BIRTHDAY BOI.

This post is a rather late post in the day - because I have been so busy with other stuff - guestbook orders, poster inquiries, The Photo Hunt Prep, website content, Etsy orders etc! But I needed to get this post out today because TODAY we celebrate the birth of my absolute favourite human.

(Above right: My favourite human as a young fry - high school days I think?)

Above: My favourite human on the day he married ME.

HOW hot is he?!?! (If you don't know which one he is, look for the hot one)

So, My family have a "thing" about waking up early on birthdays. In fact, last night before we went to sleep, I asked what time The Warr was setting his alarm for -

Warr: 6:20am... but I don't know why I'm even bothering to put my alarm on, because I know your family is going to call me at like 4am.
Me: Yep.
(They did)

So anyway, I woke up all spritely for the man's birthday and presented him with some coffee and "cake" and presents:

( I will post more about the gift-wrap soon - I haven't done a gift wrap post in ages!)

Throughout the day today (on every hour), I have been sending THE BIRTHDAY BOY some pictures:

(starting with this one)

and then, one hour later, this one:

  

Is it the new designs for our tattoos?
Who knows?!

NOT ME!
#playdead

Then, one hour later, THIS ONE:


SIDE NOTE: When you are questioned me about the pictures that your husband is receiving on his phone - you must play innocent:

 
ONE HOUR LATER:



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So that's where we are at right now.
I have sent some pics every hour up until now
(with another one due in ten minutes)





(I am actually a really obnoxious person to be married to. lol)

Can you see where I am going with this?
If you can, DO NOT leave a comment giving it away -
because I WILL CUT YOU.

I wanted to close the comments completely,
but then decided that anyone who reads this post and does not comment
to wish my favourite HUMAN a "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" -

I WILL CUT YOU.

Either way, someone's getting CUT.

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OH by the way!!

Did you see the "birthday cake" I made for The Warr!?


(side note: am clearly TOTES ready for children)

I am taking The Birthday Boy out for dinner tonight...
to reveal my "things"

chat tomorrow
x

Epic Birthday Adventure.

Here is the story of my Epic Birthday Adventure. This may also be alternatively titled "unashamed BOAST POST" of the most wonderful friends that I have :)

For a few days leading up to my birthday (which was on the 20th), I started receiving some cryptic notes at my front door. Like this:

After scrounging/substituting together some "necessary items" into my adventure bag, I was then finally instructed to meet at a Starbucks in Seoul at 1pm on the 19th July.
Waiting at the Starbucks was one of my friends Nicole, who then took me to a convenience store and bought three large cups of ice. (strange i know). Then the adventure began....

We met up with another lovely friend Dom and headed off to Ewha Women's University where they had packed a delicious picnic including some ice-chilled wine which we devoured on the most beautiful campus :)

Yes, that is wine in that fancy cup. Because all great days begin with a boozy lunch.
(Also this is me showing the girls the contents of my "adventure bag" and how i had collected/substituted all the items I needed for Adventure Day)

After lunch, I was assigned my first birthday adventure task:


It went down like this:



im good at stealth.
i win.
Next challenge.


Challenge Success.

The Time trial.

This challenge came with an envelope with a limited amount of money and I had to use to buy/bargain all these items including korean kimbap, earrings and an Ajuma Visor. You don't know what an Ajuma Visor is?
Do. not. panic. I'm about to show you:

yeah. that thing. that huge gigantic plastic pseudo-umbrella thing that you wear... on your FACE.

LOOK. AT. THIS. PICTURE.

You don't get much better than that.

we LOVE Ajuma Visor.

NEXT CHALLENGE: Find a Store Mannequin. Impersonate the Mannequin.
Lucky for me. Korea is so "inventive" with their store mannequins.

Don't worry, I also impersonated the lion and the clown-head for good measure.
Che = 3 points.

NEXT
The STARING CHALLENGE:

oh i love a good mental trickery. But alas, convincing people to stare up when they don't actually speak the same language as you... is more tricksy than it appears...


(Also, please note and appreciate the music in this video - im not too skilled with the iMovie and by mistake i imported my ENTIRE itunes library onto this movie and then I had to remove every song individually because i have no idea how else to do it. Result:

yeah. i probably should have googled that.)

Another Challenge:

So... THAT'S what my adventure bag was for! (good thing I substituted the safety pins with a peg which makes things infinitely more difficult.)
Et VOILA!

i changed in an "abandoned" stairwell, FYI.

