Friday, April 06, 2007
Random: "Happy birthday my little superman!" and that's what they used to say.
Birthdays, birthdays. What a great subject isn't it? Birthdays can potray memories, sadness, over-whelmed, happiness, and the list goes on.
As time passes, we began to look at our kiddish photos of us, especially on our birthdays. I can't help it. When I'm bored, I'll just pull an album from the drawer and flip through it. The "De Ja Vu" feeling is just nice. Seeing ourselves in the care-free and innocent days, is just priceless. I would often mouth, "If only I was a kid, ..." Now we are being more mature, closer to leading our own life, closer to the real world and, closer to death, we have to be more realistic in our decisions.
Just admit it, our kindergarden and lower primary school days just rocks, don't they. It seems problem-free. We look forward to school for fun and when we are back home, our parents would give a kiss and a hug and those loving gestures. In school, classmates, friends will prepare cake, hats, noodles for the month's birthday kids and celebrate. The birthday kids were the king for the day, feeling that people actually cared about them.
"Happy birthday my little superman!" and that's what they used to say. Now, it's "What do you want for your birthday?" Yea, I'm missing those times. Nowadays, birthdays are just the sake of buying birthdays gift and saying "Happy birthday!" Previously, it's about a joyous celebration, with your loved ones. In school, it'll be a normal day, waiting to go home where my family prepares something special for me. Even with the family, it was not as fun as before.
Anyways, another angle about birthdays, I feel bad of not being updated of everyone's birthday. Often, friends or even part of the family will go to me and say "Yesterday was my birthday" "Next week will be my birthday" "My birthday had passed" "Btw, you missed my birthday"
Maybe, I'm just too caught up being a friend that I don't care about all of your birthdays. Sorry about that. Okay, birthdays are important, but if only there's no such things as birthdays, all of us will still be friends right. Yea.
I sound like a rebel, rebelling on those fun traditions of the world. It's like rebelling against the National Day. Haha. Imagine rioting outside the National Stadium shouting, "No National Day please! I've said please!"
Okok, it's impossible. Birthdays became too much of a big issue that even nations
have to celebrate it. It's the thought that counts eh.
Ok lah... birthdays are good, it's when we receive presents for free! it's our day, for once when we can use it as an excuse, "I didn't do this because, today is my birthday!" haha. Everyday's actually our birthday, it's like today, will be your 10th year, tommorow will be your 10th year and one day. happy birthday! and it goes on. Why must we celebrate it on an interval of 365 days? Imagine if we celebrate it on an interval of 500 days, so when we are 20 years old, we are actually 27 years old. LOL. I can get too bored that it can lead me thinking of this sort of things.
Birthdays is a good thing again because it acts as a reminder for others that you are a friend and alive.
Back, sorry guys for not remembering your birthdays. I'm phobetic of vice-versas. If I don't wish others, will others wish for me? Ahhh, i actually don't mind about birhtdays, even mine. I've forgotten about my birthday last year, thinking it was a normal day. Before this get's worse, i would like to wish a HAPPY BELATED/EARLY BIRTHDAY TO EVERYONE!
Cmon people, boost up my tolerance about birthdays.
I don't wanna shout to the whole world "It's my birthday!" My birthday is on 25th April. Coming. Just a "Happy Birthday" will make my day, a birthday, serious. No expensive gifts, just a "Happy Birthday" will do. See how desperate I am for a normal, priceless statement. This show how "joyous" my birthdays were, lately. Maybe if you can afford a 4GB memory card for PSP or a new PSP casing or a cake, but if not, just a "Happy Birthday" I didn't ask for a birthday party or what, just a "Happy Birthday" please?
Did I make birthdays too much of a big issue? Maybe, it's is simple/effortless for you to receive valentines day gifts, birthday presents and well wishes. Even from a stranger. As for me, it an extravagant thing to receive those stuffs. Is it that I have to make a powerful or big impact to someones life to receive those things? if it's so, i did not made anyone's day. Even wishes. Okay, I'm saying on behalf of those lonely losers like me who are in a similiar situation as me.
This may sound as if it's all of your fault, but it's actually all and all mine. haha. I didn't impact on someone's life that much, didn't go around saying "It's my birthday!" "Make sure you buy me present ah!" and didn't go around wishing people "Happy Birthday" Ahhhh, I'm not acting like what a typical SIngaporean teenager should be doing.
It was depressing to receive one or two wishes, literally, last year. Maybe I didn't, but it's all from those online membership's which i'd join. Computers can be compassionate too eh. I sound as if I'm the most important person on earth, but heck, who actually cares about Superman's birthday?
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