missing january

last year, i failed to blog anything in january... and then this year too... seems unusual coz i dont think anybody would forget to blog on their birthmonths unless it is intentional... but i did for 2 straight years and it was unintentional.

i think it's nice to blog something about birthdays especially your own... but i dont usually remember what happened during my birthdays, im the kind of person that likes to "enjoy the moment" and doesnt get busy trying to document them or maybe i could recall 2 birthdays...

1 was in 1995, when i celebrated by birthday during my grandma's funeral, i dont even recall if someone in the family greeted me "happy birthday" (im sure my folks did greet me) coz it wasn't really appropriate to be happy that time... my granny's demise was unexpected, she slipped and injured her head... the last few minutes that we were together, she was telling me that she is okay and not to worry... then off i went to college only to go back a week later, to celebrate my bday and the life she had... i had to wake up some friends from town, and ask them to stay up with me coz it's my bday, and no one seems to notice...
another 1 was in 2000, i celebrated my bday in a foreign land with people i just met... i was expected to be in japan for the next 10 months and it was only my 2nd day... i hardly speak the language, im with a group of people whom i've met a couple of months back in the office and we were drinking whisky i bought from convenient store whose brand name is "red"... they were a lot of "happy birthday" and "tanjoubi omedetou" greetings but from people i hardly knew...
easily, you can identify which of the two had put more smiles on my face during my birthday... and also a more ironic way of celebrating a birthday...