Other challenges included -

getting a photograph with a random Korean, Taking a pic with the cutest stuffed animal I could find, smashing a brownie in my face, creating a comic scene using my friends as props and buying something fancy...

When all the challenges were finished the final one was -

We went to the MAC store and I had a mini make-up make-over and Nicole bought me some of the make-up to give to me for my birthday (MASSIVE HEARTS), then with my face all MAC-ed up, we went out to On the Border and met everyone for Mexican dinner and delicious Mojitos.

it was an absolutely incredible day! Thank you to my lovely friends!

(Oh... and let me also mention that after we got home well after midnight... Nicole stayed up to bake me Carrot cake muffins so that she could wake me up with them on my actual birthday - which is a whole new blog post. what. a. friend.)

I had such a fabulous birthday adventure mission day!

* * * * * * * SIDE NOTE WARNING: LEAVE THIS BLOG NOW IF YOU ARE NOT INTO SOPPY THINGS * * * * * * *

Dear Colie and Dom

Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart for making my birthday so special. I know how much time and effort went into organising such an amazing day of secret adventure missions! All the way from creeping into my apartment to drop off secret notes and making beautiful mission cards to stashing envelopes with money so that I could do crazy missions scaring off half of Korea-ville and taking a whole day off to spend laughing with at me. You know me so well and knew that it would be something that I would get a great kick out of and enjoy to the max. I really really did and I can't thank you enough for all the effort and detail that went into planning this epic day. You are truly friends in a million and I am so blessed to have had an opportunity to know you and call you my friends.

Thank you for your friendship and everything that you mean to me.
~ sarang-heyo x

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PS. 6 days left to enter Instant Camera Giveaway! :)

Pic credit for awesome Darth Vader on a Swing came from this blog - and you can also get the full scoop on what exactly an "Ajuma" is. haha :)

i WANT.

Wednesday is my birthday - you know, that vexatious day when you have to adjust all your blogger/twitter/facebook bios to make yourself one extra number wiser. I love birthdays. I love OTHER people's birthdays, but quite honestly i find my own birthday pretty awkward. People wanting to celebrate and make a fuss over you when you haven't done anything to deserve the hoo-ha other than survive another 365 days.

In my opinion and in the ideal world of che, there would be yearly achievement celebrations. These celebrations may occur more than once in a year (or if you've been a useless sod - then [sorry-for-you] not at all.) Then people making a fuss and having a celebration in your honour would be totally justified and you can partake whole-heartedly without feeling guilty that you didn't do anything to deserve it, other than breathe a few thousand times.

For example: 

"Wow Che! You watered all your plants for almost 2 months and they are all still alive!"

"Wow Che! You made a meal that required real vegetables. And! you fed it to people without killing anyone!"

Other examples may include:

"Today you went almost 2 hours without the internet! I'm so proud of you! Let's celebrate!"

"You've been to gym consistently for 2 whole weeks. Without even throwing up a lung or death! Let's celebrate!"

"You dealt with a nosebleed in class today without passing out! Let's Celebrate!"

"You managed to do all your banking online without recruiting the help of anyone!"

(just kidding, that would never happen. no party for you.)

Anyway, I made a birthday celebration want list:

(i'm not this demanding in real life, i promise.
...Sometimes i actually don't know where this stuff comes from?!) I digress.

The list:

(tape deco: courtesy of PuglyPixel)

Yeah, i love these. They are camera bags that are so beautiful that they pass for handbags. Lovely for lovely lasses who have big cameras and lenses to lug about. Jo Totes has a gorgeous range and so does Epiphanie. (The bags in the above picture are Jo Totes)

An Illustrated Life by Danny Gregory - basically a collection of art journals from different artists, illustrators and designers from around the world. I love the mash up of styles and artwork. I have The Creative License and I really enjoy his relaxed fun style. (I'm a book creep, i know)

aaaah. THIS. STUDIO. Makes me want to sit and stare at my computer for 365 days until the next yearly celebration. Teesha Moore creates amazing and eclectic art journals and also does retreat workshops. Her craft studio is incredible. You can see more pictures of her gallery here.

(ok, in my defense, i was in a Harry Potter frenzy - movie premiere night.)

Other things I want:

Her life, His mind, His moola. And yeah, that.

oh and, most importantly

*that's all.

Happy Celebrations of Achievement to all the Cancerians. I know a lot :)