27 and counting

December 18, 2006

I don’t care much about my b-days. I mean I don’t make much fuss about it. I usually don’t give out parties (stopped doing it since I was 7 years old) but just treat my closest friends and family for dinner (so they would stop pestering me). I do expect though that people esp. my friends would remember it. I would often remind them a day or a week before my the day(I think I just contradicted my first statement) to spare them of embarrassment of failing to greet me on my bday. Last Dec 14, the first one to greet me on text at 12:01 am was my classmate/spiritual adviser Mike and the first to call me up was my bestest friend Roselle. When I arrived at the office I expected my officemates to have changed the name on our b-day banner but to my disappointment they didn’t. It still displayed Ailyn’s name who celebrated her bday last Dec.9. I looked into my work station and found no card, no balloo…zilch. When I logged in at YM, my officemate started greeting me and then I was surprised that Kuya Nat from audit gave me a single yellow rose w/ a message from Johanna. My first thought was that, “close pala kami?” Then a few minutes later another single yellow rose came my way . . .that’s when I began to smell a plot. During the course of the day, 27 guys within our office came bearing 27 roses. From my boss to my ex-crush and from total strangers.I felt like I was having a debut that day. Then at lunch my boss treated our group for lunch.And at 3:00 pm they gave me a cake and I had no choice but to treat them all for snacks LOLS My IE officemate gave me a book (Paulo Coelho’s Like the flowing river). I really felt blessed and really happy that day. Blessed to have friends like them and for this new chapter in my life and happy to know that I did something good to deserve this kind of treatment disproving my belief that I am a selfish and bitchy person.This is one birthday that i'll never forget for the rest of my life :-)

Anyways, another bday gift I received was Pastel from Jae, fresh from CDO and the migration of my old blog to the new version(naks!)but they're still tweaking things up coz some of the side bar items were messed up *hint,hint*