Thoughts on birthdays!!!
Today is one of my friend’s birthdays. So yesterday night, as the situation calls for, we all went out, got her a gift, took her to dinner at this nice place and brought in her birthday screaming out loud at the top of our voices in a bustling and happening place here called ‘Clarke Quay’. She was quite thrilled at the end of it and we all had a lot of fun. I suppose the major factor for the thrill factor was the suspense or the surprise bit. Anyways, all said and done it got me reminiscing about birthdays quite a bit, thinking about the surprises planned for people, the gifts given, the fun that we had and of course my birthdays too. One of my favorite memories about birthdays is the one that I had when I was maybe in 5 th or 6 th standards. My birthday always falls during the summer vacations, so there has never been any particular celebration in school or any of those chocolate distributions or wearing ‘color-dress’ to school etc. Not that I missed it. I was an introvert...