).  Whilst K was lazing on the sofa reading his usual Daily Mail news, we brought the cake out and sang him a birthday song.  Needless to say he was well surprised.  And the whole time little Sarah was screaming with delight.


And nope, it hasn't ended!

We needed to continue back in London :)

I arranged for a dinner with our usual group of friends at Hawksmoor, again a surprise.  I came up with some excuse of having to return some shopping in Piccadilly Circus (believable reason haha!) and suggested dinner outside since we had no work the next day.   I brought him into Hawksmoor and it was quite funny.  He needed the toilet and so when the waitress showed us our table, he completely didn't see Rachel sitting at the table.  He zoomed straight to the toilet, only to bump into Lawrence in the toilet! lol SURPRISE!! 

So happy with his presents

Group shot

The steak was juicy and succulent.  We waited for a long time for our food due to some problem with their grill and the waiter kindly arranged for some free starters for us on the house.  Woohoo!


By this time we were both so full we could only share one dessert

I'm losing count over the number of surprises and meals for this birthday boy :) However there is one last one which I'll save for another post.

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