HAPPY BLESSED 21ST BIRTHDAY
I finally managed to pick out a few photos from my 21st and sort them out and upload them here. Wanted to separate them into 2 posts but decided that it’s best to have them altogether instead so get ready for a really image heavy post.
It is also my first ever birthday party (for myself ). My parents don't believe in throwing birthday parties for their children. But I'm okay with that, I prefer having a birthday celebration that's somewhat more intimate/personal, with my family and good friends. And that also means I wouldn't mind celebrating it more than once because I could meet and celebrate it with my different groups of friends.
But well, turning 21 is kinda like one of the milestones in life, so I suppose it's worthy of a party. I think it's also good because I get to celebrate it with the people I love and whom I'm most thankful for, all together at once at the same place. So it's special, and definitely memorable.
I realised throwing a party wasn't such an easy job. There was a hell of work to be done and also hell lot to spend. If I would have to calculate the total amount of money that I spend, it actually hit $1000. But pause, turning 21 means I have a legit excuse to splurge my money and throw an awesome party.
First of all to get all the planning started, I have to do lots of research to get a suitable room to accomodate the number of people that I want to invite. So I chose ALOHA LOYANG as one of my choice. It merely cost me $530 for 2 days 1 night, means im half broke after booking the room. After which, I created a facebook event by inviting all the "wanted'' friends to be part of my 21st party and I received 60 responses which kinda shocked me. So with all the responses, I started discussing with my closest friends of how to decorate the chalet
Initially, I chose pastel as my birthday theme as Im a person who loves light colours. However, I changed the theme afterward because most of my friends couldn't get their pastel colour that they want. So in the end, I went any with Blue/Pink/Green/Yellow and white apparel.
Food is the most important thing and that's where most of your money would have went to. A party with insufficient food for the guests is just a disappointment. You can't expect your guests to come all the way to your party and spend a bomb on your present, and there isn't enough food for them to eat. I've been to a party where there wasn't any food left except some rice and noodles. It was really disappointing because I was starving by the time I reached the party. Well, of course too much food might not be a good thing too.
Catered this buffet and received good feedback of the food. Or maybe all buffet food taste the same?
Checked in into the chalet at 3pm and have to drag my barang into the room and get ready to start with all the setting up of photo booth, dessert booth. So glad that Natasha, Meijun, Crystal came down early to help me if not I would really wish to have octopus legs.
I spent alot of my hardwork on the dessert booth because I really want my guests to have something sweet and leave this chalet with a sweet note. Most of them thought that I bake all the pastries on the table. I would like too but I can't find a right time to bake due to my office working hours. So all of the pastries were hand made by friends. The blossom nutella cupcake won many of my guest's heart, partly because of the vibrant colours or rather it looked like mario mushroom. Or perhaps its the nutella filling that everyone's like. The cheesecake and brownies were baked my Susan's aunty friends and personally I love the marble cheese cake alot. We even had a pot of chocolate fondue dipped with marshmallow and strawberries.
The banner's idea were from Meijun. I never doubt on her creativity but simply admire of her talent. Boy's sister came over to help out too and those helium balloons were bought by her boyfriend and herself. Really thanks a lot for spending so much money on the balloons. I don't think helium balloons are cheap though?!
The guests started to come one by one after 7pm. They were told to take a picture with me before entering into the chalet so it means im their entrance fees.
The props that we have were made by my close friends below. They are such a sweet little pie (:
Natasha| Mei Jun | Me | Crystal
Jaslyn (Zhiwei's sister)
Nicholas
Benson
And not forgetting this two heros who helped me to collect my cake from a blogger (shiberty's). So much of pranking me that they accidentally dropped my cake ( at that moment, my heart nearly dropped upon hearing it) but lucky it was a prank. HAHA. Thanks for travelling down from tampines to upper thomson!
So apparently my brother's friends came too! I'm not the one inviting them but Brandon did. HAHAHA, kidding la, they are such a friendly juniors.
This woman who gave birth to me on the 15th March, 5.35pm. My wonder woman, the heroine in the family. I won't be breathing to this world if you didn't insist and pushed all your energy just to let me get out of your "hole".
