Pri's bday!
On the night of sunday the 28th May, ravi thought we should do someth to surprise the bday girl. sure, she had invited us all to her place, but that wasnt enough to make it special. he
thought we should perhaps play a prank on her! but what do we do sitting at home on a sunday night? whatever plans we come up with will hav to b implemented between 9 and 12 the next day, coz we had to be at her place by then!
So, think, think...
We even googled it!
Think, think...
Conference with whoever was there...
Think, think...
Finally, we decided we could have a birthday cake with a balloon inside so it'd burst, trick candles, confetti inside balloons to pop over her head. Ravi had more heinous ideas, but no way was i gonna let that happen! And her mom n granny would be around, so couldn't do some other stuff.
Next morn, (the day I finally left home after a month!) the first thing I do is go to the VFS office to change my I20 number. Turns out it was some Memorial Day in the US, hence an official holiday, and this office was closed as well. Hmmm...so these guys get the American holidays. As Indians, they would get Indian holidays too, right? And yet they get the work done.
So, it's 10 already. Where do we get the party stuff? Check from Cenotaph Road to Villivakkam...Ravi said the cake shop near house was still closed, and so started to Anna nagar. I stopped at Spencers Daily on Nelson Manickam Road. Nothing. I stopped at Angel's in Anna Nagar. Nothing! I take a 360 and go to Odyssey on the same road. Yes. By this time, Ravi is at Anna Nagar Roundtana. He joins me. Got everything but the confetti. And cake of course. So, off to McRennett from there. They don't make dummy cakes. And no black forrest. Ravi leaves to SS in search of a cake, I go to Shanti Colony for confetti (wrong place, but that was the only other shopping area nearby) and what do I see? Cake Point. Black forrest. Ye baby! Got it.
Hmm, confetti confetti confetti... Not a single fancy store in sight! Finally, found one on the same street as Pri's house! a thread store with lots of chamki and stuff like that. Got it!
Ravi made sure Pri was busy upstairs while we hid the cake in the fridge (well, you can't call it hiding...it was the only place to put it, in plain sight) and stashed my bag with the goods under her granny's bed. Then upstairs to join the merry women and poor little Ravi had to sit quietly by the side, he had no company, nor a single inclusive conversation! Talk about a ladies' man feeling out of place among ladies!
It must have been around 1 or 1 30. I call Pri to the next room to have some heart-to-heart girlie talk, and Ravi takes the others downstairs to set up the place. We would have been speaking for about 15 minutes when Pri goes to the other room to take a call on her phone. She keeps walking, talking, and looks at what's goin on downstairs. Voices ring from below "Hey!!! Why did you let her come downstairs??"
Pri laughs. She knew about the whole thing. Especially because she went to get us juice, which was in the fridge, in the same compartment as the cake. Some surprise that was! She saw the whole thing coming, even guessed we'll be lighting the trick candles.
She still decided to act surprised. So we sent her upstairs, prepared everything, and then called her.
"Surpriiiiiiise!!!"
"Wow, I'm soooo surpriiiiiised!!!"
We still put good mokkai :P
So, candles were lit.
She huffed,
she puffed,
and she blew them all away!!
What she didn't see coming was the snow spray!!! Haha, gotcha there pri!!!
Highlights of the day:
Pri and Ravi fought. This time, coz she wanted him to shut up, so took a big fat roll of tape and tried to wrap it around his face.
But it ended up around her hands, and she had to wriggle out of it!
Pri and her glowing personality... he he
we tested the strength of silky's jelly belly by balancing a plate of jackfruits on it. And what dyu know, it stayed still!
Nothing much happened after that, we were just watching tv, ganging up on mars (he said something to put himself in trouble!) generally chatting, and later called it a day.
Later at night, I got a msg from Pri sayin the day was made really special! That was worth it :)
thought we should perhaps play a prank on her! but what do we do sitting at home on a sunday night? whatever plans we come up with will hav to b implemented between 9 and 12 the next day, coz we had to be at her place by then!
So, think, think...
We even googled it!
Think, think...
Conference with whoever was there...
Think, think...
Finally, we decided we could have a birthday cake with a balloon inside so it'd burst, trick candles, confetti inside balloons to pop over her head. Ravi had more heinous ideas, but no way was i gonna let that happen! And her mom n granny would be around, so couldn't do some other stuff.
Next morn, (the day I finally left home after a month!) the first thing I do is go to the VFS office to change my I20 number. Turns out it was some Memorial Day in the US, hence an official holiday, and this office was closed as well. Hmmm...so these guys get the American holidays. As Indians, they would get Indian holidays too, right? And yet they get the work done.
So, it's 10 already. Where do we get the party stuff? Check from Cenotaph Road to Villivakkam...Ravi said the cake shop near house was still closed, and so started to Anna nagar. I stopped at Spencers Daily on Nelson Manickam Road. Nothing. I stopped at Angel's in Anna Nagar. Nothing! I take a 360 and go to Odyssey on the same road. Yes. By this time, Ravi is at Anna Nagar Roundtana. He joins me. Got everything but the confetti. And cake of course. So, off to McRennett from there. They don't make dummy cakes. And no black forrest. Ravi leaves to SS in search of a cake, I go to Shanti Colony for confetti (wrong place, but that was the only other shopping area nearby) and what do I see? Cake Point. Black forrest. Ye baby! Got it.
Hmm, confetti confetti confetti... Not a single fancy store in sight! Finally, found one on the same street as Pri's house! a thread store with lots of chamki and stuff like that. Got it!
Ravi made sure Pri was busy upstairs while we hid the cake in the fridge (well, you can't call it hiding...it was the only place to put it, in plain sight) and stashed my bag with the goods under her granny's bed. Then upstairs to join the merry women and poor little Ravi had to sit quietly by the side, he had no company, nor a single inclusive conversation! Talk about a ladies' man feeling out of place among ladies!
It must have been around 1 or 1 30. I call Pri to the next room to have some heart-to-heart girlie talk, and Ravi takes the others downstairs to set up the place. We would have been speaking for about 15 minutes when Pri goes to the other room to take a call on her phone. She keeps walking, talking, and looks at what's goin on downstairs. Voices ring from below "Hey!!! Why did you let her come downstairs??"
Pri laughs. She knew about the whole thing. Especially because she went to get us juice, which was in the fridge, in the same compartment as the cake. Some surprise that was! She saw the whole thing coming, even guessed we'll be lighting the trick candles.
She still decided to act surprised. So we sent her upstairs, prepared everything, and then called her.
"Surpriiiiiiise!!!"
"Wow, I'm soooo surpriiiiiised!!!"
We still put good mokkai :P
So, candles were lit.
She huffed,
she puffed,
and she blew them all away!!
What she didn't see coming was the snow spray!!! Haha, gotcha there pri!!!
Highlights of the day:
Pri and Ravi fought. This time, coz she wanted him to shut up, so took a big fat roll of tape and tried to wrap it around his face.
But it ended up around her hands, and she had to wriggle out of it!
Pri and her glowing personality... he he
we tested the strength of silky's jelly belly by balancing a plate of jackfruits on it. And what dyu know, it stayed still!
Nothing much happened after that, we were just watching tv, ganging up on mars (he said something to put himself in trouble!) generally chatting, and later called it a day.
Later at night, I got a msg from Pri sayin the day was made really special! That was worth it :)
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