Being excited about your birthday a few days before it is pretty normal. But in my case, believe it or not, my countdown would start almost 150 days in advance!!
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Yes, it's true.. :D
Now that doesn't mean that I would actually count days to my birthday everyday, starting from 5 months in advance. It's just that I would start thinking about my birthday and my birthday party from October onwards! [My birthday falls in March.. and according to some weird people, in May! Those who don't know the story, ignore the last sentence! :P] Atleast once a fortnight I would remind my parents how many days were left to my birthday.
I was equally excited about my birthday parties and I would invite all my friends to it. We used to have the usual - games, cake cutting, birthday bumps, the khoyi bag and 'return gifts!' when I was small. [In case you don't know what the Khoyi Bag is, it is a nicely wrapped cardboard box filled with goodies and tied high up where the children can't reach it. The birthday girl/boy punctures a hole in the box, and all the goodies fall down. You should see how the children jump over each other to collect the maximum amount of goodies!]
I specifically rememeber the first of March many years ago, when I woke up, screamed "Yay! it's March!!" and hugged my mom!
When I grew older, I started planning my birthday parties.. In one, we had a game in which I showed all my friends a video of 'baby me' and then I had a quiz on it!! In another, we had a vegetable-jewellery competition and it was amazing to see the creativity with which my friends made their jewellery! In one, we had a beauty paegent sort of a thing - we had to walk the way models walk on a ramp, and we had prizes for 'Miss beautiful smile' , 'Miss beautiful hair', etc.. The best part was that my cousin brother Rishub won the prize for the best smile, but all the sashes I had made were titled 'Miss', and you should have seen him blush when I put the 'Miss beautiful smile' sash on him!! :D
When I was in the 11th standard, my friends gave me a surprise birthday party for my 16th birthday.. They had planned the whole thing with my mom days in advance, and I had a feeling something was up. At times I was sure that they were planning something, and sometimes my mom would say something that would indicate that there was nothing special being planned for my birthday! Not until the very day of my birthday did I get to know the truth! My friends got home before me, hid their slippers n stuff and did all they could to prevent me from knowing that they were there.. but they forgot one very important thing - my friend left her scooty outside my house!! But it was great fun all the same, and all of us had a wonderful time.
When I was in the 12th, my boards and going on in March and I had my biology exam on my birthday! And in my first year at NUS, my friends surprised me and we had a cute little celebration in my cluster kitchen!!
Even now I am very excited about my birthdays, but obviously not the kind of excitement when I was a kid. And before you start thinking stuff, no, that's not the reason why I'm blogging about my birthday in december itself :P
5 comments:
Your poor guy cousin who had the "Miss" sash! haha!
Birthdays are always special when you spend them with family and friends :) I did not read the last part of your post :p
awwwwww =) fond memories man! amazinh how similar the birthday parties of all kinda are..n another fav ga,me was treasure hunt ard the house! :D
ahh, i used to do countdown abt 1.5mnths in advance with my friend in sec sch..5mnths..lolllllll!!
happy advanced birthday :p
chocoswiss~
hey bdw wenz ur bdy ?? :p hey da cousin u referin to is it rishabh who is at nus??
hey knw wat i also gt an awesome surprise on my 1st bdy at nus...i was da first prsn in my grp to hav a bdy at nus.. so wen it was 12 pm.. a few ppl first calld to wish me n then tld me to come dwn to go for a walk.. then suddenly they changd planz n said lets go to mihir's kitchen n chat thr.. wen i went thr.. i saw about 40 ppl of my batch all waitin for me n my frndz had gt cakes for me to cut (although it was da assorted cakes u get at yih..they didn knw initially were to get cakes frm..lol)
then we had a blast.. chattin.. music.. etc etc.. dat waz one awesome bdy i had... :)
Haha, I remember what a hot topic your birthday became at one point of time. We had everyone confused, poor people! (I get confused too, really -- I keep having to think twice before I can remember when exactly your b'day is, March or May. :P)
I used to get excited about my birthday too! But not any more. Coz for the past 2 years, my birthday has been kind if a "no man's zone" for me. Thats the time when i gotta say bye bye to mom and dad and get back to singapore. So basically, I dont spend a proper birthday at home or in singapore. But I remember the countdowns that used to take place before that! :)
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