My Birthday Celebrations

Time seems to fly faster & faster as you grow older each year. Probably, when half of your life time has passed, you will become more reluctant to celebrate your birthday. Then somewhere, a very tiny little part of you still hope to get surprises.

Based on past years' experience, I would usually have 3 parts of celebrations. Part 1 - with my "Lover", AC. Usually, we will spend an afternoon together, have a good meal in some nice restaurant and have an endless chat, with a sweet surprise gift from her. But this year, she has to post celebrate it with me, due to her confinement. Part 2 - with my entire family. As usual, surrounded by my sons, hubby, mum & in-laws, there will be a cake (yes, the green pandan kaya cake from Bengawan Solo again, its our family tradition), which my 2 lovely boys would be too eager to blow off the candles for me, before I could even make a wish. Also, the hearty birthday songs which they will never get tired of singing, plus the priceless hugs and kisses that I never get enough from them. There is a bonus gift from Asher this year. He drew a cake on a piece of paper, without any candles, wordings or decorations. But to mummy, its good enough. As for Aron, he did something sweet too, feed the mummy with his cake.

Part 3 - private celebration with hubby. For the past couple of years, being an IT guy, hubby probably felt most comfortable getting some IT gadgets as gifts to pamper me. But this year, I don't feel like receiving such expensive gifts and I don't see the need of those stuff, I hoped to have something different, which can be cheap and fun. Leaving just this much of suggestion for him to work on could be pretty stressful for him. In order to avoid disappointment for myself, I decided to plan for my own celebration. I thought of some crazy things I wanted to do with him and I gave him the instructions to follow, that was 3 weeks before my birthday. Despite giving him instructions, I still doubted that he is comfortable in taking actions.

Couple of nights before my birthday, I saw hubby keep surfing the net from his iPhone in the middle of the night. He seemed to have trouble sleeping. "Was my request that stressful? Or was he worried about his job (since economy is so bad now)? Maybe its menopause..." I wondered.

On the day of our private celebration, he acted as if he didn't have any plan. Well I wasn't disappointed at all, cos I already told myself he just simply has too much (decent) man's ego to do it. Somehow, we ended up having dim sum lunch at Wah Lok Restaurant at Carlton Hotel, which I had told him (a few times) the food there was pretty good. While I was thinking of just going shopping with him after that, he took me to a place that we had never been. Yes, that was my request, he took me to a budget hotel. And as per my request again, he presented a fun toy to me. The whole experience was quite fun, and we had a good laugh, as we felt so awkward there. Well, he also did something extra, that I had not requested for it - booked a massage session at Aramsa. So, as we ran out of time, we had to rush off from the hotel to get to Bishan in time for our massage.

In fact, this was one of my most enjoyable time with hubby, to be able to spend some private time with him freely. If we could just spend a few hours of happy time together, just once in a while, I will be contented.

Thank you, hubby, for taking the effort to take leave, do internet research on your sleepless nights and doing crazy things for me. Love You Forever.