My Birthday

I felt that this year I had the most wonderful and surprising birthday. Thanks gals for 'conspiring' in arranging this one :)

When it turned 9th I was still in the train, on the trip to Jiuzhaigou. I knew that initially my bunch of friends planned to wake me up at 12 to celebrate my birthday. But fortunately they didnt do that because by 10 at night, the light in the train had all been switched off and people had gone to sleep. If they went on with the plan, the whole train section, who were filled with the students of our school, would be disturbed and how would I face all of them in the morning, right?
In the morning, they did give me a small piece of cake and sing birthday song to me. I made them promise to give me a big cake by the time we reached Beijing, hahaha.... (ngak tau malu) but they did agree because it was sort of our tradition here. And so I didnt give any more thought of it. For me, birthday is just an official increased in the number of age. We do age daily :p
We alighted from the train in the afternoon and stayed for one night on a small town hotel on the way up to Jiuzhaigou. At night, we had dinner at the hotel restaurant together. By together, I meant all of our tour group members which consisted of 130s students, teachers and guides. Who would have thought - at least not me - that my friends already planned to celebrate on that occassion. At first I was not a bit suspicious when two of my group of friends were late for dinner because the others were covering by saying that they had shower first before coming to dinner. But after half of the dishes had come out, there were still no sign of them. By then, I was thinking what happened with the two of them - was there something wrong or what. So coincidentally that time the teachers were no where to be seen, I thought maybe there were something bad going on that the teachers were accompanying them to hospital or something. This suspicion was because one of the missing gal had a bit of embarrassing 'medical' problem of which I wont mention here, hehehe.... As the time passed by, I began to wonder if they did plan to surprise me because I saw one of the missing gal passed by the main door and another of my friend went to the door hurriedly.
Afterwards I saw the big cake they brought in and sang birthday song to me. And so, almost all the people there followed to sing the song or just plainly being forced to celebrate my birthday, hahaha.
It was a nice celebration though - I never had this kind of surprise before.

So once again, thanks gals! You are all such a bunch of sweet friends :)