Entry #18 My favorite birthday

Birthdays for me was never celebrated too grandly. My family would usually just bring me out for dinner. When I was younger we would always go somewhere a bit expensive, and at that time it was always PizzaHut. I would rarely get presents, but I remember one time I got a pink bag and also a pink hairbrush and some other pink stuffs. I wonder why it was pink back then.

As I get older and enter university usually we won't get to celebrate my birthday on the day itself so we usually have a belated-birthday dinner. And it doesn't need to be anywhere expensive, as long as we get to eat with the full house. Presents are out of the question hahaha the last present I got was a body scrub set and blackhead removing patch from my sister. What are you trying to say huh Kakak??

But then the most recent birthday celebration I had was quite interesting. It was my birthday and my Maklong went back to Brunei from Malaysia on that day. When my mom accidentally told her she was upset(?) because she wanted to celebrate it. I was like, nah nevermind it's just my birthday haha. To make her happy we went and bought two slices of cake at Secret Recipe to celebrate. PS, Oreo Cheesecake is just nice because I like Oreos and cheesecake, but it's nothing too amazing.

And then sometime in January? She came to Malaysia again and she held an open house and invited all the big family even from my dad's side. Because I was part of the host family I just wore a simple t-shirt and slacks and my usual tudung hitam. But then she insisted that I change into something prettier. So okay in the end I went back with my sister to get changed. I wore a blouse and jeans and a grey tudung. And so the open house went on.

Suddenly as I was chilling in the kitchen with my siblings my Maklong came and called me. I was like okay what's this and then we went to the living room and then I saw people setting up a cake and I felt it. Okay, maybe this is a celebration. For my birthday.

And we went to see the cake and yup it says "Happy Belated 19th Birthday Amira~"

So yeah and then we sang the birthday song and I just awkwardly clapped and then blew the candle and then I said thank you to my Maklong and Paklong and went to hug her. Because I felt touched at that time. It was a really sweet gesture and I was not expecting it so it was truly a surprise.

I wouldn't exactly call it my favorite birthday but it was the most recent one. I'll probably like all the upcoming ones as well so yeah. I really don't make a big deal out of birthdays.