The past three days have been spent at kovan mcdonalds - more specifically, the long table right smack in the middle - cutting, pasting, drawing, chatting, eating, laughing, crying, thinking, wrecking our brains and sitting there till our butts hurt. All for dear Charlene who very much deserves every little bit of effort that has been put in and every single cent.

Second scrapbook I've done. Yes, recycled the idea, but I absolutely love scrapbooks. I promise I will cultivate a habit of scrapbooking once I get married and have kids. Imagine if your parents did a scrapbook of you, the first step you took, the first word you said, those rare moments where smiles are captured on camera and you just want to remember for the rest of your life. Cool right. I know. :)

Anyway, I don't think there's anything wrong with recycling ideas and making the same things for different people, because every hand made present is unique and different, filled and made with a similar yet different kind of love. Char's was really fun doing together with erns, tinee and belley. This 'Mission: Surprise Charlene' has definitely gotten us closer, and we probably know more about one another now, especially Ernest! He used to be that forever politically correct MR Nice Guy who would say the right things at the right time. My my, what an eye-opener boredom and tiredness can be. :)

As for the surprise, we brainstormed like crazy, coming up with things like locking her in the toilet, playing disgusting games that involves flour and dripping water from the tap, and even giving char sleeping pills that last for five minutes - if such a thing even exists! We were so afraid that she'd find out that we had a surprise in stall for her.

In the end, we used our drama as the platform for our surprise. She obviously did not expected it and cried the moment she saw what really was inside the box. (Tineee got all excited before Char and ended up tearing before the b'day girl)

I really was so excited the whole day. Making faces at everyone except char, mouthing "so exciting!" every 5 minutes, cos I really was that excited. Pacing around making sure that char doesn't pop out from nowhere and accidentally see the present.

Okay picture time! Always rare to find pictures on my blog so enjoy.




Erns and his maple syrup. It's like his muse o.O



Ernest gone insane. :)



Tineeee all diligent.



Tineee and her funky hairdo. Love it babe!





Oh the things tiredness does to you.



My booost of energy. It contained more foam than my syrupy goodness though.



Our artistic mess.



the beautiful birthday babe with the decoy.



The Present People. (and my horrible eyebags)

Lovely. Thank God we outwitted Charlene this once. Mission accomplished!
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