third day of april

it's my birthday today.

i must have gone through this more than 20 times already but still, i must admit it's not like everyday is 3rd april.

gone are the balloons, kids from the same strech of houses and stack of presents. instead, it was a nice and quiet, not to mention, personal celebration after the clock striked 12 last night.

CY came in with a box of cake last night so we lighted up candles in my room, snapping photos with camera phone. it was a chocolate cake (thank god 'coz i really think it's about time ppl realize i detest fruit cake).

he even sang birthday tune for me which i thought was sweet and meaningful. after all, what's the point getting a qoir of songs if ppl don't really mean it.

i did my share of celebrating his birthday too. i was on the street off kallang mrt after sending TJ at changi airport last night when i realized i needed cake for CY. as it was still quarter before 9pm, spontaneously i flagged down a cab and headed towards seah street deli at raffles hotel.

this place serves that uniquely famous 7-layered chocolate cake and for baking-lover CY, this was just perfect. bought a slice together with carrot cake (which i innocently checked whether they added in meat, as the carrot cake i always came upon were the one at kopitiams). those slices already cost me 16 dollars.

however, that was worth it, especially as CY enjoyed them when we munched in minutes after he came in. at least the carrot cake, as we have yet eaten the chocolate one. either way, i already got my moments as he adored that mr bean's brown teddy key chain i handed him. that was definitely a strike.

what was not a strike, was how i thought the days with TJ would have been.

it went surprisingly well as we seemed to have picked up where we actually left off 10 years ago while we were still staying in high-school hostel, few foolish boys who did wonders outside school time.

we visited the memory in various occasions, even shed lights on some long-kept secrets bout this person, regarding that matters etc which would have had consequences if we had known them at that time.

it was simply fun.

so i guess i should made this meeting more frequent, promising myself i'd contact them more often whenever i go back kl for holiday.

ok time to go out now. i'm gonna walk around proud knowing today is my special day and nobody's gonna take this from me.


...ed