On birthdays.

My mom has never bought a birthday cake for me from what I can remember. My birthday has been a taboo subject at home since I was young. It's only in the recent few years that I'm able to bring it up (like mentioning in our conversations what my friends did for me) and not get unhappy about what she says in response to those well-meaning efforts. The biggest birthday celebration I ever had was at my nanny's place when I was about two or three years old and that made my mom unhappy. So I never got to celebrate it in my teens. After I turned 20, I started to have mini-celebrations with friends. When I turned 21, I was in the midst of the mentoring camp preparations and spent it with the volunteers. I can't remember what happened when I turned 22 (think I'll need to look at past entries) and when I turned 23, it was spent with PL and TG and PR. It made me realise that what meant most to me were not the presents but the company that I had on the day itself.

Not quite sure what I'm going to do the whole of today. I tried thinking of who I would like to spend time with on this day but most of them happen to be out of town or we're no longer in touch. The other cowcat's working today till evening. I had hoped for a nice family dinner out but she just replied my sms to say that she had some dinner with her colleagues.

Anyway, I shan't think negatively on this day. Mom just got back from the market not too long ago and mentioned that she's cooking bak-kut-teh mian xian for me to eat but I think she's backing out on the deal now since there's also kueh to eat. Haha. But nevermind, it's the thought that counts. Oh, now she's doing it reluctantly. I'm really very touched but I don't know what to say. =)

WW offered to go out with me today. We should be going to "Soul to Soul: Remixed – A creative presentation of photography , design and film" at the museum. Yay! I think I read it somewhere before so what a coincidence! We'll see.