Esmo & Rach

Surprise, surprise!!! ~~ 4

15 Sept 2007, Saturday - Once in a lifetime....

A big conspiracy was going on in the background without the knowledge of the lead actress.... Emails were flying back and forth between 4 parties. So much planning and scheming going on behind the scenes, plots and scenarios set out only for 1 motive....

Mastermind - Rynaldo
The "victim" - Jennifer Ma

Accomplices - Haw & Yan Er, Heng Yi Ting & Phoebe, Esmond & Rachel

Decoy - Surprise party setup by Heng Yi Ting to celebrate his & Phoebe's anniversary

6.30pm - Black Forest German Restaurant at Highgate Hill

Delicious food, HUGE portions (even Esmond and Haw had trouble finishing it....). We had pork hock, roast duck and last but not least, sausages....

Unbeknownst to Jennifer, Heng "suggested" to go for a karaoke session which she accepted without any tinge of suspicions.

Rynaldo had already made prior bookings with the Neway Karaoke but still had to pretend to go outside to make a call and enquire if theyhave the room for us. (which of course they did...)

So at 8.40pm, we made our way to the Sunnybank for Neway Karaoke... we happily settled down and go about putting in our selection of songs, one of which is to be sung by the mastermind - Rynaldo, who does not include Mandarin as his spoken language since he's from Indonesia. This song was originally sung by Emil Chau and is titled “我是真的付出我的爱”.

So how can someone who doesn't know Mandarin sing the song? Easy, use "han yu pin yin" i.e. phonetics for Mandarin! Haw has kindly provided Rey with the "translation" who had less than 2 days to practice at home without Jennifer's knowledge.

When the proposal song comes to the queue, Rey sent Jennifer out to get the flowers from the car. He had lied earlier that the flowers were for Phoebe and Heng had requested for Rey to buy it on his behalf so that he can present it to Phoebe as a surprise.

So imagine how confuse Jennifer must be when she came in with the flowers and Heng didn't want to take it from her and Rey was serenading her with the song.

Jennifer couldn't think of what to make of the situation... At the end of the song, Rey went down on one knee, presented the ring and pop the BIG question....