Joel
And my SEG mates came too! Hehehe, im actually very happy to see them. Lost touch with them after our FYP/ Intern. Feels really good to see them around (:
Thanks for coming!
QIng Fang| Peishan| Nisa
And also the man in white. HAHA, coincidentally or planned attire? All wearing white!
Poh chin| Meng Soon| Zhao Rong
Seow wen- the one who studied opposite my class. HAHAHA
So glad that we are close as ever!
Li zhu- Another good friend that I met during secondary school. To be true, I love all the 5Ns in my batch.
The hougang neighbour gang.
Best buddy: Joel Ang. Started off as junior/ senior but now as close as ever. Thanks for coming down to witness my whole 21st birthday. You are like my elder brother, taking good care of me when Zhiwei is not around.
My fifth uncle
Soon my BME class mates came over:
Alvin (;
Jue Yu
Hong Xiu
And my the one that I wont let go of and also who came down super early to help me:
Next up with the cousins:
Alfred| Delon| Brandon
Mum's sisters and sister-in-law
The bintan group:
Zhi Hao| Yu Kai| Bjorn
AND HEY, my favourite sweet girls are here:
AMELIA MEI MEI
PEI YU
ANGELABABY.HAHAHA
VIVIAN AND HER BOYFRIEND
FELIX AND WHY IS HE CLOSING HIS EYES?
KELVIN
DAVNIEL|JACOB| SI MIN
AND MY NETBALLER GIRLS CAME. Those people who went through with me sweat and tears (: Miss playing netball with them.
Wendy
Poh Yee
Stella
Brenda
Ja sin
And my twins!! Apparently she is older than me by 3 days! My camwhore partner (: March babies rocks!
Jia Hui
Marcus Ng| Joanne
The suzhou's gang:
Nelly
Kai Xuan
Jethro
Gordon
Teck Yeow
Jensin
The rest of my secondary class mates came:
ANNA
Li ping
Li Ping| Kai ling
Zhan Ming| Yau On
Wei Xiang
Shu Mei
Edwin| Kah Sheng
Gabie
Xiao Ting
Yi Hua
Shi Hui
Hui Ting
Ernest
Not long after all the guests came, I proceeded on to cake cutting!
Satisfied with my pretty cake! Thanks Jessica and her boyfriend (Shiberty's)! The design of the cake was suited to my preference, which matched the theme of my party perfectly. With good quality ingredients, the cake tasted awesome or maybe too sweet for some people. The cupcakes need to be improve more on it because the cocoa powder make the whole cupcake taste so bitter :| What makes Shiberty's Sweets stand out from the other bakers, you may ask. Jessica goes the extra mile to explore new ideas and designs that she hasn't tried/encountered before but still manages to do a magnificent job!
I'm glad to have them around because they are the ones that I am most comfortable with in a sense that we all just let loose and be ourselves! Some of my other friends will come up to me, telling me how envy they are of me to have these bunch of girlfriends. Yes, I should feel blessed to have all of them in my life.
All in all, I just wanna say a huge thank you for taking time to come down and making my 21st so memorable! It wouldn't be the same without you guys! I'm also truly happy to hear from some of my friends that this was a successful party. Lastly, thank you so much for the presents. I love them! Frankly speaking, I really think you guys know me damn well to know what i want/like. I really hope all of us will still keep in contact in years to come <3
How can i ever leave out the love of my life? I must have said it a lot of times but sometimes i really don't know what i would do without him. My dear boy is away for his Brunei trip and he wasn't present on my 21st but nevertheless, he arranged a delivery man to deliver over this bouquet of flower over to my chalet and seal his sister's lips for not exposing anything to me. He treats me like a gem and i always ask myself what have i done to deserve someone so precious like him. I'm not lying, i really ask myself this question! Forever helping me, forever thinking for me, forever putting me before everything and forever thinking of ways to make me happy :')
P.S: I'm truly blessed to come to know this bunch of friends whom i had grew closer to throughout the years.
Till then.
