My Sweet Twentieth
This is about the most memorable
20th birthday I have ever had. Seems like only yesterday when I had
celebrated my birthday 2 yrs ago. But all the memories still rings fresh in
front of my eyes.
I woke up early on the previous
day of my birthday, got ready for the training classes I was going from the past
2 weeks as usual. Everything was going well, I had made a few close friends
during these 2 weeks. We all used to have a gala time together. It was like any
other day, . little did I know that my friends were planning for something big.
As the day ended, we all said bye
to each other as usual, took our vehicles and headed home. The unusual thing I
noticed was 2 of my friends who used to come with me till the half way route
home were going in the same direction with the others. I noticed them standing
at the end of the road waiting for everybody to come. I immediately thought it
was for me, went over with the vehicle and parked it aside. [silly me!!]. the
reason was because they were all planning to go together to buy me a gift for
my birthday, which I came to know later. Oops!! I spoiled all their plans. Poor
guys they had to make 2 way round trip with me till the halfway route and head
back again to the gift shop. Lolz..!!
So finally today was my
birthday!!,. I hadn’t really slept peacefully coz of attending all my friends’
calls at midnight. I didn’t bother coz, it was my special day. And I had got 2
new dresses to choose from. I chose the formal dress, got ready and went
downstairs, I had my training classes today too. My friends were ecstatic,
wished me, and congratulated me. It was the first time I wore a formal to
class, I got some compliments for my looks as well. [hey,.!! Now I remember, I wore
new slippers too]. I didn’t expect anything from them, I usually don’t. But
what they did was totally a first for me..!!
As the day was about to end, we
were almost packing up to go home by around 5.30 in evening. When I came back
to get my bag, I could see my friends standing together all of them with a big
grin on their faces with a beautiful black forest cake with them. I was so
happy with the gesture. It had been so long since somebody had surprised me
with the gift. I cut the cake, we all had snacks, took snaps, we roamed around
the campus as well. After all of this, it was not yet over, they presented me
with the biggest birthday card I had ever got for my birthday., another
first..!!
I barely knew all of them from 3
weeks, it was so nice of them to do this for me. It was a big pink colored card
with roses, everybody has their names on, and in the end was a birthday message
written with the most beautiful calligraphy I had ever seen, I was so touched, I
eyes welled up seeing that. I was so overwhelmed by their gesture,.. this was
the only second time when I got happy tears in my eyes. I gave them all a big
hug, thanked them and took them all to a treat outside. I headed home happy and
excited with the remaining cake. Was my day over..?? Nope think again….
I was a wee bit confused when I returned
home, as I saw 2 pairs of familiar slippers outside the door. I thought, how
can they come now..?? I went inside, started to tell all of them what happened
morning., and I enquired my mom about the 2 slippers outside, she just blew me
off saying she doesn’t know.
I could recognize those slippers
anywhere, after all they were my best friends. I went up to my to room, surprisingly
it was locked. They wouldn’t let me in,. they were doing something and I was
right, it was my friends. Well they had done a good job of hiding the vehicle,
but not the slippers. It was an amazing sight to watch when I entered my room. Brought
back some old memories, childish memories. The room was fully decorated with
big balloons, colorful buntings, colorful papers.. And right in the middle were
2 cute birthday cakes. It was just magical to watch, just like a dream. The first
one was from my friends and the other one was from my family., I cut both the
cakes, ate some delicious snacks prepared by mom,..[ hey I got a bouquet too].
Another great surprise was a
handmade gift from my friends,. It was a beautiful cut out of two hearts, one
heart had this handmade cake, and the other had a beautiful picture of the 3 of
us together with a birthday message. The two hearts were joined, OMG,.!! It was
so nice of them to do this. It was so
cute. [I still have it in my room]. This was the day to remember.
My friends were just about to
leave after all the party, when suddenly I got another surprising news. I got a
call saying that our exam results were out!!. I thought too many surprises for
a day, might not be a good sign. Turns out that, I was wrong!!. I was a bit
tensed of course, my heart skipped a beat when I heard the news. What happened
after that was totally on another level, I had cleared all my subjects with
flying colors. I scored my first distinction in my BE career. I was way over
the moon.
So, that completed my awesome
birthday ever. Let me summarize a beautiful cake, with the biggest card, room
fully decorated, 3 cakes, a handmade gift from my best friends and finally my
first FCD in BE. Need I say more,… yes, yes, I will… you know what made it
really really special,… The cherry on the cake… I was the topper of my class.
