I’ve been meaning to blog about my birthday so I better do it now before I turn 60.

Farah and I have the same arrangement every year for our birthdays. We book each other’s time at least a week earlier and trust the other to make whatever arrangements she wants to do. This year was a bit different.

She picked me up, gave me a bouquet of flowers which she put together herself (check out fasakuntum on IG please, this girl is super talented) and drove me to the restaurant. This year, she chose Mexican food and as we were approaching our table, there was an extra set up on the table for 2 extra people, but I ignored it, cause it’s has only been the 2 of us for birthdays.

Then someone tapped my left shoulder, it was Amy, I screamed. Then another tap on the right shoulder, it was Roq, I screamed again. I realised Farah was making my 2016 birthday wish come true. She had asked me last year what I wanted as a present, seeing that the 3 of them bonded so well during my wedding, I asked for the 4 of us to just chill and eat, but Farah went for a mission in Iceland to find for her Iceman on my birthday so it didn’t happend. BUT IT DID THIS YEAR WOOHOO.

I was beaming from ear to ear. The food was so authentic, got to wear a sombrero, my girls were there, life is good. never perfect, but good.

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PLUS, I GOT A CHANEL…

…CAKE. Good enough la hahaha. So thankful and happy for these girls, I will never forget that when I turned 28, I had lunch with the loves of my life.

Maggi Kari

I subtly leave hints for Joe when my birthday is approaching so I wouldn’t sound like a crazy demanding person but enough hints for him to get it right (poor guy la). I suppose he understood my hints correctly this year and so he booked for us to have Dinner in the Sky a few days before my actual birthday. When the day came, I dressed up, put on my make up, kissed Rauf goodbye and left for the city where I promised to meet him.

I was five minutes late, Joe and I didn’t make it to the sky. Instead, after hours of bickering on whose fault it was that we didn’t make it (obviously it was mine) we had dinner at home, cooked Maggi Kari ourselves and went to bed. I felt so bad for Joe cause the dinner had already been paid for, but I suppose it’s a hard lesson learnt to manage my time properly, and for the future, I’ll settle having dinners on the ground. Paying an exorbitant price to have yourself dangle with a crane to just eat sounds quite silly now, fun, but silly.

Our Maggi was delicious though, Joe and I told each other that we’d laugh about this in a few years time. We’ll see! Sorry about this year ok sayang, will make it up to you!

Family

To me, birthdays mean nothing if you don’t spend it with your family. Kat threw me a small do before she left, mama and Joe invited some family members the night before my birthday and I spent the entire day of turning 28 with this guy.

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InsyaAllah for many happy years to come!