Night Picnic In The City

Despite the busyness, the fast pace of life, the hectic day to day schedule, I was informed of a friend’s arrival to Singapore last weekend. That weekend coincided with the person’s birthday as well. Oh gosh.

Having only a few days, I scrambled to get the planning in place and I was thinking of doing something a little different. The norm would be to book a table at a restaurant somewhere, order a cake and have people sing the typical ‘Happy Birthday’ song to the birthday person. It is cliché, expected and well, the easiest way for me.

This time, I tried to make a bit of an effort. I wanted my friend to be surprised and at the same time see the beauty of Singapore, our very own Garden City by night. I remember seeing Syafiqah’s (a lady I met during Aere’s styling session) Instagram of how she did a surprise birthday for her loved ones. Great idea indeed. Ok, I know I am not being original here but I do have a whole lot of other matters to look into. 

I supposed I was really lucky. I managed to engage Pitch Nique and begged them to accept my super late booking request. I was pretty indecisive. I had a lot of questions, uncertainties, I was worried about the weather and many more. Only on the morning of the birthday did I remember some stuff and immediately requested for additional items. Seriously, I do not think I am an easy to deal with customer. 

But lo and behold, when I arrived at the designated venue of the birthday-surprise-slash-night-picnic event, I think my heart skipped a beat. The setup done by Pitch Nique was ah-mazing. To be perfectly honest, I was not expecting much given my last minute situation and request. But we were all pleasantly surprised at the outcome of the setup. It was a simple yet elegant setup with a multi-million dollar view of the Singapore skyline. It certainly exceeded my expectation.

  

Look, they even prepared back-up wet weather plans. In case it rains, there are raincoats and an umbrella to keep us dry while walking in the rain to seek shelter.

With such an elegant setting, a great view and the pleasure of an even wonderful company, it was indeed a beautiful evening for us. We had a lot to talk about. We talked about the night picnic-slash-birthday-surprise. The funny moments of our past, our impossible dreams, our future goals and how we each plan to work towards them. It was funny. It was filled with lots of laugh. It was nice. My friend is a naturally funny person and I too, am funny, obviously. So we were laughing the entire time we were there. It certainly was a beautiful friendship. Hopefully one day in the future, we can always look back to this very night and always keep smiling.

There were some people who were walking alone who happened to see us sitting and talking. Some looked for quite a while to make sure we were probably REAL people sitting there. Some looked over a few times. I know I would probably do the same. 

Despite the last minute planning, everything was absolutely perfect. I wish there would many days and night such as this very night. But to think about it, there can be, just a choice of how we want things to be. And it can happen. To many many more of this beautiful moments in life.