Having Fun at Thirty One!

Today's my birthday. Yay! I'm already 31. But honestly, I don't feel like 31. I'm always a child at heart... Hahaha!

Well, I'm a bit sleepy coz I had a previous celebration with my officemates. But I have more guests and it's just proper for me to entertain them. Since I have relatives and lots of friends, I need to schedule them so that I can attend to them effectively... (Nuninuninu... still a training coordinator even during my birthday)

Lunch time is for my relatives. I'm so touched that my lola - Nanay Sianang as what I'd call her - came to my birthday. She has always been in a wheelchair after a stroke but she insisted to come. That's one rare gesture from her as she would often just be contented in staying at her home. Love you Nanay Sianang!

It was also my relatives who cooked my handa. I'm blessed to belong to a clan who can cook! (I wish I could learn that too!) My handa - Chicken Pastel, Hamonado, Embotido, Itik, Ube Halayan and Ref cake. I didn't invite many people since I was so busy at work that I had no time to prepare. And so since I didn't have many guests, I had fewer handa. I guess it's just enough.

After relatives, 7:00pm is for my friends. Acie and Rowny came first, followed by my UP College friends Marc and Lily. Shortly, my church friends Amor and Jonathan came. After eating, I got them to play Scattergories. Serious! My UP friends are always verifying the validity of the answers (unlike our kind of game in the office where we allow the "duck" rule --- ops... this rule can only be understood by the Training Team... Sorry...). But they had fun.

As my guests continue to rest, we watched "The Mask" and remembered how it made Jim Carrey a hit and Cameron Diaz be noticed.

Around 11:00pm my guests already went home. But wait! There's more! My C-Cube friends Paul (Papaps) and Melay (Mader) came. They will be getting married on Dec. 9 and are very busy lately. But I'm so touched that they still came to my birthday. That was probably around 11:30pm. We had meaningful conversations until around 1:00am. And, we were able to take a picture (as seen above).

Whew! Another year for me. I thank God that He gave me life and I do hope that I would spend it to bring glory to His Name...