“It’s Just Another Day” (Happy Birthday to Me)

“It’s just another day”. These were the words I said when I received a phone call at exactly 12am wishing me ‘Happy Birthday’! I actually got sort of scolded for saying that and I was actually persuaded to treat myself nicely, in which I later gave in and agreed.

 

I like being in low profile because I am quite sure I could not do that in future. This means that I always try my best not to reveal my birthday and only reveal it after that day has past. This is why I only blog about this when it is over. Even in Skype, I purposely put the wrong information on my birth date but this accidentally led to one of my best friend, Han, wishing me at the wrong date last year. Sorry, man!

 

At 6:54am, Jovita, my junior ex-schoolmate (who is still available and single :p), sent me a sarcastic teasing (should say Jovita-flavoured) birthday wish. But I was snoring happily at that time to reply her. Thanks, girl!

 

When I reached the office, birthday wishes started coming in from text messages or msn from Cath, Han, Eugene (my best buddy from university) and my Dad. Thanks, everyone! None of the colleagues in my department knew about my birthday which was a good thing (remember my low profile preference); but I did silently shake hand with one of my colleague, LK because our birthday fell on the same date.

 

At around 11.04am, semi-panic Cath sent me a message through my office messenger. She just realized that I was in the lab and might not be going to my cubicle today.

 

I went to my cubicle and saw a small packet on my messy desk (my desk was like a war zone). 

It was Famous Amos Cookies! 

No wonder Cath feared that someone would be stealing it. Yum, yum! Time to get fat again! This was my only birthday gift for this year. Thanks a lot, Cath! *Hugsssssss* I was touched to find out that Cath purposely went to work early to place the cookies at my cubicle, especially when she slept late the previous night. *Hugsss again* (‘Pok Mong’ :p)

 

At 2.16pm, Cannas (Lee, Yong Ting) sort of sang me a birthday song but in typed words. Cannas is a professional singer, so I could imagine how nicely she sounded. Somehow, her ‘birthday’ changed to ‘birdday’ then to ‘burfday’ seemed creatively intentional. Gee, I would love to have a ‘bird’-day! :p

 

As promised, I decided to treat myself good, so I left office early at 5.30pm (usually I go off work at 9.00pm) and went straight to buy myself dinner and cake. The problem with me is that when it comes to decision making on certain thing, I either choose to do nothing at all, or do it best. That is why I usually end up overdoing things. As for today, I ended up over-treating myself!

 

I bought myself 2 Japanese meals – Unagi Rice set 

and Salmon Rice set. 

3 pieces of Secret Recipe cake – Oreo, Chocolate and Marble Cheese Cake! 

I even lit up a candle on one of the cakes to blow it, just to have the fun of it. 

I guess I had wasted all my gym sessions …I felt guilty later.

 

My last birthday greeting was by one of my best friends, Daniel at 7.07pm. Thanks, bro!

 

To try out whether birthday wishes are effective, I actually wish that it would rain that night but it seemed that there was not a single drop of rain. I guess birthday wish is just a myth!

 

I’m now 28, and getting older each day. Don’t feel that it is a sad thing for me… yet. But I would like to thank my Mum for carrying me around for 9 months 28 years ago, and manage to successfully bear all the labor pain by pushing me out. Special thank to the doctor that received me and spanked me hard so that I could take my first breath of air in this world.

 

Lastly, thank you for the wishes! For those who forgot, no worry, I am not a girl I am not very particular on this thing (by the way, someone’s birthday is next week, remember that) because for me it’s just another day.