Caden's 2 years old birthday!!!

26th Feb 2010, 2 years since Caden first lay his sight on this world. Yes, it’s our little prince birthday. He is 2 years old today. I took leave specially to company him today. Though dear is not able to take the day off as she has an event going on in school, she still managed to request to be free in the morning.
Today we decided to bring Caden out for breakfast. Dear decides to go to MacDonald’s at Bras Basah Complex. While ordering our food, Dear told the crew that its Caden’s birthday and if there’s anything special treats for birthday boy. They were nice to say yes and got us to go to our table first while they prepare. And true enough, after we settled down for a while, the shift manager brought up a nicely decorated hot cakes, with the words, Happy Birthday written on it.

They even gave him a Happy Meal box with a transformer toy inside. Caden was so happy to see all these and can’t wait to dig his teeth in to the yummy hot cakes. He also has a nice time playing on his new transformer toy.
Next we decided to go to Swenson Bugis to reserve tables for his celebration with Dear’s friends tonight. But we were very disappointed by the attitude given by the manager. He keep insisting that they do not do any reservations. And eventually when they did after my pressing, he said we are not allowed to decorate the chairs with balloons. That really pissed us off and we decided against having our dinner there. And all these while, there were no sense of apology from the manager and to add to that, he even give a very stuck up face. Well done, Swenson has just lost some customers. I swear I will not hold any celebrations there ever again.
So with a dejected heart, we went to the second storey of bugis junction and saw this nice little restaurant that we have not tried before. NYDC is its name. We proceeded to check with the counter staff if it’s possible to reserve seats for the evening. No problem, was the reply. What a good start to the conversation. Then we asked further questions like is it possible for us to decorate the place with balloons and this and that. Totally no issues with them at all! My god, what a stark difference from stinking Swenson. It’s like finding water in the dessert. And so, we settled everything in NYDC and glad to make the choice.
After which, dear went back to work and Caden went back to rest. And me, I went to NYDC to passed them some foil balloons and also went back home at Eunos to settle some housework.
2 hours later, I am back at home and ready to bring caden to dear’s school to pick her up.
As it was raining, I booked a cab. Once we were there, we went to the auditorium to find dear. But she was not around. Amusingly, her students were still around and seeing him, they all started singing Happy Birthday to him at the count of 3. It was indeed nice and kind of the students. Caden was happy and also surprised to have so many people singing the birthday song to him. Then dear came along, we waited for her to settle some stuff before rushing down to NYDC Bugis.
Before we reached, Fanling and Lishan ah-yi were both there waiting for us already. I looked at the place, it was really nicely done up with balloon on every seats and also some on the wall. Waiter and waitresses were absolutely friendly and also attentive. Food was very good also. Especially when Caden enjoys his fish, pasta and meat. And at the end of the dinner, they even gave us a discount and a cake because one of the gal there was a student that me and dear once teach.