With the deft organizational skills of Trisha and everyone's cooperation, Sock and the Small Garoupers managed to pull of the surprise birthday party for Guan which was themed Green and Red.
Planned only a few days prior to the 20th of December, everyone was previously tasked to be in charge of different aspects of the party.
In a nutshell, while Sock and Guan vacated their apartment for breakfast, the Small Garoupers assembled at their place and entered with a spare set of keys which Sock passed to Caleb. They quickly went to work to decorate the apartment and got into position to spring the surprise.
An interesting incident: Wynnie met Gary in the city the day before to hand over
the banner at Orchard Cineleisure. When she left Cineleisure, she bumped into none other than Guan at the crossing to Takashimaya. Without spilling the beans, Wynnie cooly had lunch with Guan leaving left him none the wiser.
Was Lim Ee Guan moved to tears?
Thanks to Tsui for sourcing our BBQ supplies from City Satay and to Yee Ling who opened up her place to us, we had yet another time of food and fellowship at The Pearl. Topping the night was the celebration of Cindy's birthday and the appearance of our new member, Kairos Marican.
Small Garoupers celebrated our nth Valentine's Day on 29th Feb with our traditional practice of gift exchange. The basic criteria is firstly, the gift has to be hand made (as far as it is possible) and secondly, the recipient of our gift has been serendipitously drawn by the casting of lots.
