it's my birthday... again.

it's my birthday... again.

forgive me for not sounding ecstatic or all-over-the-moon. i'm still feeling blessed, having able to last one more year without serious crisis in my small non-significant life, but there was not much joy to celebrate either.

for all i know, it's just another beautiful thursday morning. although if i tell the truth, i did feel a bit cheerful the moment i woke up. but again, i'd feel cheerful even if i just had dinner plan on that day.

the best thing about birthdays, is that you get to feel the warmth when people actually bother to know and wish you. so i was like counting my blessings the whole day. everytime people stopped by and wished me, i'd be like, 'oooo thanks! how did you know?', whilst fantasizing as if i was the most popular boy in college.

at noon, this colleague of mine asked me to join them for a lunch outing. she never asked me on normal days, so when later someone accidentally let slipped about lunch birthday celebration, i pretended to be suprised.

we had lunch at ichiban sushi at plaza singapura. there were about 20 of us, i felt so blessed having them not only to discuss technical matters. plus, i always love this place! the sushis are generous, fresh and cheap. i mean, it has the same price with sakae sushi but double the goodness.


cake and sushi. weird combination huh?
but who cares? i'm not complaining...


and here's my super cool colleagues cum friends

...


it must be from the excitement, or could be from the horror of stepping one more year deeper into 30's year-old zone, i only managed to eat a little. just a mere 5 plates. but the cake that came out in the middle of our chit-chatting was a pleasant suprise. i honestly did not expect that.

it was a mid-sized cheese strawberry cake from bengawan solo. thank god it was not some fruit-filled cake, or worse, mango cake. i mean, it could be a bit depressing having something you don't really like on a day like this.

with the cake there were 3 big candles and 5 smaller ones. ok i might go on a limb here but that means 35, right? gosh.. so rude. but my friend later explained that the shop lady gave few extras on purpose in case some got bended etc. a lot extras.

right. what a nice recovery...

it was raining very heavily when the clock striked 5.15pm and it was time to go home. that damn murphy's law was working full force again. well at least i wouldn't feel so bad for not having any dinner outing plan. i could just blame it on the pouring rain.

but yet, i couldn't help feeling a bit gloomy, just like the weather. i hesitated to call up my dear friend, who by the way stopped celebrating birthdays when he crossed 30. his birthday was just 3 days earlier, so i figured it was too much to ask when we barely celebrated his.

i was half way dragging myself back through the PIE when it was decided that i were to have dinner with another dear friend. like a reflex i burnt my tyres boarding the TPE heading north.

we had dinner at northpoint's sakura thai restaurant. the food was great, but the company was even better. i was truly grateful for the invitation so i did owe him a big enourmous earth-shattering gravity-defying monster hug ;p

like all good things come to an end, the night fell and the curtain closed. another day passed by to be preceded by an entirely new day. i whole-heartedly wish for the next April 3rd won't come in a hurry.

but first, it would still be April 3rd in the United States tomorrow where i was actually born. which means i have 24 hours more to count my blessings *grin*


'Happy Birthday to me!!'





...ed