Birthdays

Today was a very hectic SWR day as usual. I don't quite remember a day where i can actually say that work was good... planning definitely eats you up.. and surely kills the social life! But knowing me, as tired as i may be, social life is still very much alive.. hehe.. Compared to IT, this department works you like a cow (not that a cow really works.. haha.. what a comparison.. but anyways)! Sometimes i wonder why i actually landed there. So far away from the 4 years of hard work in college. Practicality is probably what they would call it. The oportunity is there to bite you so all you've got to do is get bitten. Not that i am complaining (a bit obvious??) , i am so thankful i do have a job... but sometimes you can't help but be sour over things especially if you are completely stressed out! Sigh! Two words.. "Oh Well!"... why am i talking about work anyway when my title is BIRTHDAYS!
My friend is celebrating THE birthday today... so to you my friend : HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! =) hope you have a good one! Your gift is still with me, you have got to travel half way around the world to get it! ha-ha... finally 26...
Twenty six... i can't believe that in less than two months, i too will reach that age. I remember when i was 13, i couldn't wait to be 18. How wonderful it would be to officially be a young lady and in college. At the age of 18, it felt quite the same except of course that you physically evolved, but i couldn't help wondering how it would be to be 21. How it would feel to be an adult. How it would feel to graduate, get a job and earn on my own. Shop with my own money. Travel with friends using your own hard work and sacrifice. No more scary nights of going home late thinking my dad is waiting up for me. I was passing a great company one time in college, and i thought back then, how it would be like working there. At the age of 21, amazingly, i was working in that company. And i came to a point where i said to myself "so this is how it feels". But of course, being the human that i was, i wasn't content of where i was and how far i have gone from my first thought when i was 13... the next thing that popped into my wandering mind was how it would feel to drive my own car to work. Two years later at the age of 23, i got my own car... as a birthday gift from my lovely sister! Nothing can top that at 23! And so life went on... actually living in my own young thoughts... i somtimes still say to myself "so this is how it feels"... at the age of 25, i must say, that a lot of other thoughts have passed me by. From marriage to migrating to changing jobs... but i can't seem to see, for now, what i would really want next. Maybe it goes with the age. The older you get, the less you wander about the future. Because instead of getting excited, you end up worrying! ha-ha... Number 26 is coming up and i guess all i have to do is wait and see what is in store for me. So far i can say the HE has been very good to me in all aspects of my life. There have been really bad ones but i guess it is all part of it. I still thank HIM for everything. Well, the evening is getting older (like the people who just leaped up another year) and colder for that matter... i can see my bed calling me... And so i signoff tonight by saying... advanced Happy Birthday to me! =)