Birthday with my buddies...

A little belated, I know. It's already June, goodness. But again, I would want to look back at this blog decades later. And not wonder where did my friends go during my 23rd birthday.

It wasn't grand or whatever. We had Mac's and then went to Gecko Cafe (or Cafe Gecko-whatever) [ok, Kum has confirmed that it is Cafe Iguana. Erm, I just knew that it was some reptile. Lizard or Iguana. Muahahahaha...] at Clarke Quay to have our Mexican fare and humongous strawberry margarita. Overall it was a cosy feel and we were just enjoying each other's company. And I think we went on talking about jobs as usual.

And then, we went to sit at the 'river' (or rather canal) side. And I supposed that's where the sparklers are supposed to come in. (which I actually genuinely had forgotten about it until they started acting too obviously strange behind my back; literally)

But instead I think they conspired to shock me enough to jump into the river with the aid of some little explosive-sounding white bits that were bought in Malaysia. I don't know what they're called, but I remembered throwing them about when I was a kid, relishing in the loud "PIAK"ing noises that jumped unexpecting passerbys.

And in the end, we were throwing those little white bits around carelessly, celebrating my birthday in a 'loud' manner.

And I don't know which one of us started it, but we thought that we make wishes. And then end them off with a resounding PIAK.

I thought that it was the nice and heartwarming part. Cos as we were reciting our wishes out, it's only when we know what each other was thinking...

Only to have Kum to 'wet' the moment a little by saying if the little bits fail to 'explode' in a PIAK, our wishes wouldn't come true.

-_-

And so we ended up throwing the remaining bits with all our might. Call us superstitious or gullible, but maybe we just didn't want to risk it - for all the important things we wish for.

We each went home; and Shilin and I talked for quite a bit on the way home. Reminisced. How we came about to being 'best' friends. A tad silly but somehow we stayed together that way.

An ending note a tad mushy but: I just want them to know that no matter where all of us are and how busy we can get to be, they remain as the closest buddies that I've ever got and will ever have...