Rachel Lui: Surprise surprise!

Hello bunnies! I'm back! Gonna be quite a long blog post so I'll just let you know before hand. So today is one of my best friend, Jazreel's birthday!!!! wheeehoooo! We've been friends for 11 years OMG right hahaha we met each other in primary 1 and have been best friends ever since((: And so, the rest of us decided to plan a little surprise for her. Just saying, this whole surprise thing wasn't planned really well but I must say I'm quite happy at how it turned out hahaha. Okay so this is what happened today 24th March 2015.

In our clique, there are 6 of us so since it was Jazreel's birthday, the 5 of us decided to surprise her. All of us got our individual presents and what not so we decided to just get a box and place everything inside. Pearlie, Cuiwen and I were supposed to meet at 1pm but knowing me, I'm FOREVER late. Due to the fact that I woke up at around 10am and fell back asleep till 12:30pm <--- wonderful Rachel. I was also supposed to go to Ikea to purchase the box (thanks for the help nicole!) So obviously I was unable to meet them at 1pm. So I told them to just go to Plaza Singapura first (as we had to get the balloons there) that way I wasn't too stressed up trying not to be so late meeting them hahaha. After I got the box, I had to fold it first or the huge cardboard would be in danger and would be in horrible state as soon as I reach Plaza Singapura. I took a while to fold the box and then I was on my way to meet the girls!

I took SUPER long to reach and I feel super bad but well they're used to it HAHAHAH. I met them directly at Spotlight and was choosing all the different balloons we hope Jazreel would like and 99% of the balloons were green as duh, her favourite colour haha. After choosing and all, we decided to pay. THEN AT THAT MOMENT, the lady at the counter told us that we had to pay for the balloons AND the inflation of the balloon... (like we had to pay for the helium in a way) We were like "Whut... you kidding right.." But no, she wasn't and we chose those kind of foil numerical balloons '17' (due to obvious reasons) and when she totalled everything, it was $99.something. 3 of us were like :O :O :O. HORRIBLE. $99 FOR BALLOONS YOU KIDDING ME?! Hold on, FYI, we only chose like 13 balloons in total inclusive of the '17' foil balloons so yes, the inflation of the '17' cost a FREAKING BOMB. We decided not to get the '17' as we are poor kids and $99 for balloons is literally insane. Moving on, in the end we got a few green balloons and a pink Disney princess foil balloon (inside joke).

After settling the balloon problem, we went to daiso to get some stuffing for the box as it was quite a big box. Oh and midway through, MinYi came to join us haha. When we were done, we made our way to leave Plaza Singapura. Then we realized that the Istana was right beside so we decided to go pay our respects to the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew. There were quite a lot of people queuing up to write their wishes for Mr Lee and to thank him for everything he has done. Let me just take a second to emphasize how much that touched me. Especially with all the flowers around, people crying but what really touched me was seeing a father and his little girl standing right in front of a picture of Mr Lee and seeing the father explaining to his daughter what this situation was and what a great man Mr Lee was. That scene just melted my heart. Okay, back, we took turns taking care of the balloons because it was super inappropriate to queue up with a bunch of balloons. After everyone has finished with paying our respects, we left for Jurong Point to meet Kahying and for me to meet Jazreel.

Side track, the reason why I said 'and for me to meet jazreel' is because we all lied to her. Saying that the rest of them weren't free to meet her and only I could since both Jazreel and I promised each other when we were still in seconday school to spend our birthdays together(: And that's why I was meeting her. So the plan was that I meet Jazreel at Jurong Point while the rest of them make their way to her house (we collaborated with her mum before hand haha) to wait for her. When I finally met Jazreel, I told the rest that they could start moving off from where they were hiding (in case Jazreel sees them. and in their case, they hid in NTUC hahahahahaah) While they were making their way to her house, Jazreel and I went to eat some Hong Kong dessert, mango sago mmmm(: HAHA. When we were eating our desserts I was thinking how on earth can I get Jazreel to go home right after this.. And came up with a plan hahaha I texted pearlie to tell Jazreel's mum to get Jazreel to go back ASAP. She did! She called Jazreel immediately and told her to go home straight away also, because before that I told Jazreel that I was free the whole day and could spend the whole day with her so she automatically invited me to go to her house hahahaha. Thank god she did or I wouldn't know how on earth to get her to let me go to her house without suspecting anything was up.

We left Jurong Point and was on the way to her house! Jazreel had NO IDEA man. hahaha Once we reached, the girls were long hiding in Jazreel's brother's room just waiting for the chance to surprise her. They even hid their shoes in the storeroom so she wouldn't see them when she came home. HAHAHA. When it was time, they all exited the room and started singing happy birthday to Jazreel. I was a little surprised myself haha cause 5 people came out of the room.. HuiShan appeared! HAHA They said it was because they coincidentally saw her and invited her along for the surprise! hahahaha. Also, there was kinda a problem but I shall leave that out HAHAHAH. Her face was like "OMFG". She was super shocked and didn't suspect/expected anything hehehehe. And so, we just sat around, ate cake (we bought at Jurong Point while waiting for Jazreel to arrive) and just talked. We had so much fun, also if you added me on snapchat you'd have seen the video of Jazreel playing with helium HAHAHAHA. That was SUPER FUNNY we all died. Before we knew it, it was already 9pm+ so we decided to leave and let her have her own family celebration(:

Hopefully she enjoyed her day and yay to the fact that our surprise was successful!!! Also, once again happy birthday Jazreel, heres to more years of friendship!<3 Love you!!