It’s been three days since my last post. Ouch! I am not sticking to my own resolution. But I am sure I will make up for those missing posts with this post. Last Friday, the 18th was my birthday and this post all about the best birthday that I have had in so many years. Here goes…

Thursday 17th.
We have a tradition at our apartment complex where we all gather together at midnight and wish the birthday person and then we present the cake and card and gifts. It’s a small affair that lasts for 20-30 minutes and we all have a good time. I reach my apartment at around 11:40 pm. I was busy making last minute changes to my home page – http://www.ilstu.edu/~bdedath which was my birthday gift to myself.

Friday 18th.
At around 5 after midnight, I hear this commotion outside my apartment door and all my friends march inside while singing the ‘Happy birthday’ jingle. Then I cut the cake and my roommate religiously gives me the first bite of the cake and plasters the rest of the cake piece on my face. The cake was some kind of chocolate cake and was very delicious. Then I open my gifts which were very thoughtfully selected by my friends. The gifts ranged from cool lava lamps to a mp3 cd to a soft toy (dog) for my car. I am convinced that I have some of very good friends. I do get overwhelmed at some point because I do not remember the last time when I felt so special on my birthday.

I get into the bed at around 2:00 pm and had to get up very early at 6:30 am to take my car to the Honda dealer for servicing. By the time I reached office at 8:30 am I was feeling so tired that I was ready to call it a day.

During the day, I was busy replying to emails and e-cards and answering phone calls needless to say that I did not get much work done in the office. My parents and my sister called me up to wish me which was nice. I had a quick lunch with Kelly. At round 2:30 pm there was a small birthday meeting in the office. My director’s birthday also falls in the same week so the birthday meeting was for two people. It was a good time having coffee and another round of delicious chocolate cake with all your office colleagues. The last time such thing happened was in 2002 when I was at NCST. One more time to get overwhelmed

After work I went to church for mass and then headed for home. I spent some time in the evening with my friends who were busy putting the Indian Student Association’s stall for the International Fair which was being held during the weekend. After that a quick trip to Walmart and Indian store for groceries and then back to the apartment. I spent the rest of the day with friends and generally having a good time.

Saturday 19th.
We got up late and missed the breakfast time at most restaurants and finally decide upon lunch at the Indian restaurant. After lunch we go to the mall for some shopping. At the mall we got some very good deals. After becoming poorer by a good amount of money at the mall we go the International fair visit the Indian Student Association’s stall and also the other stalls like the Rotaract, Caribbean Student Association, and European Student Association etc.

In the evening we start watching the movie – Manchurian candidate which we had to stop once people starting coming over for the party at 9:00 pm. We had pizza, bread stick, chicken wings, chips, salsa, cake and soda. Of course we had beer too!

We soon settled down playing dumb charades and I must admit our team was pretty dumb. At one point in the game there were 3 people enacting the same movie and we still did not pick up the movie. The movie’s name – Jerry Maguire! By the time we wrap up the game it’s about 1:30 am and we all go back to our respective apartments and rooms.

Sunday 20th.
We again got up late on Sunday and ended up having the leftover pizzas and chips for breakfast. We complete watching the movie and call it an end to the birthday celebration.

It was a fun weekend and now I all refreshed for this new week.