With birthdays, there's gotta be presents. Cakes. Cards. Dinners, and what-have-yous. But specifically presents, because you can miss the dinner, skip the cake, forget the card and even forget the birthday, but there has to be.... a present :D
Back then it was always stationery sets. Or decorative items. Kau-tim, finish. No fuss there.
Now...mention birthdays and 'aiyo, what to buy leh??' rings in the head.
I always thought that presents are a means of showing someone how well you know them. The more you know someone, the more meaningful a present you can buy or make for them. But this year I've hardly had the remotest idea of what to get for even the people that I'm pretty close with. I wondered if it was laziness on my part. I wondered if I was starting to become indifferent to all the birthdays. Or should I just say 'no time'?
Last Sunday it was the birthday of a certain Lee, whom I had known all my life but had only really gotten to 'know' better in the last 4 years. I had nothing to give, no cards and not even a wish. Partly because I was busy, but I had nothing planned in the first place. Was I being plain indifferent, and just couldn't care less?
No, it mattered. I cared. I just wish I could find something as.... wacky and.. random, something unique enough. I'll have to keep an eye out for next year I suppose.
A happy belated birthday then, to Justina Lee, cousin extraordinaire :)
You can bunuh me now if you want, Tina :DPS: Picture above taken during the recent 'I-almost-died' white-water rafting trip, for full coverage go to Tanjonny Enjoyed Rafting
6 comments:
u didn't almost die!!! did u? lol.
I almost la, hahaha. I guess I'm the only one who actually had any bit of difficulty with the rapids >.< Eh, your blog profile also private-ed?
thank you! :) oh and you weren't the only one who almost died laaa, i almost died also leh, hahaha xD
Nobody almost died la!!! But there were many who exaggerated drowning though :P
Rafting is definitely safer than bungee jumping! XD
true, but if anything goes wrong with bungee jumping you die in a flash, if it's rafting you die slllooowwwlyyyy :P haahahahah. ok lah, i didn't almost die lah jon. since you're so sure about it. haha.
Justina: So it would seem that it was all an illusion that we almost drowned, hahaha.
Jon: Yeala, I wonder who were the few who kept saying they almost drowned, tsk tsk xD Bungee jumping sounds really fun wor, though you're right la about it being only a 5-seconds rush and costs a bigger bomb than rafting.
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