1 of my best bdays ever!

As every1 noes (or so I hope), my bday's on 8 Feb (u can see this on my bdays list on the sidebar of this blog), and coz my bday's on the 2nd day of the lunar new year, i'm not having a party this year. some ppl asked me y i can't celebrate ahead of time, and my answer is that if i'm celebrating ahead of time, it would be 1 week earlier, on a weekend. and since that weekend teacher happened 2 give the most homework and that saturday i was going 2 emily's house for her bday, it would be tiring 2 hold it on sunday (imagining attending 2 parties on a weekend! you'll be beat), and i dun think i could have finished my homework. so that's why.

but dun u wonder why i put the title as 1 of my best bdays ever if i didn't celebrate it? well i did, it's only that i didn't celebrate it with my friends (and classmates probably), i celebrated it with my family and my nanny family. why this is 1 of my best bdays, let's see the list.

1) this is the first time in 12 yrs that my mom has ever been able 2 celebrate my bday with me. For the past 11 yrs, she was always 2 busy 2 celebrate with me as my birthday is round the corner of chinese new year and that's the time she's the busiest. i thank the gods i can celebrate with my mum (finally!) this year as her business is closed during the first 2 days of chinese new year, but this year she managed 2 close 3 days so I'm very happy.

2) Fantastic presents. Up till now, i've had 2 presents from friends (maybe some planned 2 give it 2 me after chinese new year but i dun hold high hopes.) 1 of them is from Xiu Qin (1 of my oldest childhood friends. wat i mean is that i know her for the longest, but she's 1 of them.), and she gave me a bottle of stars, bottle reused from those juice bottles they sell at school for 90 cents per bottle, green folded stars filled in the bottle. she wrote the words happy birthday on the bottle for i think bout 8 times. I was so touched becoz this is the most meaningful gft of all...

the other present i got from my friends is from Kai Yi, and she gave me a photo album. to me, it symbolises a way to store my childhood memories in it, and it's also very meaningful too. here, i thank my friends again for giving me such wonderful gifts.

some other of my friends sent me birthday greetings via sms, and i also would like 2 thank them becoz it's the thought that counts, no matter how they send it. Xiu Qin, Emily, Eshane, my uncle, and Maggie jiejie, thanks for sending me the bday messages!

and my nanny family? they gave me the most expensive and useful present of all... an MP4!!! I was like, omg becoz i had kinda of wanted an MP3. LOL! but nvm, the screen was relli clear and when i viewed the default vids inside 2dae it was relli good. thanks every1 for buying this, including my godmother who chipped in also! (Brand: Creative Zen, black in colour)

*Note: If u have sent me a bday email, i'm sorry i can't put ur name cos my com sot sot and does not allow me 2 view my emails. sorry! and if u gave me my present later, i will write ur name down in a new blog entry so dun worry if i did not do it rite away cos i did not have time.

3) A great bday night. I went 2 my nanny house and had a great steamboat feast (i did not relli minded eating steamboat cos it was the 2nd time i've ate steamboat so i did not loathe it yet), then had a yummy choc cake with coconut and strawberry in it and had lots of bday photos and went 2 watch CJ7 at Shaw Towers @ Balestier at 11pm, and went home happily at 1am+.

All in all, it was a truly great 12 yr old bday party, my last childhood bday party (in my opinion)!