Yesterday was my birthday! Wohoo! Happy birthday to me!
Recalling two years ago in 2010, my birthday was in between Tokyo-Jakarta. I bought a cake from my favourite cake shop Fujiya in somewhere near a station along the Den-en-toshi line and celebrated alone (one night in advance). I arrived in Jakarta exactly on the 21st of August and I don't think anyone recognised my birthday. Later that night I was very tired and went to sleep right away. The next day, my friends made a surprise visit (which was actually a failed surprise :D *my fault) to my home bringing me a wonderful & delicous mocca cake. Ah, I missed them soooo much and they were kind enough to make a visit and celebrate my belated birthday.
On 2011, my birthday was in the last 10 days of Ramadhan. Me & two of of my besties were doing i'tikaf at Masjid BI, our favorite place to go for i'tikaf. On that night, I was the first to arrive at Masjid BI because my friends had a break-fasting event at their office. When they arrived, to my surprise, they brought a round chocolate cake! Complete with candles. I was a bit panicked because blowing candles in a mosque is not appropriate. Some Muslim rejects to "blowing candle", and some just takes it easy... but since it was at the mosque (!?), what can you expect!?!? "Is it okay to blow the candle or should I just kill the candle with my fingers!?". Then, there was this lady whispering to me, "hurry up! just blow the candle." Maybe she doesn't want others to noticed the birthday accident :P. I was really touched.
On 2012, my husband was the one who gave the first greeting! Thanks, love ;). But he was too early though, it wasn't even August 21st yet in Indonesia! Yes, we were still apart at that time because my flight to Sydney was rescheduled to August 24th :(.
On 2014, my colleague was very sweet. She went the extra mile to bake me a red velvet cake with Lindt cherry chocolate on top. I would never thought someone from the office would be so kind enough to do that for me! *lots of hugs for Sarah*. The team celebrated my birthday as well with a morning tea, which I thought was also sweet, considering that I was 'supposed to' take 'birthday leave' on that day!
