
HBP
Happy Birthday, Peter!Sorry, for my late announcement on the front page.
When Mei set up the trip to Taoyuan on your birthday, I knew I would be late, because a day before the trip I would ask every one to go sleep. I could impossible announce, and the chance that I would come online after the trip was small.
And then one day, it happened that we were talking about small surprises.
I knew you had never gotten birthday cards from any classmates or even anyone else. I thought of asking the class to participate.
The Thursday before your birthday was a perfect day to organize a team.
(Sorry, I did not have enough time and the birthday cards in Tucheng bookshops don't have the same I had in my mind like other parts. ~ Village)I asked few students to wait in the classroom, so that you would join the classroom, too. And they should start to talk chitchat, while another one waited outside to catch every one to sign the card.
The plan worked, because I know you are always one of the earliest from Tucheng. At the end, I had to send the student, who caught the others to sign, back to the classroom. I caught Jack at last, because he was late.
Somehow, Edward was left out.

He must came into the class while I twisted the role-play with the student.

So, the separation mission was set for you and Edward. lol
All girls knew what to do.

The boys, I did not mind, because they will talk to you and you wouldn't notice it.

They participated without knowing it. That's the best way.
Chance on the MRT train to Banquiao!
I pushed two girls to Edward to surround him and asked him to sign, and three girls built a wall.

I am just tsk... they are slow in their actions.

Some flexibility is missing, huh!
But we succeeded.

You should know the rest of the story.
Well, when I started to write on the card, and the ink touched the blank paper, I knew that I had sealed a rule.
To be fair to every one in the class, and so is how traditions are born.

Unfortunately, it won't be a surprise for the next ones whose birthdays are catching them.
Yet, it will be always a pleasure, an appreciation and a small memory, although the effect of a surprise is gone.

K.