The birthday is on 22nd November 2007.
The family planned to give her a surprise birthday party this year and guess what actually happened???..... read on...
As normally the case.... during her free time or while watching the cartoons on Astro channels, she kept herself busy by drawing some pictures or colouring her books. We took no serious attention to what she was up to. The only thing we noticed was that her skill in drawings and colourings has improved because she kept on sticking these pictures on the doors and walls.
A day before her actual birthday, I came home around 6.30pm. She opened the door and greeted me with the usual "Hello Dadday". She followed me into the family room and on the way to the family room, she kept on pestering about her birthday cake. Trying to be secretive, I told her that the cake will come the next day. Then, she blurted...
she: Tapi... tapi... mana kek ku untuk sekolah?
me : Mana ada kek untuk di bawa ke sekolah.
she: Aku udah gitau kawan ku esuk birthday.
me : Apa Baby?
she: Esuk aku birthday di sekulah. Aku panggil kawan ku.
me : *toink* *toink*
Then, I remembered some of the cards she drew/made, which she showed to me a few days back. I took no attention of it at that time because I thought it was just an imaginary game she was playing herself. I did not realise that she actually distributed the cards to all her friends at school. HaHa. How could I missed that one!
Realising what actually happened, I took a turn and went to the master bedroom instead. Told my wife about it and we sort of panicked a little bit. After a brief silence, I told my wife that we could try to go to Jollibee and ask if they would be willing and able to deliver something to the school. After Isyak prayer, we drove to the town and tried our luck - our first target was Mum Bakery to order the cake. Did not find anything fancy there and we moved to Freshway Cake House. She liked one of the pink-coloured cakes and we bought it straight-away. You know, we did not want to waste more time... coz its getting late already!
Later, after serious considerations, we also decided to cook some foods at home instead of ordering from Jollibee. So, we went to Soon Lee and bought stuffs there. Later, we went to Teguh Raya and bought more stuffs there too. At last, everything was in hand and we went home exhausted and tired...
The next morning, my wife had to wake up early to prepare some of the foods. We also told the maid to fry the sausages and fries before we both left for offices. Luckily, we have the driver who took care of the delivery of the foods and drinks to her school later that morning. She celebrated her birthday, cut her cake and enjoyed her "makan kecil" with her classmates and 2 sisters at school. It was unfortunate that we could not join them for this special event this year.
What started as a carefully planned surprise party for a lil girl ended up with a different surprise, which was played on us by our lil girl. Ahahaha...
In the end, I must say that we were proud of her creativity and ability to "plan" this event on her own but I also feel that we need to polish her communication (at least by telling us well in advance) and management (ability to plan together with the rest in the family) skills. Hehe...
Anyway, we wish her a very happy birthday and may Allah guide her into the right path in life, blessed with good health and wealth with family and friends around. We sincerely hope you have enjoyed the blasted birthday in school with your friends.
Lastly, here are some of the photos I took to remind us of this "surprise special birthday" by our sweet lil girl we call Ainureen 
the creative invitation card she designed on her own...
this card is for her special friend, safwanah...she said Safwanah already knew about it, so she does not need to keep the card... 
the pink birthday cake...
with friends of Sekolah Pertama...
cutting the cake...
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