14.01.2011- 64 IS SOME THING TO BE REMBERED

 

What so important and special about that, one may ask. Well of course to those who do not know the significant - that are just numbers. Rightly so!

To me it is worth the effort and to some extent it is an achievement that I was able to make. There were many occasions that people has carefully plan and out of a thousand it would be lucky if  10 % could really score bull’s eye . I dare say this as I had planned and target the actual date but failed. Well, to others they rather have this occasion before or after as they know they could never really able to achieve the actual date. I have observed and heard lot of people said so. The reasons being either the actual date may not be appropriate, convenient to the celebrant or guests if this PERSON wants to share this occasion to as many of these “special friends”.

Some people really treat this date very special because throughout their lives it is celebrated where possible are used to mark the different stages of their lives. To some people  want to be very serious and so much so that some people may label this person crazy if he /she became too serious. 

By the way can anyone guess what occasion is this I am talking!!!  

Well, the seriousness that I am talking about is not only the exact date, day, hour or even the minute  but the second that would be taken into this precise celebration. Of course so far I have not heard anybody had done this. There is nothing wrong about this apart from people saying that you are gila!!!  I don’t think this is a bad idea. Right?  

By now I am sure everyone knows what I am talking about.

It had been quite a while that I wanted to celebrate my ex-girlfriend’s the day she was born with only the two of us, sort of to be more romantic and loving by just looking at each other and even hold hands while having lunch or dinner some where we could be lost into our own world, back to the times when we just got married!!!  Well, that was just what I had in mind. Later I changed my mind because she was not quite well since three days before that “date”. She had been complaining body pains here and there. I got my son to get her medical chit then the next day I took her to see her Doctor. She got a jab and some tabs to take. The following day she seemed to be ok.

After we had seen her Doctor we went to the place where I proposed to have lunch to celebrate her Birth Day. Made the arranged for the food and told the Captain how I wanted her birthday cake to be brought in after we had the last dish in the menu. Of course she did not suspect why I stopped there and made her waited in the car for quite a while. Then we went home. Later I went out to arrange for the Birth Day cake. Chose the design of a heart and the wording “Happy Birth Day my Love Joan CNN” I ordered cheese cake with less sugar and gave an instruction that the cake must be ready by 11 am for me to pick it up then I would sent it to Wind Bell Tg. Aru.

Cheese Cake for Joan

That night I rang up my buddy friend Anthony Lim and told him that I was inviting him & wife to have fellowship lunch with us and amongst friends. The next morning, three of my girlfriends (Amy, Tina & & Margaret) were coming to my house . I was asked to show them how to brew Snow Lotus Enzyme.

Snow Lotus Yeast Enzyme

This is an enzyme drink. It contains most, if not all of the characteristics of any enzyme drink (the sourness, alcohol taste due to fermentation, etc). The Snow Lotus plant is said to contain medicinal properties and was used for centuries by medical practitioners in China and Tibet to cure diseases and enhance health. Most of the information on the net are available in Chinese though.

Before they came I sent them sms asking them to come on time otherwise they would be penalized and those who come on time would be treated to lunch. That how I got them to make the crowd and I also sent sms to my eldest son, Alex & his wife Jasica, my daughter Joyce & hubby Alvin and my youngest son Alphonso & wife Lisa. Only my youngest son & wife with two of their children, Joshua & Moira came.  As the invitation was sent to them only that morning which came without warning the others could not come because of prior commitments. So to add to the crowd I invited my friends Christopher and Michael and his son.  

The guests...Christopher, Amy, Michael, Alphonso, Joshua, Moira, Lisa, Anthony, Margaret & Tina

It was 11.30 am when I was half way through showing the process how to prepare brewing the Snow Lotus Yeast Enzyme.I left my friends and went to pick up the cake and to send to Wind Bell. Before I left I called Margaret aside and whispered to her that I was going out to arrange for the lunch and told her not to mention it to Joan.   

While I was at the shop to pick up the cake I realized that Joan did know about the lunch so I called one of the ladies but both Margaret’s & Tina’s mobile phone were inactive. I managed to get hold of Amy and got her to listen quietly without mentioning my name when she talked to me. Told her my plan and later asked her to tell Joan to come along and told her to get ready while waiting for me to come back.    

Moira helping her dodu to the birth day candles

When I got home Amy was still persuading Joan to join them for lunch. The idea was that the ladies were the one who wanted to treat her to have lunch. Joan made all kind of excuses for refusing to go. I also tried to persuade her to come but instead she told me to go. There and then I knew I was in deep trouble because the Birth-Day Girl refused to go. Then I said a little prayer to seek for help. After that my son called  as they had been waiting for half an hour already waiting for us to arrive. It seemed my prayer was answered so I told my plan to my son and asked him to talk to his mum that he had arranged the lunch to celebrate her Birth Day. So finally we left for Wind Bell. 

Later when she put two and two together she finally realized that I was the culprit who managed to plot a conspiracy with the girls and our son. Well, the rest is history and the best was I succeeded executing my plan.

The Birth Day Girl and her family

I KNOW MY DARLING JOAN, YOU DO NOT LIKE SUPPRISES NEITHER DO YOU LIKE IF I WERE TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH THAT I WANT TO CELEBRATE YOUR BIRTH DAY. SO FORGIVE ME MY LOVE. WHAT I DID WAS MY WAY TO SAY HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU!!!

To complete my memoir of your birth day celebration darling,  I have chosen this song “The Power of Love” by Celine Dion,  dedicated to you for the occasion.