Our TL (team leader) Mina was discussing something with Mich when Jo broke in with a loud “Happy birthday Mina!” We were all startled, because we didn’t know it was her birthday (bad bad team, yeah I know), but we recovered from the initial shock and immediately sang our greetings.
Right after Mina thanked us, her eyes crinkling as she broke into her charming smile (if I were a guy she’d be one of my crushes in the company, along with Keso), Mich started an ST conference, organizing a surprise. And so Mich collected the money and bought the cake and asked Mina’s close friend Theta to make sure Mina would be around at 3pm while I had the spaghetti and barbeque delivered. I also printed a birthday sign and a birthday card which Mich colored with markers and arranged in the pantry with some cartoon cardboard masks.
We were all set up till we realized we had one problem: Mina was nowhere to be found. After 15 minutes of futile search, Theta remembered that Mina mentioned having a meeting with someone in the 18th floor, so off she went, and did find her there. To get Mina to come up, she told her they were meeting Greg, our head honcho, and so a panicked Mina was all but running into the pantry, only to be confronted with our surprise, and no Greg. Teehee. That was fun! Perhaps we can do that again sometime. Oh yes. There’s Cris’s bridal shower for tomorrow. Can’t wait.