Just came back from my grandma’s 80th (surprise) birthday celebration! =)
It was held at this Teochew City Seafood Restaurant somewhere near Robinsons. Mum and uncles booked half the restaurant for the celebration, stage, lights and all, and we had around a hundred guests in total! We invited my grandma’s siblings, relatives, friends, exercise mates, everybody! The cousins and I sat at table 2 out of the ten. =)
We arrived at 5.30pm and welcomed the guest to their tables. My grandma came last and had this really grand entrance! =D There was music and a professional photographer who was my cousin’s friend, and she was really shocked/happy. Brilliant =) There was this long queue of guests who wanted to congratulate her/wish her happy birthday/give her ang paos… and she was so overwhelmed by everything. It took some ten minutes before everyone settled down to start dinner. =D
大姐姐 and I were MCs for the night! Mum wrote a script for us hahaha! We spoke in chinese, but attempted speaking a little Teochew and managed to pull it off! Luckily the audience of mama’s old friends and relatives could understand us, though I can’t quite tell if I’m speaking it any differently from them heehee. I guess we just sound different ^^ Anyway, Teochew’s such a soft/sweet dialect compared to Hokkien and others. It’s nice to speak/listen to. =)
We invited a 23 year old 变脸 master to perform for us too! Cool, though it isn’t the first time I’ve watched a performance like that. It was really quite spectacular though, and I haven’t figured out how he switches masks so quickly. I bet they’re in the cloak!!! But … ah, I guess I will never get to know the secret. /_\ Maybe I can try it someday!
The food was so-so, compared to other high end restaurants, but my tummy was well pampered so I guess I shan’t complain too much. >< I actually had a packet of medium fries and two bread talk buns around 6 before the event began, and I still could eat so much. Heh, I guess I’m just living up to my insatiable appetite. -_- Quite scary.
Oh!!! And how could I not mention this. Nai nai’s cake was HUGE. It’s almost say… six times the size of my face? or two times the size of my back! I don’t know exactly, but I think you can imagine right. =)
Nai nai seemed happy through out, though a little stone, but I managed to talk to her a little after we came home before she started to count ang pao money and she kept saying how happy she was yay! I actually cried a little, just listening to her talk. I mean, I feel really happy that she’s happy, and that she could celebrate her birthday with so many people. It’s so heart warming! And she’s so generous, it’s so uncommon. ><
She’s sleeping now. Happy 80th birthday nai nai!
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