Wednesday, November 28, 2007
SURPRISE! SURPRISE!
1:14 AM
My 17th birthday was exceptional, had a lot of surprises this year, to kick start everything was a surprise celebration prepared by my Auntie! wheee~ Well that was on Sunday when I went back to Kallang to visit my grandma who was worried sick because of my stitch.Yesterday night, Adrian and Yuxin gave me another surprise at 12midnight, they bought me chocolate cheesecake that tasted like Heaven then at the very moment, when I thought everything was to be over, another surprise came in. Tun Jiang called
TJ: Eh, Where are you
ME: At home, my brother gave me a surprise celebration
TJ: Oh, open you door
*shocked*Tun Jiang, Joshua, and Lin Zhong were standing at my door at 12 midnight to sing me a birthday song! It was really the ultimate, and i was seriously touched. I mean, its 12 midnight, and the three of them could come all the way to my house to present me with a cake and sing me a song. WOW. That gesture meant a lot, a lot. No words can really express how touched i was. seriously.Thanks guys, really appreciate that effort. Tun Jiang stayed over at my place, slept at 2am.Woke up at 2pm the next day, Mum gave me an ang pow.heh! laze around at home and waited for my uncle and auntie to come over my house for dinner. Dinner was great! really thankful to have such nice relatives. At around 9pm, left home to meet them.It was a simple but special dinner. We headed off to Pasir Panjang, our usual hangout. Hah. Though i cannot eat much due to my wound, I still enjoyed every single second of the time we were there. It brought back not just fond memories but it also taught me to really appreciate one another. sometimes, I'm too quick to judge and make nasty comments. Usually, I'm a person that can express myself using words, however, tonight, as i sat in front of my computer, keying in this entry, I felt lost for a while, i really cannot find words to express the happiness that I'm feeling now. I don't know if fortunate is the correct word or not, but it is definitely something more than luck, I guess Life isn't that bad after all, sometimes, it will take away some very important people in our lives so as to teach us one thing - appreciation. At times, it will also reward us,bless us, by putting special people into our lives, to safeguard us, to protect us, to shower happiness on us. As we had our dinner, i felt my entire self glowed, i felt my heart smiled- I do have friends that love me, I really do.I was telling Tun Jiang yesterday night that presents aren't the only thing that make a birthday special nor is it the places you hold the celebration. It is actually the people that you celebrate your birthday with, that causes your birthday to be so special and make sense. I mean, if birthday is all about presents and nice restruants, everyday can be my birthday right?Then i thought, so what is the entire meaning behind birthdays, why is it so special? Well, the answer is quite simple. Birthday- a day to celebrate LIFE. a day where you celebrate because you're born into this world ( whether is it a good or bad thing, is a total different issue). It is the day when you celebrate because you get to breathe the air, you celebrate because you get to experience fear,happiness,sorrow,anxiety,excitement, worry, anger, boredom etc. It is the day when you celebrate because you get to love and be loved by the people around you. Therefore it make sense to celebrate your birthday with people that you love and appreciate- people that are important to your life. Birthday should never be seen as a day when you can call the shots, nor should it be seen as a day when people must and should give you presents. receiving presents is just a bonus to the celebration. Hmm..so the next time when you have a birthday celebration, stop and think- Why is my birthday meaningful- Let us celebrate Life.P.S : Thanks you people for sending me all the sms-es. I really appreciate them.
