Tuesday, October 24, 2006

This moment feels like destiny..won't you tell me, tell me

Yesterday was Raelene's birthday and I decided to ~~poison~~ cook for her :P

The plan was to wake up early in the morning to cook the food first, then when she came over, I would heat it up. Well it turned out that I didn't cook enough pasta, and I didn't manage to fry the bacon, and my little sister was late for an appointment (I had to drop her off at megamall before I picked Raelene up), so I was rushing and didn't manage to get much done. I decided to cook when she was at my place.

Before I went to pick Raelene up, I told her to dress up cos we were going somewhere fancy. I even dressed up to pick her up. When we were leaving her place, I told her that I had to go home to do something for my dad first. So when we reached my place, I told her to wait in the car, and that I would be awhile. I took about 25 minutes to finish cooking/preparing everything.

I put the dishes out, lit candles, and played Secondhand Serenade on my computer (man, was it perfect or what?! SS music is just beautiful.)

When I went back down to get her, I put on a disappointed face saying that I still had more stuff to do and that she should come up first.

When she came up, I told her to close her eyes, and when she opened them, 'The End' started playing, and the moment was just perfect. She saw the table, the food, the candles, everything, and she was happy :) and then I knew for once in my life, I had done something right.

I never thought I'd say this- when we sat down to eat, tears started flowing out of my eyes!! I think I was so happy that she was happy that I was just so happy! hahaah..I couldn't explain it.

We enjoyed our meal (nobody died..lol)

After the main course, I went to prepare dessert- strawberries in melted chocolate. I had NO idea how to melt the chocolate. I left it in a pot and turned on the fire. A few minutes later, I smelt the familiar 'burning' smell. And I checked the chocolate. Lo and behold! It was charred! (take 4, gg) and I went out to tell Raelene what happend. Whole kitchen was smoked up so we opened the windows to let it all out. I went onto to google, found out how to melt chocolate, and did that :p

Charred chocolate

We used the microwave in the end!

Later in the evening, I brought out her birthday cake and we had some. Strudel's banana cake is AWESOME. It is SOOOOOOOOO good :P (thanks to Lynndy for introducing the class to banana cake!)

So yeah. It was great :)
Happy Birthday Raelene