My birthday today and I am not sure how I am going to feel about the fact than I am not going to see any of my UK friends for any celebrations, seeing as I am on the other side of the world. Anyway, I wake up to a load of Facebook messages, Whatsapp messages, Skype alerts, SMS messages and emails which was lovely.
I go out for lunch in a Japanese place called Tao in Damansara, which was very nice – although it did mean that I missed out on the lion dance that has been arranged for the office. Apparently the senior people in the office are involved somehow, but I wasn't sure I wanted to hang about to find out how... I did manage to catch one of the Lion dances later on though.
I should have taken the day off really, as I normally do for my birthday: it’s a really busy day, culminating in a management meeting via a teleconference with the UK that I have to duck out of towards the end as there is some sort of interference on the call that sounds like a huge wasp buzzing about in my headset and I imagined my brain being fried: if I am going to abuse my brain cells, I'd rather it was via drink and debauchery than listening in on Business Strategy...zzzzz.
I am out tonight with the team for another (Japanese) meal – well it was sort of Chinese New Year celebration and my birthday do all rolled into one: it was a good evening and I think everyone enjoyed themselves; I certainly did, but then that's probably because it involved food and alcohol!
At home later there are some cards waiting from me, having arrived the old fashioned way and I managed to chat to Mike, after sending him both a text message and a Skype message to remind him of my existence and the fact I'm a year older. He thought it was tomorrow...
So, all in all, it was a pretty good day - Happy Birthday to Meeee!
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