As you all know, I have been promoted to ASM at Starbucks. The other day, I was just thinking if this is really what I want to do for the rest of my life. I am not quite sure.

I am 26 years old and I am already an ASM and I am on my way to becoming a SM. I do love Starbucks, but is this what I want to do for  the rest of my life?! Make coffee?! Don't get me wrong...I do love my job and I look forward to coming to work everyday, but if this is it...I don't think that it is for me...I think I want something more.

NOTE: You are about to read a post where I rant about a different culture. Please note that I am not hating on them. I am hating on the experience that I had.

At around 3 pm yesterday, I received a call from my friend Natalie asking me to go with her to the 16th birthday party of her manager's daughter. Since I have never been to an East Indian party before, I decide to tag along and enjoy the free food.

The party was not a rousing success from where I was sitting from. I didn't think that the party included people from other cultures. For about an hour and a half, the people on stage were just talking in their own language and nobody from my table knew what was going on. I even asked my friend if they were reading the Koran because that was what it sounded like to me. There was also the longest cake cutting ceremony that I had ever witnessed in my life. Instead of the usual make a wish-blow the candle-cut the cake routine, they had to call everybody who is remotely related to the celebrant to come up on stage and feed her a piece of the birthday cake. I had to ask my friend if they were going to feed the celebrant the entire cake. 

Well, it is now the 23rd and I just got home fromo a night out with friends and I still have no gifts from anyone. I guess I should not say that I did not receive anything since someone sent me a cake on friendster and I also received a couple of gifts from my friends on facebook. Big thanks to Gigi who bought me drinks tonight...THANK YOU for getting me drunk.

Nevertheless, I am still hopeful that I will be getting a few (at least one) gifts in the next couple of days. It's amazing how many of my so-called friends forgot that it was my birthday. I guess I should stop calling those people my friends. hahahahaha

To all those who celebrated their birthday the same day that I did...HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all of us!

I turned 26 years old today. OMG! I am SO OLD. Anyways, i just have to say that after numerous text messages, wall posts on facebook and comments on friendster, I have to say that I still have not received a single gift. Is it going to be like this for the rest of my life? Is it true that you don't get gifts when you get older?

Anyways, my birthday wish is to be financially stable and independent and to find that person that will truly accept me for who I was, who I am, and who I want to become. I wish that I will find that person who will truly complete me.

The night is still young and a lot of things can still happen on my special day. I only have one two things planned for my birthday so far. In a couple of hours, I will be heading out to dinner and dancing with a couple of my friends, then I will be having a family dinner tomorrow.

I hope that I will get presents even though, it's late. I think people stopped giving me gifts coz I am so hard to please, in face, a friend once told me that I am the hardest person to buy a gift for. Hmmm, maybe I should appreciate the gifts that I get more than I did before. Oh well, I guess that comes with aging.

I would like to say thank you to all the people who messaged me on friendster, facebook, SMS, and to all those who called me. Your greetings mean the world to me. The fact that you all remembered my birthday makes you all special in my heart. Thank you so much! Special thanks to Natalie, who waited with me until midnight to celebrate my birthday! All you guys ROCK!

 I have been blogging for a while now. My previous blog was with blogger. I called it "The Boy Who Lived". I decided to create another blog because I want to start fresh and forget the past - something that I have not been able to do in real life, that I would at least try to do with blogging. I still don't know what would come out of this blog, but I can assure you that it would mostly be about my life and everything and anything that is about me, after all it is called Live Journal.

I hope that this blog would be a window to my life. I hope that people who would come across my journal would somewhat learn from my experiences...and I hope to get some insights from people who would be reading my entries. As I embark upon this new online journey, I hope that people will be more receptive than they have been before.