Happy Birthday Mom!

Mom's birthday was last Friday. And her trickle of celebrations started off with a surprise birthday cake at her cell group! In the morning I asked her if her cell was going to celebrate her birthday for her. I thought, surely they must since she's their cell leader and her birthday was that day itself. But nooo... she said she didn't think so because she was the one usually organizing the birthday celebrations so when it comes to her birthday, she doubted if anyone would celebrate for her! OH no! So tragic! What kind of useless cell group is this! So I decided to do something about it and surprise her with a cake!

The most tragic thing is that when I was standing outside the house with the cake, everyone inside could see me and I was standing there like a clown, singing Happy Birthday so loudly and NOBODY came to open the gate for me. Everyone just stared like I was some extra-terrestial being! WTH!
Anyway, the flowers in mom's hand were delivered by my dad. Made her doubly happy.


Awfully chocolate cake. Thank God there's an outlet so near school. Made my life a lot easier. Except for the fact that I had no car and had to take a BUS from school to church in peak hour conditions with a CAKE. But I'm mighty proud of myself for saving money and not taking a cab. Cos on the bus, this kind Indian lady offered to hold on to my cake for me cos she was sitting down.


Mom - very pleasantly surprised.


Mom cutting her cake.




Mom cutting and serving her own cake (!!)


The cell group that -made it all happen-.


Well-eaten cake.


Then on Saturday, we surprised mom with a cupcake tier! I now think it's quite a retarded thing to do but it looked nice and was something different, for a change. I ordered it from thebakerwhocooks. 4 large nutella swirly cupcakes and 8 lemoney zest cupcakes for my 48 year old mother.


The tier before the cupcakes. It was supposed to be "english themed" but the only English thing I saw about it was the black lace details. The rest of it looked rather, Malay. Haha. But it was nice nonetheless.


The lemon cupcakes! With the ribbon tags "Happy Birthday Mom". The lemon cupcakes were damn amazing. The lemon curd inside is damn zesty and yummy! I loved it.


The nutella swirley cupcakes. the nutella... really the diabetes inducer. But Reuben loved it cos his staple food is nutella, not rice.


The lace detail.


Parents. Ok I realize how everything is yellow and green including the table cloth and this is really starting to look very Malay. NO offence! Just the colour theme. But, it's also quite apt because yellow, white and green were my parents' wedding colour theme! Haha.


And last night, we went for dinner at Hotel Rendezvous. With this, I think we have exhausted all the hotel buffets in Singapore. The food was so-so. I think I ate more dessert than food.


The general place. My camera takes really sucky dim-lighting photos.


Reuben


More Reuben.


My parents laughing at the cards we wrote for mom.


Laughing some More.


My dad is so retarded. When he realized I was snapping impromptu shots, he immediately said, "eh? you're taking pictures? eh quick take one for both of us". haha. There you goo..


The only dish worth taking a picture of - the durian mousse! I like durian. And this one was really good! And it had weird durian dollops lining the top! How ugly and weird!


And when we came home, she opened more presents. This is Sheng's present. He's also retarded. he asked me the night before if it's ok if he wrapped her present with NEWSPAPERS. I said, "you mean you don't have wrapping paper?" Sheng said, "yah i dont have". So I hesitatingly said, ok, you can wrap her present with freaking newspapers.


But it turned out to be pretty nice! He chose some garlic bread and model woman picture. But underneath, there were sooo many layers of ugly newspaper wrapping. Haha.


And in all his bookish-ness, he had to get her, a BOOK. Apt for her work.


Most of mom's gifts in total!


Happy birthday mom. I have the bestest mom ever.