MY HAPPY DAY

Hey shorty, it's my birthday. That's how i greeted myself hip-hoppingly on my so-called day. My birthday always fell on a Black Saturday or a Good Friday. The perennial need to be quiet during those days sucked out my enthusiasm for celebration though i have always dreamed of celebrating it with food i love to eat.

So the celebration idea came upon realizing that i need to appreciate 25 years of existence. 25 years of living elegantly under classified pressure. I am now 25 though my 'age thought' has always been 22 and i still look like fresh meat in some ways. 25 doesn't sound young anymore, i guess.

I asked some people to travel for me on birthday and visit our yet to be finished house in the Fairview part of Bulacan. What a nice idea. It's just that it was so friggin hot, i couldn't appreciate the vino.

The first group of friends were my college theatre friends Maryanet and Paulie. They came right on time in the biggest landmark of Fairview--- SM Fairview. I was extremely proud that i get to serve a really nice salad with a pinag-isipang vinaigrette of 2 choices: the dijon and the honey dijon dressing. Enough with the usual Pinoy birthday banquet of caldereta and barbecue, i want some greens. There's still pasta but not the 'red pasta' oozing with UFC banana ketchup; what we got was white tuna pasta which everybody loved. I bought 2 rellenong bangus from Mommy's in Congressional Ave. (the best rellenong bangus i've ever tasted) and pizza as requested by my brother. I wanted to ban Coke from the list since i am not a soda drinker but Coke is Coke.

The second batch were the college guys (who thought 3pm is the new 12pm-- haha!) composed of the former Palafox, Bumper, Lebanese, Chawdi and Dahwin. I think they were kinda excited to travel all the way to us since it has always been Makati and QC for them. First time for them to see my moodrahbel whom i have spread a press release eversince college and i think they liked her contrary to popular belief that they won't.

They even gave me a birthday present of a production number of Joey de Leon's "Itak-tak mo" with the Sex Bomb and EB Babes version right in the middle of the street. Haha! I am fascinated with this Itak-tak mo dance step more than the Spaghetti song. I am gonna learn the Sex Bomb dance version of it.

Very nice. Such a sweet happy day kinda like smelling the roses all over again. Thank God.