ever since our friendship began, see and chee kiang, two smart young chinese lads, both lecturers of utar and ktar respectively have made it a tradition to give sis and me a treat on our birthdays. so since 29th night was only for family, 30th night was with see and chee kiang.
i wanted thai food. my favourite joint was the one in genting klang opposite stephen's corner so when see asked `where' i said it with sureity...
didon, drish and i drove there first only to find it shut. the next choice was the thai restaurant next to papa roach in sri rampai..we were all so wildly hungry so we speeded there only to find that one closed too. so didon says..maybe we are not meant to have thai...yeah in thailand, they pay homage to the king on tuesdays by wearing yellow and closing their business. however, i refused to settle for anything other than thai...
so we drove to wangsa melawati...and thank the many universes, the restaurant was open. we had a good meal, spicy tom yam with lovely thai veggies and see gave me a book ... the naked tourist by lawrence osborne. according to didon, she chose the book but see grabbed it from her after knowing she was getting it for me. i also received a massager from him...a small shoulder massage which works on batteries. nice little thing.
it did not end there...the next day, i was treated for lunch at abc. my insurance boss, arpita gave us all a treat, shamshul's bday is in july, hardip's in january, kavita's in june.
and yet another book for a gift...the wisdom of the millenium. food was good with mutton/chicken biryani, rotis, chicken and paneer masalas. i knew i would be the only person to receive a gift, so i thought of giving them gifts for their birthdays to come. so i gift wrapped three books with hand-made book marks in them.
i gave the afghan to shamshul, the appeal to hardip and the secret of the secret to arpita. we had good food, good company and good books for that afternoon.
after my return home, see suddenly calls and says we musn't miss the best pan mee in the whole world...hehehe. so we drove to kepong and actually had the greatest and the most unique pan mee...so it was a three day celebration of my 43rd birthday...hmm! didnt i mention earlier that life truly begins after 40?
