Monday, November 24, 2003
This blog used to be done on xanga. But lately, they have been pulling back a lot of the freebies that I used to have. So I am not shifting everything to this site. Hope that this shifting will not loose anything...
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
BirthDay Celebrations .... in SSEAYP style
Celebrating birthdays are usually just a singing of the song and cutting of the cake back here in Singapore. Just as onboad the ship during the program, we usually sing songs for our friends as things like cake are not easily available.
I can still rememeber during the orientation, some of us can actually make time rush out half way during our training to get a slice of cake and candle for the birthday boy or birthday gal. The effort spent was worth every minute and cent of it when you see the warm smile on their face.
Sometimes, cake was all we wanted as it was so good. Thanks to our NL, Yacob who is working in a hotel, he usually manages to get very nice and sinful cakes for us.
Varian
Celebrating birthday on the last day of the program was fun. Varian (SPY) was one of our guys in SG Dr.We kind of like got together and gave him a surprise with all the candles and romantic lights. We almost contemplated wrapping up his gal for his birthday. I forgot if we how we got the cake from, cause I know that it really cause a lot back there in Tokyo. From the cake , to the surprise, to the presents and the drinks, Danny was the master mind behind everything.
Winnie Neo
After coming back to Singapore, Winnie Neo was one fo the fortunate ones to get a surprise from us SPYs. She told us that she was going to Bintan (Indonesia) for the weekend to celebrate her birthday. Since we don't get to do anything for her in Singapre, someone just thought that it will be nice to surprise her in Bintan.
Everything was so amazing. Haidah was the command center for the whoel operation. One was incharge of the cake, another was in charge of the presents, and one more was in charge of the flowers, cards and etc. Since we are all on a shoe string budget, we actually planned to stay up the whole nite in the Hotel so that we can save the $$$ for a room. Thus I was the one in charge of getting food for us to last teh nite.
Danny was the best. He just came back from Japan and he was up helping to buy everything and there in Bintan with us the next day !! Normally we see people going to Bintang either for golf or for a 3 days 2 nites holiday. For us, we were there on the last ferry on friday and back in singapore on the 1st ferry the next morning !! Although it was just a short trip, the 45mins ride was like a mini gathering for the few of us who managed to go over to suprise her. Going to Bintan made us think of the days onboard the ship again. We were all kind of like used to the rolling of the ship as it was speeding its way to Bintan.
Never did I know that a fireman can come in so handy. Thanks to Ernest, he was able to pull some strings and found a friend working in Bintan to drive us to the resort and all the way to the place where Winnie was staying in.
Winnie and her friends were kind enough to take us in for the nite and we actually got to see the magnificent beach in the next morning before we leave.
The joy of giving a surprise to a friend was totally worth it. This is something that I believe Winnie will rememeber forever, just like all of us who were there.
Celebrating birthdays are usually just a singing of the song and cutting of the cake back here in Singapore. Just as onboad the ship during the program, we usually sing songs for our friends as things like cake are not easily available.
I can still rememeber during the orientation, some of us can actually make time rush out half way during our training to get a slice of cake and candle for the birthday boy or birthday gal. The effort spent was worth every minute and cent of it when you see the warm smile on their face.
Sometimes, cake was all we wanted as it was so good. Thanks to our NL, Yacob who is working in a hotel, he usually manages to get very nice and sinful cakes for us.
Varian
Celebrating birthday on the last day of the program was fun. Varian (SPY) was one of our guys in SG Dr.We kind of like got together and gave him a surprise with all the candles and romantic lights. We almost contemplated wrapping up his gal for his birthday. I forgot if we how we got the cake from, cause I know that it really cause a lot back there in Tokyo. From the cake , to the surprise, to the presents and the drinks, Danny was the master mind behind everything.
Winnie Neo
After coming back to Singapore, Winnie Neo was one fo the fortunate ones to get a surprise from us SPYs. She told us that she was going to Bintan (Indonesia) for the weekend to celebrate her birthday. Since we don't get to do anything for her in Singapre, someone just thought that it will be nice to surprise her in Bintan.
Everything was so amazing. Haidah was the command center for the whoel operation. One was incharge of the cake, another was in charge of the presents, and one more was in charge of the flowers, cards and etc. Since we are all on a shoe string budget, we actually planned to stay up the whole nite in the Hotel so that we can save the $$$ for a room. Thus I was the one in charge of getting food for us to last teh nite.
Danny was the best. He just came back from Japan and he was up helping to buy everything and there in Bintan with us the next day !! Normally we see people going to Bintang either for golf or for a 3 days 2 nites holiday. For us, we were there on the last ferry on friday and back in singapore on the 1st ferry the next morning !! Although it was just a short trip, the 45mins ride was like a mini gathering for the few of us who managed to go over to suprise her. Going to Bintan made us think of the days onboard the ship again. We were all kind of like used to the rolling of the ship as it was speeding its way to Bintan.
Never did I know that a fireman can come in so handy. Thanks to Ernest, he was able to pull some strings and found a friend working in Bintan to drive us to the resort and all the way to the place where Winnie was staying in.
Winnie and her friends were kind enough to take us in for the nite and we actually got to see the magnificent beach in the next morning before we leave.
The joy of giving a surprise to a friend was totally worth it. This is something that I believe Winnie will rememeber forever, just like all of us who were there.
