NL gathering! :)

It was to be a night of CNY reunion for all NL's labbies and ex-labbies. A planned BBQ and surprise birthday celebration for the great man himself, that did not go as planned but worked out well! :) Was great meeting up with the ex-labbies of my time, and seeing the juniors in the lab :) Of course, catching up with NL himself (but i don't know why I'm always left with the 'task' of entertaining him! He was often left sitting by himself, so I had to keep up the conversation with him! No fair! I mean, talking to him is no problem, just that to have to entertain him the entire night is tough!!). But poor NL has been rather down lately as his father passed away recently :( So some of his labbies wanted this gathering to help lift his spirits. And a surprise early birthday party! So I was the 'bait', who was to lure NL for a tour of his place (though i had another bright idea and changed it to leading him out of the house, on the pretext of looking for a very blur friend of mine who might get lost finding her way up. She really did get lost, by the way!), while the rest scrambled to decorate the place, light the candles on the cake... Am quite pleased with myself that I managed to help pull it off, haha. Me likes surprises :D This is some of us hiding in a tiny balcony behind his kitchen, blowing up the balloons and trying on the party hats, haha. Hope NL had a good time. Well at least he was sporting enough to wear the party hat and hold the sunflowers I got for him! =)