My Life: Amreek's Surprise Birthday

This was an interesting experience for some of us, as we actually tried cooking something ourselves in sabha house! Well, Manwant's plan was having a surprise birthday party for Amreek at 5pm at sabha house, but plans were changed by time.

What to do!!! Amreek is such a busy person and I don't think Manwant could keep any secrets from her charming husband. They also had a wedding dinner to attend on the same day. After all the brain storming, we finally decided to go to his house and surprise him.

As the initial plan was for pot luck, everyone suppose to chip in and bring something. So we decided why not do something different. Make sandwiches, not any simple sandwich, it was Sukhsharan's mom's special taufu sandwiches. YUM YUM!!!

We first met up at Lotus, everyone was surprised as I had not bought any ingredients yet. I then called Sukhsharan's mom to get the recipe. After that we estimated how much we need to buy and went off shopping. We also bought snacks and stuff to make a&w's float. In half an hour, everyone was back at sabha house.

Let's start COOKING!!!!!

Actually my plan was just to follow the recipe, but the rest had other ideas on how much ingredients should be in. So, light arguments started....No! 5 onions is enough! No! Recipe says 8! No! Not to many chilies! No! Too little garlic...

Well head's off to the chefs....Jasmin and Neremal...they cook like experts!!!
From the smell they can know what is missing...WOW!!!

The taufu sambal went through a lot of plastic surgery before it turned into a delicious dish. Other than the chefs, the rest of us just gave up and sat aside.

Picture of the cooking process will be coming soon...

After making the sambal, everyone was so hungry and tired, so we took a break, had our dinner and back to work....making the sandwiches. By this time everyone else gathered at sabha house already. So with everything packed, we made a move together 'the journey to Amreek's house'. All happily singing through the journey.

It was about 10:30pm and we were about 5 kilometers from Ampang gurdwara. We didn't remember the inner roads to Amreek's house so we plan to meet Baljit at the gurdwara. From there, he will guide us to Amreek's house. We were all confused on how to make it a surprise. Will Amreek be at the house or is he still at the dinner?

Well, I had to call Manwant to find out where they were. So we thought we could reach his house first before him to surprise him. BUT!!?!?!?!!

ALAMAK!!! They were just a kilometer behind us.....AYO YO VERY VERY dangerous....
And where was BALJIT??? Between us and Amreek! GOSH! LAGI TERUK!!!

So thanks to the fast thinking, we detoured to a different route and waited behind a few shop lots for them to go by first. Baljit also joined us because he had to guide us.

GOSH! What a narrow escape! This was really very very close! To be safe, we waited till Amreek was nearby his house.

Then we continued our journey following Baljit. We parked a distance away and walked closer and closer....Then we were right at the front door...it was wide open. Manwant was keeping Amreek busy and we ALL slowly slipped into the living room. The room was half full! I had to use my hand to stop myself from laughing out loud!

When he walked into it we all screamed ... SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!....YAhoo.....He sure was surprised!!!!!

We were glad all the tension was all over......PHEW!

So then after serving the floats to everyone,we started chit chatting while enjoying the snacks and sandwiches.....

OK, tension over, relax....

Cheers Amreek!!!

Sharan and Jey in darlie contest.

Havoc, everyone was so happy!

Amreek, still wondering how everyone got there?

Manpreets!
We were planning to leave at 12AM. Well as you can see in the picture, the time was nearly 12AM...but the party just started!

Our chef really did a good job. So let her rest. Hey Jasmin, next wanna try cooking what???? =)

Finally no more birthday songs for Jagjit.

The sunflower between the 2 roses.

Jagjit's nuts was available to everyone!

What a cute/naughty pose?.....What happened to the nuts?

Love Love Love...can you see the love in the picture!

I can see sandwiches in their plate...COOL

More guys...behind them our music machine. =P

Oh me and Bal K. Gosh I wore that punjabi suit the whole day!

Jagjit, we know you are tall!

OK, I don't know what are they looking at???

Charlie's Angels! Sharan, Me and Manpreet.

And he comes the cake...Amreek is holding the knife as though it was a magic wand.
He is excited and waves it in the air according to the birthday song.