The New Birthday Rule

I've got a new rule which I'm going to implement starting this year.

I think it's not fair that my birthday this year fall on a truly busy day. I'm so busy I didn't have time to wish myself a happy birthday, much less have a birthday party with a birthday cake and balloons and party hats and all that fun thing that other children, I mean, people have when they throw a birthday party.

(By the way, it's always been a childhood wish to have my birthday party thrown at MacDonalds. Will anybody like to help make my dream come true? We could get together and eat fries dunked in ice-cream, my favourite!)

So the new rule is this, I don't have to celebrate my birthday on the actual day just because I so happen to be born on that particular day. We all know how having a specific day for a birthday can be so darn inconvenient. It could be a rainy, or your friends could be out-of-town in Salt Lake City (You know who you are, and I hope you are feeling guilty!), or you could be having your period, or it could just be one of those days your boss decides that you can't take leave because of some very important meeting that is really a very stupid meeting.

So, in order to be fair, and to ensure that birthdays are as happy as the proverbial "Happy Birthday", I'm going to get to choose when I get to celebrate my birthday. (It's my birthday today, so I make the rules!)

So here are my conditions for the ideal day and date:-

• It must be a sunny day.
• Everybody must be in town.
• It must not be too-sunny a day; there must be some breeze.
• It must not clash with any elections within Asia.
• They must be showing Grey's Anatomy on TV that night.
• It must not be in a middle of any stoopid training project that I'm planning.
• Everybody must remember it!

Yeah. I guess that's about all my conditions. All very reasonable and fair isn't it. It's only fair that one of my bestest friends is NOT away in Salt Lake City on my birthday isn't it.

Well I guess the only way she can make up for being away is to bring back some salt from the lake of the city.

Fair enough?!

Thank you for your lovely birthday wishes everybody!

I am truly grateful to all my friends, even the one at Salt Lake City for celebrating my coming-of-old-age with me. I'm so grateful I'm giving the first 10 people who wished me "Happy Birthday" a kiss.

Wee will get two big kisses because she was the first one to wish me, on account of her clock being a few minutes too fast. The problem with the clock has since been rectified.

Happy 31st Birthday to me! (Gosh! I feel old!)