Ken's Birthday

Okay, folks, here you go. A nice little treat. Yesterday [ 10.03.06 ] was Ken's 19th Birthday..

And because I'm his girlfriend, I have to do something for him rather than just chuck him so lame-o present and say :: happy birthday, kiddo! SO...lets start..

People involved ::

Huei - the designer and artist of the poster

Grace - rookie cake-maker

Jim and Leo - driver, present buyer and the " thieves "

The Process Of Making The Poster

At first, we wanted to use a paper that is 30 pieces of A4 stuck together but being the genius we are, we figured out that Bigger Paper = More Work

So we decided to use 9 pieces of A3 papers instead. Now OBSERVE, this was what it started out as, just 9 pieces of boring white papers.

Ahh, polka dots. Who can resist them? They're so cute and energetic.

Completion of polka dots. ^^

Aww, isn't she just sweet. :P After doing the circles, we cut out some black squares to use as borders. Something about " contrast " and " absence in the presence ".

Ta-da! Ze Borders!

After playing a game of " who's polka dot is bigger ", we've finally completed the background of the poster. All this took about 2 hours, could be less if we didnt waste so much time on bullshitting. Lol.

And voila!~ The finished version of the poster. I really love it. I think its pretty good since we did it in 3 hours. Wahaha, we turned boring papers to a poster that everyone would envy ^^

The Process Of Making The Cake

Butter and castor sugar. We had to cream it until its light and fluffy and because I dont like using machines, we use our arm power.

This cake is highly nutritious because normally you'll just have to put one or two eggs in a cake, but i've put four! [ it told me to in the recipe ] you'll have to put the eggs in one at a time or else it wouldnt work. Err, dont be put off my the third picture, I know it looks really disgusting now but soon, my dears, soon it will flourish!

Then, we divided the flour and milo syrup into three nearly equal parts and stir one part at a time to the egg, butter and castor sugar mixture.

Miam miam, chocolatey cake syrup.

Pours, pouring and poured. The cake syrup is finally in the cake tin. Mission accomplished.

The cake is now in the oven. Oh yeah, I'm wearing my uniform...

Mmm, nice cake. Grace and I ate the crust off at the top cause thats the best part, it doesnt matter since we're gonna turn it upside down and cover it with icing.

Pure white icing sugar... then the innocence being taken away by the evil cocoa powder.

Damn, dont I look professional with the swish of my spoon.

The white stuff on top was melted chocolate. We regretted putting it on cause it looked so much better without it.

The Presents

1. Cake
2. Poster
3. Shaving Gel
4. Face Moisturiser
5. Condom Box Filled With Chocolate [ as a joke ]
6. Shotglasses Game
7. Alcohol Stainless Steel Flask
8. Fishbone Keyring
9. Skateboard Keyring
10. A Pair Of Cute Skull Earrings
11. Apple Juice
12. Heart Basket Filled With Chocolate Covered Coffee Beans
13. Heart Basket Filled With Chocolate Covered Raisins
14. Heart Basket Filled With Chocolate Covered Peanuts
15. Heart Basket Filled With Chocolate Covered Almonds
16. A Shirt That Says :: if no one wants to play with you, play with yourself.
17. A Grey T-shirt
18. A Magazine
19. A Photo Of Myself When I Was 3-4

So yes, 19 presents in total. It was really really hard trying to think up 19 presents if you have a budget. But its all good.

On Thursday 11:45pm, Jim and Leo came to pick me up so we could go to Ken's house to hang up the poster. Those guys were super damn sweet! They braved through the bush that was in front of Ken's bedroom window, jsut cause I'm a chick.

They nearly got butchered by Ken though cause he thought we were thieves. Yeah, we weren't really that discreet. It didnt really help when the whole family was still up.

When he opened his window, we were all stunned. Plan totally ruined, so we just asked him to come out to blow out his cake. We used sparkly fireworks instead of the normal candles cause I forgot to buy them. We even did a countdown :: 3-2-1 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Asked him how he feels now that hes 19 and his genius reply :: Cold, I'm still in my PJs.

Lol...Feel less stress now that is all over...