What a Birthday

Last Thursday was my 23rd birthday.

It was 23 years ago when my mum endured the pain to bring me into this world. I've always remembered the things she said about my birth. She was in a general hospital giving birth to me as my family couldn't afford better medical facilities back then. The staffs who were on duty were very inefficient according to my mum.

As she was expecting to give birth at any moment, the staffs were supposed to on guard for her delivery but instead, they were just slacking off and doing god knows what they did. My mum actually alerted the nurses a few times and there was one fat nurse, according to my mum that yelled back at her and asked her to shut up and stop faking pain.

But it was not a fake cry for attention. I was on my way out to the world. My mum tried her best to alert the nurses a lot of times and had to endure rude yelling from the fat nurse before one of the other nurses actually came in and examined my mum to confirm that I was about to come out. The doctor was alerted and in short, I was given birth by my mum, after 9 months of pregnancy plus the humiliation she had to endure right before the moment of my birth no thanks to a particular fat nurse.

Ever since the story has been told to me, I was always grateful that I was given a chance to come to this world by my mum. And that is also why, every single year without fail, I'd call my mum and thank her from the depths of my heart for her hardship of giving birth to me. This year was no exception as that was the first thing I did when I woke up.

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Gratitude to mum aside, 21st of May 2009 wasn't exactly a terrific day if you ask me. Truth to be told, I was actually a little lonely.

Reason?

Zach suddenly had a family emergency. One of his uncles passed away and some long time ago, that uncle actually adopted/took him as a godson. And thus, he was then required to attend the funeral and perform some Chinese rituals/rites as the male heir. He couldn't come back in time to be with me on the 21st of May 2009.

As a result, I was all alone the entire day.

Birthday greetings were aplenty in Friendster and Facebooks. Thank you guys!!

But somehow it seems to me that at this point of my life, no one actually care about me anymore except my colleagues and boyfriend. None of my family members greeted me for my birthday. Though I've expected it since they've not been giving a damn to my birthdays ever since I was 5 (I think) but I guess the fact that Zach wasn't around me on my birthday just reminded me that I'm sorta unloved if I don't have Zach with me.

But not everything was bad. After all, Tim, the cool boss gave me a wonderful birthday present. It was hope. ;)

A lottery ticket! Lol.

It has no sides actually. The main one requires you to wait for the draw at a fixed date while the side one, you can actually scratch it off right away and if the number matches the numbers printed on it starting from the end, you win cash prizes and if it's the exact same number, you win a car. I wasted no time and scratched the side off. Unfortunately I did not win the car. :(


However, more surprises came unexpected. After lunch at Jalan Ipoh Yong Tau Foo which we stuffed ourselves full of fried dumplings and sui kao, there was a knock on the office door. Normally, I'd have the interns open the door but since it's a dry spell season for interns at the moment, I had to do it myself.

And what a surprise it was when I opened the door.

It was Mell and KY with a birthday cake for me!!!! OMFG!!

I thought that with Zach not around and my family far apart from me (and not to mention they don't care at the first place), I was never going to see a birthday cake!! Though I'm not crazy for cakes, but it was definitely a very touching moment for me that they went all the way to get me a birthday cake, during office hours!!!

Sorry that I didn't manage to take any pictures. Normally when I'm overwhelmed by emotions, I couldn't think straight and this is the reason why it didn't occur to me to take photos. Lol. We share the cake around with all my colleagues. It was chocolate cake!! Hurray! Well, to be honest, among all the western flavors for cakes, this is the only one I'm fond of. No plain cheese, coffee, toffee, vanilla, strawberry or anything else please.

The day came to an end where I left office after I cleaned up my work pile. Headed to the gym as it has been awhile since I hit it. I remembered that I made a vow to lose weight and aimed for a 65kg weight by my birthday some time ago. I realized that this vow was broken long time ago as not only my weight didn't go down, but it seems that my physical appearance has grown a little bit on the sides. FML.

After gym, went home and had dinner alone. Slept alone. The end.

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Not so happening for a birthday ain't it? Well, the fun didn't start till Friday if you asked me. ;)

Long before my birthday, we've already planned it out that we'll visit Genting Highlands for a weekend getaway due to the fact that it was close to a weekend and it has been so long since I went up there for cold air. Zach paid for the accommodations. We booked Theme Park Hotel because our previous visit there, we had a bathtub in the room we stayed. Lol. It's the cheapest hotel up there that has a bathtub for you to utilize. Utilize as in.. bath? Okay, maybe something else. Lol.

Zach came back on Friday morning just to go Genting with me. I left office early with permission from Boss Stewie and we were off to the Highlands! Yea!! To add more excitement, one of my aunts (my grandma had 12 children) remembered my birthday! Though she was a day late, she greeted me via phone call and gave me extra allowances to spend! Hurray!! Great!! Now everything is in order.

But it wasn't for long as I was disappointed by unforeseen circumstances upon reaching our hotel. The room we booked was a Superior Room which only have a shower. Our previous visit, we had a Deluxe Room. And the difference in pricing for those 2 rooms are RM10. When I asked to switch to Deluxe Room upon discovering there wasn't a bathtub for me to shag in bath in, the receptionist informed me that their Deluxe Room were fully booked. FML.

Oh well...



That certainly didn't stop our 'planned' activities though. :P

We were so tired from our 'planned' activities that we couldn't even mustered the energy to enjoy at the Outdoor Theme Park the very next day. But all in all, the weekend retreat to Genting was no doubt one of the best vacations I ever had!!

Okay, with exception that I lost RM100 bucks to Uncle Lim in one of his casinos. And I'm very sure Genting is a very evil place, cause there's a strange force asking me to continue gambling despite the fact that I have set the rules that I'll only use RM100 for gambling and no more. Thank God Zach was there to stop me from changing my money to chips. Lol.

All in all, I was pretty satisfied with my 23rd birthday. It wasn't something fabulous (I'm using a fag word now, finally) but it was definitely very very enjoyable. Thank you everyone for making my birthday special!

P.S. I still have hope with me. Let's check the papers on the 31st of May 2009. ;)


P.P.S. Sorry for the lack of pictures to describe various instances in my blog post. :(

Now officially 23 years old
Robb