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Hi guys! I celebrated my birthday two days ago. I mentioned in my previous post that the first half of February was not really going well and that I was doing several things to turn it around. Luckily, my birthday went better than I expected.

My birthday fell on a Monday and most of my friends know that among the days of the week, I dislike Mondays the most. However, when I woke up that day, I told myself that this is a Monday that I CANNOT hate. It seemed to work because that day, everything went well.

My birthday ootd: Mostly from Forever 21 (top, skirt, necklace, inside shirt), shoes from Mario D’boro, watch from Kenneth Cole

To be honest, February 23 felt like an ordinary day at first because I still had to do my regular routine . It was not until late morning that I felt, “Oh hey, it’s my special day!” My teammates from work took me to this Chinese Restaurant, Lucky Rainbow, for lunch. And because every Monday we conduct our weekly update meeting, I brought along all work-related stuff thinking that it was going to be a working lunch. It was not long after that they surprised me with cupcakes from Wild Flour. (Disclaimer: the waiter failed thrice at bringing the cupcakes to me so I wasn’t really surprised. We all just laughed at it but I still appreciate my teammates’ efforts) We didn’t have an update meeting, we just celebrated my birthday over lunch.

During the afternoon, my friend/officemate was insisting that I stay in the office longer because our other friend is coming over to greet me. And because I had dinner with my family after work, I told my friend/officemate that I can only stay up to a certain time. I really thought that our other friend was just coming over to greet me, but when I came out of the office, I saw my friends carrying a cake. They started to sing happy birthday and it made me feel embarrassed and happy at the same time.

Lower left photo: My wishing face haha

Dinner time was for my family. I wanted to go to the new casino place, City of Dreams Manila, and my parents readily agreed. My siblings had important matters to attend to so that night, I was just together with my parents. I treated them to this Vietnamese/Thai Restaurant, Red Ginger. It’s a good thing there was a band playing during the time we were eating. Made the ambiance extra special!

Yes, awkward first photo.

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Overall my birthday went better than expected and I’m thankful to those who made an effort to be a part of it. Thank you for making me feel special. 🙂

I made several birthday wishes this year. Sana magkatotoo!