20th Birthday :D

I embraced my last day as a teenager thinking about my upcoming 20th birthday, which is today. thoughts wandered off in my mind. About how birthday is so overrated, how giving a surprise cake slowly becomes an inevitable moral duty & shifts the whole meaning of 'surprise' into 'oh wow im surprised.. yeahh.. not really'. i have a buried skepticism when it comes to birthdays. Surely it is great to commemorate the day our mother pushed us out through her birth canal (or a C-section incision, for some) but still, to me birthday is just another day that we all have. just another day.

Second thought.

Today i was awaken by some crazyy BBM attack wishing me a happy & blasted birthday and recent updates full of my idiotic face during high-school. I swear i almost cried river of tears that morning. Not exactly the hip i expected to have!

Then some friends came over and drag me to menjangan island. Apart from the long-exhausting-3hours drive, the island is a MAJOR MAJOR heaven on earth. We went snorkeling, and GOD the coral reefs & the fishes we encountered were magnificent! UGH! naff said. the sentence stands for itself!

The day could NOT get any better. during our way back to bali, we were stunned by the magical maaagiicall sudden appearance of a whale (or 2 whales or 3 i wasnt sure) bursting watersplash through their hole on their back (not sure what its called). I even saw one of them actually hop out of the water as if it was trying to wish me a happy birthday. LOL! awed & amazed.

I went back home after another long drive JUST to find yet another not-so-surprising-but-im-flattered surprise from some of my beloved besties. At some point i knew that they were coming and i kinda had prepared my unsurprised face, but when they were actually in front of me, i was speechless. My whole unsurprised face went straight out of the window. I could only look nothing but flattered and tear-eyed.

And then i had a lovely dinner with my whole family ++ some relatives.

i guess Birthday is still going to be just another day in your life, without the presence of friends and family. Because it turns out, with your friends & family around you, birthday is actually one of the most special day you could ever get in your life!

thank you for everyone! you guys made my day :)

NB : i just checked my head, and its still one and attached & shows no sign of growing another branch out of its root. when they say 20 is a two-headed phase in your life, THEY LIE!