I guess you came to read my blog because of the catchy title. You are curious who gave me the flowers. And who is Ross. Well, I wont reveal it yet for you to continue reading and annoying yourself with my grammar.
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This is my longest running birthday ever.
Greetings came a week early and ended a week late.
I cant find the right words now but I deeply appreciate those smss, calls, emails, messages, cards and gifts that you gave me.
Thanks thanks to Amie, Ces and to Kaye most especially, your gifts are expensive (hirap mapantayan hahaha). You made me feel special.
Thanks much to Amie who really spent hours making me a birthday video. It was my first time to receive sumthing that I have been doing for others. I am deeply touched for all the efforts and by how you see me as friend. Thanks also for the footage on ate Joan, te Elma and te cynths.
Thanks to ate joan, te elma and te cythia for the funny and touching video coverage. I miss you all. I miss doing the laundry with Biyang and te joan and te Cynthia. And I miss your cooking te elma. Hahaha.
Thanks to Anna who gave out my number to the SG-SFC community. My celphone hadn’t stopped receiving messages for the whole morning. This txt-ing thing surprised me.
Thanks also to Moomai who greeted me on email with lots of CCs. You’ve put color to my ultra-plain and tiring citi-email.
Thanks to all who greeted and gave their birthday wishes to me on email, friendster, ym, sms, call, whatever technology that is. Thanks to those people in SFC who doesn’t even know and yet bothered to follow Anna’s instructions and txted me. I am truly thankful that you spent a little of your time to think of me and my birthday.
Thanks to Tim and Ma’am Beng. My ex-team leads who never fail to remember my birthday. I am sincerely grateful.
Thanks to the custom clapping of IM++ team to those who celebrate birthday. At least for a nick of time I was the center of attraction. I planned to bow and make a speech but too bad I was rushing to Marina @ that time.
Thanks to Es, Sha, Marjoe, Tala, Anali, Che, Anna, Jeng, Jess, Louie, Amie and Kaye for those touching messages on the card you gave me. Special thanks also to the “across the miles/ocean/country” card that Eva sent. Your messages and views of me sent to tears. If Kaye see me now, she might think that I got retrenched already.
Thanks Es, Sha and Kaye for the birthday cake surprise. My birthday would be incomplete without that cheesecake.
Thanks to Bong for cleaning our mess and acting as a father and friend to me and amie when everyone got drunk. Thanks to Louie also. You won. Last girl standing. I salute you sis! Next time lets not play luck game anymore because for sure losing streak is on me.
Thanks to Anna, Amie, Jeng, Jess and Louie for giving me flowers and giving me Russ. I was a quite surprised when I received the call for the flowers. I thought I am goin’ to get fired from Citi already. But when I saw the flowers, I know it came from you guys. Thanks also for giving me lil’ cuddly russ. (to all: Russ is a bear. Not at all a human male specie). Thanks thanks thanks.
Thanks to those who came celebrate my birthday with me at different location… different time. It reminded me that I have real great friends.
My heartfelt thanks to all of you. Truly you made my birthday special.
God is really an awesome God. My birthday wish was simple. I prayed that on my birthday, I will feel that I have friends. I didn’t expect how all these friends would do these things that really made me feel accepted.. feel cared.
Through all of you, I felt the graciousness, awesomeness and love of the Lord.
Thank you for all those things you did for my birthday. It made me realize that no matter how busy I am to notice your problems; no matter how late I am on households; no matter how timid I am to get out of my shell; no matter how harsh I am in talking to you; no matter who I am, you accepted me as a friend. For that I am forever grateful.
And for all of these I praise and thank the Lord our God.
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Now you know the flowers didn’t come from a guy. And ross was just a bear. Hahaha. Did I trick you? Well, why do you help me in finding my real ross? Hahaha. Just kidding.
