Shalini, one of my friends from SMU who co-owns the student-run bar Frujch, held a surprise birthday dinner for her mum together with her family. It’s one of the sweetest things I’ve seen because they put in so much effort to invite 10 tables of guests and they managed to make everyone keep mum about it. They blindfolded her mum to the venue and when they finally took off blindfolds, the mixture of emotions so visible on her mum’s face was ever so touching. It was like genuine surprise, happiness, excitement, and being touched to tears all combined. I must say kudos to Shal and her family for pulling it off so well – think this is the first perfect surprise large-scale event I’ve seen. Usually, all the surprises my friends and I try to pull off usually comes off as almost perfect but never 100%.
I think it’s really sweet that after so many years of marriage, such tender love still exists. So to all you cynics out there, love after marriage is not a distant concept.
