Sssttt..

Remember in the last post, I mentioned that we're taking lots of pictures at night because we're trying to stall the time?

Well, we're preparing for something. 

During the night, most of us were actually tired, because the night before we only slept for around 4 hours to catch the early flight. So, basically our energy was depleted. But we couldn't go to sleep. Not yet. We had to wait till 12 a.m. Start to guess what i'll probably say next?

No, we're not waiting for any fireworks. Yes, (if you guess this right), we're preparing a birthday surprise for the one and only Juniar Lim! We went there on 11th October and her birthday was on 12th October. Before the day came, the rest of us had been thinking again and again of how to set the surprise for her, since we're not in our hometown, and the resort is far from anywhere. So even if we planned to buy a cake or birthday present for her in Berjaya Times Square, she would find out! We're actually freaking out at first when we thought we might not be able to prepare anything for her birthday surprise, but the only guy in our group gave us a very good idea right a day before we went there, which is on 10th October.

He said he had called the management of the Colmar Tropicale resort, and asked them to help us decor a room for the surprise, and fortunately the management agreed to do that. Thank God! He said they're expert in decorating a room for the newly weds and birthday surprises, so we can really trust them. And they promised that they would finish the decoration precisely at 12 a.m.

So, what should we do to stay awake till 12 a.m? Taking pictures of course. No one would like to stay in a beautiful hotel just to watch TV or sleep in the room, right? We took pictures to the maximum limit so that we could kill time too. 

When it reached 12 a.m, we felt relieved, thinking that it must have finished, but when Vincent called the manager to confirm, they said they needed more time. Ouch! We're tired, but we kept forcing ourselves to take pictures, walking around the resort complex for I don't know how many times. It's getting late, and they even had turned off most of the street lights, there were only some security guards walking around, and most of the tourists had gone to their own rooms. But we could do nothing. Fog came by and went away,and we're still waiting and waiting. 

 Until it's almost 1 a.m., the call came and told us that the room was ready. We may proceed. Then, the plan started. The room was in another building, and we had to take her there. The problem was we didn't know how. It seems like if we simply said that we're going to walk around the other buildings, see the inside part and bla bla bla, she would find out! So they made a plan, Christin and Vincent would play rock, paper, scissors game and the loser should knock on some of the hotel rooms' door. They would knock on some other rooms first, and at the end, they would knock on the surprise room and get inside. 

Everything went as the plan. Besides them, the rest of us pretended that the game they were playing was non-sense. We kept saying "You guys are crazy! It's midnight and you guys can't just knock on anybody's room! It's so rude!" and so on. And the birthday girl seemed so shock looking at them doing that. The room was on the second floor of the basement, and there were only two rooms down there, and none of them were occupied. They did knock on the other room first, but of course nobody came out, since it's empty, and when they tried to knock on THE ROOM, we all pretended to run away as though we're really afraid that someone might open the door. But again, nothing happened. So the two crazy friends went on, and opened the door (Vincent had the key from the manager). The birthday girl was even more shocked when she saw the door opened. So Desy lied to her, and said that the door was not locked. We went inside and got into the living room + kitchen. The room was bigger than ours. It has a big kitchen + living room, a bathroom and a bedroom. Some of us pretended to be afraid, and said that we had to get out as soon as possible, at this moment the birthday girl's expression was super pale, but the crazy two wouldn't stop exploring the room and they daringly opened the bedroom door. 

We could hardly see what's inside the bedroom from the outside as the room's lighting was quite dim. We all looked inside to check, and so that the birthday girl would do the same too. When she saw what's waiting for her inside, she turned back and hid her face with her two hands. We laughed and sang the birthday song for her. 

The decoration was so great! It did worth the time we stalled. The management did it well. Her name was decorated on the bed with origami roses, the cake (it was Baskin Robin's ice cream cake and it was super duper delicious!) with the wont-died-out candles, the balloons, and the hanging changing colors and heart-shaped LED lights on the wall! We're so glad that it turned out this well.