On
this special day, 11-11-11, I celebrate the last year of my thirties.
I'm 39 and getting a little jitters about turning 40 so soon. I was
never bothered by my age before but somehow the thought of being 40
frightens me. It's like... I'm OLD. Damned.
Anyway
I'm still very much like a child when it comes to birthday celebration. I must
have cakes and parties, good food and good friends. I must have love and laughter, songs and families. A birthday is an important date to me and I'm proud of mine.
My sister bought me a cake and we celebrated at my mum's place. A fantastic crab meal followed. That was the first of many cakes for me this year.
For the first time in many years, I met a long time friend for lunch and "forced" him to write me a birthday card. Did I ever mention how particular I am about receiving birthday cards? OK. You can forget about buying me a present but you must NEVER forget to write me a birthday card. And when I say write, I meant write and not just sign on the card. That was what my friend Kent did! He boldly put his signature below a "happy birthday" and gave it to me. I took a look and rejected it in his face. So you see, he had to pull out his pen and write me more words... while I eat my lunch. That's my kind of friend. He would do anything just to make me happy on my birthday. But seriously, he is always willing to do anything to make me happy anyway. Oh, and he got me a gift just in case I demanded for it. =) But truth is... I'll only demand for cards.
Another highlight of this year's birthday is the surprise I got at my door from a friend I knew at work. This friend is much younger than me and she has given me the zest in many things in life. Her enthusiasm is birthday surprises thrills me because I'm one sucker for it. Her little notes and surprise letters melts my heart because I miss getting them so much. Her "I'll pick (fetch) you anywhere" touches me because I'm always the one fetching people around. Her effort in maintaining our friendship is worth mentioning because our age gap can mean different interest, focus and topics. I have two kids and she's a single. So I'm thankful that we managed to develop a friendship from the three years together at work. I totally appreciate our friendship and look forward to sharing more time together.
Another friend from work dropped in with her family with a cake for me. It's a chocolate cake from my favourite bakery, awfully chocolate. I still prefers their chocolate fudge cake to chocolate origin. It was so sweet of them to come over with the cake. So touched.
On the night of my special day, a very special friend took me out for a buffet dinner at punggol marina's sakura. We went nuts over the lala and prawns mainly. The beef was not fantastic but we had so much fun that night just enjoying unlimited servings of lala together. She took quite a bit of pictures but I have yet to see it. I should have brought along my camera. After dinner, we head to the jetty for a mini celebration with a cake. I wished I had taken pictures that night but it's alright as I had it all etched out in my memory. My special birthday night with my special friend.
Together with my girls, we had another little celebration at home. This time we got a chocolate cake from chocolate origin to try.
This white wallet was given to me by my daughter. It's simple, ideal and in my favourite white. She bought it with her own savings from school allowance. I like it very much.
