Cripes, today I’m turning 27.5 years old, but I still
haven’t blogged about how I spent my
birthday this year yet!I’m nearing 27.5 years old but still haven’t
blogged about my birthday this year! There is a simple reason: see, dad
randomly decided I wouldn’t be allowed to celebrate my birthday this year with
a meal out. I’m not sure why; I mean, sure, maybe he chooses to celebrate his
own birthday with a meal at home, and maybe poor mother doesn’t get a choice
every year as to where she’d like to celebrate her own birthday coz she
celebrates it on Boxing Day and everything’s either closed or coming with a 25%
surcharge, but surely, with me being the birthday girl on an otherwise
uneventful day, surely I’d be allowed to choose where I’d like to have my birthday
dinner?
Apparently not. So a birthday dinner at home for me it was
to be, then.
Mother had let me invite Aunty A and Dr. Dr. Tai along; the
other person who also appeared was Donna Bella Baker, mother’s workmate from
when they studied childcare together. Actually, her name’s just Donna Baker;
dunno why I added the ‘Bella’ for her middle name, but she doesn’t mind, so
hey. XD
Donna somehow heard about my Despicable Me minion obsession;
she arrived bearing a home-made Despicable Me minion cake (believe me, when I
first saw it, I just wanted to plant my face into him right away! XD),
four/five mini Despicable Me badges (to which she kindly pinned them all to the
jumper I was wearing) and a talking plastic toy minion called Dave (whom my
dearest dad uses nearly every morning to wake me up before kissing me goodbye
and leaving for work)!
Dr. Dr. Tai arrived next, bearing a great big shiny yellow
happy birthday balloon for me! She explained she got it from the Prince Charles
hospital gift shop, where she works. (I mean, she works as a doctor at the Prince
Charles hospital, not as some sales assistant at the gift shop XD). I wonder,
do all hospitals come equipped with a gift shop? I remember the P.A. hospital
gift shop was just inside the entrance …
Aunty A, of course, arrived fashionably late. Or, as she
explains it in Canto, “punctually be a little late.” XD
For my birthday, my dearest dad had actually gone to the
Calamvale BBQ and Chinese restaurant and bought a BBQ duck! Poor mother doesn’t
like duck; indeed, the only time she enjoyed duck was when she was pregnant
with me! We think I was enjoying the duck on behalf of her; once I was outta
her tummy and she tried eating duck again, mother was like, “Eww.” XD
I particularly enjoyed my birthday this year, because it
fell on a Thursday, and Thursday is the ONLY weekday where I DON’T
haveta do any physio! Even better, it coincided with my fortnightly Garbo
shopping trip!
Nowadays, mother gleefully restricts me to only enjoy ice
cream once a week, on Wednesday, for the fear that I’d become a fat obese pig.
XD On Wednesday night, I’d asked her please could I postpone my ice cream to a
single cone from Wendy’s on Thursday with the carer; honestly, I love having
ice cream from there only because you can try a flavour for free! XD Usually, I
try one flavour, and then pick another for my ice cream cone. That day, I asked
for a cookies and cream scoop; as the serving lady reached in for the ice
cream, I added, “A big scoop please; it’s my birthday today!” she stopped and asked
me, “Really?” and when I nodded, said, “Choose another flavour, then.” Extra
scoop, free of charge; this lady was the best! About three months later, when
I’d managed to beg mother to lemme postpone my ice cream to a single cone at
Wendy’s again, I had this same lady serve me. It obviously wasn’t a busy day
for her, because while my carer/life coach/support worker/whatever they’re
called now :P were munching on our cones, she wandered out for a chat with us.
I showed her the photo of the double cone I’d gotten Annette to take a photo
for me of, and when I showed her, she
laughed, saying, “Oh, I remember you. You were so happy.” XD
But I digress, back to my birthday dinner!
From memory (which is probably incorrect; alas, the cruel
and unfaithful God has left me with such appalling memory post brain-injury
><) we had garlic bread for entrée, before dearest dad served everyone
two yummy Peking duck wraps. Personally, I prefer mine without the leeks; just
the duck, the wrap and the hoisin sauce are enough for me!
There are Cantonese who require rice for breakfast, lunch AND
dinner, but I’m not that Asian; I just require it for dinner! Meaning after my Peking
duck wrap, I tucked into some rice. XD
Dinner over, ‘twas soon time for cake! Donna had made me
this most amazing minion birthday cake; you can believe me that when I saw him,
I just wanted to plant my face into him! XD Luckily I didn’t though; before
sticking candles onto the cake, Donna explained, “He started melting before I
arrived, so I had to use some toothpicks to give him a facelift.” XD
Everyone probably knows that I’m the hip hip girl of BCAC
(after the birthday song gets sung, I always yell the hip hips XD), but since
it was my birthday, was I supposed to call my own hip hips? Nope, mother kindly
did the job for me. XD
And that was basically the night, after we’d all tucked into
the cake!
Everyone all left at once, so of course I walked them all
out and thanked them most sincerely for spending my birthday with me!
Epilogue: remember how dad for some reason forbade me from
having a meal out to celebrate my birthday this year? Instead, he said that
we’d (him, mother and I) would go to Hog’s Breath Café at like Carindale to
celebrate my birthday with the meal out I’d been hoping for. So come the Thursday
one week after my birthday, I try politely asking my dad can we please go to
the Carindale Hog’s Breath Café to celebrate my belated birthday. For some
reason, instead of saying yes, dad chucks a complete cow at me, saying if I
dared to ask him again, he’d make sure I’d NEVER get to go there! Meaning I haven’t
dreamt about asking him; indeed, I’m guessing that he’s already forgot. Or that
if he hasn’t, he’ll wait until my birthday next March before taking me there,
saying it’s a combined celebration, like, one meal out for the two events. Huh.
><
Next post here … maybe a movie review; see, I recently went
and saw guardians of the lost galaxy! Righteo, until then~
Cheers,
Em. ^^
