Twisted soul: Minnie's birthday party

Minnie was planning her birthday a few months back and she assigned me and Gen as her party coordinators. Fortunately, Gen and I love organizing events like this so we accepted the challenge hehehe. We want this occasion to become very special for her. So Gen and I took our role seriously, by meeting every weekend in our unit to plan for everything - from the blog (which will serve as our birthday present for her), the menu, the decorations, music (karaoke), invitation - in other words, everything! Kinarir talaga namin. We had a lot of options back then. Good thing that Gen and I both love giving surprises and we're both looking forward on watching Minnie's reaction.

Anyway, a few weeks before her birthday, Minnie had her so-called birthday tantrums. So we felt sort of pressured to make it a very special birthday. The thing that only Minnie was aware of is that she will have a birthday party at her unit with the menu that she requested from her friends. So here are the things that we came up to make it a special day for her:

1. Blog. Our goal was to make her cry on her birthday and we thought of the blog as a way to do it. The blog was a big challenge because it's hard to ask people if they can provide a write up for Minnie but all we got was birthday message. Second, not all the people whom we want to contribute was able to do so. We even made an attempt to ask for a video of Kyle greeting her mom but it was impossible to do so (hindi na talaga kinaya ng powers namin). Even the original template and the video code that we wanted to use are not cooperating. So we just did the best that we can do. When we gave the link of the blog, we put the URL inside a card. It was funny because when we gave her the card, some of them had to make last minute changes and we had to use her laptop to do post the entries hihihi (of course, we need to shut her out of her room). Fortunately, we were successful with our goal - we made Minnie cry.. but it was tears of joy. By the way, the blog can be found here.

2. Flowers. Every woman loves to have flowers right? What we planned a few months back was to ask her crush (let's refer to him as Mr Darcy) to deliver her the flowers that we're going to buy for her. We even had an accomplice to make it happen since Gen and I don't have the nerve to ask Mr Darcy to do that. But since there has been a significant development between Minnie and Mr Darcy (and it's not just a drooling phase) and we don't want to preempt things by doing that. So Gen and I had to rely on ourselves on giving her flowers. So what we came up was to give her a bouquet of flowers and place it in her room when she comes home on her birthday. Fortunately, a week before her birthday, Minnie and I stopped by a flower shop and I found out that she loves daisies and sunflowers - an unusual choice for a woman. Anyway, Gen and I barely had time on her birthday with the preperations to buy her flowers personally so we asked Rey to buy her a bouquet, who willingly obliged. It was funny because I suddenly realized that this would definitely leave people intrigued - and it did! But the thing is, our original plan still materialized - a guy giving her a bunch of flowers :)

3. Balloons. We told Minnie to have balloons on her birthday but she said that does not have a budget for this. Again, we want it to become extra special for her so Gen and I planned to still have it. Our initial plan was to buy 50 balloons for her birthday and have them all pumped with the help of Dru, Osang, Kristin and Em. But Gen and I were not able to plan ahead so our next best option was to buy balloons. We asked Donn, one of our colleagues where we can buy the balloons. Gen bought 15 green balloons and she had to pick it up from the store - I could only just imagine a tall girl holding 15 balloons walking on the street - it was definitely a picture worth shooting! hehehe.. Anyway, we're glad that Minnie loved the balloons :)

4. Videoke. Rey bought a Kara vision system from the Philippines and he wanted to give it a try. He brought it to our unit last Saturday and we had a blast. Minnie even rehearsed all the songs that she wanted to sing (I've Fallen for you, I think I'm in Love) but was not able to do so. Of course, we don't want to preempt things with Mr Darcy (*wink wink).

5. Explosion. Since Rey left his Karavision in our unit, Agri was ecstatic and sang videoke every night. One of the songs that she sang was Explosion by Menudo. We both got curious with its dance steps and we ended up searching for it in the Youtube. Agri and I later followed its footsteps and we ended up practicing (and laughing) every night. Needless to say, it was the much anticipated performance of the night! Everyone was laughing with Agri, who wouldn't want to start her dance number without shooting a video. And Minnie sang the song while 4 of us - Agri, Gen, Issa and I danced. As expected, it was Agri who carried the show (the Robby Rosa of the group). Unfortunately, the video was too big that I can't upload it in Youtube as of the moment.

6. Menu. Minnie prepared a lot of food for her birthday. Her menu includes Buffalo wings, shrimp with oyster sauce, chicken salad, some fruits (to which Dru got injured while slicing..aaw) and hotdogs. In addition to that, Minnie asked her friends to cook other menu - lumpia from Charisse, quesadilla from Deck (Jeng's BF), crispy pata from Bing, Revner and Monico while I cooked beep, I mean, beef stroganoff. Also, we ended up having 2 cakes that night - both of these are chocolate indulgence from Secret Recipe.

7. The Crush. Of course, I need to put this even though as party coordinators, the best thing that we can do is to invite him. Actually, Minnie was having second thoughts inviting him. Since we already asked Mr Darcy to contribute for her blog, we convinced her to invite him as well. A few days before her birthday, they had a date (whoops! am I revealing too much? Well this is my blog and I can write what I want) and everyone was looking forward on their interaction during her birthday. It was funny because while Minnie was overwhelmed, reading her blog in her room, Bing asked Mr Darcy to take her picture inside the room and Bing closed the door. Everyone was betting on whats going to happen, and as expected, nothing happened. Still, it was part of the fun that night and one of the reasons why the party was memorable.

That night we sang until 5 AM. We were really tired but we had fun - our goal was to made Minnie cry. And she did but those were tears of joy. Gen and I were kidding that we can put up an events organizer business (and why not) as both of us love to organize things and give surprises, especially to people who are dear to us. It was a memorable night indeed.

Of course, its now my turn to give thanks to those who helped us - for the people who contributed to the blog (you know who you are), to Jeng for not spilling any info when Minnie asked for it and for keeping Minnie off limits in her house while we prepared for it, to Dru for helping out with the fruits and other preperations, to Rey for buying flowers, to Bing sa pambubugaw (bwahahaha!!) and to my partner in crime, Gen for all the efforts that you've put into this. I'm looking forward for our next project bwahahaha!!! =)

PS: Sorry because I have limited pictures as of this writing. The only picture worth posting where I have a copy was taken by the bday celebrant herself =P Don't worry, I'll update this post once I get the nice pictures. Also, I'm still trying to figure out how to upload the video in Youtube so please bear with me =)

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