Happy Birthday Gang!

{2011's cheese cake}

{fr NN,FA,+a similar pen fr MK}

Today is Monday, 9^th July 2012. It is a second Monday for the month of July. Last week was 2^nd and next week will be the 16^th. In life, we were told not to delve what was in the past. We are instilled with the phrase “que sera sera, what will be will… the future is not ours to see, que sera sera…” What is so significant about all these Mondays? And not forgetting one lonely Tuesday on the first week for month, i.e. 3^rd of July. July is a month of celebration. It used to be a month that I will be broke and I think still is!

Now, let’s ponder about today, 9^th July. Today is my nephew E’s birthday. He should be 18 years old today, if my memory serves me well. Emmm, yes he is definitely 18. I think he is celebrating his birthday alone sans family members since he is away in college in Banting, Selangor, and a town on the east coast of Selangor, relatively near to the beach along the Straits of Malacca. He was very talkative and active bordering a hyper active child when he was very young and now he seems to lost some of his vocabulary and answering any query with a single syllable. However, he is very active in giving a helping hand to a charitable organization which his father introduced to him.

Next Monday, my first born niece NN will be celebrating her 22^nd birthday. Naturally she will be celebrating with a bang with her own baked cheese tart. I still owed her 21^st birthday’s present which she will probably get during the Eid’s celebration in August as what her cousin brother IQ got during last year’s Eid celebration. Somehow along the years, my sense of time derailed. IQ was the first victim when he turned 21 two years ago.

Oh yes, I have not forgotten the lonely Tuesday boy. Well, he is not a boy anymore but a man with a wife and a daughter and a well manned moustache to boost! Tuesday 3^rd was his 29^th birthday. I believe he celebrate with a bang too. When he was younger, (about the age of seven or eight, after being aware of his birthday) he never misses my birthday. He is the only one among all my nephews and nieces who do not need a reminder from the parent’s of my birthday. I supposed he made a point to remember it lest I forget his birthday the following day. There was this year, when he placed a nicely wrapped blue ball point on my first car’s windscreen early in the morning before going to school! 

Last year, yours truly celebrated her birthday at De Palma Hotel in Ampang with friends from university’s days. This is after more than 20 years graduating from my alter mater, University Technology Mara Malaysia. It was not a planned birthday do but a mini reunion. They presented me with a cheese cake, the size of a cappuccino cup! I cut the cake into 8 parts! Guess where I celebrate my birthday this year? Yes, De Palma Hotel in Ampang, seating at the same long table but with different company. Déjà vu!

Happy birthday E!

Advance happy birthday NN.

Belated happy birthday MK.

July is indeed a prosperous month.

lotsa birthdays hugs & kisses

~acepaizah~