Besides the birthday gift he'd received earlier, actually I had planned another bonus birthday programme in HK for him (I was the one who plan the itinery and hence, it's easy to include the surprises as part of the travel programme) but my plans were wrecked somehow by the birthday boy himself (what a letdown!). Can't really blame him... holiday schedules are naturally difficult to keep up/follow.
Surprise Item 1
What it should have been:
To get him a Nikon D90 in HK as a supplementary birthday present. That was the initial intent of going HK.
What it had became:
He was swayed by his HK colleagues and started considering D700 instead. Too bad, after checking prices from a few shops, we realised that hometown Singapore's price is cheaper (much to our surprise!).
Surprise Item 2
What it should have been:
To treat him to an expensive and romantic dinner with a great view for shooting and ambience for eating.
What it had became:
On his birthday itself, one of his HK colleagues kindly offered to play host and showed us around. We followed his trail to good food that the locals love and found ourselves to a different but wonderful and tasty 大排挡 dinner. :)
On the next day, I tried to bring DC to this place for dinner but the idea was dropped because it was too late for dinner after the symphony of lights show at the waterfront. We had dinner at a cafe that sells roast goose at Mongkok instead.
So yup, I was not able to carry out my wonderfully planned birthday surpise for him but , as an alternative, I still managed to buy him a birthday card at a gift store in HK and scribbled some birthday messages hastily on it just before meeting up with him on our last day in HK(Does this sound confusing? Why were we not together? Find out from here).
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