Mark and Ashley's Birthday

This Monday, Acie and I (plus the RCBC Ret-Ret Team) gave Mark and Ashley a simple birthday celebration.

At first, we had so many plans - like having balloons, hotdogs, spaghetti, etc. However, because we don't have much time, we had to improvise. I asked Acie to buy party hats (because I know that my boss is sooo young at heart - parang kid talaga!). At the same time, Ashley is also the type who would enjoy crazy things

As for me, I bought 2 cakes. Dapat sana just 1 cake but I'm thinking that it's best to have 2 para they each have cakes with candles to blow. Maybe a little bit ouch with the budget, but hey, I am a firm believer that birthdays are to be special. At the same time, I'm a "lover"... (okay... paki-relate ba?) If you are a lover, you give love di ba? For me, "You can always give without loving, but you can never love without giving." Since I love them both, giving is something natural and intrinsic plus I didn't mind the cost... (And thanks to Credit Cards!) Pero in fairness, ang bigat palang dalhin ng 2 cakes! Good thing nag-cab ako but bringing it to the office still required some muscular effort huh! (And about the "lover" thing, maybe a more appropriate term would be "I'm a loving person". Better? Hope that's clear... Baka ma-misinterpret. Pasensya na...)

So what we did is we asked Ms. Elaine to call our Bossing and tell him that we have an emergency situation for one of our programs. He had to go to Windy City. We turned off the lights and when he entered the door, we said "Surprise!" and started singing the traditional birthday song! I guess he was touched with what we did because I could almost see the tears trying to escape his eyes... (okay, exagg...di naman yata... but he was speechless). As for Ashley, we kept telling her not to look at the cake as we set them up. And I know that she's also touched with our surprise. Here's our celebrants, blowing the candles on their cakes...

I hope they enjoyed our very simple surprise for them. Look at the next picture... Ashley seems okay... Mark? Hmmm... Boss, are you drunk or are you drugs? (Okay, that may sound gramatically incorrect but that's how we would usually ask each other if they are feeling fine or not... You may call it our terms of endearment)

Iba na talaga kapag may dating... ehem... Hihihi..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARK & ASHLEY!!! Peaches loves you!!!