The unique thing about her 21st birthday is...The dress code is GREEEEEEEN!!! Hahaha! So the whole party was a sea of green. HAHA!
Why green? Nope, she's not some super enthu environmentalist that wants to save the world...nope she is not some army regular that just loves the colour of the combat uniform...
Don't know ar? 6th November is HARI RAYA LA!! Green for ketupats, green ang-paos and whatever what-nots...HAHAHA!
Ok, it's simply because she loves the colour green...Like, duh? Haha.
Yup, some eyeball-friendly pictures...(green is good for the eye...haha)
Me & Reuben :)
Take 2 with flash...haha
Ok, throughout this whole post, you'll see many double pictures. 1 with flash, one without. That's because my camera has a mode which takes the 1st shot without flash and the 2nd (almost simultaneous..1 sec delay) shot with flash. This is my preferred camera setting :)
This function, by the way, is good because if your 1st shot is ruined, the 2nd shot usually is not. Haha. Ruined shots are usually caused by photographers who just snap before you've given your best smile...so the 1 second delay will enable you to sneak in your good smile...which will be captured...Haha. Ok, whatever. LOLS!
Ding Zhou, Me & Chris Cheok...well sometimes the photographer's hands are just too rabak for my camera setting to do anything...HAHA!
My (ex) cell members! :D
Take 2...Aaron, Me, Elhannah & Sherry :)
Flash version...haha
Nathan, our guest performer & myself :)
Talking about our guest performer...There's this "performance" slot where her few scheduled friends would go up and perform a song for her.
Her first friend - a girl - was SUPER GOOD. Her voice was warm and she had good control over her vocals. Vibrato came out just right...Haha...Ok, it was really good. Lols.
The next item was Reuben & Joanne :D They did 1 less song because Serene's friend did the song they wanted to do "You Can Count on Me" by Bruno Mars...haha.
Finally, it was Nathan! He's a friend from the Philippines :D He did "Just the Way You Are"!! The thing is, he only lowered the key by 1/2!! Original key's in F major...He did it in E major! Which is still crazily high. But he did it awesomely! Haha.
Anyway, if you're wondering how Serene & I know Nathan, we both were on the same mission team to Philippines...So yup, that's how we got to know him :D Haha.
However, she definitely would know him much better...Haha. That's because she fulfilled God's seasonal call on her life by being a missionary there for 9 months! :) To think that I was one of the vessels God used to confirm her call is still really humbling and it always reminds me that when you're sensitive to God, He'll definitely use you. :)
Ok, enough stories, back to the pictures :)
REC Jake & myself :) EH, I mean PTE Jake Tan & 3SG (NS) Jonavan Lee :) HAHA!
Aaron & myself :)
Me & the birthday girl SERENE TENG!! :D
Take 1...
Take 2...
Take 3....Finally...haha
Oh, and what made her birthday exceptionally interesting was her PHOTO BOOTH! Right at her birthday venue - White Studio at Fort Canning - was a big photo booth...Something like Neo Print.
It's a big machine that has camera and a big screen that shows you what you look like on screen. The staff will then activate it and it will take 4 consecutive shots with 5 seconds countdown in between each shot.
The cool thing about it is, the whole package comes with TONS OF PROPS!! There were plenty of wigs, funky hats, cute beanies, flamboyant sunglasses, etc...haha.
A look at the pictures taken with the photo booth will give you an idea on what props were available...haha
Me & Reuben :) Yes, Reuben's on the right...haha.
Take 2. I think Reuben should get his hair dyed in all these flamboyant wig colours he's trying out....haha
Me, Aaron, Elhannah, Sherry & Viven :D
Another pic with my (ex) cell members...Don't know where Elhannah went...Has she left? Haha.
Serene's 21st invitation card :D In different shades of green...haha...Should put different hues of green, would've been much brighter :) Haha.
Her card to us! :)
Another awesome thing about her birthday is...we're supposed to write her birthday cards...Who'd expect to get a card from the birthday girl? Haha!
Anyway, I was her cell leader years back. Oh, those nostalgic memories...Haha. Ok, even further back, we were in BCM together. I only knew her as some praise kid back then...Praise kid in BCM (Bethel's Children Ministry) refers to a child who is on stage doing the actions of the song to inspire worship or at least participation on the ground. Haha. Sounds like some standing order eh? That's why I'm an ops spec...LOLS!
From there we went youth and we were in the same zone. We then joined the same ministry Fish4men. But she stayed true to BCM and not Fish4men...in a sense that she felt BCM was the primary ministry she should operate in.
Got to know her really well mainly through cell group actually. Mission trips and ministry did play a part but it was really cell group that solidified our friendship. Because we both stay in the east, we'd travel on the MRT together...and through those trips our thoughts-exchange or rather conversations also played a big part in making us better friends. Haha.
So yup, it's been a great blessing getting to know Serene...anyway, here's a random picture of me & her...probably the first picture we ever took together...Haha!
Youth Alive Anniversary - September 2008! :) Me, Serene & Jane :D
Yup, Happy 21st Serene Teng Si Min! :D Hahaha! I know all my cell member's Chinese names...HAHA! Try me :)
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