just us ...: It's My Birthday !

15mins into my birthday, before lights off. Suddenly I told hubby that I, uncontrollably, did make a guess about where he'd bring me for my BD dinner & wanted to tell him my guess. With this dumbfounded look on his face which really made me laugh, he asked to switch off the lights so that I couldn't see his expression if I were to get it right. Here's how it went:
V: "so what's your guess? but wait, be it right or wrong I won't tell you o."
K: "Sentosa!"
V: "Huh? eh... why Sentosa?"
K: "no lah.. I thought you'd think that other places, like you (gay-gay) mentioned 1Fullerton, would be more ordinary compared to Sentosa mah. Furthermore we never been there to dine before."
V: "so does that mean this your preference since you mention it?"
K: "cannot cheat hor!! you can't change now based on what I said, anyway I'm just analysing what you'd think."
V: "ok! let's zzzz baobei!"

Was in tip-top mood. For the whole morning, been feeling restless as I kept thinking what other surprises he's giving me. I expected flowers though (anyway he asked me before whether I expect to receive a bouquet & I said yes). Then... @ 1215h, 1 of the colleagues came & asked me to go to the reception. She carried on to say she didn't know it's my BD & then wished me. So I guessed his flowers could have just arrived. While walking out, saw some colleagues were talking & joking. Couldn't see anything else... but from their excitement, it didn't seem to be as simple as a bouquet & they're all looking down! Could it be a fruit basket? Then when I turned right at the corner, this what I saw....

A "hot-air" balloon with many cute smiley balloons in it!

Height: 1.5m, width (taking the biggest): approx 0.9m.

There's no 1st reaction.... as I was truly stunned! I think I looked funny then as all my colleagues burst out into laugher. Never thought I'd receive such a unique & interesting present. Have to admit that Vince caught me by surprise, yes again...

Then after lunch while I was chatting with hubby over the phone, I heard birthday song & then saw some of my colleagues appeared at the door with a cake. So sweet of them!

Behaving silly with the cake before distributing

Claris gave me this early in the morning :

Was looking forward to our dinner, feeling happy with the colleagues' well wishes & they were so amused by the balloons. Every1 of them asked me the same question - how to bring back?? Then I received all sorts of suggestions: go home 1st & come back around 11pm to collect the balloons & take MRT home .... deflate it & after returning home, pump it up with a tyre inflator (where to find 1???) .... split it, the smiley balloons to bring home & leave the big 1 in office ... etc.

Had been staring at it the whole afternoon & wondered how we were going to bring it home. I doubted that it could fit into our car. Gotta admit that it took me a long long while to recover from the surprise, hehe. But whenever I looked at the 9 small balloons which were being squeezed into the "hot air" balloon & grinning at me, I felt so pampered & happy... & then would naturally bring a smile on my face too.

Finally my honey arrived at my office & when he saw the balloons, he's surprised too (& you should look at his facial expression!) as he only saw it online & then booked over the phone. He knew it's gonna be 150cm tall but didn't expect it to look that huge.. haha. We brought it down to our car & amazingly it got in! We couldn't imagine if it's bigger by another inch. Phew!

After settling the logistics problem, we set off! On the way, he revealed the secret.

Guess where we're heading to?

SENTOSA GOLF CLUB

Yeaah bingo! My honey brought me to Sentosa! Hee! In fact he'd made the reservation last week... so when I told him what I guessed the previous night, he nearly flipped & he said good thing the lights were off then! Haha..

Well it's still great... as I'd expected to dine @ Rasa Sentosa's Sharkey's even if I was right about going to Sentosa. Never would I know he's bringing me to this newly opened Italian restaurant Il Lido (click on for more info!). But me SK... didn't even heard of it before yesterday... hmm... My honey definitely did his homework well!

Panoramic view of the South China Sea

@ the bar

Ready for Dinner!

Excellent ambience & the view was beautiful... especially just before the sun set completely. The dinner was delicious... except the service was a lil disappointing initially. But the rest of the night was great! And it's not expensive.