I was forced - Part 1

Yeap. After so long, I've been forced by somebodyana to open this grave of a blog and make this post because I recently held a surprise party for Shahrul and I only made a short caption of it on Instragram. So this somebodyana didn't approve and literally guilt-trip me into doing it.

Hence the title..I guess its supposed to say My love turns 24 or He's finally older than me yippee..or something loving and sweet..but whatever..hakikatnya I was FORCED.

So to that somebodyana here's a super long minute by minute post for you to read because we did go through endless torture to make the surprise happen (terima kasih daun keladi yeww) which by the way

TAK JADI LANGSUNG

Like literally

Nothing we planned menjadi.

Either Im getting way too old to plan shit or it was fated that 30th October is a suwey night for planning.I dunno. Hear my story. Then decide.

So lets get the preliminary updates done first

Ok I was looking at my past posts and literally vomited at all the corny as fork love posts I had made for Shahrul. Mungkin kerana dah lama together and all the sparkles and stars  have dried out leaving only the slow but stable chug a chuggin feelin of love..or its because Im just tired..[I go back home, help in the kitchen and literally just flop on my bed and snore away]..or maybe because Im just ancient and have forgotten how to blog heh.

Oh btw Shahrul put a pre-ring on it. YIPPEE! *throws confetti
 His family came to merisik on 31st August [thats another story] and Alhamdulillah everything went smoothly and now we we're in the middle of preparing for our wedding, [ME?! WEDDING?? WHAT?!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!] yeah Najjua and wife and wedding don't really mash well since I have a maturity level of a baby carrot. Ok so relating back to all this, because of the wedding preparations, for this year's birthdays I told him

N: Wei birthday this year I bawak u makan then beli present you la..kite bwat small2 je..sebab nak save duit kan..
S: Okay set

So the plan was it will be a small dinner and then go present-shopping [macam bawak anak klua plak kan], but I dunno I felt like maybe there should be a lil bit more.. I mean I am going to trap him forever soon. he deserves a lil something something. muehehhe.

So I says to meself

"Self self, why don't you gather all of Shahrul's bestfriends to celebrate his birthday? like not just from one group but from his childhood friends to his college besties"
"My my self, what a brilliant idea if I may say so!" *pats myself on the back

So I contacted Mabik and Dyana and told them the plan, which was Im gonna nag to him a few days prior that I wanted waffles from A&W, so I'll ask him to go have dessert there after dinner and present shopping.

So after so many planning and "eh nak bwat hari nie ke hari lain?" and "boleh bwat awal sikit tak or lambat sikit tak?" and "apa kata kau bawak die hari nie pastu surprise hari lain" and it came to a point where there was so many changes and Mabik actually marah me [yes HE marah ME] and said "Aku dah bgtaw semuaorang hari Jumaat. dah jangan tukar. buat Jumaat"...I HATE YOU MABIK.. we finally decided that I'll bring him for dinner and present shopping on his birthday and the next day on Friday [in which we both have a talk at Shah Alam], we'll drive back to PJ and the surprise will take place.

Simple plan isnnit?
Ain't so hard innit?
When I bring him to A&W all his bestfriends will be gathered around the table wishing him suprise! with balloons and maybe streamers and his other best friend Dyana will walk out with the cake right?

WRONG

WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG

Everything went to hell and back or EWTHAB for short
Let me explain why

EWTHAB Scene 1:
Thursday 29th October 2015

Birthday boy arrives at Damansara Perdana

N: Happy birthday baby! You nak makan apa? (gatal tanya padahal dah book tempat)
S: Ermm I nak makan Pelicana!
N: But but..bukan u suke arab ke? I nak bawak u makan arab
S: Ohh okay. Then I nak makan Saba restaurant la best. My favourite!
N: What? kat mana tue?
S: Wangsa Maju
N: But but..sempat ke beli present you kat Shah Alam? *place I booked was in Shah Alam
S: Ohh I lupe bgtaw..tempat tue tutup everyday kol 5. So kite kene gi hari Sabtu
*screams internally THEN WHATS THE POINT OF ME BOOKING AN ARAB PLACE IN SHAH ALAM!
N: Ohh ermm.. sebenarnya..ermm I DAH BOOK TEMPAT KAT SHAH ALAM! I NAK SUPRISE YOU DINNER SO IKOT JE I  MAKAN ARAB KAT SANA.
S: Errrr Okay??

Drove to Shah Alam and arrives at *drum rolls

SAHARA TENT!

By then I was nervous as hell because we have a thing where we like to make each other's choices of new places to try as the worst place we've ever been to..so I really didn't wanna spoil his birthday dinner. but then..

Thank God the ambience was nice..we got our own nice little booth..and Shahrul said his lamb mandy was delish! Alhamdulillah.

There was this awesome tent to fit in ten people and the initial plan was to have the surprise there but everyone was broke and it was too far so yadayadayada last2 had a romantic dinner instead.

EKKKKKK!

romantic la sangat..tak sempat tukar baju cantik..he wont let me because he's from work and he said he looked like crap so I should look like crap too..
we were dead tired and in our freaking work clothes. we ate in silence because we were hungry..i had to force him to take pictures..
our booth had this blinds that we can close to create a private atmosphere but when the waiter did close it the first thing he did was clap his hands and say "wow congratulations makan dalam gelap" -.-"
nothing fancy schmancy or exciting happened really..no birthday cake even..we were like two old people getting the obligatory dinner done and over with...but we had that silent comfort whereby we just know..i mean on my part la..that everything was perfect as it is. My man is 24, is old, balding and buff buncit..the promised six pack he said he'll get in 6 months is gone with the wind..but I couldn't have loved him more than I love him at that moment watching him happily stuffing himself with lamb mandy.

Getting ready to go to the talk
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